Making a great salad is an art. With the right mix of nutrition-packed and taste-bud-popping ingredients, it can add up to the perfect meal, says Ellie Krieger, R.D., a nutritionist in New York City and author of Small Changes, Big Results.
But when you eat the same greens-with-grilled-chicken all the time, its a quick way to become bored and fall off the health wagon. Blueprint breaks down the well-tossed salad into five delicious components — reducing this fine art to a simple paint-by-numbers.