Big, Ugly And Naked

Minds out of the gutter! This is how I suggest you prepare salads to get you healthier than ever.

Let's start with big. Get out a serving bowl to use for your salad bowl. Ours are 10.75 inch bowls. Greens are basically free to eat. They are low in calories and high in calcium and lots of other necessary nutrients. The greener you go the higher they are in vital nutrients. The other thing they do is fill you up so you aren't hungry right away.

Fill that bowl with greens to where you have a pile on top. This is where the ugly comes in. Tear those greens up with your hands until they are half the size by volume that you started with. This won't look like the salad at your favorite dinner house.

Top the greens with some tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, mushrooms or what ever you like. Now it's not as ugly as it was.

As far as naked goes, use as little dressing as possible. There are recent studies that show that over dressing a Tbsp it adds up fast. Look for ways around dressings. I like pepperoncinis on my salad sometimes. When I add them I pull the stem over my salad and let the juice inside drizzle on the salad. It has almost no calories and tons of flavor. Olives also add a lot of flavor and make dressing less necessary.

Other alternatives are salsa which is about 1/3 of the calories of dressing and plain old fresh lemon juice. If that's too tart for you start with a little fresh squeezed orange juice mixed with some lemon.

So that's what I have for you. Eat your salads Big, ugly and naked.

Be very well and more soon....