Rainbow Salad

If you want a colorful dish that can double as a pretty centerpiece, try this rainbow salad.  I got this idea after I made a salad with as much variety as I could think of, and it ended up looking very pretty and colorful and getting comments when I ate it at work.  As always, you can adapt it to personal tastes.  One thing a rainbow of colors in your veggies means is that there's also a variety of health benefits, vitamins, antioxidants, and nutrients.

Start with a colorful lettuce mix in the base.  Try to find one that has red leaf lettuce and red cabbage, along with the usual mix.  If not, you can always get it separate and add it.  Chop this and add to large mixing bowl.
Add spinach (good source of iron, especially if consumed with vitamin C (which there will be plenty of), because it helps your body absorb more iron.)
1 pack of cherry tomatoes, halved
2 orange tomatoes, cut up
1 red pepper, chopped
1 yellow pepper, chopped
1/2 red onion, cut up
1 can kidney beans, rinsed thoroughly
1 zucchini squash, peeled and cubed
1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
2 avocados, chopped
1/2 cup sugar snap peas, diced

Mix thoroughly and add your favorite dressing.

Here's an example of a rainbow salad I made last summer.  Pretty much all the produce came from my local farmer's market.  All the colors came out very vibrant, the sugar snap peas, pepper, and cherry tomatoes added a bit of crisp sweetness that was nice, and it was quite delicious.