Masterpiece Salad

Often, our salad IS our meal, with some fruit on the side. We tend to make a large salad, with lots of different ingredients. I have listed what we use on our salad here and you can pick and choose what most appeals to you. These can turn your salad into a masterpiece by the time you’re done. A side benefit is that you can eat as much as you want, and as long as you don’t load it down with a fatty dressing, you’ll probably lose weight (if you need to). Regardless, you’re sure to feel the health benefits of eating live foods rather than processed, lifeless ones.

Ingredients
 

•  Leafy green or red lettuce or spinach (choose from Bibb, Romaine, Leaf, Butterhead, or a host of others. Try them all until you find your favorite).
• Red, yellow, orange, or green pepper
• Cucumbers (try Seedless or Kirby)
• Cold or hot steamed broccoli or cauliflower
• Steamed  asparagus
• Snowpeas or Sugar snap peas
• Shredded carrots 
• Mushrooms
• Grilled eggplant
• Water chestnuts
• Cooked beets
• Spanish, red or sweet onions or scallions
• Raisins
• Beans (Garbanzos, pinto, red, kidney, navy)
• Green peas
• Fresh pear, mango, pineapple, raspberries
• Chopped walnuts, pecans, sunflower or pumpkin seeds or any other nut or seed
• Ground flax seed

Preparation