Are salads really that bad for you?

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Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM will you find someone asking if salads are bad for you. All those vegetables are good for you. Some meat or cheese or croutons make it taste worth eating. Dressing too. Add a slice of pizza and you have a meal!

because honestly around here lately people make it sound like any food is bad for you. Women shouldn't be eating, period. We should just learn how to live on air and water.

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The fast food salads often have more calories/fat than a burger.

Gross but true. You’d be better off with a Wendy’s burger than a chicken salad.

[Anonymous]

Oil is an excellent fat. Cheese in moderation. I eat a ton of salads. Lot of lettuce, some shredded cheddar, almonds, and a heavy dose of a homemade oil based vinegrette. DELISH!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM will you find someone asking if salads are bad for you. All those vegetables are good for you. Some meat or cheese or croutons make it taste worth eating. Dressing too. Add a slice of pizza and you have a meal!

Wash it down large mountain dew or frappuccino.

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Anonymous wrote:I see people mentioning this all the time on here, that salads are not really that low in calories. I get it when you're talking about bacon being added, lots of cheese, egg, meats, full fat ranch dressing, etc.

I'm talking about homemade salads with just dressing, maybe a few croutons, and a small amount of dressing. Can't be that many calories?

If you count calories, you can tell pretty easily. I'm not being snarky, but I use the noom app so I know that I am making healthy salads. It all depends on what you put in/on them.

lettuce, spinach, arugula, cherry tomatoes, carrots, green onion, cucumber, pepper, roasted chickpea, a couple croutons

Skip the dressing and just eat that list, and you'd be fine.

[Anonymous]

I just had several wine tomatoes with salt. I am 100% sure that is good for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see people mentioning this all the time on here, that salads are not really that low in calories. I get it when you're talking about bacon being added, lots of cheese, egg, meats, full fat ranch dressing, etc.

I'm talking about homemade salads with just dressing, maybe a few croutons, and a small amount of dressing. Can't be that many calories?

If you count calories, you can tell pretty easily. I'm not being snarky, but I use the noom app so I know that I am making healthy salads. It all depends on what you put in/on them.

lettuce, spinach, arugula, cherry tomatoes, carrots, green onion, cucumber, pepper, roasted chickpea, a couple croutons

Skip the dressing and just eat that list, and you'd be fine.

Skip the croutons and measure the amount of dressing to know exactly how much you're using (1 tbsp for instance).

[Anonymous]

Croutons do not belong in a salad. Nor does bacon. Not does pasta.. Nor does dried fruit. The problem with abundance cultures is that they take a simple, healthy food and bastardize it. Tacos don't have cheese and sour cream and other things in it. Salads in Greece might have some feta cheese, but really mostly tomatoes and onions and cucumbers. I recall eating bib lettuce with vinegar and salt and a sliver of oil. Now, it is bastardized into some apocalyptic Cesar salad even back in my home country.
Even in 90s I recall ordering a salad in a restaurant, there were no apples and candied pecans and dried cranberries in it. Let alone half a lbs of shredded cheese.
Anything can be moderate and healthy for you. Sweets too can be occasional welcome food. Heck, we ate crepes for dessert, with jam. That is mostly milk and some flour in it. Now, here and back home, it is nutella in it, whip cream all over it, powdered sugar on top, bananas and strawberries inside.
It's not the veggies, it's us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What?!

OP, think with your brain.

If you have a salad with balsamic vinaigrette, some veggies, and a few croutons, why would there be a lot of calories? Where would they come from?

Of course if you add bacon, a crapton of ranch dressing, etc. you’re going to add calories.

This isn’t hard.

Yes! It is like asking if smoothies are go for you. Depends what is in them. Surely you can figure out what ingredients make a salad healthy or not.

[Anonymous]

Calories aren't bad for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Croutons do not belong in a salad. Nor does bacon. Not does pasta.. Nor does dried fruit. The problem with abundance cultures is that they take a simple, healthy food and bastardize it. Tacos don't have cheese and sour cream and other things in it. Salads in Greece might have some feta cheese, but really mostly tomatoes and onions and cucumbers. I recall eating bib lettuce with vinegar and salt and a sliver of oil. Now, it is bastardized into some apocalyptic Cesar salad even back in my home country.
Even in 90s I recall ordering a salad in a restaurant, there were no apples and candied pecans and dried cranberries in it. Let alone half a lbs of shredded cheese.
Anything can be moderate and healthy for you. Sweets too can be occasional welcome food. Heck, we ate crepes for dessert, with jam. That is mostly milk and some flour in it. Now, here and back home, it is nutella in it, whip cream all over it, powdered sugar on top, bananas and strawberries inside.
It's not the veggies, it's us!

Live a little! You have way too many rules for eating. Apples and pecans in salad are delicious. Tacos with cheese and sour cream are fantastic. Who cares how people in other countries do it? If we lived with those rules, we'd never have fusion foods.

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Blanket statement's like "salads are bad for you" are ridiculous. The issue is that labeling something a "salad" doesn't mean it's a "healthy"option. Sometime people say " I eat a 2 salads a day and can't lose weight" or " I went out for dinner but only had a salad." The issue is in what the salad may contain. Some restaurant salads can have more calories than the burger. What is in that salad matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Blanket statement's like "salads are bad for you" are ridiculous. The issue is that labeling something a "salad" doesn't mean it's a "healthy"option. Sometime people say " I eat a 2 salads a day and can't lose weight" or " I went out for dinner but only had a salad." The issue is in what the salad may contain. Some restaurant salads can have more calories than the burger. What is in that salad matters.

People are telling the OP to avoid carrots because of starch and calories.

Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Croutons do not belong in a salad. Nor does bacon. Not does pasta.. Nor does dried fruit. The problem with abundance cultures is that they take a simple, healthy food and bastardize it. Tacos don't have cheese and sour cream and other things in it. Salads in Greece might have some feta cheese, but really mostly tomatoes and onions and cucumbers. I recall eating bib lettuce with vinegar and salt and a sliver of oil. Now, it is bastardized into some apocalyptic Cesar salad even back in my home country.
Even in 90s I recall ordering a salad in a restaurant, there were no apples and candied pecans and dried cranberries in it. Let alone half a lbs of shredded cheese.
Anything can be moderate and healthy for you. Sweets too can be occasional welcome food. Heck, we ate crepes for dessert, with jam. That is mostly milk and some flour in it. Now, here and back home, it is nutella in it, whip cream all over it, powdered sugar on top, bananas and strawberries inside.
It's not the veggies, it's us!

Live a little! You have way too many rules for eating. Apples and pecans in salad are delicious. Tacos with cheese and sour cream are fantastic. Who cares how people in other countries do it? If we lived with those rules, we'd never have fusion foods.

Maybe I sounded a bit too harsh. Of course I love pecans and apples in a salad! Who doesn't. But, it just adds up. Now that I am getting older, I can't do that at each meal.

[Anonymous]

My salad tonight:

- lots of mixed greens
- blueberries
- an apricot
- sliced shallots
- shredded carrots
- about 1/4 a small avocado
- light "goddess" dressing
- sliced cucumbers
- a few shreds of mozzarella

Salad isn't bad for you. It's what you put in it (and how much of that stuff, keeping calories within your range)