I love a good salad bar, especially one with all my favorites:
hard boiled eggs
chick peas
pickled beets
aparagus or peas
ham
cucumbers
I recently brought this to a little at home lunch with friends. We laughed about pickled beets. Two of us love them, while the other two despise them. It was pretty funny.
I’d love to know, what are your TOP 5 salad bar toppings? …and does it include pickled beets? 
I'm totally going to copy this and make a salad bar for dinner for my family soon… they will love it and think that it is so cool. I'll probably get some cool points too.
My top 5 salad bar ingredients:
1. craisins
2. cucumbers
3. cauliflower
4. pine nuts
5. freshly grated yummy cheese
Who am I kidding??? Cauliflower as a top five? Beating out a fantastic crouton? Ha!
But… nowhere on my salad, or on my homemade salad bar, will you find pickled beets. *insert shudder*
strawberries, craisens, feta, candied nuts, and bacon.
I love that type of salad. You get to pick and choose the ingredients.
Pickled beets?…yucky!!
I love garbanzo beans (chick peas)
and my favorite is baby corns!!
Pizza Factory so far has the best salad bar in my opinion.
Mine definitely includes pickled beets too. Love them!
I would also add:
1. broccoli/cauliflower/brocoflower
2. grated cheese/feta/blue cheese
3. sunflower seeds, sliced almonds, etc.
4. tomatoes/strawberries/mandarin oranges
5. crutons
(I would have a bunch more too.) I love yours! It looks sooo yummy!
1. shredded carrots (I LOOOOVE how they end up at the bottom of the bowl with the leftover dressing)
2. craisins
3. bleu cheese
4. white navy beans (so creamy!)
5. capers
Does lettuce count as a favorite?
I mix my salads up quite a bit, and when I don't, my old standby is lettuce, shredded carrots, craisins, and capers. And I do love the beets, but never think to buy them. I don't think I trust my kids with that color!
Pickled beets are the best! My top five are Craisins, feta cheese, kidney beans, mushrooms, and some kind of toasted, candied nut. Mmmmm!
I vote yes for beets! Love eggs too and red onion.
I ordered a salad from the lunchroom and I was eating it in the library, when some girls went by and said, "That salad looks so delicious!" I felt sorry for them that they got lunchables.
Very pretty salad tray!
How about sprouts or as Megan would say, "hair".
(This sandwich as too much hair on it.)
Kam, you definately "have an eye for detail"! that's so pretty, I'd almost hate to eat it.
my favorite salad bar toppings are all of them, so I'll go with variety!
see you tonight!
I love Sunflower seeds and lot's of beets. It is funny how when you put beets on your salad your whole salad is pink.
YES….pickled beets are a must in a good salad. Mac introduced me when we first started dating and I've been hooked ever since.
YUM!
It's funny, because my hub and I have had this conversation before – beets are the topping for me that can make or break a salad bar! They top my list (and my salad).
The remaining top 4:
hard boiled egg
soy beans (edamame)
cucumbers
broccoli
And as a bonus, if you've ever tried Ruby Tuesday's fresh-made croutons, they are to DIE for. Crispy but soft. I'm sure they defeat the purpose of getting a salad in the first place, but worth it!
I love sugared almonds, strawberries, feta cheese! Yum!
Turkey
peas
pickled beets
broccoli
cucmbers
I'm a fruit and nut kind of girl and I'm all about different kinds of textures in a salad.
-Nuts (almonds, sunflower, peanuts, anything!)
-Fruit (oranges, pineapple, strawberries, etc.)
-Cheese (grated and cottage)
-Pickled beets!
-Cucumbers.. and olives… and peas…I could go on and on!
Oh, and have you tried the dried bananas at the Brick Oven salad bar??? My favorite thing in the world.
You and I could be pickled-beet friends! Love them in a salad bar! My other faves are peas, chickpeas, olives and alfalfa sprouts.
Who orders a salad??
My mom LOVED BEETS! She was the ONLY one in our house that ate them and we always gave her a hard time! So eat an extra beet for my mom, heaven knows I won't.
Yummy! I love hard boiled eggs and those little whole peppers. Eeek to the beets!
Your salad looks so good!
XOX
Jen
That looks yummy!
My top 5 would be:
1.) carrots
2.) cauliflower
3.) chick peas
4.) eggs
5.) cucumber
Can I add more?! Like croutons, sunflower seeds, and a little cheese!
Umm, NOT pickled beets for me.
love beets! home canned ones are even better. top 5 salad bar ingredients-
beets
eggs,
peas,
croutons,
sunflower seeds,
tomatoes. oops i guess that is 6 i love chickpeas too.