What kind of rodent-brained moron decided to pile a bunch of leaves on a plate and tell fat people it could make them thin again?? Do I look like a goddamned rabbit? I'm not even fat, I'm underweight, but I have to put up with people trying to give me leaves and tellin me it's dinner. There's NO WAY I could get full by eating a salad, unless it had eight gallons of salad dressing on it, but that would be disgusting in itself. The only time I don't mind a salad is if it's as a side, not a whole meal, and it's made of spinach leaves, because at least then it has some nutritional value. I hate iceburg lettuce--it's like, "Hi, I'm too lazy to cook real vegetables, so I'm going to go out to my garage, find my lawnmower and empty the bag of grass clippings and put it on a plate for you. Enjoy." Vegetables in general never fill me up. If there's not a significant amount of carbs, it's not a meal--it's a last-ditch effort to not die during a famine. Rant over.
I like salads because I can generally eat a whole serving size of it without getting full before I'm finished with it. I have a small stomach and even smaller appetite so I rarely finish anything I eat. But salads seem to do it for me.
Two reasons to eat: energy and vitamins. Salad is good for one, and not the other, and if you start missing out on getting enough vegetable and fruit servings, you'll notice how shitty you start feeling.
Maybe you just aren't eating the right type of salads, heh? You need a lot of pepper, a pinch or two of salt, onion, tomato, oil & vinegar (or dressing,) garbanzo or kidney beans, crutons, pepperocini, parmesean cheese and of course lettuce. And, well, anything else that sounds good.. and nothing that you dislike, heh. A good salad usually has a lot in it. Mmmm, I love a good salad.
I fucking love salad. You gotta put more in it though, like madlizard said. I like mine with grilled chicken, croutons, tomatoes, cheese and italian dressing and even different types of lettuce. Salad is always better with more in it, and with some kind of meat in it.
Well yeah iceberg (or head) lettuce should be illegal to grow, because it allows people to present it to guests as if it were food and then not serve them anything else. That's abuse. But "salad" is not just iceberg lettuce with oil on it and I wish there were a campaign to teach this simple fact to the majority or North Americans. Veggies, beans, nuts, seeds, dried and fresh fruits, and tofu make some damn fine salads.
Not true. I take multivitamins, and I shit everyday, so I know I'm getting a decent amount of fiber from multigrain stuff. I feel fine and dandy. Whenever I feel lousy, it's because of stress/school/lack of sleep, not because of a lack of vegetables. I've tried eating vegetables/salads before, but even when they aren't that bad, I'll still think, "Well, that was okay...but I COULD'VE had more carbs!!" And then I just end up eating a million pounds of carbs anyway, because vegetables never fill me up. To me, eating plants without a significant amount of carbs when I'm really hungry is the equivilant to jumping in your bathtub when you really want to go to the beach, and telling youself it's the same. Somebody go make me some pasta.
