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I usually go for the soup instead. But the best choice for dessert is a nice fruit salad. Green leafy, topped with several fruita and a few nuts, cottage cheese, and bleu cheese dressing.
None of the salad bars I know allow to go containers, but when I do hit a salad bar, I start with mixed greens, add a few little mounds of mac salad, seafood salad, tricolor pasta, some bacon bits, croutons, a drizzle of house dressing, and some parmesan cheese.
My salads at home are totally different - I prefer something like baby spinach topped with crumbled bleu cheese, dried cranberries, and candied walnuts tossed in a homemade balsamic vinaigrette. Mixed baby greens topped with crumbled feta, toasted hazelnuts, and julienned pickled beets tossed with a raspberry vinaigrette.
To start, I mix lettuce with spinach. I also mix cheeses if more than 1 is offered. I add eggs, bacon (if it's real), onions, ham, tomatoes, turkey, jalapenos and black olives. I guess I'm some kind of mixing nut, because I'll put both ranch and 1000 island dressings on!
It's rare for me, but I really like the italian dressing at Pizza Hut so I indulge occasionally. Then it's lettuce (I stand there forever trying to shake off as many of the little carrot slices as possible because I hate them), broccoli, cucumbers, kidney beans, peas, beets, and cheese smothered in creamy italian dressing.
I also like Ruby Tuesdays and I get mixed greens, spinach, chickpeas, peas, beets, sunflower seeds, the variety of cheese they offer and the pumpernickel croutons. I top it off with ranch dressing and then add a spoonful of german potato salad, cucumber salad and pasta salad on the side.
When I was in college we used to have this great build your own salad place. I used to get mixed greens, chick peas, artichoke hearts, homemade croutons, baby carrots, almonds and buffalo chicken. so good. We also had a salad bar that had chic fill a nuggets on it. YUM.
Sweet Tomatoes/Soup Plantation...yum. Their soups are very good. I usually get the caesar or greek salads. My DD looooves the "Chicken Wonton Happiness".....Also, love their cornbread - had whole corn kernels - with honey butter mmmmm. Obviously, my choices do not make this a low-cal trip so we don't do it too often!
Lettuce, cherry tomatoes, ham, cheese, bacon bits, croutons and piles of blue cheese.
I don't eat salad to be healthy....I eat it to ENJOY the great taste.
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Please don't lecture those of us who do.
