A Healthy Recipe A Week: Super Summer Salads

Summer is prime for produce, which means you can throw just about anything into a bowl, toss it with olive oil and lemon juice and call it a salad. Get creative and make it up as you go. The best part about it is you don't have to cook. Here are some of our summer salad faves:

TOMA-CUKE-ACADO SALAD:

• 1 cucumber peeled and sliced
• grape tomatoes or garden tomato wedges
• 1 avocado sliced or cubed
• lemon juice, olive oil + sea salt

Optional adds:

• fresh corn sliced off the cob
• raw garden green beans
  

CITRUS BUTTER SALAD:

• 1 head of butter lettuce
• 2 oranges cut into bite sized pieces
• lemon juice, olive oil + sea salt

GO GREEK:

• 2 tomatoes cut into wedges
• 1 sliced cucumber
• 1/2 white onion sliced
• 1 bell pepper sliced
• handful of olives (sliced or whole)
• handful of feta cheese
• lemon juice, olive oil + sea salt

STRAWBERRY SPINACH SALAD:

• 1 bag of baby spinach 
• 5 large strawberries sliced
• handful of feta cheese
• slivered raw almonds
• Guru Girls house dressing (1 cup olive oil, 2 tbs sherry wine vinegar, 2 tbs red wine vinegar, sea salt to taste)

SUMMER SALAD SURPRISE:

• arugula
• beets (cubed into small bite sized pieces
• Gorgonzola cheese (or other soft crumbly cheese of your choice)
• sliced strawberries
• walnut pieces
• small orange pieces
• lemon juice/olive oil dressing

* To add protein and make any salad a fill-er-up meal, simply add sliced chicken, shrimp, tuna, steak, chickpeas, beans, hummus, fresh mozzarella, eggs or nuts.