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I eat a salad every day for lunch! Here it is:

Baby romaine or baby spinach
Dried cranberries
Almonds or pecans
Carrot
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber
Feta cheese
Greek dressing

Yum! Would love to hear others!

I love arugula too! So spicy and tasty.

My favorite salad is arugula or baby greens with goat cheese and apple slices (candied nuts go well with this too). Also love baby spinach with pancetta (and sometimes hardboiled egg) and lemon juice for dressing. Or greens with avocado chunks and tomato.

One other – spicy tuna (just mix some sirrachi and lemon juice into a can of tuna), with avocado chunks over mixed greens. Yum.

Really good olive oil and balsamic vinegar make all the difference.

@Rubies: Why never frozen corn? I believe I've read in a few places that frozen corn is actually better than canned? I could be wrong though!

Your salad sounds AMAZING though!

@MrsBrewer: HAHA, it has nothing to do with health - it's a taste preference. I LOVE canned corn but I'm sure it has zero nutrition in it. I find that if I use frozen corn, it just doesn't taste the same...LOL.

Mmm salads! Honey mustard dressing and tomatoes are a MUST on mine!

I like to keep on hand: baby greens, goat cheese, craisins, sliced almonds OR candied pecans, garlic & cheese croutons, olive oil & balsamic vinegar. That's my go-to.

One of my very favorite salads of all time is The Melting Pot's house salad. I recreated it at home and it was great. It's: iceberg lettuce (I know, tsk tsk!), shredded cheddar cheese, chopped tomatoes, sliced hard boiled egg, garlic & cheese croutons, honey mustard dressing (must be a creamy kind). Yumm.

@Mrs. Bee: Omg. Do you love Souplantation/Sweet Tomato? My favorite place to eat!!

I eat a salad most days at work (because its a bakery/cafe, our lunches are free, and we have full reign of the kitchen). I eat either baby spinach, strawberries, blackberries, chicken, goat cheese with maple balsamic dressing and candied nuts, OR romaine, chicken, black beans, pepper jack cheese, tomatoes and ranch dressing. SO GOOD.

I love to put chickpeas (garbanzo beans) on my salad for protein, since I'm vegetarian. Very healthy too!

I'll just step out on a limb and say I HATE salads. I'll eat them occasionally but I'll never ever be able to eat them everyday. Yuck. I like all the fillings but I just don't dig on the leafy parts.

I make "leftovers" salad at least once a week with pretty much whatever we had for dinner earlier.

The other day I had spinach, romaine, cheese tortellini, goat cheese crumbles, craisins, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, lemony baked chicken, & carrots - all drizzled with olive oil. YUM!

I like the fillings and the dressings, I really could do without the lettuce honestly. I do like arugula though, the spicy kick makes it more interesting than regular lettuce. Plus it lasts forever in the fridge.

My favorite is beet, tomato, and goat cheese though.

From months 2-8, I absolutely was repulsed by anything salad or veggie though. My first and last months though salad was all I wanted.

I need to follow this thread! I always buy a pack of romaine hearts from Costco or baby spinach from the market, but it always goes bad because I never know what to do with it Usually I just like Caesar salads, but that gets old after awhile. Loving these recipes, though!

And yummmmm to Souplantation. I load up my tray w/ two plates and go to town with the Wonton Chicken Happiness, Joan's Broccoli Madness, and tuna tarragon.

@lemondrop: I hated salad the whole time.