Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Posted March 9, 2006 Anything from the vegetable list: http://www.bodyforlife.com/nutrition/foodlist.asp And the salad dressing of your choice. Just read the label and watch the serving size and total calories. You can either go the low-fat or fat-free route and keep it under 50 cals (if you're capable of eating something that tastes like glue :-), or you can go the healthy fat route and get something made with olive oil, canola oil or another healthy fat and keep it under 100 cals. Two tablespoons of Newman's Own Balsamic Vinaigrette has 90 cals and 9g of healthy fat. It's mainly a matter of personal preference, diligent label reading, and possibly measuring out your tablespoons because it's really easy to kid yourself about how much dressing you're pouring on a salad. The safest way to do it is to put the dressing on the side and dip your fork into it. On 3/8/06, jennicamama <jennicamama@...> wrote: > I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big > salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? Quote
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Posted March 9, 2006 I've never heard that it needs to be a BIG salad. And it doesn't have to be salad. The idea, I believe, is to be sure to have vegetables with at least two of your 6 meals. When I have a salad, I rarely have salad dressing on it. I usually take my seasoned protein, and my carb, and any other cooked veg that I may be having, and plunk everything onto my salad. It never seems dry. If I use salad dressing, about 1 Tbsp seems sufficient (at about 70 calories for 2 tbsp); I use it so infrequently and in such a minor amount that I don't deal with reduced fat dressings. Or you can use Flaxseed oil and vinegar. Some of my salads are 'traditional' house salads (with stuff like cuke, celery, shredded carrot, couple of olives, cherry tomatoes). Usually they're less traditional (2-3 of the following: slices of orange or a couple of grapes, sliced onion, couple of chic peas, sliced strawberries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, leftover roast vegs, shredded carrot, sliced pear) I generally use romaine lettuce and/or baby spinach. The only time I use iceberg is if the family is doing mexican and we have shredded iceberg with that (it has little-to-no nutritional value) HTH n At 03:30 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big >salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? Quote
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Posted March 9, 2006 I never use traditional salad dressing,either, but I have all types of vinegar. My absolute fave is raspberry vinegar. Oh man. So, so good and 2 cals for tbsp. > >I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big > >salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? > > > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Posted March 9, 2006 The things that get you into trouble on a salad are the ³add-ons². Lettuce, spinach, baby greens, all good. Tomatoes, all good. Sun dried tomatoes, not good. Ham, egg, bacon bits, croutons, cheeses, equal trouble. I use Girard¹s low fat, reduced fat, whatever it is, Caesar dressing, but I use very little. I open the bottle and use a little bit for the first day. Then I add water to the dressing and shake it up. I do that for the first four or five days with a new bottle. I just want the salad not dry, so adding water to the dressing doesn¹t bother me. On 3/8/06 5:19 PM, " jennicamama " <jennicamama@...> wrote: > I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big > salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? > > > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 What's wrong with sun-dried tomatoes? Re: salad and....? The things that get you into trouble on a salad are the ³add-ons². Lettuce, spinach, baby greens, all good. Tomatoes, all good. Sun dried tomatoes, not good. Ham, egg, bacon bits, croutons, cheeses, equal trouble. I use Girard¹s low fat, reduced fat, whatever it is, Caesar dressing, but I use very little. I open the bottle and use a little bit for the first day. Then I add water to the dressing and shake it up. I do that for the first four or five days with a new bottle. I just want the salad not dry, so adding water to the dressing doesn¹t bother me. On 3/8/06 5:19 PM, " jennicamama " <jennicamama@...> wrote: > I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big > salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? > > > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 The really tasty ones are packed in a jar of oil. The calories can add up fast if you use a lot of them. On 3/9/06, <tjmiller88@...> wrote: > > What's wrong with sun-dried tomatoes? Quote
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 Oh, well I have bought those but I usually only add a little bit to what I am cooking. The ones I usually buy, though, are vacuum packed dry and sold in the produce section of my grocery. Skwigg <skwigg@...> wrote: The really tasty ones are packed in a jar of oil. The calories can add up fast if you use a lot of them. On 3/9/06, wrote: > > What's wrong with sun-dried tomatoes? Quote
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 They¹re soaked in olive oil. On 3/9/06 9:35 PM, " " <tjmiller88@...> wrote: > What's wrong with sun-dried tomatoes? > > > Re: salad and....? > > > The things that get you into trouble on a salad are the ³add-ons². Lettuce, > spinach, baby greens, all good. Tomatoes, all good. Sun dried tomatoes, > not good. Ham, egg, bacon bits, croutons, cheeses, equal trouble. I use > Girard¹s low fat, reduced fat, whatever it is, Caesar dressing, but I use > very little. I open the bottle and use a little bit for the first day. > Then I add water to the dressing and shake it up. I do that for the first > four or five days with a new bottle. I just want the salad not dry, so > adding water to the dressing doesn¹t bother me. > > On 3/8/06 5:19 PM, " jennicamama " <jennicamama@...> wrote: > >> > I always read about eating a salad with dinner. What is in this big >> > salad? I mean, what kind of dressing and how much of it is okay? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > Quote
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