Healthy Dinner Salads that are family friendly
Growing up in my house, salads were mainly served during the summer months at our dinner table. We grew our own tomatoes in our garden along with cucumbers and cabbage. My job was to pick the fresh tomatoes before dinner. Anyone that grew up with fresh home grown tomatoes will remember the wonderful smell of ripe tomatoes while walking through the rows of plants.
A salad consisted of iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and a big bottle of Thousand Island dressing. Sunday dinners always had a big bowl of fresh coleslaw along with fresh tomato slices.
Times have changed though and it is very difficult to find a tasty tomato. Iceberg lettuce has been given a bad rap and no one really has time to make fresh coleslaw that often.
But the good news is it is very simple to make a much healthier & tastier salad for dinner. Romaine lettuce is loaded with vitamins compared to iceberg lettuce. Romaine has three times as much Vitamin C and six times as much Vitamin A. Toss in dried cranberries, walnuts, and some bleu or Gorgonzola cheese crumbles and you have a healthy salad that even kids love to eat.
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