Salad Creations Promotes Health and Literacy

Salads take a lot of heat these days. A once great source of veggies have grown to 1000-2000 calorie monstrosities. That's right, instead of getting a lightweight meal to help with your diet, you're taking in things worse than cruising through the fast food drive through.

Not Salad Creations, in Eagle Village, however. They offer gourmet salads with reasonable calorie counts. Their "signature" Jr Chipotle BBQ Chicken rings in at just 516 calories and 33 grams of proteins to offset the 41 grams of carbs. For those tracking their protein to carb ratio, a meal so close between the two is rather rare. Leave off the dressing and you can drive those numbers down.

With the start of a new year, many turn their thoughts to expanding waistlines, and Salad Creations wants to help encourage you in keeping your resolutions by offering a Eat Good, Feel Good Challenge. Head into their locations in Stafford or Fredericksburg and pick up a punch card good for three months! Each time you visit, you get 15% off your order and a mighty fine salad to tickle your taste-buds and fill your belly.

They are offering a weight-loss challenge aspect to this as well. If you are brave enough to list your weight at sign up, you're entered. The winner gets one free salad a week for a year. Think about it, you can get a salad after your nearby Weight Watchers weigh in each week!

That's not all the only new promotion at Salad Creations. Adopting a model close to the Pizza Hut Book It! program, they are currently traveling to local schools in Stafford and Fredericksburg to promote Lettuce Read! 

The idea - teach healthy eating and lifestyles while encouraging school-kids to read. As quoted on the Eagle Village's Salad Creations' Facebook page, "Healthy eating is a personal goal for many and we believe that healthy habits start at a young age." 

At the start of the program, a participant receives a red plate, much like the restaurant's bowls. For each completed book or reading goal, the participant gets a vegetable sticker to build their very own Salad Creation. Once finished, they receive a free kids' meal at either the Fredericksburg or Stafford locations. 

Want your school to take part? The manager says that he welcomes all schools, even home schools. Now, if only they'd do something like that for adults. I could get behind free salads for all the books I read!