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How to Built the Ultimate Healthy Salad Bar

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the toppings list! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well!

Oh man do I love food (and healthy salads), but with work and kids I don’t have much time for cooking. That is why I write about healthy and EASY ways to get food on the table. At home, I do this in a few ways:

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I make a month of freezer meals in one day! For real! I cook once a month, and I am done. During the week I can just throw my freezer meals in the crockpot or microwave and I am done! I wrote a book on how to efficiently shop and cook once a month, and let me tell you the recipes are delicious!
I love to buy HEALTHY packaged on-the-go foods, and I am kind of obsessed with finding healthy packaged snack ideas in a sea of processed-empty-calorie snacks. In fact, it is part of my job as owner of a healthy mindful vending company called Mindful Vending. Mindful Vending is a dietitian (that’s me : ) ) owned and operated vending company!
Along with making freezer meals and healthy on-the-go products, I also like to make absolutley no-cooking-involved meals. A salad is one of those no-cook meals I love to make a salad. I love that you can have such variety with salads. No one salad has to be just alike. Use this ultimate list of salad toppings to make a completely new salad every night!

Build your Perfect Salad

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the toppings list below! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well! I did a healthy salad bar a friends baby shower, and it was a huge hit!

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the salad toppings list! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well!

Start with a Base (Pick one or more ingredients)

Lettuce
Spinach
Kale

Add a Protein (pick 1 or more):

Nuts: Almonds, Walnuts, Cashews, Mixed Nuts, Pistaccios
Seeds: Sunflower, Pumpkin
Chickpeas
Boiled Eggs
Black Beans
Canned Chicken (I like the Wild Planet Organic Roasted Chicken)

Add Vegetables (pick one or more)

Blanched Asparagus (Place Asparagus in a colander in the sink. Meanwhile boil water on the stove. Then carefully pour the hot water over the vegetables in the colander.)
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Tomato slices
Cherry Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Carrots
Cucumber
Tomato
Corn
Blanched Zucchini
Blanched Squash
Onion
Peppers
Roasted Red Peppers
Olives
Red Cabbage
Avocado Slices