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25 Easy Summer Salads That Are Kid-Friendly

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Easy summer salads that are kid-friendly and refreshing for a hot summer day!

25 of the best salad recipes for summer!

Summer Salad Ideas

 

When the warm weather starts, it’s natural to crave fresh foods from the garden. 

We grow a small garden every year, but we still visit the farmer’s market every Thursday to grab some local veggies. 

When it’s hot outside there is nothing better than having a cool, refreshing salad for dinner or even as a side dish several days a week. 

Summer salads are the best because they incorporate all those robust flavors of greens, berries, citrus, grilled meat, and fresh homemade salad dressing. 

The awesome part about tossing all these fresh, ripe ingredients together is they require NO COOKING for moms!

Well, unless you add some grilled meat, but then you can always let dad be the grill master.

And let’s not forget, most of these healthy ingredients are cheaper in the summer.

Kid-Friendly Summer Salads

Keep in mind, that when adding berries or melon, you are instantly making a kid-friendly salad. 

Thankfully, my kids love eating salads. Not to say it was always that easy.

They started out picking out all their favorite ingredients to eat and would usually leave the greens behind.

Throughout the years, they eventually found out that when it is all mixed together it tastes delicious. 

The key to getting your kids to be salad-eaters is to let them add their favorite ingredients.

Who knows, tossing in some mini-marshmallows may sound disgusting, but it could be the key to getting your child to eat fresh spinach leaves. 

Let them use their imaginations and try different salad concoctions.

Kid-friendly salads

 Summer Salad Recipes

Here is a roundup of some of the most refreshing summer salad recipes.

The best part is, these are all kid-approved! 

These mouth-watering recipes have the most delicious summer veggies and fruits that the whole family will devour.

25 Kid-Friendly Summer Salad Recipes

Having a delicious summer salad for dinner is the perfect mom hack! The ingredients are cheap, healthy, and in season.

Let your kids add their favorite summer fruits to make the perfect kid-friendly salad.

For more easy dinner recipes check out this list of 25 meals that can be made in 15 minutes or less using store-bought rotisserie chicken. 

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Let me know what you think of these recipes in the comments or if you have any summer salad recipes that your family loves!

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Krystin

Tuesday 4th of August 2020

Such delicious recipes! There's nothing better than salads in the summer!

Robyn Jones

Monday 3rd of August 2020

Thank you for rounding up these creative salad ideas. I do not like mixing fruit with veggies, but these are all very adaptable and I especially like the salad dressing ideas. I can’t wait to try these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Under flowery sky

Monday 3rd of August 2020

I love the ideas, specially if they're veggie. Cherry tomatoes look awesome and the mix trail...

Beth

Monday 20th of July 2020

There are so many delicious looking salads, I don't know where to start, but that Trail Mix Salad may be the winner! Yum! Thank you for sharing!

Brie

Monday 20th of July 2020

OMG THESE ALL LOOK AMAZING! Cant wait to try the sweet maple apple pecan salad.

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