Quick Time Saving Tip: Salad Bar Cooking
August 29, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
When I was a kid I worked at a place with a salad bar. We had two ladies who’d come in and gather to-go salad bar supplies, pay for them, and leave.
One lady talked and talked about how she used the items for cooking – now she didn’t have to cut veggies for soup or casseroles, and she’d use the nuts on muffins. The other lady; I don’t know, she wasn’t a talker. Maybe she was just having a salad.
In any case, using a salad bar once in a while is a good time saver. It does save you having to chop, shred, and slice. With soup and bread, salad is a quick dinner option too. I think it’s more costly to use a salad bar, but maybe not if you just need a few special things, like shredded carrots and some spinach.
Have you ever done this?
Yes, I love using the salad bar as a time-saver. Often times I’ll pick up a head of lettuce and tear that up myself, and only purchase the toppings from the salad-bar itself. If you are only serving one or two people, I think it even comes out cheaper to use the per-pound salad bar for toppings rather than buying cans of the individual toppings (or fresh ones as the case may be for things not like corn and olives), especially if you’ll end up wasting a lot because you can only buy whole cans. Plus how much time you save of chopping! And more importantly than saving time, saving prep-work might keep me from complaining salad is “too much work” and not bothering to have salad and veggies at all.