Healthy salad recipes

Healthy salad recipes can make or break your progress on the way to healthier and leaner you. Most salads these days are so loaded with fat and food additives that they become detrimental to your health. Avoid them like a plaque. Here are healthy salad recipes that help digestion of large meals, hydrate your cells, and help your body to get rid of excess weight and toxins.

Healthy salad of the month

Quinoa salad for hydration and energy

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

Healthy pasta salad recipes

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

• Orzo salad with sun-dried tomatoes, herbs and arugula
  

• Orzo salad recipe with broccoli and tofu
  

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
• Quinoa salad recipe for hydration and energy
  Delicious quinoa salad with asparagus, zuccini and tomatoes helps your body recover from daily stress
• 16 more Healthy Quinoa Salad Recipes
• 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.
• Brazilian black bean salad
  It takes less than 5 minutes to make this authentic salad from Brasil posted by Barbara and David Larson. It will keep you full for more than 2 hours. Good deal, especially for those of you who need natural pre-workout meal, low fat and high in ptorein.

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.