Healthy salad recipes

Healthy salad recipes have been in style for many years. What could be easier, cheaper, and quicker than assembling a salad? Perhaps, reheating a Kraft Dinner... But we are talking about healthy choices here. Even before nutritional science has dissected healthy salads into all those beneficial components, cooks instinctively knew that they aided digestion of large meals, stimulated appetite and helped the body to get rid of excess weight and toxins. What is a healthy salad, anyway? Find an answer here.

Green salad recipes

• Spinach apple salad with sun-dried tomatoes and ...tofu
• Spinach salad with orange and raisins
• Easy pickled kale salad... how to pickle kale
• Raw kale salad (pickled kale)
• 4 colors pickled kale salad

Pasta salad recipes

Try to use whole-wheat pasta for the best health benefits.

Orzo salad with sun-dried tomatoes, herbs and arugula

More vegetable salad recipes...

• Antipasto salad
  Low-fat, anti-cancer, and anti-heart-disease salad :)
• Asparagus and carrot salad
  Low-fat, healthy, colourful and easy to make salad.
• Cabbage hemp salad
  Heart and brain friendly salad with a complete source of protein
• Quinoa tabouli (tabbouleh) salad
  Another salad high in protein and antioxidants
• Red cabbage salad recipe
  Learn how to make hardy red cabbage easier to eat with this super-healthy, great Russian red cabbage salad recipe.
• Healthy coleslaw
  How to triple Vitamin A and C in your coleslaw and make it even healthier? Read my detailed explanation and try this healthy coleslaw recipe.

Tips how to make a healthy salad

To create healthy salads, the rule of the thumb is to use only healthy ingredients:

• Making your own dressing will bring the most benefit since it will eliminate MSG, hydrogenated fats and artificial sweeteners from your salad;
• Reduce oil - too much oil, even the healthy type, is proven to contribute to heart disease. Besides, it makes your salad a really high calorie meal.
• Use organic ingredients - pesticides, GMO, and hormones are out.
• Use local ingredients or grow your own - ensure best nutritional value.
• Eliminate animal protein as well, especially in the form of bacon and chicken. It's in your best interest. If you eat meat, you will receive it from the other meal. Trying to make your salad animal-protein free is one important step to cancer prevention.
• Know healthy salad components! If you are in the weight loss mode, using potato, feta cheese or raisins in your salad is not the best choice. If you want to gain weight, use more oil, pasta and nuts.