If you overate last Thursday there is no point in regretting it! So many people beat themselves up over past actions and food choices. But we hope you enjoyed the meal and are ready to move on!
As we ramp up to all the winter holidays, staying with a healthy diet becomes more challenging. There are treats and sweets everywhere we look. We find that the trick is to turn the healthy options into appealing choices. At restaurants, they often add so many toppings to a salad that it can have more calories than a burger. But in your own home, you can make the choices. By picking tasty but sensible things, you can have a great meal you enjoy that helps you feel full, satisfied and makes it easier to say no to treats! Here are four loaded salads that feel like treats.
We love adding winter produce to our salads. While apples aren’t something we usually add to our salads, we enjoy a fruit in our salad any time of year. And right now apples are in season! In the summer, we go with berries, now we’re turning towards the orchards! The recipe calls for half a teaspoon of honey. As there are four servings of salad in the recipe, you really don’t have to worry. But you can use a sugar-free honey if you have it on hand. The use of a whole apple might worry you too. But a serving only has a fourth of an apple. As it’s written, a serving has 316 calories, 9.8 grams of carbs, 2.4 grams of fiber and 28.1 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
This salad celebrates some of the biggest hits of the season as it features butternut squash and quinoa, kale, pecans, pumpkin seeds and pomegranate seeds or dried cranberries. It’s a veritable who’s who of fall flavors! This recipe takes longer than your average salad because you have to roast the squash. But we think the results are worth it! And, just like the recipe before it calls for full-sugar maple syrup. In this case, it uses two tablespoons for 10 servings of salad. You can make modifications if you like. As it’s written, a serving has 268 calories, 15 grams of carbs, three grams of fiber and 18 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
We’re working toward partridge in a pear tree. We don’t have any recipes for partridge. But we do have a salad with a pear! Again, our love for salads with fruit in a starring role has put this salad on the list. It also features walnuts and feta. But, this one has bell peppers and cherry tomatoes to make your salad more colorful and tastier! A serving has 224.4 calories, 15.4 grams of carbs, 3.8 grams of fiber and 16.2 grams of fat. Get the recipe.
Our last salad is the only one that was designed to be low-carb. Most salads are pretty low in carbs by nature of being a salad. This one is doing it purposefully. And, as is often the case, because they expected their audience to possibly be missing out on other tasty things, they went to the max with this one! It has bacon, pecans, almonds, pumpkin seeds, fresh cranberries and parmesan to make sure you don’t feel like you’re being punished for eating low-carb! A serving has 417 calories, 16 grams of carbs, eight grams of fiber and 33 grams of fat. Get the recipe. (https://thatlowcarblife.com/keto-brussel-sprout-salad/)
We hope you enjoy these salads and that they help you get back on track!
