Alternatives to salad?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You are bored because you only like four vegetables + lettuce. You need to expand your palate.

Partially true. I do vary it a bit with different combinations of pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, cauliflower, cucumber, celery, carrots, tomatoes, mixed lettuces, cabbage, flax seed, cashews or walnuts, etc. Even occasionally resorting to caesar salad or making a large salmon/grilled chicken caesar salad my dinner.

But I also just get tired of making salad and tired of eating a salad in general every night.

Are you just eating salad and nothing else? I am middle eastern. A side salad is a staple for dinner but it’s not the main meal. It’s the same salad every day and serves as a palate opener. We then usually have some variation of a stew which has a lot of veggies. As an alternative to a side salad we may have soup. Also if the soup is heavy enough we may have it with a salad. Make sure your main meal is full of vegetables and then have a salad as an appetizer. If all you are eating for dinner is a raw salad then you will get sick of it easily even if you vary the ingredients and the dressing. Also don’t be fooled by dressing. Most aren’t healthy. Best is a simple dressing of olive oil, lemon, and salt.

It is a side to the meal. Though, it is usually a decent sized salad because I want to get my vegetables in for the day and reduce main meal portions. I'm trying to include more veggies with the main meal; but since I don't like very many vegetables, salad is the best way to ensure a good amount for the day. I have mostly been using an apple cider vinegar dressing or an olive oil dressing. I admit, usually store-bought low sugar varieties; but sometimes homemade.

Even as a palate opener, you don't get tired of the salad every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you like greens sauteed in olive oil with garlic? Takes like a minute or two, and you add maldon salt and lemon juice and it is perfection.

I haven't tried that, though multiple people I know seem to like kale that way. I'll give it a try!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you like greens sauteed in olive oil with garlic? Takes like a minute or two, and you add maldon salt and lemon juice and it is perfection.

I haven't tried that, though multiple people I know seem to like kale that way. I'll give it a try!

It's a great way to have kale. And bagged spinach is extremely easy this way -- it cooks way down, so you do need a lot of it, and with baby spinach I do bother to pull off the stems but you don't have to. With kale you can remove the stalks from the middle of the leaves or you can slice it up without doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are bored because you only like four vegetables + lettuce. You need to expand your palate.

Partially true. I do vary it a bit with different combinations of pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, cauliflower, cucumber, celery, carrots, tomatoes, mixed lettuces, cabbage, flax seed, cashews or walnuts, etc. Even occasionally resorting to caesar salad or making a large salmon/grilled chicken caesar salad my dinner.

But I also just get tired of making salad and tired of eating a salad in general every night.

Are you just eating salad and nothing else? I am middle eastern. A side salad is a staple for dinner but it’s not the main meal. It’s the same salad every day and serves as a palate opener. We then usually have some variation of a stew which has a lot of veggies. As an alternative to a side salad we may have soup. Also if the soup is heavy enough we may have it with a salad. Make sure your main meal is full of vegetables and then have a salad as an appetizer. If all you are eating for dinner is a raw salad then you will get sick of it easily even if you vary the ingredients and the dressing. Also don’t be fooled by dressing. Most aren’t healthy. Best is a simple dressing of olive oil, lemon, and salt.

It is a side to the meal. Though, it is usually a decent sized salad because I want to get my vegetables in for the day and reduce main meal portions. I'm trying to include more veggies with the main meal; but since I don't like very many vegetables, salad is the best way to ensure a good amount for the day. I have mostly been using an apple cider vinegar dressing or an olive oil dressing. I admit, usually store-bought low sugar varieties; but sometimes homemade.

Even as a palate opener, you don't get tired of the salad every day?

No not at all! It’s like drinking coffee everyday. A habit that I look forward to 😀 But given that you find it boring how about alternating with soup and sautéed greens as many have suggested. Just get any mix salad bag from the grocery store - spinach, spring mix, baby greens and then sautee with salt, olive oil and sliced garlic. Squeeze a little lemon in the end and you have a delicious side! Soup is easy too. Base is garlic and onions and then add whatever chopped veggies you have. Also any type of stir fry would work too.

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I buy a large Costco veggie tray with dip and snack on it all week.