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7 Salads to Add Veggies to Your Diet
Eating veggies is your insurance policy for good health, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that only 26.6 percent of Americans are eating three servings of vegetables a day. Great tasting salads are a way to boost your intake of vegetables . I don't know about you, but salads always taste better to me when someone else makes them. Maybe it's because they can be so labor-intensive, with all the shopping and chopping that goes into preparing them. Here's the good news: simple salads taste just as good as ones that include everything but the kitchen sink. And, by adding some protein, you can turn that simple salad into a meal. [8 Top Meals from Nutritionists ] These simple salads of greens plus three ingredients will come together in a snap and take you around the world and back with ease.
- All American: leaf lettuce + cheddar cheese, grape tomatoes , croutons
- Asian: Bibb lettuce + chicken, green onions, snow peas
- French: spinach + hardboiled egg, green beans, red onion
- Greek: romaine lettuce + feta cheese, Kalamata olives, cucumber
- Italian: spring mix + mozzarella cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts
- Middle Eastern: cilantro + garbanzo beans, brown rice, shredded carrots
- South of the Border: lettuce of choice + chicken, avocado, black olives
