It only takes a first-course salad, topped with goat cheese, perhaps, to round it out.

Fresh salads of lettuce, basil and mint topped by grilled shrimp or slices of grilled beef are simple and satisfying.

It's a cool, crunchy salad of pineapple, cucumber, jicama and mango cubes, topped with squid and shrimp crackers.

In another salad, topped with a goat cheese galette ($7.55), the greens are glossed with a sherry vinegar and black olive dressing.

They make a pretty dinner-party salad combined with watercress and endive, topped with a disk of goat cheese.

The chopped salad topped with slices of portobello mushroom also made a good showing.

The highly recommended mixed salad topped with slices of warm grilled chicken breast, $8.95, is just that.

The green salad topped with strips of marinated salmon flavored with dill and lime was a universal pleaser.

Among the new offerings are salads topped with warm chicken and Newman's Own salad dressing and healthier Happy Meals for children.

In March, the company introduced a line of salads, topped with Newman's Own salad dressing.