Salads are a great meal or healthy snack year-round. Salads are especially perfect during spring or summer when you want a lighter meal or if you’re looking to tone up for summer.
The Salad Trick
What’s the trick to a truly healthy and filling salad? Including protein, healthy fats, and extra veggies! Vegetables will make your salad more filling, provide extra nutrients, and give you more food with not many calories. Protein will help you feel full for longer and keep you going throughout your day. Healthy fats are an important way to eat clean, keep your body running well, and get a lot of benefit without eating a lot.
5 Ways to Make Your Salad Tastier and More Fun
Here are 5 items you can add to your salads to make them yummier and healthier. You can add all five, some, or even just one. (Remember to try and have a little of each of the above salad tricks, though.)
1. Chia Seeds and/or Flaxseeds. These add a different texture, are very healthy, and will help you cleanse your body from the inside out.
2. Fresh or Dried Fruit…. fresh strawberries or tangerines; dried cranberries or cherries. Most fresh or dried fruit will taste great on a salad, add nutrients, and make it much more exciting.
3. Nuts, Beans, and Legumes. Walnuts or pine nuts taste great on salads and are a super way to add healthy fats and a little protein. Black beans, garbanzo beans, and lentils add protein and fiber.
4. Eggs. Poached, scrambled, and hard-boiled eggs all provide excellent protein on a salad. Plus, eggs enhance the taste of your salad.
5. Vegetables. What better way to eat more vegetables. Cucumbers, carrots, onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes are traditional salad veggies that are great for any occasion. Making your salad more unique by adding asparagus, sun-dried tomatoes, broccoli, and more is an awesome way to ingest more vegetables.
Times of Day to Enjoy Your Salad
What time of day is best to eat a salad? Any time of day! You can have a salad for breakfast, lunch, dinner, all three meals, or any snack. The way you prepare your salad may vary slightly, depending on your preferences and the time of day. For example, you may want to add fruit to your morning salad; vegetables and eggs to your lunch salad; and vegetables, nuts, and seeds to your dinner salad.
Just be wary of salads from restaurants. A salad that could be healthy may turn into a not-so-healthy meal. Ask for dressing on the side, skip the croutons, and add vegetables, protein, and nuts or seeds. When you prepare a salad at home, you know exactly what’s going into it. Try to stick to olive oil or a healthy dressing, and you’re set to go. Enjoy a salad any time you want to incorporate more vegetables, feel good, and eat clean!
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Great tips- salads are so versatile!
I’ve never added chia to salads before. I’m definitely going to give it a try! Great tips 🙂
Anytime is the perfect time for healthy salads. Thanks for sharing your great salad tips at the party @DearCreatives Theresa
You have some great tips here for salads. It truly is amazing the many ways you can make salads so delicious. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays.
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I love salads that are full of different things.
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Great tips. Salads are the easiest things to make for us bachelors .
Thank you Christina
Thanks for the tips, I will sure try some of those! I love to add dried cranberries and sun-dried tomatoes to my salads, yummy.
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Perfect article. Salads are totally fun. I eat one everyday! maybe two 🙂
Thanks. I have read many of your post, it really good and interesting.
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Salad is very important for health eating .your post is very useful for making healthy and tasty salad.Thanks for sharing this post.
Great recipes here. I would also add that you can include certain fishes like tuna and salmon to get an extra boost of flavor (most important!), protein and fatty acids – just make sure to use responsibly sourced fish where possible.
Yummy reciepie ready by you for healthy
At first, I thought it was a typical way-too-vegan recipe, with almost no protein. But now I can see how this might make a good diet.