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April 6, 2007
Salad Bar Success
The hotel where we stay when we're up in Scranton has a lunch buffet with an awesome salad bar... grilled chicken freshly sizzled in front of you in just a dry white wine, olives, fruit bowl, all the veggies. No cottage cheese, but nobody's perfect. I've been eating the salad bar for lunch, but this time MR packed my homemade salads, which have much superior (both in terms of taste and nutrition) greens, so I wanted to figure out a way to eat them for lunch. At these lunches we eat with lots of nurses, so I don't want to do anything that looks *too* weird, so i had a brainstorm that I could put the salad onto the plate at the buffet, where no one was looking, then top it with various treats from the buffet itself like olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.
I was halfway through with this procedure, furtively tearing up kale leaves and putting them from the tupperware onto a restaurant plate, when my boss Edward walked up behind me.
"I am so busted," I said, knowing that Edward would look askance at incidence #5,099 of April's kale-seeking behavior.
Luckily, Edward was so wrapped up in the details of our case that he didn't quite figure out what was going on, or what I was talking about and went on to ask me work-related questions.
I got to the table and ate my nice lunch with everyone else.
Salad bar success! It's even better news since I'll be up here three to four days a week for the next few months, so if I have a salad solution that works, I'm a long way towards making being on the road something other than a CR disaster.
Posted by april at April 6, 2007 1:12 PM
Comments
Hurray! Good for you, April. It is *so* hard to practice CRON on the road. I'm glad it's working out for you now.
For me, being able to stay at a Marriott Residence Inn where I have my own kitchen and can drive less than 5 minutes to the local Whole Foods has really made my life much easier. And honestly, it's so much less expensive to do it this way. When I think how much it would have cost us to eat out every day, I'm blown away by how much I'm saving.
Hope the rest of your time on the road goes smoothly.
R
Posted by: Robin at April 6, 2007 1:47 PM
Hi April
It sounds like you're finding good tips for eating CR style well on the road. From the scientists in the CR Society I learned that the habit of putting shredded Romaine lettuce in a soup is good. So now my dinner looks like a salad with cherry tomatoes and parseley upon which three laddles of soup landed. I warm it in the microwave 50 seconds. So far no one at work, where I consume the concoction because I work a little late, has asked me about it. Cheers, Arturo
Posted by: Arturo at April 7, 2007 6:27 AM
Everytime I eat lentils in my salad people are like "What IS THAT?" ...
Posted by: Jake Silver at April 7, 2007 5:04 PM
Kale is tasty, but I still adore my enormous mounds of Romaine in my salads.... and the nutrition isn't all that different:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-nutrient-density-of-green-vegetables.html
Posted by: Miss Tenacity at April 10, 2007 10:33 AM