Ordering a salad always feels so virtuous, right? After all, when faced with a menu full of rich, fattening pastas, burgers and entrées — you chose the healthy option.
What could possible go wrong?
Well, apparently, a lot. Just because there are veggies on your plate, doesn’t mean that the cheese, fried chicken or creamy dressing accompanying your carrots got any better for you.
1. Crispy Chicken Cobb Salad
Beware the Cobb salad. Stuffed with bacon, blue cheese and slathered in ranch dressing, this dish can be calorically dangerous. Even made with grilled chicken, this salad is still a big no-no.
Make It Healthier: Turkey bacon and low-calorie blue cheese or ranch dressing helps make this Healthy CobbSalad less calorically horrifying. You’ll get your fix of veggies from the cucumber and tomato, plus a dose of healthy fats from the ripe avocado you’ll add into the mix.
2. Chicken Caesar Salad
Don’t be fooled by the grilled chicken, and minimalist ingredients in this Caesar salad. A combo of cheese, croutons and creamy, rich dressing — with zero veggies aside from lettuce — make this a nutritional miss.
Make It Healthier: Get a blast of nutrients by swapping out romaine or iceberg for
vitamin-packed kale in our Kale
Chicken Caesar Salad Healthy
Recipe.
By replacing croutons with roasted chickpeas, you’ll the crunch
you desire without all the carbs. Add a yogurt based dressing, and you’re home
free.3. Grilled Oriental Chicken Salad with Dressing
Holy sugar rush. This entrée seems simple enough: Fried chicken, toasted almonds, crispy noodles and “Oriental” vinaigrette. But somewhere along the way, this dish picked up a whopping 64 grams of sugar. That’s about as much as if you were to chow down on 2.5 full size Hershey’s bars in one sitting.
Make It Healthier: Enjoy this super low-cal AsianMango Slaw as a side dish to your
next meal (or add some chicken to make it an entree). The combo of
shredded cabbage, carrots, mango and scallions, with a light sauce, makes this
dish a flavor win — in addition to being gluten-free, low-carb, dairy-free,
vegan and egg-free.
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