Everyday Systems

It's been awhile since I made an entree salad as my meal. I suppose I wanted to get away from the "diet" mentality and was reveling in the sheer anti-diet hedonism of a turkey and cheese sandwich.

But there were a lot of veggies in my fridge that needed eating up, and I was not going to make soup any time soon, so I made myself a salad topped with a couple of slices turkey and cheese.

I got to thinking. A plate full of veggies is a large volume of food, certainly. I was thinking, "Wow, I'm having a HUGE lunch!"

For people who are worried about the single plate being fuzzy portion control, you could certainly pile on the veggies for a meal. You'd get plenty of food and goodness knows you'd feel full after the meal (BURP!)

Yes, I love salads when I'm feeling the need to crunch and munch a lot of food. They are also a good thing to order in the restaurant if you with a bunch of people who plan on eating HUGE meals followed by desserts. You can make a salad last a long time and not feel a bit deprived.

Noel... I was eating a huge spinach salad while I was reading your post. It was great, too!

I love salads as well, but hate the diet mentality I get when eating them. However, I like to get salads from Wendy's, McDonalds, and DQ (the grilled chicken salad is wonderful!) and it always feels like a full meal that way.

Yeah, the diet mentality around salads is something. I almost fried up a slice of bacon to put on it so that it could declare, "This is not a diet salad, dammit" but I needed to get back to work and that would have taken too long.

I like to say I have "good food karma" I absolutely adore veggies! When I was little they had to give me soup before they went out to eat pizza ... I hated it

Although I confess these days I love a good vegan pizza,

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