Lindsay Is A Lifetime Member: Build Me A Salad

7/23/13

Build Me A Salad

Salad is the topic of our WW meeting this week.

I looooove me a good salad bar. I talked about a few in my restaurant post. Sizzler, SouperSalad, Idaho Pizza Company, and Flying Pie Pizza all have what I consider a great salad bar.

I am not a huge veggie fan so I hate going to a place with a salad bar that is just lettuce and a few other items. Most veggies are 0 PPVs so I want the most bang for my zero-point buck!

The number one ingredient that makes a salad bar the BOMB is pineapple. I love pineapple on my salad. A very close second is beans. I love kidney and garbanzo bean and both are usually offered on a salad bar. I also like some sort of protein. The bummer with salad is that it fills me up but often won’t hold me over for long.

I go to SouperSalad a lot. They have a nice assortment on their salad bar along with low PPV soup options. It is a healthy meal any day of the week. I frequent Fridays for clam chowder which is only 2 PPVs per bowl.

SouperSalad also offers an assortment of prepared salads. I have never tired any. They have pudding, fruit, bread, pizza, tacos, potatoes, and pasta. Their breadsticks and baked sweet bread are delicious! The breadsticks are 3 PPV each and the sweet bread is 5 PPVs each. I don’t usually partake. It is hard to just have one and the points add up quick. The pizza is good and is 2 PPVs per slice. Very reasonable but it is also a very thin pizza.

I didn’t get any photos of the ice cream! They have an ice cream maker with cones and other toppings. An ice cream cone is 3 PPVs and I will typically have one. They serve a low-fat non-dairy ice cream and it tastes really good but is usually very soft. I don’t think their machine can keep up with the amount of people that eat there.

Here was my salad plate as I was building it last Friday.

I start with the lettuce base and add carrots, zucchini, and celery. I have a few cucumbers on the side dipped in my ranch.