What did you eat this week? Was it something healthy, or was it mainly fast and unhealthy? I'll admit that I had a few unhealthy meals this week (pizza, burger and fries, chicken strip basket), but they were so good! Most of the other meals I had this week were mainly salads and plain turkey sandwiches on toasted wheat bread, since I am trying to eat more healthy meals and ditch a lot of the foods in the parentheses above, along with ditching sodas, which we will discuss in a later post.
Going back to salads, how do you like your salads? Do you use lots of dressing and other goodies, such as real bacon bits? What many people don't realize is that these extras on our salads make our leafy meals just as unhealthy, if not unhealthier, than eating that double-bacon cheeseburger with large fries and a soda! Salads weren't meant to be this way! We eat them to try and get some leafy vegetables incorporated into our diet, but since we are a society that craves fatty foods, we decide to throw extreme amounts of salad dressing on to make it taste better. What happened to appreciating the real taste of a vegetable? For me, all I put on salads are a sprinkling of bacon bits, a few croutons, and a sprinkling of chow mein noodles, if I have them around. No dressing for this guy, but if it's a caesar, I'll take the dressing but go light on it.
My challenge to you is to eat a salad once a day, and don't put any dressing on it! Eat it as it's intended to be: plain, but so healthy for you. Try it and you'll eventually be eating salads with every meal, and you'll be feeling better also!
I eat a HUGE salad every day for lunch. In fact, my friends are all hounding me to post my salad and raw breakfast cereal recipes, so that will be my first blog post since I plan on writing along with everyone in the class. I'll post the link to my blog under ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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