Add the Spring Back into Your Salad

By , SparkPeople Blogger
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 our favorite springtime salad recipes from SparkRecipes.com.

 

Pomegranate Chicken Salad


Spinach-Berry Salad 


Almond Chicken Salad with Asparagus




Fruity Spring Salad

 
Waldorf Salad

 
Fresh Fava Bean Salad


Strawberry-Asparagus Salad


Springtime Salad with Snow Peas, Cucumbers, and Radishes