On Dec 20, 3:13*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:

> Then what about things like salad? *Unless you are lucky enough to have a
> store that sells things like greens in bulk (and you can just buy the amount
> you need), you will have a lot of leftovers if you want a salad that
> contains a lot of things. *I have yet to see a store that sells one green
> onion. *Or six cherry tomatoes. *This is why we often buy salad from the
> salad bar. *Costs a lot more but much less waste.
>
> I even buy from the salad bar when I am making a pasta salad or meatloaf.
> Otherwise I have either a ton of food or a ton of leftover vegetables.

What's "a lot"? Virtually every evening we have salad. Lettuce
(romaine for me, iceberg for him), cucumber, radish, carrot,
cherry tomatoes. Sometimes a little bell pepper. (And less
perishable items, like feta cheese, olives, pepperoni, provolone,
in different combinations.)

We can rip through all of that produce before it goes bad.

OTOH, I've quit buying broccoli unless I know for sure I'm going
to use it. I've thrown away more elderly heads of broccoli than
I can count. We just don't do cooked vegetables all that
often.

Cindy Hamilton