Food and Volume
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Food and Volume
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!)
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.
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I had a small salad at a restaurant Saturday night. As I poured a small amount of salad dressing on it, just to my taste, I remembered a diet tip I had heard once. When you have a salad somewhere like McDonalds, where you get a packet of dressing, they advised poking your fork into the packet, so you would just get the smallest amount of dressing, then you poke the salad, and eat that bite. In this way, you eat your salad with very little dressing.
I never actually tried doing it, because it sounded silly to me! But it was wonderful to simply enjoy a salad with the amount of dressing that tasted good!
Yay for salads as yummy food, not mindless crunching!
I never actually tried doing it, because it sounded silly to me! But it was wonderful to simply enjoy a salad with the amount of dressing that tasted good!
Yay for salads as yummy food, not mindless crunching!
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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,
Blueskighs
Although I confess these days I love a good vegan pizza,
Blueskighs
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