Healthy Salads for Meals
January 14, 2009
When we think of salads, we often take them as snacks or as something which is served usually before meals. While this is the popular trend, there are ways by which salads can constitute a part of the main meal itself. Instead of indulging in unhealthy dietary habits, you can ensure a healthy salad for your meal. And surprisingly, you will satiate your hunger and won’t sleep with a hungry stomach. Given below are some ways by which healthy salads can be made nutritious and filling so that they become the main meal itself.
We all like a colorful life as colors add brightness and liveliness in our lives. Similarly, your food too can be made colorful and the more colorful your salad, the healthier it is. Greens are one of the most common ingredients of a salad. Inclusion of leafy vegetables in the salad is not only for decoration and color but instead they supply plenty of essential “foliage” vitamin, foliate. Moreover, greens are low in calories and high in fibers. Also, spinach in particular, supplies the body with the all important iron content. Thus, in your salad, ensure to add greens like leaf, spinach, lettuce and others. Also, try adding more colors to the salad. This implies inclusion of vegetables like carrots, tomatoes and cabbage which provide key photonutrients to the body. Any raw vegetable can be added to a salad and you can include green peas, radishes, broccoli, cucumbers and others so that your salad is nutritious as well as filling. Also, you can add fruits to your salad like blueberries, blackberries, apples and raisins. These all help in making your salad rich in appearance, taste and nutrition along with helping in providing your body with important antioxidants. You can also add low-calorie lean meat to your salad to make it further filling. However, avoid fatty dressings as they all lead to additions in calories. Follow these tips to make a healthy salad which can easily become a healthy substitute for a meal.
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