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Add the Spring Back into Your Salad

By: , SparkPeople Blogger
4/18/2012 6:00 AM   :  9 comments   :  16,145 Views

Spring gardens, local farms, and markets offer nature’s gifts year after year, such as greens, berries, asparagus, radishes, and peas. What better choice can you make for your own health, than to dedicate a sizeable space on each plate this season to healthy and delicious salads? Have fun and get creative, trying new combinations of lettuce, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Add lean protein to your salad and enjoy it as a main dish. Salad is a great way to get multiple servings of fruit, move away from the tempting and heavy comfort foods of winter, not to mention that salads are high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals.  Here are 12 springtime salad recipes from SparkRecipes.com.


 
Chef Meg's Pomegranate Chicken Salad

Chef Meg's Spinach-Berry Salad 

Almond Chicken Salad with Asparagus

Spring salad of Veronika

Spring Fresh Salad

Spring Mango Chicken Salad

Simply Dressed® Asparagus Salad

Spring Sweet Corn and Ramps Salad

Warm Goat Cheese and Arugula Salad with Spring Strawberries

Garden Salad with Beets & Blueberries

Martha Vineyard Salad 

Stepf's Mango-Avocado Salad with Lime-Cilantro Dressing


What is your favorite springtime salad?

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