Full Version: Salads - veggies for the day
So I'm supposed to eat a spinich salad with lunch...and also supposed to have one cup of veggies with dinner tonight... but what if I made a HUUUUUUUUUUGE salad for lunch.... can I count some of that for my daily veggie intake? I'm sure it's totally obvious that I can but I just wanted to check!
QUOTE(April-D @ May 7 2009, 12:14 PM) 
So I'm supposed to eat a spinich salad with lunch...and also supposed to have one cup of veggies with dinner tonight... but what if I made a HUUUUUUUUUUGE salad for lunch.... can I count some of that for my daily veggie intake? I'm sure it's totally obvious that I can but I just wanted to check!
It's probably okay. But..... I think the idea is to add a salad with one meal, a veggie with the other, so that you finish your meal satisfied, and not still hungry, looking for more. I mean, I know my lunch salads are huge, and probably way more than what they would minimally want me to eat, but I get those dinner veggies in, too.
Is there a reason that you DON'T want to eat dinner veggies? How about just getting bags of baby carrots and munching on them during the day. That would count.
QUOTE(poozieny @ May 7 2009, 01:14 PM)
It's probably okay. But..... I think the idea is to add a salad with one meal, a veggie with the other, so that you finish your meal satisfied, and not still hungry, looking for more. I mean, I know my lunch salads are huge, and probably way more than what they would minimally want me to eat, but I get those dinner veggies in, too.
Is there a reason that you DON'T want to eat dinner veggies? How about just getting bags of baby carrots and munching on them during the day. That would count.
Is there a reason that you DON'T want to eat dinner veggies? How about just getting bags of baby carrots and munching on them during the day. That would count.
Oh no, typically I do...but when I was making my salad.... i just kept adding and adding and then realized how freakin' huge it was and was like... this is SO goign to fill me up... It did... I didn't even EAT lunch until like 5pm... and then my dinner (chili) at 9:30 pm. I HATE eating late though so I didn't have my snack bar??? s that bad. I don't like eating anything really before I go to bed... this was just a bizarre day as far as scheduling goes for me because we were at field trips, appintments, I had 2 meetings.. nothing ran on time today and everything was late...
QUOTE(April-D @ May 7 2009, 12:14 PM)
So I'm supposed to eat a spinich salad with lunch...and also supposed to have one cup of veggies with dinner tonight... but what if I made a HUUUUUUUUUUGE salad for lunch.... can I count some of that for my daily veggie intake? I'm sure it's totally obvious that I can but I just wanted to check!
[font="Comic Sans MS"][/font][color="#800080"][/color] My husband is real big on making sure I stick to the plan! *L* I can be a wanderer at times. Anyways, for the salads and veggies what I do is order a huge salad or make myself a huge salad, eat half of it and eat my jenny lunch and then eat the other half for the next day, that way I'm still hungry for dinner. For dinner, I buy frozen veggies, that way I don't have to cook, and stir them into my jenny food. I love to put frozen spinach in the pastas and peas and carrots in the chicken carbonara.
I will also cook cabbage with a few pieces of lean ham and cook it with zuchinni and a dash of Tony Chacerie's and it's fabulous!
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