Talking about food!

I posted on 3/31/12 about a work friend and her salads. Recap: she spends time once or twice a week prepping a big salad to be kept in the fridge for grab and go each day/evening. She said it sucks to spend the time doing it, but it is worth it.

So far, I am IN LOVE with this!!! I tore up a head of iceberg lettuce and put in a large bowl. Because Brett and I differ on our likes for our salads, I found a bag of "rainbow salad" in the pre-packaged salads section at the grocery store. It has shredded cabbage, carrots, broccoli and it seems like a couple of other things. The flavor was incredible. It added so much to plain old iceberg lettuce. I loved it. Brett actually liked it, too! We agreed that it was probably one of the best homemade salads we had in a long time.

You may be asking yourself, "why not just buy the already cut up salads already in the bag?" Well, I'll tell you. I think those salads taste funny. I think the lettuce tastes funny. The carrots... yup, taste funny. That is the number one reason that I don't like the bagged/prepackaged salad mixes.

I have also found that these don't seem to last very long in the fridge. I don't know if someone beats the crap out of these bagged salads before they put them on the shelves, but sometimes, it looks like someone ran over the lettuce with a skateboard. Some pieces are pulverized and some just brown and liquefied. Not very appetizing.

For about the same price as ONE bagged salad mix, I made the equivalent of almost THREE bagged salads. We'll see if we can finish it before it goes bad and truly make it worthwhile. I will update on this pressing matter of SALAD vs SALAD.

Last week was an off week for me in the cooking department. I'm not a bad cook and can usually get creative without freaking Brett or Tyson out with "new" stuff. This week, the only meal I made that was decent was homemade pizza. The other days were edible, but man, I could barely eat them because they just didn't taste good! Talk about bummer for putting forth the effort to only fail, miserably.

I'm taking a step back this week and seeing if I can start with simplicity again and elaborate as I regain my cooking confidence. I don't have a meal plan in place and that bothers me somewhat because I feel like I make the most out of the little time I have by planning ahead in this department. It makes things so much easier when I'm not scrambling to whip something up. When I put thought into the meals I make, I can make something more nutritious and healthy. Little thought = high calorie, low nutrition and high fat meals.

We'll see how this all goes. Eeek!

Signing off for now, to all of you near and far and to Ruthie and Adam who are reading this now, until next time...