What do you put in a salad to make it interesting?

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I'm not a salad fan. I think back to salads when I was young with some lettuce leaves, tomato, a boiled egg in slices and some radish or similar!
How can I make salad tasty? I know a friend adds pine nuts which are tasty. I don't like tomatoes though.

I like adding tuna, sometimes I mix the tuna with cottage cheese and add that to the salad. Also like adding avacado, maybe some crispy bacon for crunch, flageolet beans are lovely, toasted pine nuts or sesame seeds, poached salmon with a little soy sauce in the dressing, cooked French beans.

Nicoise salad is delicious, and so is Greek salad, try those.

Some sort of lettuce/ leaves and

Stir fried chicken, red peppers and cashew nuts
Roasted goats cheese, toasted pecans and bacon
Shredded duck, spring onions cucumber and soy, hoisin and thrice vinegar dressing
Chicken bits, bacon, hard boiled egg, avo shd tomato ( cobb salad)
Bacon, Gruyère and chopped egg.

None very low cal but all substantial and delicious!

That's rice vinegar in case you thought I was making a complex blend of three types of vinegar!!!

I've got a lot to work with! Thank you!

I like at least 7 or 8 items;

• leaves
• cherry tomatoes chopped
• little bit avocado
• dried apricots chopped
• hnadful mixed nuts
• sliced mushrooms
• nice protein- smoked mackerel is fave, but goats cheese, or crispy bacon or nice ham in shreds will do - not much needed
• caesar dressing for me.

I also like some extra crunch - will often put half a pack of crisps in with it.