10 Tips for Building a Healthy Salad

• Choose darkly colored greens such as spinach, kale and Romaine lettuce
• Mix in colorful vegetables such as red cabbage, yellow Bell peppers and sugar snap peas
• Use shredded green cabbage as your salad starter for a change
• Make a shredded carrot, raisin and vanilla yogurt salad once in a while
• Add fruit such as diced apples, orange sections, pineapple or kiwi chunks to your salad
• Sprinkle the top of your salad with toasted almonds, walnuts or soy nuts
• Make a salad of cut-up tomatoes, fennel and chopped fresh herbs
• Make a dinner salad by mixing up chunks of your favorite veggies, turkey and cheese
• Add a generous scoop of tuna to the top of a tossed salad and dress with fresh lemon juice
• Mix together sliced celery, carrots, cucumbers and then top with hard boiled egg halves