Oh I love a good 1980s salad bar salad. ICEBERG lettuce, shredded cheese, diced ham, tomatoes, cucumbers, maybe a couple raw mushrooms, green olives, and ranch dressing.

Sliced blanched almonds or toasted pine nuts
sun dried tomatoes, julienned
crumbled gorgonzola
thinly sliced red onions
butter lettuce
good croutons
homemade dijon garlic vinaigrette

I could eat this every day

Depends on the season. In the spring, greens rule, so sometimes I'll just do a green salad with a sharp vinaigrette topped with a round of broiled goat cheese. And of course, once asparagus, beets & radishes come in, those are lovely too.
In the summer, I love corn salads, green bean-tomato, watermelon-feta, just anything to use of all the lovely produce.
When the weather gets colder I'll do roasted vegetable salads like these: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/01/warm-butternut-squash-and-chickpea-salad/
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/thanksgiving-from-jerusalem/
I also use cooked grains and roasted veggies in salads for cold weather.
Can you tell I love salads ?

Love a spinach salad with trader joes frozen turkey meatballs cut up. I'll add some cheese, carrots, and whatever other veggies I have along with some crunch (crumbled up whole wheat crackers, nuts, tortilla chips). I sometime will add quinoa or brown rice to it for a heartier meal.

Another love is spinach, beans, cheese and salsa.....

Yum!

--tuna, blanched french green beans, hard boiled egg
--feta, black olives, tomatoes, cucumbers
--jicama, black beans, lime-cilantro dressing

We have a couple very standard every night salads but for the holidays brought this to many events ...

Mixed baby greens
Very thinly sliced red onion
Crumbled blue cheese
Craisins (or pomegranite seeds)
Candied peacans (super easy to make and save in the fridge)
Sliced pear

Balsamic dressing

My go-to salad is spinach with beets, feta and sunflower seeds with a lemony dressing.

Cannot go wrong!

Our typical weekday salad is pretty boring - the standard raw veggies (carrots, cucumber, broccoli, peppers) and diced avocado. But I also love chick peas, sunflower seeds, and sliced mushrooms. Sometimes I'll do a spinach salad with feta, slivered almonds, and strawberries or goat cheese, dried cherries or cranberries, and candied nuts.

Canned baby corn, canned beets, and anything in the vegetable crisper drawer... cucumber, raw broccoli, celery, carrots...

No raw onion, EVER! As if I wanted to do that to anyone I might talk to for the rest of the day. *gag*

Last night's steak salad (leftover rib roast) was topped with:

Corn
Pomegranate seeds
Red onion
Goat cheese rounds coated in panko and toasted
Chopped red pepper
Celery
Croutons

MMMMM!

I am drawn to the same toppings and I am looking for inspiration to branch out!