Healthy Salads

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    Creating healthy salads

    The salad course of the meal, whether it is an entrée, an accompaniment, an appetizer or a dessert, fits the bill when planning healthy meals that won’t heat up the kitchen. Anything goes when it comes to creating sensational, healthy salad recipes. Here are a few great combinations to get you started.

    Seasonal Produce
    For the freshest, tastiest salads, you should always use seasonal fruits and vegetables as ingredients. To add a variety of color or textures, have some canned, dried or frozen fruits or vegetables on hand. If you are concerned about salt, select frozen vegetables rather than canned. Fruit frozen without sugar, unsweetened fruit-juice concentrates, dried fruit and fruit canned with juice or water add flavor and color without extra sugar....
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