Healthy Food - Salads are often a misleading meal. Restaurants will load them with fattening dressings and cheeses with little room for anything nutritious. So here are some tips to keeping your salads healthy, but delicious:
1. Nuts. Add a small handful of chopped nuts to salads. Mixing textures is always a welcome delight to your palate. Combining the leafy greens, a protein, and the saltiness and crunch of nuts will enhance the nutritional value of any salad. Plus, nuts are the healthy fat and good for your heart.
2. Craisins! These tart little nuggets will certainly add flavor to any bite and the antioxidants in cranberries make them one of the best fruits for a healthy diet.
3. Greek yogurt. With the consistency of sour cream but with high protein content, this can take the place of calorie-laden dressings. Just a couple of spoonfuls over spinach will kick your salads up a notch.
4. Vegetables. Don't want to just eat lettuce and dressing? Who does? So add a cup of raw vegetables for variety. Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and peas with low calorie dressing are an easy way to get your recommended daily allowance of veggies.
5. Chef's salad light. Rather than adding high fat Ranch dressing and handfuls of cheese like a typical chef's salad, keep the mix of proteins. Chef's salads usually contain ham and turkey. So add a variety of proteins so the taste buds won't get bored.
Salads don't have to be bland ever again. Mix it up and you and your family will enjoy.
Healthy Food - Tips to Make Salads Nutritious
