A salad twist to try

My twist is tuna fish, cheese and sunflower seeds. Salad is big in my house right now since I am eating only salads during the daylight hours in hopes to cut down on calories and reduce my gain from the holidays!!

I do that - it's yummy. Especially with a ginger citrus dressing.

Salad is a term applied broadly to many food preparations that are a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. A salad can be served cold or at room temperature, and it can also form the filling for a sandwich. Though it can be made with meat or eggs, it usually includes at least one raw vegetable or fruit, most often lettuce. Often it is prepared or served with a dressing. A salad may be served before or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish. Salad may refer to a blended food item— often meat, seafood or eggs blended with mayonnaise, finely chopped vegetables and seasonings— which can be served as part of a green salad or used as a sandwich filling. Salads of this kind include egg, chicken, tuna, shrimp, and ham salad. I enjoy salads. I toss a little bit of everything in them. I like the standard..... different cheeses, hard boiled eggs and bacon bits. I am now trying to sneak more fruit into my salads with pears, apples and dried fruit. I've started adding pecans, pine nuts and almonds trying to get more protien, fiber and grains in our diets. I am not allowed to put cucumbers, squash or radishes in our salads, my hubby does not like them. When I have company over, I like to make a colorful salad by adding green, red, yellow and orange peppers. It gives the salad a nice festive flare. I like to experiment with different dressings. I had a terrific cranberry vinegrete the other night. The remainder of my family will only each ranch dressing. I prefer the vinigrete dressings because they have more zip and less calories than creamy dressings. Salads are a fabulous vitamin source, fiber and in general wonderful for your body! Be creative with your salads, with all the different veggies and toppings, no need to have the same salad 2x's in the same week.

This sounds really yummy, I will keep it in mind...Thanks...SS

i rally love salads and i will surely try that..thanks for ur suggestion

Well thanks for the tip, will try it today. I love salads and am always looking for variations.

I love salads, I like to put all kind of vegetables in my salad everything but the kitchen sink. that really sounds good, what you put in your salad. have you ever made a waldrof salad, with apples and raisins, walnuts miracles whip, a little celery.

Hey thanks a lot, I'm very fond of cooking coz i love to eat good food, i'll definitly try this out, i'm sure to like it if someone like you recomends

Okay, I'll be right over, I love salads made like that, I just really like salads of all kinds, except ceasear salad, no I don't like that -- but nuts, seeds, fruit oh yeah!