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[Laemkral]

Isn't the point of a salad that it isn't cooked

Macaroni salad, potato salad, tuna salad, octopus salad, certain bean salads, ceviche, Caesar salad.

All include cooked ingredients.

The point of a salad is that it's not hot.

[Phact0rri]

Incidentally I get these little microwave veggie pouches from green giant, which I then put on pasta. They are quite good and I recommend them.

Yum insanely high sodium.

And yes there are different sorts of salads, and thats why a spring or garden salad is also refered to as a fresh salad. Freezing anything does kill its solidity and composition. Same is said with meat. Its been ages since I've eaten meat, but I do know that fresh meat is often cited as a tastey point for commercials. Specially fish and chicken and things.

Also like the mention from frozen veggies the whole "staying" of those vacuum frozen and deli sorts of meats too are hit with serious amounts of sodium, which if your looking to be at all healthy its definitely something that should be avoided when you can.

[Tellurider]

Isn't the point of a salad that it isn't cooked

Macaroni salad, potato salad, tuna salad, octopus salad, certain bean salads, ceviche, Caesar salad.

All include cooked ingredients.

The point of a salad is that it's not hot.

Fair enough, although I don't eat any of those salads either, and I won't give you Caesar salad because the only thing "cooked" in that would be the anchovies, IF you get the dressing with anchovies in it, which many people don't. Unless you count croutons, I guess.

And Phact, if you freeze your own meat then you can buy meat in bulk and have it for a while without spoiling, so it saves money. Buying single-serving-size meat is pretty much only possible at a restaurant, and I prefer to cook only as much as I'm going to eat because reheating cooked meat is worse than cooking frozen meat.

Frozen vegetables may have high sodium, but it's better than just not eating vegetables at all.

[Phact0rri]

And Phact, if you freeze your own meat then you can buy meat in bulk and have it for a while without spoiling, so it saves money. Buying single-serving-size meat is pretty much only possible at a restaurant, and I prefer to cook only as much as I'm going to eat because reheating cooked meat is worse than cooking frozen meat.

Buying in bulk saves money? isn't really the same sort of thing, but your buying many of the same things? or do you just buy a whole cow, which is cheaper then buying them individually? I'm a "Buy what I need" sort of person, I rarely stock up on things. If I buy extras cause they are on sale, I tend to donate them and give them away. There's many homeless around where I live at.

But the same thing applies to vegetables, you freeze them so they don't go bad. then you can use them for all sorts of things. I mainly do it for fruit cause I drink lots of smoothies.

[Tellurider]

Well if I buy a big ol' family size package of chicken breasts it's $2.99/lb, or I can buy a little package that I could probably finish without freezing if I ate nothing but chicken for a few days for $4.99/lb. Or I could get the fancy organic small package for $5.99/lb! So buying the big package and freezing it saves me quite a bit of money.

I'd be more inclined to buy stuff in smaller quantities so I didn't have to freeze it if I had an income, but I do not.

Also I wouldn't buy a whole cow because I do not have a big enough freezer. I don't have anywhere I could keep a whole cow. Cows are big, yo.

[Risky]

Well if I buy a big ol' family size package of chicken breasts it's $2.99/lb, or I can buy a little package that I could probably finish without freezing if I ate nothing but chicken for a few days for $4.99/lb. Or I could get the fancy organic small package for $5.99/lb! So buying the big package and freezing it saves me quite a bit of money.

I'd be more inclined to buy stuff in smaller quantities so I didn't have to freeze it if I had an income, but I do not.

Also I wouldn't buy a whole cow because I do not have a big enough freezer. I don't have anywhere I could keep a whole cow. Cows are big, yo.

Shoulder cows excluded?

[Tellurider]

Those aren't cows, they're buffaloxen!

[Laemkral]

Isn't the point of a salad that it isn't cooked

Macaroni salad, potato salad, tuna salad, octopus salad, certain bean salads, ceviche, Caesar salad.

All include cooked ingredients.

The point of a salad is that it's not hot.

Fair enough, although I don't eat any of those salads either, and I won't give you Caesar salad because the only thing "cooked" in that would be the anchovies, IF you get the dressing with anchovies in it, which many people don't. Unless you count croutons, I guess.

What the hell? I was talking about chicken. There's generally little bits of chicken in a Caesar salad. Clearly your restaurants have cheated you of protein in your salad.

[Killbert-Robby]

I'm the local cook, and I'ma say that while chicken is indeed an OPTION for Caesar salad, Ceasar salad is not a cooked-meat salad by default. Lettuce, parmesan, olive oil, egg and lemon juice are the basemost ingredients. That's it. The chicken is one of those "How do we Americanize a salad, oh I know, slap some meat on it" cases.

[Tellurider]

Indeed. A caesar salad with chicken on it is a Chicken Caesar Salad. You can also get them with salmon and steak. But a ceasar salad does not by default contain any meat.

Except, as mentioned, possibly anchovies, as they are used in the dressing. In some cases.

[Laemkral]

My world has been blown.

[IVstudios]

Someone posting about their post count turing into an argument about whether or not you need to cook salad? It's just like the good old days!