Salad for lunch

[Blackandblue]

I went up to our canteen for lunch and wasn't really inspired by very much. It all sounded nice and looked nice and to be fair to our kitchen staff, it usually lives up to expectations in the taste department too.

But I just didn't fancy cottage pie or cheese and tomato toastie or any of the sandwiches on offer (which generally are poor - and bought in) or soup or jacket potato or vegetable bake.

So I loaded up a carton with mixed salad - some beetroot, sweetcorn, blackeyed beans, cucumber, salady stuff and coleslaw.

I don't think I have ever done that before.

And it was delicious.

I feel sated and healthy.

 

[Globalti]

Best snack I ever tasted was from an upmarket burger van at Camden Lock market. Pitta bread stuffed with a juicy beefburger, salad, alfalfa sprouts and small nuggets of crunchy falafel.

It must have been 30 years ago but I've never forgotten the taste.

 

[661-Pete]

We don't even have the luxury of a service canteen - only vending machines - and not likely to have even that when our workforce gets slashed by two thirds at the end of this month...

Sounds good, anyway! Glad you enjoyed it, there speaks a lad after my own heart!

In our place with its wastefulness, cutbacks notwithstanding, there are often the remains (often quite substantial) of a 'free lunch' plonked in the office after the visitors have done, for our refreshment. The others all go for the sarnies. I eye up the nest of salad that it all rests upon - the cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices etc. etc.

 

[numbnuts]

I like salads and a baked potatoe

 

[Arch]

So I loaded up a carton with mixed salad - some beetroot, sweetcorn, blackeyed beans, cucumber, salady stuff and coleslaw.

I don't think I have ever done that before.

And it was delicious.

I feel sated and healthy.

That's the sort of occasion I eat salad, when it's there to select from. I never get round to making up anything like that at home. And yet I enjoy it. And yes, you do feel virtuous afterwards.

 

[Kirstie]

I just did the same actually
I made a salad roll with all the salad-y ingredients from our garden. It was yum!

 

[Blackandblue]

I just did the same actually
I made a salad roll with all the salad-y ingredients from our garden. It was yum!

Cool!

I've been wanting to grow veggies and salady stuff in my garden for ages. It's quite a small plot but that's not really putting me off. It's more the squirrels and urban foxes and cats that roam my garden, pulling stuff out of the ground, digging up my garden and lawn and peeing and pooing everywhere. Not sure I'd feel comfortable eating anything grown in my garden however many times I'd have washed it.

 

[Arch]

Cool!

I've been wanting to grow veggies and salady stuff in my garden for ages. It's quite a small plot but that's not really putting me off. It's more the squirrels and urban foxes and cats that roam my garden, pulling stuff out of the ground, digging up my garden and lawn and peeing and pooing everywhere. Not sure I'd feel comfortable eating anything grown in my garden however many times I'd have washed it.

Um, stuff in the shops is grown in fields. Have you any idea how many wild species will have pooed and peed on it before it gets to the shops? Mice, rats, foxes, maybe deer, loads of birds. Soil itself is a large part poo.

Better that, which you can wash off, than all the unseen, unknown chemicals and fertilizers which might be applied to large scale veg growing (unless you stick to organic).

Anyway, you dig in horse muck for good potatoes. Just make sure the stuff is washed. Anyway, a little dirt is no bad thing.

 

[Blackandblue]

Um, stuff in the shops is grown in fields. Have you any idea how many wild species will have pooed and peed on it before it gets to the shops? Mice, rats, foxes, maybe deer, loads of birds. Soil itself is a large part poo.

Better that, which you can wash off, than all the unseen, unknown chemicals and fertilizers which might be applied to large scale veg growing (unless you stick to organic).

Anyway, you dig in horse muck for good potatoes. Just make sure the stuff is washed. Anyway, a little dirt is no bad thing.

Thanks. I'm not eating another vegetable ever again!

 

[Arch]

Thanks. I'm not eating another vegetable ever again!

What'll you eat instead? Meat? Bits of dead animal. Dairy? Animal secretions. Bread? Wheat grows in fields, and probably includes minced harvest mouse....

Just eat the stuff!

 

[Blackandblue]

What'll you eat instead? Meat? Bits of dead animal. Dairy? Animal secretions. Bread? Wheat grows in fields, and probably includes minced harvest mouse....

Just eat the stuff!

I shall live off Macdonalds.

 

[Kirstie]

I shall live off Macdonalds.

yep as it's more like moulded polymer than foodstuff, it's probably been nowhere near 'nature'.

 

[longers]

While salad is being talked about.

Anyone do their own sprouting? Mung, Aduki etc?

Great way to get cheap ingredients for salad, especially through winter, it just takes a day or two longer.
I feel very good on the bike the day after eating 'em.

 

[Blackandblue]

yep as it's more like moulded polymer than foodstuff, it's probably been nowhere near 'nature'.

My point exactly.

Looking back, I reckon my post about the fear of fox pee etc was probably my dumbest post ever.

 

[Arch]

While salad is being talked about.

Anyone do their own sprouting? Mung, Aduki etc?

Great way to get cheap ingredients for salad, especially through winter, it just takes a day or two longer.
I feel very good on the bike the day after eating 'em.

I go through phases of sprouting, then I forget them and they bolt, and I chuck them away and don't do any more for a while....