Quick and easy American salad recipes with 400 or fewer calories costing less than $2.5 per serving

Fresh Garden Salad with Balsamic Marinade

A summertime side with plenty of garden vegetables in a pleasant balsamic marinade. Add grilled meat or fish…

Creamy Avocado & Potato Salad

Another way to have your salad is a no-mayo potato salad. You just need a couple of ingredients and voila! A perfect afternoon snack or a starter…

Ham, Peas & Pasta Salad

A nice choice for a summer cookout or picnic, this pasta salad can be made up to a day ahead for convenience. My pasta choice for this is ditalini,…

Apple and Spinach Salad with Sweet Seed Butter Dressing

Betsy’s Best Gourmet Peanut Butter, Almond Butter, Cashew Butter, and Sunflower Seed Butter feature Chia seeds,…

Cool and Creamy Ranch Cucumber Salad

This is a simple as 1-2-3. Only a few ingredients and a quick 30 minute chill and you are good to go. Great…

Spinach-Romaine Lettuce Salad

This was a 'gourmet' salad from Bon Appetit, 1978. It now is a favorite in my recipes. Sliced red onions and/or feta cheese make good additions to…

Pickled Beet Salad

Pickled Beet Salad-is a quick and delicious dinner salad recipe. Main Ingredients include: Fresh beets, watercress, fennel, pistachios and Feta…

Rice-Lentil Salad

Rice-Lentil Salad-is an easy recipe for a side salad. Takes only 10 minutes to prepare. Main ingredients are white rice, lentils, celery, bell…

Creole Potato salad

Creole Potato Salad is a delicious and different style of potato salad, that would make a hit for your summer and spring barbecues and picnics. A…

Italian Linguine Salad

This is a family favorite all summer long. With all the different pasta's out there, feel free to it change up.

Black Bean Salsa

This is quick and easy dish which is a must in summer time or picnic time.

Grape Chicken Salad

Quinoa and Edamame Salad

I wasn't a huge fan of the dressing for this, so feel free to experiment. I made a big batch though and it reheated nicely and was also good cold…

Zucchini, Yellow Squash & Radish Salad

So colorful, light and refreshing, this goes over well at summer feeds, and helps use up your garden harvest.…

Pizza Pasta Salad

This pasta salad is a great to pack for lunch – with cheese, pepperoni and olives and a blended dressing of spaghetti sauce and mayonnaise it mimics…