Salads and Diets

Regardless if you are a vegetarian or on a diet, there are endless recipes available for making salads an incredible meal.

Try to use a little imagination and you will be surprised at all of the tasty and healthy combinations you can come up with. After you have done that do a little research on line and you will find that there are virtually thousands of salads and salad combinations. Let's start with your basics like greens. There are dozens of varieties of lettuce and spinach or other base greens to start building your salad with. Now let's choose some ingredients like a pepper or tomato maybe a cucumber or some garbanzo beans and let's not forget the onion.

These are all very basic starter vegetables so let's get a little more creative and add some dried cranberries and instead of a boring dressing form a bottle we will make our own. We will start with olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and to that we will add a dash of cayenne pepper some fresh mint leaves and shake well. Now drizzle your dressing over your salad and add a sprinkle of pine nuts for that nutty flavor and a little crunch.

Not only is this salad loaded with vitamins and minerals that are good for you it will taste great. If you like a hearty salad add grilled fish or chicken and even an occasional boiled egg can be a tasty way to add protein. While we are at it why don't we have a salad for breakfast too? Yep we can come up with a great fruit filled salad using a melon for a bowl and things like bananas and Mandarin oranges instead of traditional vegetables. This will be an energy filled low calorie fat free way to start our day!