Is eating Salads overrated?

Salad stinks. lettuce is just a calorie free carrier for all the things you like to eat. Chicken, dressing, croutons, cheese. And some other almost calorie free vegetables.

They're fine. but i do think it's overrated. I am always hungry very soon after eating them.

In before YMMV tells you to eat a carnivore diet of 100% grass fed beef.

Grammar tip: you don't have to capitalized foods.

kore wrote:

I stopped eating salads since around March right after the Covid lockdown. I used to eat a large bowl of salad either at Panera or Jason's Deli nearly every day.

I started eating Steaks, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta again and my body healed.

How often do you eat Salads?

I need to know where they are rated to know.

What did your body heal from?

johnfromSJ wrote:

In before YMMV tells you to eat a carnivore diet of 100% grass fed beef.

Good work!

Now:

Salads are worse than useless. Very few useful, biavalable nutrients, and loads of toxic, endogenous (built-in, not added by man) pesticides. The fiber is if anything, injurious to your G.I. tract.

Plants don't have:

Vitamin A, B6 (Pyridoxal, Pyridoxamine), B12, D, E (Animal) F, K2, Q10. Amino acids: Creatine, Carnitine, Carnosine, and Taurine. Heme-iron, Collagen, CLA (Omega 3), Cholesterol and Complete Protein (Consists of 9 essential amino acids)

Antinutrients & harmful substances in plants: Alkaloids, Alpha-amylases, Arsenics, Cellulose, Cyanogenic glycosides, Fiber, Flavonoids, Gluten, Lectins, Mycotoxins, Oxalates, Phenolics, Photosensitizers, Phytic acid, Salicylates, Saponins, Sulforaphane, Tannins, Terpenoids and etc.

99.99% of all pesticides in plant food are natural and found in organic produce too.

kore wrote:

I stopped eating salads since around March right after the Covid lockdown. I used to eat a large bowl of salad either at Panera or Jason's Deli nearly every day.

I started eating Steaks, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta again and my body healed.

How often do you eat Salads?

It isn't an either/or situation. A salad can be an adjunct to other healthy food. Buying pre-made salads is a fool's choice. Make them at home and put some veggies in.

It takes more energy by far to cultivate and transport those useless vegetables than you can ever retrieve by eating them. It's nothing more than a diet/exercise program for people wealthy enough to eat too much.

I planted 200 sq ft of various greens and squash this spring that go into salads and have been chowing down on them all summer. Great lightweight food for after workouts when fresh and organic.

Juice Springsteen wrote:

What did your body heal from?

Chronic ankle issue and bloat.

I you want to go on a calorie deficit salads can be good because a big salad can satiate by volume whereas protein satiates differently , volume doesn't seem to matter as much.

Either way, fruits and vegetables and legumes are good to have in moderation at the minimum.

Source, I am an expert at body recomposition. Ask me anything.

Exactly what is the salad rating?

My spouse and I eat some kind of salad for dinner most nights, but I suspect most of you wouldn't recognize what we eat as salads. There is a huge range of delicious and nutritious foods that don't involve animal products.

I'm not opposed to eating animal products; I love a juicy bacon cheese burger, or a greasy pizza, just as much as the next person. And I'm neither vegan nor vegetarian. But, I've found that I LOVE vegan and vegetarian foods just as much as good-ole meat and potatoes, maybe even more.

No accounting for taste, right?

fromtheheart wrote:

I planted 200 sq ft of various greens and squash this spring that go into salads and have been chowing down on them all summer. Great lightweight food for after workouts when fresh and organic.

Sounds awesome!

kore wrote:

I stopped eating salads since around March right after the Covid lockdown. I used to eat a large bowl of salad either at Panera or Jason's Deli nearly every day.

I started eating Steaks, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta again and my body healed.

How often do you eat Salads?

I don't keep track of how often I eat salads but I have a lot of vegetables and always rotating them: salads, cabbage, beans, brown rice, potatoes, carrots, etc. Different vegetables each day so that I don't get bored and don't get cravings of other types of foods like pizza.

Toss dat salad wrote:

Grammar tip: you don't have to capitalized foods.

Grammar tip 2: you don't have to add a d to "capitalize" when writing in present tense.

kore wrote:

I stopped eating salads since around March right after the Covid lockdown. I used to eat a large bowl of salad either at Panera or Jason's Deli nearly every day.

I started eating Steaks, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta again and my body healed.

How often do you eat Salads?

Ice cream, pizza and pasta are bad for you because they are full of carbs.

Just eat meat, meat and more meat. And you will be buff and ripped.

It depends what you put in it.

If you make a tuna nicoise salad - tuna, eggs, anchovies, green beans, new potatoes, tomatoes, some leaves, olive oil, it is very different than say iceberg lettuce leaves with croutons on top.

kore wrote:

I stopped eating salads since around March right after the Covid lockdown. I used to eat a large bowl of salad either at Panera or Jason's Deli nearly every day.

I started eating Steaks, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta again and my body healed.

How often do you eat Salads?

I agree, I just can't get into them either. If you make a salad without all the good stuff, they're not all that appetizing to me. By the time you add everything else to make it palatable, you'd be better off with a big mac.

I do eat a lot of vegetables, just not in salad form.