Taking basic salad greens and loading them with extra veggies is a great way to increase your intake of nutrient rich fruits and veggies. The only problem with this plan is that we can easily end up in a salad rut. I asked you all to pimp my salad and the combinations you came up with sound amazing. It was nice to get some interesting salad dressing ideas too. I can also tell you that FitSugar readers do not shy away from dried cranberries or gorgonzola – two of my favorite salad toppings.
There were many tasty combinations listed, but I found three very different creations that I thought I would highlight.
Pizza Salad: This one I can’t wait to try. DearMissPriss eats this when she’s being good on pizza night — this salad doesn't even need dressing!
- Red leaf lettuce
- Turkey pepperoni
- Marinated artichoke hearts
- Hearts of palm
- Capers
- Crumbled feta
- Oregano
- Red pepper flakes
There are two more really tasty salads, so to see what they include just read more.
Full of Fruit Salad: I love how rumpel2 adds fruit to her salad. Veggies and fruits do mix!
- Mixed greens
- Mandarin oranges
- Strawberries (optional)
- Apple (optional)
- Chick peas
- Avocado
- Feta cheese
- Pine nuts
- Grilled shrimp/hard boiled egg (optional)
- Dried cranberries
- Strawberry vinaigrette or any other sweet dressing
Veggie Galore Salad: This salad from superfoxml has so many veggies in it that it sounds like a harvest party — I can't wait to try the vegan salad dressing from Whole Foods.
- Romaine
- Mixed fancy schmancy greens of your choice
- Green and red peppers
- Peas
- Corn
- Celery
- Tomatoes, your choice of type
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Jicama
- Herbs of your choice
- Tofu marinated in sweet chili sauce and grilled
- Vegan Caesar dressing from Whole Foods
- Fresh ground pepper
There were many other great salad ideas, so if you greens are hurting and none of the above salads appeal to you, check out the other options listed in the comments section.
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I'm excited to try the pizza salad.
1wow all of these sound delicious.
2Mmmmm
these are making me hungry!!!
3Great job ladies!
4Veggie Galore Salad sounds fantastic
5Pizza salad sounds interesting.
6cant wait to pack one for a lunch
7The salads are interesting, but I would tweak the recipes to suit my taste.
8You like the complicated ones eh Fit? There is atleast one ingredient in each of these that i have no idea what it is....lol. I like my salads simple.
9Mmm, yum! I want to start eating more salads, and these sound great!
10The Pizza Salad sounds so yummy.
11mmm pizza salad sounds so good
12I discovered jicama a couple of years ago and I LOVE IT!! The only problem is, my grocery store doesn't usually stock much of it and half the time I want to buy it, all of them are moldy. Hearts of palm are really good too...I never knew what they were, but I saw a Food Network show about them and I gave them a try. They're really good!
13Novaraen-
I get stuck in salad ruts where I limit toppings to only three things so it was nice to see these ideas with A LOT of toppings!
14Oh dont get me wrong...i like lots of things in my salad. I just have no idea what jicama is or hearts of palm...etc. I didnt mean any offense to you Fit.
I will do my research on the ingredients i dont recognize...they must be
good to be mentioned on here. 
15Novaraen, I didn't know what hearts of palm were until I moved to California! They're long and tubular, about the diameter of a nickel. They're not like anything I've eaten before, so I can't describe the taste...but they're good.
16I am going to try this options next week, I will hit the grocery this weekend. Thanks ladies and Fit!
17MM. I'm going to try them all.
18They sound great!!!
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