I’m really enjoying that book. So much info and lots of great salad ideas that work as MEALS, as well as lots of homemade salad dressing recipes.
Salad dressing is NOT hard to make. And homemade tastes SO much better!
As long as I give Beau some meat at each meal - he’ll eat all the salad I can throw at him. We only do two meals a day. A ‘brunch’ and then Supper. Veggies and dip or cheese and sausage is our afternoon snack (if we need one) while we try to demolish one another at Cribbage. ;)
I could live on salad and something off the grill at any meal! I am NOT a ‘Breakfast Person,’ though I was when I was in the Army. But, breakfast was at 6am after being up for a few hours beforehand. I burned EVERY calorie I ate back then, that’s for sure. :)
As I’ve mentioned to other FRiends from time to time, you and I are cut from the same cloth.
Hubby and I have been doing two meals a days for 3 years now. Like you, we *maybe* have snacks in the early to mid-afternoon. He does more often than I do. Salads have been a big component. Sometimes we have an appetizer before our meal instead of a mid-afternoon snack.
Homemade dressings are so much better! ❤️ Like other cooking from home recipes, I know exactly what’s going into those dressings. The older I get, the more I watch my waistline. I’m trying my best to age gracefully and still be attractive. So far, so good.
When CoVid happened, our kids acted like we had one foot in the grave. I was bound and determined to prove them wrong, so we are both now quite fit for our age. I don’t like to say how old I am anymore, because people think I’m several years younger and it feeds my ego to fool them like that. Not that I’m some beauty, I just want to keep them guessing. (Does she or doesn’t she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure! - I bet you remember that tv commercial.)
I love the cribbage playing in the midday. My Dad was an avid cribbage player, and one of his ways of discerning who was good enough for his daughter was if my boyfriend would engage him in a game, and how cleverly he played. Hubby passed that test.
Here’s more. My best friend from childhood plays cribbage with her husband at lunch nearly every day (they were sweethearts from our growing up days). So when they visit (they live in MN now), we all take each other on in friendly competition. Mary wins more than she loses, and she also gets great cards! It’s almost uncanny to watch her. Too much fun!
Two meals a day here too, and supper is early like 3:00. Headed to the grocery today hoping for the Bonnie truck. All I want is a few shishito pepper plants. Everything else we start from seed. If the grocery does not have them I’ll check the tractor supply too. Our garden has been tilled twice next step is to spread compost. We are still early on everything. I would have left all our caddys of seedlings outside if not for the raccoons. We are into a rainy spell and that’s good.