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Healthy Recipe: Roasted Beet, Goat Cheese, and Sweet Pecan Salad
I was surfing the FitSugar community page, checking out the recipes in the Healthy Recipes Group and I saw this amazing salad delorganic added to the page.
It looks really tasty and is a great way to incorporate nutritious and colorful beets into your meal. Do you have a healthy recipe to share?
5 Ingredients For a Healthier Salad
A salad has got to be the world's perfect meal since it's low in calories, extremely filling because of all the fiber, and so nutritious because of the variety of veggies. Since there are endless ingredients you can add to change up the flavor, you can have a different salad every day of the week and your taste buds will never get bored. Here are some ingredients to make this healthy meal even better.
Learn to Love: Spinach
When it comes to stereotypical foods that kids hate, spinach tops the list, along with brussels sprouts and broccoli, all of which I've learned to love. Seriously, when it comes to bang for your buck nutrition-wise, it's hard to beat spinach.
Spinach is an awesome vegetarian source of iron.
Build a Better Salad: Quiz
Leafy greens are one of the best foods for you, but we often overload these nutritious leaves with tasty bits that are high in calories. When it comes to making a salad, what would you choose? Take this quiz and see if you know how to build a healthy salad.
Healthy Eating Tip: Add Tofu to Your Salad
Salads are one of my favorite meals because they're low in calories, full of vitamins, nutrients, and fiber, and they taste so fresh. Veggies aren't terribly high in protein though, so I like to add tofu to mine. A half a block of tofu contains 22.5 grams of protein.
Fast Food Salad Breakdown
Chances are, you're doing some traveling this Summer and toting along healthy on-the-go snacks. But there's always a chance you'll find yourself hungry on the road with no choice but fast food.
Thankfully, many fast food chains are selling surprisingly healthy salads, but beware: fat and calorie bombs also abound.
How Many Calories Are in These Restaurant Salads?
Estimating the number of calories for menu items is a challenging task, even for eaters who think they have an eye for making healthy restaurant choices. One person's 400-calorie estimate could be another person's 700-calorie guess.
These dressed up greens aren't necessarily the worst salads in America, but some of their nutritional stats are pretty surprising.
Build a Healthier Salad
In late Spring, I find a crisp salad to be the perfect lunch. When it comes to watching your waistline, all salads are not created equal. Here are a few guidelines to help navigate the salad bar and keep your salad healthy and not a vehicle for unknown calories.
How Many Calories Are in America's Worst Salads?
When you're trying to eat healthy, it seems logical to order an entree with vegetables as the main ingredient. Salads are scrumptious, veggie filled meals, but too many fatty extras and creamy salad dressings can ruin a salad's bill of health. Men's Health researched popular chain restaurants and discovered the six worst salads in the US.
Healthy Eating Tip: Use Salsa as Salad Dressing
If you're looking to cut calories at lunchtime (or anytime really), ditch the fatty salad dressings and try topping your veggies with salsa instead. This south of the border condiment is incredibly low in calories; two tablespoons contains just eight calories. The tangy tomato concoction offers a spicy kick with plenty of flavor to go around, making salads anything but dull.
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