The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook: 75 Recipes for Healthy Salad Bowls to Support Everyday Wellness

Embrace the joy of salad making and learn how to build balanced nutrient—dense bowls to support your lifelong wellness goals.

In today’s fast—paced world, making confident, healthy food choices can be challenging. With conflicting advice and diet trends flooding the wellness industry, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook bridges the gap between short—term diets and long—term wellness, offering a sustainable path to health through the art of salad making.

Authored by Nina Cherie Franklin, PhD, affectionately known as “That Salad Lady,” this cookbook empowers you to create delicious, nutritious salads that are both easy to prepare and delightful to eat. Leveraging her extensive expertise in health, fitness, and nutrition, along with her passion for salads, Dr. Nina introduces the “Build Your Bowl” system, an easy—to—follow blueprint for creating balanced, nutrient—rich bowls. In her trademark system, each salad is a flavorful masterpiece designed to save time, reduce food waste, and nourish your body and mind. The 75 vibrant and easy salad recipes include:

• Quick & Easy Meal Prep Bowls like the Spicy Chipotle Elote Shrimp Salad, Quick & Easy Grilled Cheese Salad, and Hearty Bison Taco Salad Bowl
• High—Protein Bowls like the Eat—the—Rainbow Cobb Salad, Grilled Peach & Salmon Burrata Bowl, and Caribbean Jerk Chicken Salad
• Low—Carb and Keto Salads like the Bacon & Brussels Sprouts Bowl, Eggplant Parmesan Spinach Salad, and Spaghetti Squash & Meatball Bowl
• Heart—Healthy Recipes like Mediterranean Tuna and White Bean Salad, Kale Cesar Salad with Crispy Chickpeas, and Trout Farrow Bowl with Mango Salsa
• Vegetarian and Vegan Bowls like the Rainbow Three—Bean Salad, Sweet Sesame Tofu & Edamame Bowl, and Hearty Roasted Veggie & Lentil Bowl 
• Anti—Inflammatory Bowls like the Turmeric Quinoa & Edamame Bowl, Japanese Cucumber and Seaweed Salad with Tempeh, and Citrus Herb Marinated Mushroom Salad
  
  

Each recipe categorizes ingredients into whole food groups with nutritional analyses, helping you understand how to build your bowls layer by layer. Dr. Nina also shares practical tips on meal prep, smart shopping, and selecting the right kitchen tools, all aimed at making your journey to wellness seamless.

In The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook, each bowl is a step toward lifelong wellness. Whether you’re a lifelong health—and—fitness enthusiast, someone coping with specific health challenges, a person trying to get more protein or go more plant—based, a busy parent juggling responsibilities, or a young adult learning to make more informed food choices, this book makes healthy eating effortless and fun.

Join Dr. Nina on a journey to rebuild your relationship with food, embrace the joy of salads, and achieve optimal wellness.