Kitchen

[J Town Girl]

I am usually a big fan of salads and most always have one with dinner each evening.

However when I got this cold about a week before Christmas the though of having a salad just didn't appeal to me.  My body seemed like it was craving protein and lots of fruit.  I began each day by eating two tangerines and a banana.  Dinner each evening was fish or chicken.  No salad in sight.  

Now that I'm feeling better I'm slowly getting back to my salads. I'm still not ready to have a big salad for dinner.  Tonight I'm just having a little bit of spinach with some radishes, cucumbers and a small grape tomato.  

[ID2]

I have a salad with my dinner every single day. Can't eat until I start out with my salad. 

[Love to Run]

I love a good caesar salad, and I love a marinated salad. I made a blackeyed pea salad with fresh red peppers, jalepenos, red onion, tomato, garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil on Monday that I finished for lunch today. I prefer my veggies either raw or roasted.

[mrshckynut]

I eat a salad everyday not craving

mrshckynut 

[colliemom4]

I eat salads frequently but my husband doesn't care for them. My in-laws would make them daily when they were alive. Maybe that's why lol. They had other foods along with that.

[haddon9]

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@Carmie wrote:

I love salads and always have them at the ready.

About twice a week, I wash and cut up different lettuce varieties and spinach and mix them with cut carrots, radishes, celery and cherry tomatoes in a big container.

I then cut up cucumbers and onions and store them seperately.

When I am ready to serve, I add the salad mix to individual bowls and add the cucumbers and onions, if desired along with whatever protein I want...eggs, chicken or  beans and dressing.  Sometimes I nuts or dried fruit too.

The cucumbers and onions don't keep well in the precut salad mix.  They are too wet and make the greens go bad quickly.

I eat a salad almost everyday, even at holiday time.  I use my food processor a lot.

It is so much easier to prep salad mix a few times a week instead of everyday.

 I don't buy precut salad mixes that keep getting recalled for salmonella.  I make my own.

I love veggies and salad...yummm.

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@Carmie This is a great idea!  I'm going to get different types of lettuce & greens and make my own salad mix too!

[Carolina925]

I eat a salad as my big daily meal so, during the holidays where I wasn't at home much and ate at family homes, I sure miss them. It's been nice this week to get back to normal, and my body thanks me. One of my favorite salads, but I don't eat often because I heard it's the less beneficial lettuce, is a good wedge salad with iceberg, bleu cheese dressing, with bacon chips and minced boiled egg on top.