"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
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>> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
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>> > it's not rocket science, Julie.
>> > If you're making too much salad by including too many veggies, just
>> > don't add as much.
>> > Either cut back on the variety or only use half as much of each veggie
>> > as you are now. Obviously, if you're using less in your pasta salad,
>> > you will have to use up the balance of that pepper, onion, whatever in
>> > something else.
>> > Just plan your meals better. It's home ec 101.
>> >
>> > Nope. That was never covered in Home Ec.
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>> They never covered how to shop for food and plan meals in your home ec
>> clas? That explains a LOT!
>> Still, you've never read a magazine article?
>>
>> Nope. They taught cooking and sewing.
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>> They did cover how to shop and plan for meals in family planning. But
>> nowhere did they say how to make a salad for one. In fact my family
>> planning teacher said a good salad for one could not be done.
>>
>> I read magazines but never any that tell you how to shop or plan meals.
>> Those kinds of magazines are ones that I find boring.
>>
> It's easy enough to Google "salad recipe for one person".

The problem is not in making the salad. The problem is all that you have to
buy to make the salad. You simply can not make one small good salad...and
by good I mean with a lot of different ingredients in it, without having a
ton of leftover stuff. You just can't.