18 Ways to Celebrate National Salad Month

National Salad Month is here! The month of May is the perfect start to gather salad recipes to enjoy a lighter meal in the warm weather coming. National Salad Month was created to encourage people to incorporate more healthy habits into their daily lives [1]. With Romaine lettuce being the most nutritious, lettuce is a great source for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, folate, and has very few calories [2]. No on said being healthy had to boring though! There are tons of ways you can dazzle up your salad. We put together a go-to list for all your flavor needs!

Flavorful Fruit Salads

Close up image of a white rectangular dish with red edges sitting next to a fork and spoon and filled with seperated lines of spinach, blueberries, walnuts, feta, avocado, and wild rice.

Blueberry-Spinach Salad

This Blueberry-Spinach Salad is packed with vitamins and minerals to make you feel great all day after eating it.
Island Coconut Shrimp Salad is the perfect summer salad that includes slices of mangos. Yum!

Close up shot of a salad with lettuce, strawberries, almonds, mandarin oranges and red onions all sitting on a white circular plate

Strawberry-Chicken Salad

We can’t think of anything better than a Strawberry-Chicken Salad!
The Baby Greens & Berry Salad recipe is “berry” delicious.

Meat Lovers Salads

Close up shot on a White Bowl Filled with salad topped with chicken and surrounded by 5 bowls filled with various salad ingredients

Grilled Chicken Salad with Gochujang Honey Dressing

This Grilled Chicken Salad with Gochujang Honey Dressing will satisfy all your taste buds.
This Grilled Avocado & Salmon Salad Recipe is everything you need from the healthy fats from the avocado to the loads of iron in the salmon.
The Crunchy Turkey Salad on Greens gets better with every bite!

Grilled Shrimp-Caesar Salad

This Grilled Shrimp-Caesar Salad is the perfect light meal for the summer heat!
Taco night just got healthier with this Tossed Taco Salad recipe.
The Buffalo Shrimp Salad has all the flavor you’ve been waiting for.

Grilled Steak, corn, tomatoes, avocados, and blue cheese in a white bowl sitting next to tomatoes on the vine on the right and a cup of ranch on the left

Grilled Summer Steak Salad

There’s no better way to enjoy a grilled steak than with this Grilled Summer Steak Salad recipe.
This Rainbow Stacked Salad of colorful fixins’ stacks up to be an easy summer main dish salad.
Add a little spice to your next meal with a Buffalo Salad with Fabulous Fruits.

Vegan Salads

Kale Apple Cheddar Salad

Crunchy and nutritious, it doesn’t get better than the Kale Apple Cheddar Salad.
We love this onion dressing on any salad but our favorite is on the Avocado-Grapefruit Salad.
This Vegan Ranch Dressing recipe is bound to make any salad delicious!

Rainbow Chopped Cashew Salad

The refreshing and nutty flavors of this Rainbow Chopped Cashew Salad will have you making this recipe all the time.
The meatless Quinoa Burger with Pineapple Salad is everything you need and more!

Happy National Salad Month! We will be using these recipes all summer long. Share with us your go-to salad recipe on social media @EasyHomeMeals.

[1] https://nationaltoday.com/national-salad-month/

[2] https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition-pictures/best-salad-greens-for-your-health.aspx