Healthy Salad Ideas.
Salads are an easy way to add a nutritional punch into any meal, or can act as a main dish if you add fats and proteins to it.
Here are 6 simple steps to make your salad nutritionally balanced – the possibilities are endless.
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Step 1:?Pick a Base
Leafy greens (the darker the better):
Kale, spinach, Swiss chard, mustard greens, dandelion greens, endives, watercress, baby greens, red/green lettuce, romaine lettuce. You can add extra greens like: broccoli, cabbage, green beans, courgette, fennel, cucumber, celery.
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Step 2: Add Colour
Carrots, tomatoes, purple cabbage, peppers, radishes, red onions, mushrooms, ?peas, cooked beetroot, roasted pumpkin, roasted sweet potato, roasted butternut, roasted cauliflower, blueberries, raspberries, apples, pears, figs.
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Step 3: Add Healthy Fats
Avocado, olives, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, almonds, pistachio nuts, pecan nuts, cashews, nut butters.
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Step 4: Add Protein
Grass fed beef, free-range chicken/turkey, wild salmon, sardines, anchovies, fermented tofu, free-range eggs.
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Step 5: Add Beans and Healthy Grains
Lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, black beans, white beans, quinoa, millet, wild rice, brown rice.
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Step 6:
Dressing and Spices
Extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, lime juice, Balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, tamari.
Spices:
Cumin, sweet paprika, cayenne, dry chilli, black pepper, oregano, mustard.
I hope that my healthy salad ideas will help you to get more creative with your salad preparation.
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