Scrumptious Spring Salads

This month my duties for the ReadySetEat.com Shared Tastes Panel had me making some super-yummy SALADS.  Like, salads that are an actual MEAL.   I know, right? Crazy!  They turned out to be awesome!  The first one I made in honor of Cinco de Mayo, the Simple Taco Salad.

We don’t eat a lot of taco salad in our house, and here’s why: most taco seasonings have MSG in them, and my husband is violently allergic to MSG (I almost killed him once by using bouillon cubes. Oops.)  So, instead of taco seasoning, I will usually just use chili powder and garlic, or more often, not bother with a taco salad at all.  I was a little skeptical of this one because the recipe called simply for chili beans, chili powder, and Ro*tel to season the taco salad…but my expectation were WAY surpassed because it was excellent! The flavor was so good, and not bland at all.  Those items provided perfect seasoning for the ground beef, lettuce, cheese and tortilla chips that made up the salad.  Bobby loved it and *bonus* none of the ingredients made him sick! 🙂  It was awesome and SO easy to make!

The next salad I made was the Orange-Spinach Salad with Chicken.  Here is an actual picture of the one I cranked out:

Again, this was soooo delicious.  I was not sure that this would be enough of a meal to keep Bobby and I from being hungry later but it totally was.  And I loooooved the taste!   It was super-easy to make as well.  No trouble at all, and very easy to clean up. SCORE!

Now, I realized after I posted last month about ReadySetEat.com, that I hadn’t yet told you about one of my very favorite features the site has to offer: complete nutritional information for each recipe!!   Check out this screen shot of the nutritional information for the Simple Taco Salad Recipe:

See what I mean when I say complete nutrition information?  This makes it so easy to fit these recipes into your dietary plan – whether you are counting fat, calories, carbs, points, or just wanna know what you’re eating!  I LOVE this feature!

I’ve already mentioned some of my other favorite features in previous posts – the recipe box, the sale alert feature – but I think the nutritional info feature takes the cake!

I loved these salad recipes and I love all the features of ReadySetEat.com.  What’s your favorite recipe or feature from the site?

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I am being compensated for my duties on the ReadySetEat.com Shared Tastes Panel.  My opinions about the site and the recipes are all my own and are not edited by anyone but myself.