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Waldorf Salad

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Ingredients

  • 2 medium apples
  • 2 stalks celery
  • ½ cup seedless grapes
  • ⅓ cup nuts (optional)
  • ½ cup low-fat plain or vanilla yogurt

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Wash apples, celery, and grapes. Dice apples (leave peels on). Dice celery. Cut grapes in half.
  3. Chop nuts into small pieces.
  4. Combine apples, celery, grapes, nuts, and yogurt.
  5. Toss gently and serve immediately. Serve alone or in pita bread as a sandwich.
  6. Store leftovers in the refrigerator up to one day.

Makes 6 servings

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Chicken Salad

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Ingredients

  • 2 5-ounce cans of chicken
  • 1/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
  • 1/4 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
  • 1 Tablespoon finely chopped onion
  • 2 Tablespoons finely chopped celery
  • 1 Tablespoon dill pickle relish or chopped dill pickle (optional)

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Combine all ingredients except chicken and mix until well blended.
  3. Drain chicken and flake apart with a fork. 
  4. Add chicken to other ingredients and mix well. 
  5. Serve on whole-grain bread, tortilla, lettuce leaf, or in a tomato. 

Makes 6 servings

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Leaf Finger Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 large head iceberg lettuce 
  • 1 cucumber (sliced)
  • 1 beet (shredded)
  • 1 carrot, medium (shredded)
  • 6 teaspoons sunflower seeds
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water for 20 seconds.
  2. Carefully peel lettuce leaves off the head.
  3. Lay lettuce leaves on a flat surface. Top each leaf with: cucumbers, beets, carrots, and sunflower seeds. 
  4. Drizzle each leaf with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
  5. Slowly roll the leaf with all ingredients, tucking in the ends. 

Makes 6 servings

Orange Almond Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1½ cup assorted greens
  • 1 navel or mandarin orange, peeled and separated into sections (may substitute canned mandarin oranges, drained and rinsed)
  • ¼ cup thinly sliced celery
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped green onion
  • 2 Tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1-2 Tablespoons sugar or honey
  • 1 teaspoon olive or canola oil
  • 1 Tablespoon toasted slivered almonds

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Combine greens, orange sections, celery, and green onions in a large bowl.
  3. Place salad on two salad plates and garnish with ½ Tablespoon of almonds over each salad.
  4. Combine vinegar, sugar or honey, and oil in small mixing bowl; stir until well blended and drizzle over each salad.  Serve immediately.

Makes 2 servings.

Sunshine Salad

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Ingredients

  • 5 cups spinach leaves (packed, washed, and dried well)
  • ½ red onion (sliced thin)
  • ½ red pepper (sliced)
  • 1 cucumber (whole, sliced)
  • 2 orange (peeled and chopped into bite-size pieces)
  • 1/3 cup vinaigrette dressing (“lite”, around 15 calories per tablespoon or less)

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Toss all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  3. Add dressing and toss again. Serve immediately.

Makes 5 servings.

Easy Fruit Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 can fruit cocktail (16 ounce, drained)
  • 2 bananas (sliced)
  • 2 oranges (cut into bite-size pieces)
  • 2 apples (cut into bite-size pieces)
  • 8 ounces yogurt, low-fat
  • 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional 

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.

  2. Mix fruit in a large bowl.

  3. Add yogurt and mix well.

  4. Chill in refrigerator before serving.

Makes 14 servings. 

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