On Mon, 9 May 2011 06:19:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
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>On May 6, 3:40*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>> > On Thu, 5 May 2011 19:06:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>> >> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
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>> >> On May 5, 9:44 pm, "Julie Bove" > 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.

Actually you can use all the different produce you want... just gotta
own a fridge for the LOs.