On May 4, 12:58*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> I made pasta salad tonight but as usual I wound up with waaaay too much of
> it. *Seems no matter what I do there is always too much. *I have different
> versions that I make. *Basically there is the pasta, fresh veggies cut in
> strips, slices, chunks or left whole depending on size, olives and some kind
> of protein. *Dressed with some kind of Italian dressing.
>
> Tonight I used a quinoa pasta because it contains protein and also added
> kidney beans and chickpeas for more protein. *I only used black olives but
> will add some stuffed green ones to my portion. *The vegetables are sweet
> peppers (green, orange and red), grape tomatoes (safe ones), radishes, green
> onions, celery and cucumbers.
>
> I have leftover peppers, radishes and tomatoes. *Only had half a cucumber so
> that worked out well. *Used part of the green onions for my dinner tonight
> which was nachos. *Yes! *Nachos. *So will have to come up with a use for the
> leftover veggies.
>
> But when I began to assemble the salad, I realized I didn't cook enough
> pasta for the amount of veggies I had. *So I had to cook some more and now I
> have a big bowl of it plus what I have packed up for our dinner tomorrow.
>
> I like to use a wide variety of veggies in my salad. *I guess that's part of
> the problem. *I have tried to buy things from the salad bar. *I can't always
> get what I want though and tonight I wasn't near a store with a salad bar so
> made do with what I had and bought a few additional things. *And even when I
> do use the salad bar, I seem to still wind up with too much.
>
> I did do better than I usually do. *Most of the time I have a HUGE bowl of
> it and eventually some gets thrown out because there is only so much we can
> eat. *I am hoping we can either eat this two days in a row or maybe just
> come home and eat the leftovers rather than go out to eat on Friday. *But
> sometimes we just want enough pasta salad for that one meal. *So what's the
> trick for doing that if you are cooking for just two or three people?

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.

"Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
...

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.

On May 5, 9:44*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> 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.

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?

"Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
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On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> 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.

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.

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.

On May 5, 10:06*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> ....
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

yeah. Why should you read a boring magazine that might help your live,
when you can bore the entire world on usenet with questions you should
have learned how to answer when you were 14.

Catmandy (Sheryl) wrote:
> On May 5, 10:06 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>>
>> ...
>> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>
>>> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>>
>>> ...
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> yeah. Why should you read a boring magazine that might help your live,
> when you can bore the entire world on usenet with questions you should
> have learned how to answer when you were 14.

This is a place for discussing food? Is it not? Using your theory, why
talk of recipes at all.

On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
> ...
> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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".

--
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Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...

>>> 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.

Just read this. Family planning in UK is something entirely different))

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https://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

and Julie this is the bigger issue to me,

your problem, at least to me, is that you don't deal well with left overs,
you need to work out a soup recipe you can make at the same time you are
making the salad.

by doing this yo can chop everything up, make say enough salad for you and
dd to each have two servings, then dice all the left ove stuff into a pot
and immediately start that soup, i would put the broth in the crock pot and
get it warming then dice all the veggies you want make up the four seperate
salads and then see what is left you can chuck into the soup. If you did
that it would cover several meal servings, and you would have less to do for
a day or two,

Lee


"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>>> >
>>> > ...
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>

On Fri, 6 May 2011 00:40:48 -0700, "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.

If you really believe that and make it a truth - even when you get
your supplies from the salad bar where it's entirely possible to LIMIT
what you buy... then it sounds like you need to give up salads because
you will never figure out how to do it right.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On May 6, 3:40*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
>
> >> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
> ....
> >> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> >> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> >> ...
>
> >> > 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.
>
> >> 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.
>
> >> 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.

Then DON'T.
Or just do what normal, non-psychotic people do and use the vegetables
in other recipes.

On May 6, 2:40*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
>
> >> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
> ....
> >> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> >> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> >> ...
>
> >> > 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.
>
> >> 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.
>
> >> 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.

If I were you I'd stick a dry-cleaning bag over my head and call it a
day.

On May 6, 3:40*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
>
> >> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
> ....
> >> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> >> > "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
>
> >> ...
>
> >> > 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.
>
> >> 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.
>
> >> 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.

Oh, now you're just being contrary.

Sure you can. I do it all of the time. You just have to get it
through
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.

Cindy Hamilton

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‹a slice or two.

<shrug>

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Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
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http://web.me.com/barbschaller

"Omelet" > wrote in message
news
> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
>> > 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".
>
> This is another place where it comes in handy to purchase pre-prepared
> mixes... if you like them.

I have never seen a mix with tomatoes, beans, beets, or any of the other
stuff I like to put on my salad.

no tomatoes but all of the green stuff... the point here is that you are
asking for personal tips that help people in their real life... now
understand i naturally learned all of this because i came from a very large
family with a huge garden... and two parents who grew up without... so i
naturally absorbed not wasting making proper portions and using fresh
things... but i do understand if you parents grew up without having to
husband resources, or if neither of them cooked alot this is a skill set you
might have missed... start looking at those prepared bags to see if there is
one you can use and just add the tomatoes/beans to to see if that helps you
waste less.

Lee


"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news
>> In article >,
>> sf > wrote:
>>
>>> > 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".
>>
>> This is another place where it comes in handy to purchase pre-prepared
>> mixes... if you like them.
>
> I have never seen a mix with tomatoes, beans, beets, or any of the other
> stuff I like to put on my salad.
>

there is one called veggie mix that has very little lettuce and lots of
different stuff, sugar snap peas carrots and so on... what i like about it
is that when it starts going limp the whole thing can go into soup and is
really good, Lee
"Omelet" > wrote in message
news
> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
>> > 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".
>
> This is another place where it comes in handy to purchase pre-prepared
> mixes... if you like them.
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"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
...
> there is one called veggie mix that has very little lettuce and lots of
> different stuff, sugar snap peas carrots and so on... what i like about it
> is that when it starts going limp the whole thing can go into soup and is
> really good, Lee

Can't get that because of daughter's pea allergy.