Summertime Meal Solution: Bagged Salads
Our hectic schedules can often conflict with our desire to eat healthier foods. Sometimes even the thought of putting together a simple salad can seem daunting. But with the help of bagged salad greens, you can create summertime meals in minutes.
Fabulous Fettuccini Salad
This recipe can be adapted for a small group or a large gathering. Just multiply the ingredients for each pound of linguini used. It’s that simple and oh, so delicious!
Vegan Quinoa Salad
Enjoy whipping up a nice vegan quinoa salad as you don’t have to worry about counting calories and fat content. Quinoa is packed with protein and among other grains, it’s the only one that can offer all 9 essential amino acids including lysine. One of our favorites for supper is the quinoa salad recipe.
Sweet Broccoli Slaw
This recipe is a light and delicious egg and dairy-free vegan version of the traditional broccoli slaw. We ioncorporate the stalk to show how easy and delicious it is and how it adds a nice visual appeal and crucnh to the slaw as well. Waste not, want not!
White Bean Salad
Beans make a nice fall salad. Here’s a healthy, and delicious white bean salad for you friends and family!
Vegan Potato Salad
This creamy vegan potato salad is absolutely TO DIE FOR! The best vegan potato salad out there. With the classic ingredients and simple steps you will be making this a regular in your home.
Turkish Sumac Salad
The most popular Turkish traditional salad made of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and onions rubbed with sumac. Dont be hesitant to try sumac, it has a fruity, astringent taste that works wonders with this salad.
Perfectly Pleasing Potato Salad
I’ve talked about my love for potatoes so many times and this recipe is just another example of how I’ve made my favorite dishes healthy. I came up with this recipe and it was a huge hit!
Katie’s Cucumber Salad
This is a really quick and easy recipe, especially for an after school snack!
Dressings for Potato Salad
Here are a couple of dressing recipes for potato salad. Any of these are really easy to make but pack a bunch of flavor to please your salad needs.
Cooler Salad
This vegetable packed salad could be eaten as a main dish, it is that filing! With a simple dressing, this dish will be a favorite in your home.
Chang Chang Hijiki Salad
Light and refreshing hijiki salad – good with salad or brown rice or both.
Cauliflower Salad with Capers and Olives
This colorful salad makes a great springtime dish to serve for lunch or as a first course for a fancy dinner. It also includes tips on what vinaigrette to use for this great flavorful salad.
Better Than Good String Bean Salad
Fresh, light and yummy string bean salad with a delicious dressing of tofu, olive oil and garlic. Topped with almonds or you choice of nuts. Not to mention this recipe is super easy.
Hale Kale Salad
This is the basic recipe for a delicious and quick kale salad. You can of course add other ingredients (unless you want them to be mashed in, add them after you have completed the basic recipe). Some of my favorite additions are sprouted wild rice, tomatoes, seaweed, mung bean sprouts, and tahini. Yummy – I’m getting hungry just thinking about them!
Grilled Asparagus and Sweet Pepper Salad
If you like asparagus, you will love this recipe! This salad has a great vinaigrette, a touch of citrus and mustard, so it is packed with flavor.
Crunchy Quinoa Salad
Healthy and filling, this salad provides all the needed amino acids for a complete protein – thanks to quinoa!
Fattoosh
Fattoosh means “moistened bread” which clues you in to one of the key ingredients in this delicious salad. Whip it up in minutes and enjoy!
Tempeh Salad
A very easy and scrumptious salad for sandwiches or just by itself. Its great either way.
Mandarin Orange Salad
This beautiful salad features oranges and almonds tossed with romaine lettuce and onions and a sweet and spicy dressing.
Cucumber Salad
This Thai cucumber salad recipe is EASY to make and brimming with a little spice. We love the utter simplicity of this salad.
Carrot and Chickpea Salad
A beauty of a carrot salad tricked out with chickpeas, chunks of dried fruit. Absolutely delicious!
Cabbage Slaw
A simple and quick cabbage slaw recipe flavored with vegan ramen seasoning. Its a great twist on your usual coleslaw but still great on a summer day.
Bell Pepper Salad
Try this Balkanic vegetable dish as an end of summer side dish. You can eat it as a salad or just eat it! Dipping bread in juice is NOT considered bad manners but an expression of appreciation.
Chickpea Salad
My Auntie Bonnie needs a chickpea intervention. She has them stockpiled in her kitchen cupboards, and although I was concerned for a while about her stockpiling towels and duvet covers, it’s the chickpea obsession that I’m worried about the most. Does anyone really need 35 cans of chickpeas “just in case”? This incredibly simple but fresh and delicious salad is purrfection. Just like my Auntie Bonnie.
Cauliflower Salad with Capers and Olives
This colorful salad makes a great dish to serve for lunch or as a first course for a fancy dinner.
Healthy Salads
Salads can indeed be entrées or main courses, but careful selection of ingredients and mindful attention to the serving size will define them as smart, rather than senseless. With so many fabulous whole foods to select from, refining the salad with smart choices assures its healthful place on the table.