"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> How do you define "a lot of different ingredients"? Three to four?
> Four to six? I can make a salad for myself from lettuce or a
> combination of greens, cucumber, onion, tomato, olives on the side. If
> I use a slicing tomato, I might use half; if I use small cherry or grape
> tomatoes, perhaps three; I regularly use only part of a cucumber at one
> time in a salad; green onions or a slice of larger one; olives or not;
> green pepper or not

I might have three different kinds of greens, carrots, celery, onions, three
kinds of peppers, beets, two kinds of olives, tomatoes, two kinds of beans,
some nuts or seeds and maybe some cheese.

I'm not big on cucumber myself and likely wouldn't put it in my salad but
daughter likes it so it will go in hers. It is rare for us to use a whole
cucumber before it goes bad but I was able to do it last week.