Think Salads Are Automatically Low Fat? Think Again

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Think Salads Are Automatically Low Fat? Think Again I remember stopping off at a local fast food joint with my kids and thinking that the healthiest option for me would be a salad. I ordered the chef's salad. When it landed on my tray, I looked at the crispy breaded chicken pieces (pretty sure I ordered grilled chicken), bacon bits, chopped eggs, blue cheese crumbles, and black olives that lay on top of the iceberg lettuce and realized that a small burger and fries might have been a tad healthier. Fiona Haynes Low Fat Cooking Expert Building a Healthier Salad What could be healthier or more low fat than salad? Well, it depends what’s in it and on it. In its basic state—a bed of salad leaves with chopped vegetables, it is indeed low fat and healthy. It’s what is added to our salads that can get us into trouble.   READ NOW Share 10 Super Spring and Summer Salads These fresh, colorful, light yet satisfying, spring and summer salads have some nutritional value, carry fewer calories and less fat than regular salads, and make great weeknight meals or picnic food.   READ NOW Share Tuna and Shell Pasta Salad My daughter calls this the Little Mermaid salad, since it features tuna fish and shell pasta. It's an ideal low fat salad to take along to a potluck or picnic.   READ NOW Share Farfalle with Asparagus and Cherry Tomatoes Crisp bright green asparagus and sweet red cherry tomatoes tossed with farfalle (bow tie) pasta makes a colorful and delightful spring supper. Serve with some crusty bread or a green salad on the side.   READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Smoky Spanish Mashed Potatoes with Paprika and Bacon • Easy Pickled Beet and Onion Salad • Cranberry-Oatmeal Muffins • How to Dry Strawberries in Your Oven • A Quick and Simple Recipe for Balsamic Salad Dressing • When's the last time you had BRINNER? • Jagermeister in a Root Beer Float? Get The Inside Scoop! • A Cinderella Story You Can Enjoy Before Midnight Advertisement About Food   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Low Fat Cooking newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved