"Steve Wertz" > wrote

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:05:52 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> In my travels today, I wound up at Whole Foods. For some
>> reason, I noticed the salad bar today, and thought ... maybe
>> I should make a salad to go with the ribs for dinner. What a
>> gorgeous salad I saw, I had to have it. I took a picture of it so
>> I can try to recreate it for myself sometime.
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ckvl8k
>
> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
> supermarket.

Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
Maybe.

> I usually only eat at salad bars that are $5/lb or less. And
> even then I'd usually buy my dressing separately from the grocery
> shelves. A known good dressing, like Girards.

This really was vinegar with a touch of oil. No expense there.
Aside from my unrelated problem of finding the white wine
vinegar I ran out of last week.

Regardless, I didn't buy it based on price, I bought it because
it just looked so damm good. I took note of the ingredients so
I could recreate it for myself. I'll even fork the cuke ... which ... now
I'm wondering, would English cucumber be good for this? Hmmm.

nancy