
A lot of people say they don’t like salad. I guess their expectation of a salad is some iceberg lettuce, poorly sliced tomatoes and a sad cucumber, and I don’t blame them! Eating salad out can be both heaven and hell. Sometimes you are treated to this delicious, hearty, healthy plate of plant goodies and sometimes you just get a plate with no love at all (the above-mentioned example is a real life experience).

So, how do we fix this?

Salad dressing

Though salad dressing is nice and can improve even the poorest (well maybe not the one I mentioned earlier) salad, it can also be a calorie bomb. Oftentimes salad dressing is made out of mayonnaise, which is pretty calorie dense, so be aware of the amount you scoop up. Other times it contains a lot of sugar to enhance the taste, and we don’t want to eat sugar if we don’t know we are eating sugar, right?.

A simple way of achieving a salad dressing is by combining 2 parts olive oil, 1 part balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Easy, but it does the trick.

Prepare the salad as if it was any other dish

This is the real key to a good salad. Why should you just chop up some vegetables and throw them on a plate because you decided to eat a salad? If you put your heart and mind into the salad you will achieve a rich meal and it will be so tasty that you don’t have to worry about any salad dressing.