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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Bacon

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This Strawberry Spinach Salad is made with bacon and topped off with a greek yogurt poppyseed dressing! Make this strawberry salad today!

Strawberry Spinach Salad

Adding another old recipe up front for you to see, this time it’s a Strawberry Spinach Salad! This is a super popular one that you’ve probably seen around Pinterest a time or two. So tangy and so so good!

Original post went live August 2012 when I only had one baby!! NUTS.

Anyways, make this salad. It is beyond incredible and can make you forget all your cares in the world. Bacon- salty. Strawberries-sweet. Almonds-crunchy. Dressing-creamy. Everything eaten together-priceless.

Super simple and super delicious! So easy that I didn’t do step by step photos! Boo-yah.

Sorry. That was so 1994.

Fry up some bacon and get crack-a-lackin’!

Enjoy, friends!! Have a fabulous food filled weekend! Love your faces!! 🙂

Strawberry Salad
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Bacon

This Strawberry Spinach Salad is made with bacon and topped off with a greek yogurt poppyseed dressing! Make this strawberry salad today!

Course Salad
Servings 6 servings
Calories 351 kcal
Author Lauren Brennan

Ingredients

for the salad-

  • 6-8 cups baby spinach or 1 head of romaine lettuce
  • 2 cups fresh strawberries sliced
  • 1/4 cup toasted almonds chopped
  • 8 slices bacon cooked and crumbled

for the dressing-

  • 1/2 cup greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup white vinegar
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • 1 teaspoon poppyseeds
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  1. Tear lettuce into bite-sized pieces, wash, dry and pour into a large bowl. Top with strawberries, almonds and cooked bacon.
  2. To make the dressing, pour all ingredients into a small bowl and whisk. Drizzle salad generously and serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Bacon
Amount Per Serving
Calories 351 Calories from Fat 261
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 29g 45%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 28mg 9%
Sodium 343mg 14%
Potassium 364mg 10%
Total Carbohydrates 15g 5%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 11g
Protein 8g 16%
Vitamin A 56.7%
Vitamin C 44.4%
Calcium 7.9%
Iron 8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Comments

  6. susan marie says

    August 24, 2012 at 6:34 am

    What is it with libraries? I had to present all kinds of proof, too, but didn’t have my voter’s registration with me. So the librarian asked me the name of my county commissioner – couldn’t do that, but I knew the precinct number, so she let me have the card. Sheesh, By the way, what really attracted me to this recipe is the dressing – it sounds great! I think I’ll give this salad a try this weekend. 🙂

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  10. Katherine D. says

    August 24, 2012 at 6:42 am

    The salad looks delicious but I had to comment on the DMV!
    I moved to Portland two years ago and had the exact same experience…I too failed the first go round by one question (“if you are on a country road and a man on a horse raises his right hand, what does that mean?” ummm, howdy?) and I KNOW I was not told about the skip button. The second go around I used that skip button and made sure everyone around me knew about that skip button! It probably didn’t hurt that I had read the entire handbook from front to back just to be on the safe side 🙂
    Glad you are finally an OR license carrying resident! We need to stick together!

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  11. Gisela says

    August 24, 2012 at 7:00 am

    Yup, took me 3 visits to the DMV to get mine, sheesh!! And they didn’t tell me about the skip button either. Salad looks super yummy!

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  13. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says

    August 24, 2012 at 7:47 am

    Hhahaha god, I hate the DMV, but I LOATHE the library even more! My library is SO rude. I STILL don’t have a card because each time I come in with the stuff they claimed I needed last time, they need something else. I’m like DAAAYMN son, who cares?! I’m renting Pretty Little Liars. Am I really a threat? WTH, yo. BTW, this salad is amazeballs.

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  14. Krista S says

    August 24, 2012 at 9:30 am

    I am with you on the DMV! Us Canadians will have trouble with US tests because everything is in different measurements! How many feet can you park from a fire hydrant, what speed to you drive in a residential area if there is no speed posted, etc. I was like “can I answer in meters and km?” HA!

    Great recipe 🙂

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  19. Amy Bounds says

    August 24, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Thank you for sharing the DMV test. We just had a teenager take the Washington test so thankfully the questions were really similar to ours.

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  21. Ashley @ Wishes and Dishes says

    August 24, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    Strawberry and bacon in a salad pretty much means it’s a perfect salad 🙂

    P.s. I have NEVER had a good experience at the DMV so I feel ya… the last time I went there I left crying. The last 2 times, actually. Who knew changing my last name after a marriage was virtually IMPOSSIBLE?! Didn’t help that I had the rudest lady to ever walk the planet “helping” me….Ok, done with my rant 🙂

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  22. Kara says

    August 25, 2012 at 5:55 am

    I failed. Miserably. Not even close. What a joke. I’m never moving states again, just in case the state we move to requires a written test.
    Salad looks fantastic!

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  23. Vicki F says

    August 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

    I failed my first written test for an Oregon driver’s license too! Shocked me as I’ve been driving for umpteen million years (it seems). Thought the questions were worded to fail as they included choices that applied to similar situations. Did what you did, I studied and passed my test yesterday, only missing one (who knew those tractor things could go as fast as 25 mph?). Funny thing was the questions for my retesting seemed much simpler…go figure. Congratulations Lauren 🙂 The salad sounds and looks fabulous!

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  24. Marilyn Brennan says

    August 26, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Yeah, I’ll buy your book just for the journaling/posts. Oh, the salad looks great too. BTW, how can I get your posts at my new email address?

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  29. susan marie says

    December 2, 2012 at 11:35 am


    I made this salad today for a church potluck – everyone loved it! You’ve got the salty, sweet, and tangy flavors going on, and the different textures. This is definitely a keeper! To save time, I used a large bag of spring greens mixture, and it was so pretty,

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  30. Lesley says

    January 10, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    I did the quiz, totally failed! A lot of it was me not understanding what the @#$% they were talking about, and with only 10 questions, 1 wrong answer is a big deal!!

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  31. Kathy says

    March 27, 2013 at 10:11 am

    I just had to take a test to get a Utah license and luckily, it was open book. It still sucked because I only had 20 minutes to take it before they closed. Thanks for the dressing recipe. I’m trying to avoid eating canola and soybean oils, so this is a perfect recipe for me.

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  32. Sydney says

    April 10, 2013 at 7:51 am

    I make a similar salad but with green onion and crumbled heath bars. Sounds a little strange until you try it, but its AMAZING!!

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  33. Suzanne says

    January 23, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    Lauren, thanks so much for this poppy seed dressing recipe. I just made it and love it, I like the Greek yogurt in there too. I will be using this dressing often now. If I use it on my blog I’ll give you the ping back thx 🙂

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  35. Yvette Carpenter says

    April 24, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    It was delish! Only thing I will change next time is not so much vinegar. Maybe if the strawberries were riper and sweeter it would have been not so tart. Maybe I will try to see if there is a strawberry vinegar or similar to see if that works better for my family. 🙂

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  36. Yvette Carpenter says

    June 3, 2014 at 2:24 pm


    Love this recipe/salad. The dressing is even good on other things. Thanks. I have written more but the flashing of the ad., is giving me a migraine.

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  37. Tiffany says

    January 31, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    I have a question about the yogurt, because I HATE greek yogurt… so can I simply substitute the greek yogurt for plain old regular yogurt, or do I need to make modifications to the other ingredients as well?

    (P.S. Getting a GA license is ridiculous, I know a lady who spent 9 months trying to get one so that she could register her car… 9 months of “riding dirty!”

    Thanks…

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