Was the salad bar in your school loaded with mayonnaise-based foods like tuna salad and potato salad, goldfish crackers, sunflower seeds and other high-calorie crunchy toppings, high-fat salad dressings, etc. like most salad bars are? A few tablespoons of regular salad dressing alone will do some serious calorie damage, i.e., “I’ll have some lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, and raw mushrooms topped with 1,000 calories worth of croutons and dressing.”
Spot on! I can see elementary students drenching their salads with salad dressing. Kraft Ranch Dressing has 148 calories for 2 tablespoons. With the other condiments (2 tablespoons sunflower seeds = 164 calories), one could easily bring the caloric count up.