Autumn Salad

This salad is by no means specific to autumn, but it uses ingredients associated with the fall, and "apple-carrot-turkey bacon-etc.-etc. salad" didn't have a very nice ring to it.

Yield = 3 Salads

This picture was taken before I thought of adding carrots, and before I'd put on dressing. Imagine little orange slivers and some red goop:)

5 oz. mixed greens              

1 gala apple

~ 6 baby carrots

4 strips turkey bacon

40g sweetened, dried cranberries 

28 g crumbled goat cheese

16 g honey roasted pecans

~ 5 tbsp. fat-free Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing (I use the Panera brand)

Divide the greens into three containers. Chop your apple into little pieces and divide into thirds. Add each pile of apples to a different salad. Chop up your carrots and do the same. Cook the turkey bacon in the microwave and crumble it up over your salads (1 1/3 slice per salad). Measure out your dried cranberries and goat cheese and distribute them evenly across your salads. Chop up your pecans and sprinkle them evenly across your salads.

Add dressing to taste before serving. I like just under 2 tbsp. per salad.