i have decided that i am going to give salads an earnest shot.

ive been anti-salad most of life, but i think thats because ive never seen past the standard iceburg/carrots/ranch number.

i want new, fresh and sweet salad ideas.

recommend sweet dressings too, plz.

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i also like hobos, riding dinosaurs with my best friend jesus and eating glitter.

i'm interested in hearing some (low or no-fat) dressing suggestions as well


as for salad contents
other than iceburg
try romaine
and also lately i have been eating greenleaf lettuce which i like a lot

also croutons always add to a salad

you can put whatever you want on a salad

try going to a salad bar a few times there are so many choices
and then once you know what you like you can buy those things at the grocery store another time and its less expensive than the salad bar is

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should i choose a noble occupation
if i did i'd only show up late and sick
and they would stare at me with hatred
plus my only natural talent's wasted

toss together some shredded romaine lettuce, sliced tomatoes and fresh sliced mushrooms. whisk together 4 tb olive oil, 3 tb red wine vinegar, 1/8 ts sugar and some salt & pepper. toss the dressing into the salad and top with some crumbled bacon and sliced green onion.

Lettuce with some raisins/sultanas and chopped apple/pear sounds awesome although I did just make that up in my head right now, so don't put too much faith in it. Oh and some chopped nuts (unsalted, obviously) would probably go well with that too.

I found this site at the top of a google search for 'sweet salad recipes' which has some ideas on it. I'm not sure if it's quite what you're looking for. Most of them are just plain fruit salad from what I can tell. And, bizarrely enough, some of them include jelly and/or marshmallows. REAL FRESH AND HEALTHY.

http://www.thatsmyhome.com/simplysalads/sweetsal.htm

i love to use balsamic vinegar in the dressing, that's really sweet. i just usually use 2tblsp olive oil and 1 tblsp balsamic vinegar.

i absolutely love watercress so that always goes in and then trying to get a variety of leaves is nice. i sometimes just buy those prewashed bags just because it's an easy way of getting a variety of leaves without ending up with several different lettuces in the fridge that don't all get eaten up before they go off.

a few ripped up fresh basil leaves are nice and i also like to chuck in some pine nuts.