Thread 21704607

I don't want to buy all the ingredients to make a salad at home (a good salad, not just straight lettuce) and then have them slowly go to shit over the week until I can't use them anymore. They're always suboptimal by like the third day.

I can just go to a salad shop and pay for a combination of all the fresh veggies I want, and which I didn't have to stock my fridge with. It's a compelling business model.

>>21704607 (OP)
What if you actually ate all of the ingredients you buy?

I'm with you on that. I don't want 50 different salad parts in my fridge. Chopt in particular is not very good but I'm partial to Sweet Green

>>21704616
Yeah I only go to Chopt because sometimes I want a wrap instead of a salad and Sweetgreen seems to rarely have those, although their ingredients are better.

>>21704607 (OP)
that reminds me of the Deelishus Weenie building

At least go somewhere with a salad buffet. Picrel closed their Phoenix location a few years ago but for like a $15 lunch special you could get unlimited salad, soup, and they even had a dessert bar. Tons of salad dressings and toppings. I think they've reopened in Tucson but I've yet to go down there.

just go into any grocery store and get one of the pre-made salad for like $5

>>21704629
grocery store salads suck though

>>21704637
not at wegmans they dont

>>21704616
gotta get the mexican caesar at chopt
i agree with you though that sweetgreen is better overall

>>21704607 (OP)
Are you making salads specifically to a recipe or do you just prefer a lot of variety? Cutting out ingredients is easy.
Tired tip, but if your store has a salad bar you can hit it up for small portions if stealing.

Blue Door Farm Stand salads are worth the money.

>>21704607 (OP)
what salad ingredients are you using that go bad in 3 days? cucumbers and tomatoes last at least a week, onions last forever. the only thing I can think of that actually goes bad within a few days are the salad greens themselves.
if you're only gonna eat like one salad a month, then sure, just get it at a restaurant I guess. but if you eat them with any kind of regularity I don't see how this is much of an issue.