Up your salad game with this step-by-step formula.

You don’t need a recipe to make a salad, just a basic formula.

Bonus points for using up vegetable scraps or leftover ingredients that would otherwise go to waste!

chopped chicken and sweet potato salad

Then keep reading for delicious foods that fit in each category.

Cheese = 1/2 oz.

Garnish = 1/2 oz.

quinoa deli salad

vinegarorlemon juice, 12 tsp.

minced garlic, 1/4 tsp.

dried thyme, 1/8 tsp.

vegetarian nicoise

pepper, and 1/8 tsp.

salt, then whisk in 14 cup extra-virgin olive oil.

Or make a healthy salad based on what you have on hand or what’s on sale.

salmon couscous