On 5/9/2011 10:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On May 6, 3:40 am, "Julie > wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>>>> "Catmandy > wrote in message
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>>>>> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie > wrote:
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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.
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>>>>>> 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?
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> It's easy enough to Google "salad recipe for one person".
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>>> 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.
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>> Oh, now you're just being contrary.
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>> Sure you can. I do it all of the time. You just have to get it
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>> your skull that a salad doesn't need to have everything but the
>> kitchen sink in it. Put in lettuce, three other vegetables and enjoy
>> it for what it is: a celebration of lettuce and three vegetables.
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> That's just a salad. Not a really good one.
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Tho' I don't like any cold pasta dishes including "pasta salad", I might
point out that it is neither expensive nor difficult to get the makings
for a salad for one at a supermarket salad bar.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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