Navigating the Salad Bar

10:57 AM Jackie Mart 0 Comments

Lunch time!! You forgot your lunch at home and had time to swing by your local grocery store to snag a salad.  

• Green leafy lettuce (the greener the better)
• Raw vegetables of any kind
• Hard-boiled egg
• Raw sunflower seeds or other raw nuts, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, hemp seeds
• Grilled chicken or fish
• Cheese (not too much)
• Oil (extra virgin olive oil) and vinegar (don’t feel bad about over indulging on the extra virgin olive oil)
• Quinoa 
• Avocado

• Salami type sliced meats (processed and have nitrates) 
• Ice burg lettuce (no nutritional value) 
• Deep fried chicken and other meats (self explanatory) 
• Salted, roasted sunflower seeds and other nuts (made with damaged oils and added salt) 
• Croutons (processed) 
• Dressings made with sugar and mayo (this is where a lot of the calories are, food additives and chemicals) or pasta salads made with mayo
• Fat Free dressings (when they take out the fat they add sugar and chemicals to make it taste better!) 
• Bacon bits (processed and probably doesn't even contain bacon)