/ck/ - Food & Cooking

because they're fat fucks. I hate too much dressing. I want to taste the bitter greens and sweet fresh green peppers. tangy tomatoes, crispy Isrealights etc.

>used to eat those packaged caesar salads all the time as a kid
>thought it was really healthy
>grow up and find out ranch dressing is just salt, butter and mayo
Feels bad

>Eat those healthy carbs goy! You don't want to be deficient in micro nutrients, do you? Meat totally doesn't have those!
>Snacks are healthy It says so on the package. Look it even has extra calcium.
>Don't forget to eat every 3 hours or you'll pass out! Don't worry, all those refined carbs and HFCS will make sure you will get hungry that often.
>What do you mean you're overweight, got diabetes and are at high risk for heart disease. Just take 8 pills a day and they'll lower your chance of dying by 1%. It's scientifically proven!

Just advertise something as healthy and it's like shit to a fly. But whatever lies and decent they can use to keep you buying more shit.

>>11906943
My "health-conscious" teenage cousin eats nothing but caesar salad when we go out. Once when we went to a pancake place she asked them to make her a goddamn caesar salad pancake and they did it. I tried implying that it's not actually healthy but she got angry so now I just leave it.

>>11906897
>Why are saladfags like this?

We eat salads on occasion because it tricks us into thinking we can binge feed oursleves on junk food the rest of the time.

>>11906897
>yfw a decent burger without any sauce is likely to be more healthy than a salad with dressing.

>>11907021
A burger without the shit fast food sauces is just meat, vegetables and a side of carbs. Pretty much how you're meant to eat.

>>11906943
>Caesar
>Ranch
???

>>11906897
You'll feel pretty unsatisfied if you just eat a mixture of vegetables with lemon juice as a meal. If you want a salad as a meal, you need to add fat and protein and other stuff, because even though vegetables are good for you, they don't provide everything you need.

>>11907157
Well why even do it then if you have to force yourself, there are much tastier things that are also much healthier. It's about as logical as forcing yourself to eat mcd's every day.

>>11907182
You can make a healthy salad even if you add a fatty dressing and some fried croutons, those things aren't necessarily unhealthy. It's only when someone thinks they're eating a salad to lose weight and drowns it in 1k calories of dressing that it's really an issue.

I usually make a big salad with a ton of mixed vegetables, then add hardboiled egg, seeds/nuts of some kind, cheese, and a buttermilk or yogurt dressing with herbs, pepper, etc.. I like the way it tastes, and it's not low in calories but that doesn't mean it's unhealthy.

The purpose of salad is not health or weight loss, its just bulk fiber to keep your shit pipes flowing freely. Dry salad is a hard sell. Even salad with all that rich crap added is still better than many other choices, and the bulk of the greens alone will limit calorie intake somewhat, compared to cheesy potatoes, meat, and cookies.

>>11907021
>>11907088
finally, some good fucking logic

>>11906897
It's actually easy to make a good tasting salad without adding high calorie ingredients.
>Start with a base of darker greens like spinach, kale, spring mixed greens, or arugula. These have a lot more nutritional value than romaine or iceberg lettuce.
>Add more vegetables, based on your preferences. The goal here is to make the salad more interesting by incorporating different flavors and textures, along with adding more nutrients. Practically any vegetable can be added to a salad, so just choose types that you like.
>Add protein, if the salad is meant to be a full meal rather than a side dish. Beans are good for this, as well as lean meat like grilled chicken breast.
>You can add toppings if you want, but be careful of the calories at this point. A tablespoon of cheese is fine, but don't overdo it. If you aren't concerned with a bit of carbs, fruits like dried cranberries, apple slices, or raisins are also a good option. Nuts tend to be higher in calories, but a small amount is okay.
>Avoid creamy dressings like ranch, caesar, thousand island, etc. The biggest mistake people make with "healthy" salads is drowning them in dressings like this. Instead, use a good vinegar (I like to use balsamic or red wine vinegar) along with salt and pepper for a very basic dressing. Adding more flavors like lemon juice, garlic, and herbs can make it even better.

>>11906967
This is why I use amphetamine daily to control my appetite

>>11906897
>predominantly

1800-2000cal McMeal > 1000cal Salad

Even ""unhealthy"" salads can be healthy if you just don't eat like garbage for the rest of your meals.

>>11908263
sorry, let me translate to American for your understanding:
"burgers muh israel muh trump praise jesus amen"

>>11906897
Kek. This is why I don't eat lettuce. I just get cucumber, tomato, onions, olives, hearts of palm, chickpeas, whatever other veggies are available and eat them raw without salty, oily HFCS sauce.

>>11907157
>You'll feel pretty unsatisfied if you just eat a mixture of vegetables with lemon juice as a meal.
And I feel equally unsatisfied by the same tastes of processed oil, excessive salt, HFCS and preservatives in every meal. Every meal with those ingredients have the same taste and it gets sickening when those are in every processed food product. Raw veggies taste bad but at least they have complexity to the taste and aren't disgustingly monotonous.

>>11908326
kek

>>11906907
>crispy isrealights
Kek

>>11908326
it appears our superiority has once again annoyed you, enjoy sharia law in yuropoorstan while we enjoy tasty burgers and other foods

So what are some good healthy salad options ? Vinegarettes are better for you than dressings right? And what are some good things to use as the vegetables if you dont wanna use lettuce?

>>11908492
>Vinegarettes are better for you than dressings right?
Not necessarily. A real buttermilk or yogurt dressing won't be terribly high in calories unless you really use a lot, but it'll be filling because of the extra fat and protein which can be good for a salad.

You can use any vegetable in a salad, but tomatoes could be a good base with onion, herbs, oil, vinegar, and maybe mozzarella if you want some more fat and protein with it to make it a meal. Chickpeas are another good and more filling salad base, you can make them like the tomato salad but maybe use feta instead of mozzarella. Hardboiled egg, sliced chicken, other cheeses, etc. can all be good in a salad and having that stuff in there might make you less likely to overdress it too.

>>11908473
nice cope burger. also
>lets the gays get married

>>11909785
problem, breeder?

I never understood why people bothered to pour ranch dressing on green stuff when they could just butt chug the entire bottle? I mean one is objectively better. Does anyone else feel the same?

>>11910041

i think we're all on the same page

>>11908363
This.
Sometimes when I don't feel like cooking, I just chop up some cucumbers, bell peppers or carrots, sometimes with onion and beets, and just eat it with salt and olive oil.

>>11910372
Hell, sometimes i just munch on a whole stick of peeled carrot as a snack

>>11910372
sounds good, i can suggest toasted sunflower seeds, some feta cheese and + a little olive oil and salt

>>11910372
>>11910383
oh, and lemon juice

>>11908297
I usually only eat 800-1000 calories when i got to mcdonalds, and im trying to bulk. What am i doing wrong?

>>11906897
I knew a guy once and he would be like, "Dude salads are good for you, you can't eat too much salad." He would literally fill up a large stainless steel mixing bowl with iceberg, and absolutely drench it in ranch and load it with shredded cheese. He might have occasionally added tomatoes but that would be the only difference.

>>11906897
who in the fuck has an open jug of salad dressing just hanging about?
I honestly feel that half the problem of people drowning their salad in dressing is because they don't just put about a teaspoon or two on the greens first and get them dredged in dressing that way each bite has that flavour rather than two or three leaves on top that have half a serving of dressing on each.

>>11910926
A jug? Nobody, unless you're deliberately staging a photo to make it look nice.

A bottle? Most people, since they're too lazy to make their own dressings each time they make a salad.

>>11908473
Forcing people to recognise the 'marraige' of two sodomites as being in some way a real marraige is the very opposite of freedom.
Your government legislates that Christians cannot refuse to make blashpemous cakes for sodomites.