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| A main-dish spinach salad with chicken, mushrooms, peppers, and almonds. |
(Updated with step-by-step photos and an improved recipe, June 2012.) There are a lot of good reasons to eat spinach, whether or not you're trying to lose weight. But when I am trying to eat mostly protein and vegetables, a big spinach salad like this is one of my favorite things to have for dinners. I made this on a day when I had some mushrooms in the fridge begging to be used, but they're definitely optional. You could also make the salad with some other type of greens, but spinach is such a nutritional powerhouse, and it's delicious with the Asian-flavored dressing in this salad.
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