This Low Calorie Weight Loss Salad is the perfect lunch or dinner to boost your weight loss! Using only ingredients that naturally boost metabolism, and an Apple Cider Vinegar dressing. I packed this detox salad with fat burning ingredients!
I love to make it as a meal prep lunch, and have supplied directions on how to do so in the recipe card below.
Packed with ingredients that tell your body to release fat, naturally boost metabolism, and curb hunger. This healthy weight loss salad is the best thing you can eat on a diet!
Low Calorie Weight Loss Salad
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Ingredients in Low Calorie Weight Loss Salad
Each and every ingredient added to this detox salad is meant to boost weight loss and make you feel and look thinner fast! Even the salad dressing is formulated to speed up weight loss.
With over 10 fat burning ingredients in this salad (and the dressing) you are sure to lose weight fast with this yummy salad!
Detox Salad Ingredients:
- Kale – naturally boosts metabolism and naturally detoxifies your body!
- Red Cabbage – improves digestion and burns belly fat!
- Red Bell Pepper – one of the best metabolism boosting ingredients out there!
- Cucumber – reduces bloat so you look thinner quickly!
- Carrot – helps shed excess fat and improves digestion!
- Radishes – naturally boosts weight loss!
- Avocado – adds healthy fats that tell your body to shed excess fat!
- Almonds – adds plant based protein and naturally boosts metabolism!
- Pomegranate Seeds – packed with metabolism boosting vitamin C, and improves digestion!
- Chickpeas – adds plant based protein and naturally boosts metabolism!
- Weight Loss Dressing – this reader favorite dressing is made with Apple Cider Vinegar, and is the ultimate fat burning salad dressing!
Ingredient Swaps:
- Kale– baby spinach is a good alternative and also boosts metabolism
- Red Cabbage– any cabbage will work including brussels sprouts. You could also double the greens if cabbage does not agree with you.
- Red Bell Pepper– any color will work, but I find the green tastes underripe and steps on the other ingredients.
- Almonds– you can skip the nuts and just add more chickpeas
- Chickpeas– black beans also work, or just add more almonds, or add grilled chicken for protein.
- Avocado– add 1/2 tablespoon MCT oil to the dressing for some healthy fats.
How to Make Healthy Salads for Weight Loss
This salad is no cook, and almost no effort! I like to use a vegetable peeler to slice the carrots into thin strips. But you could shred it like cheese in a box grater, or just slice thin.
I have included a roasted chickpea recipe below the recipe card. You can choose to use it, or skip the step and just open a can of chickpeas and rinse them off for a no-cook salad.
Tools and Equipment:
- Knife
- Cutting Board
- Vegetable peeler or box grater
How to Make Healthy Salads for Weight Loss:
- To a bowl or meal prep container, combine all of the ingredients. I like to separate them, it’s so pretty. But you can mix them up too.
- If serving now, drizzle over the salad dressing. Otherwise prepare and store it in a separate container.
- Serve cold, or place in the fridge for a meal prep lunch or dinner.
Low Calorie Weight Loss Salad Recipe
Every single ingredient in this salad helps you lose weight! And if you want to see the weight loss benefits of this kale salad for weight loss, you can find them above in the Ingredients Section.
Please be sure to see my healthy carb explanation in the nutrition section below, every single carb in this recipe comes from a metabolism boosting vegetable. There is no rice, bread, not even quinoa. It’s all from fat burning veggies and nothing else!
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Low Calorie Weight Loss Salad
Equipment
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Vegetable peeler or box grater
- Bowl or meal prep container
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped kale
- ½ cup sliced red cabbage
- ½ red bell pepper (chopped)
- ¼ cucumber (sliced)
- 1 carrot (shredded or sliced thin with a vegetable peeler)
- 3 radishes (sliced)
- ½ avocado
- 2 tablespoons almonds
- 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
- ¼ cup chickpeas or try these roasted chickpeas
- 2.5 tablespoons Weight Loss Dressing
Instructions
- To a bowl or meal prep container, combine all of the ingredients. I like to separate them, it’s so pretty. But you can mix them up too.
- If serving now, drizzle over the salad dressing. Otherwise prepare and store it in a separate container.
- Serve cold, or place in the fridge for a meal prep lunch or dinner.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Salads
This recipe makes just one serving (but the 2x, 3x buttons help you double and triple the recipe). It’s a little over 3 cups, so a pretty big meal. If you can’t finish it all, just save the rest for a “free snack” later. You won’t be adding calories, but spreading them out.
Now before I get to the nutrition label I want to remind you that this is not a Keto site. This salad does have carbs, but before that turns you off, look above at the ingredients. All of the carbs come from vegetables, and all of these vegetables are metabolism boosting and aid in weight loss. These are good carbs, and will help you burn fat fast!
Low Sodium Tips: Omit the salt from the salad dressing and get low sodium chickpeas.
If you like this recipe, you might also love my Low Calorie Spring Rolls!
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Article History:
- Originally written and published January 30, 2023 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on September 15, 2023 by Audrey Johns
