Salad Days
I ate soooo many salads this summer. Starting around June 4, I decided I wanted to eat more vegetables and challenged myself to eat 100 salads this summer.
I had one rule:
1. They had to be meal salads, which means they could have meat or other protein or fat or dairy or carbs like croutons or quinoa, but they must be mostly vegetables.
I didn’t count side salads, like when we had hamburgers and salad, or when we had pork chops and salad.
Then, for the first time in my life, I started eating breakfast salads.
I ate salads for lunch and salads for dinner.
(Alas, that was coconut water and not a martini.)
And I know you don’t really care what I eat (ate). Totally fair. But this challenge I created for myself was good for me and I’m very happy I did it.
Grand total? Not 100. I ate approximately 57 meal salads from June 4 to Sept 22. I lost count somewhere in the 30s, and made an educated guess. That’s 57 burritos I didn’t eat! I call that a win.
