Color.  Salads are all about color.  Natural color.  Not kool-aid or Mr Freezie colors!  It is so easy to spot something loaded with nutrition simply because of the color. 

 

There's no wrong way to put together a salad - use color as a guide and you can be assured you are incorporating every vitamin and mineral required to boost your energy, your immune system and your mood!  

I love creating salads.  And sharing them!  Being empty nesters, making a salad containing 15+ ingredients is not something I would regularly consider spending time with.  But making several to share feels much more worthwhile!  If you care for small children you know that feeling you get when a 2 year old eats ALL their veggies?  Same feeling when adults tell me they ate every bite of their salad!  Makes my day!