Opting for a salad is a great start to slimming down and making healthy choices, but you may not be accounting for the unhealthy add-ons. With croutons, bacon, cheese and creamy dressings, your “healthy” salad can quickly become the opposite. After these additions, some salads can have a calorie count closer to a cheeseburger. But by building hearty, delicious salads that are full of whole foods, you won’t notice the missing toppings. Stick to leafy greens instead of iceberg lettuce, lean proteins and oil-based vinaigrettes for a truly healthy salad.
