Salads can be a side dish or a whole meal.  They can contain fruit, nuts, vegetables, grains, pasta and meat.  What you put into your salad can be as varied as you want.  If there is an ingredient you don't like - leave it out.  

Quinoa Salad with Black Beans This recipe is from my daughter, Michelle Pryslak who is a registered dietitian in Virgina. She is writing a gluten free cookbook and this is one of her recipes.  We love it as a main dish, but works well as a side dish too.  We like the addition of chopped green peppers. 

Spinach Quinoa Salad  is another recipe from my daughter which we love and eat often.  Many times we make this salad our entire meal.

Lemon Kale Garlic Salad is another great salad especially when you can pick kale right out of the garden. 

Cauliflower Salad has been a long time favorite.  We have changed the dressing to make it gluten free and like it even better.