Salad as a meal

I think it is great to replace a meal with just a salad! Just make sure that the lettuce and other ingredients are organic and don't drown with dressing! The extra calories can just kill it! It would also be best to have it to replace dinner. If one would think about calories: the time when the body burns calories up is during the day and less at night. Load up with a big breakfast in the morning, it has all day to burn off. The last meal of the day, and the one with the least amount of time to burn is dinner.

Well I occasionally might have a salad as a meal. I don't normally have a simple plain salad I kind of make it my own. Well sometimes I make fajita salad. In that I add peppers to get the spice. Chicken, crumbled up tortilla chips, beans, green leaved salad, corn, and then you can add a dressing of your choice. I prefer ranch. Also mix it all together so that the ranch is all over. Don't just pour it on top. There's many different salad's you can make.

I usually have salad as a whole meal when my husband is not in town. Onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, cooked chicken, green chillies, moong sprouts, boiled potato cubes, salt, pepper and lime....is one of my favourite salads. Sometimes I have a raita with grated carrots, cucumbers, onions and green chillies. The dahi shouldn't be too sour and I just love it.

I have never taken salad as a meal. i think mostly actresses and all do this.but it can be done. then the salad itself should serve a sa wholesome meal or rather balanced diet.

I have never had a salad in my life, I might have one sometime though see if they are any good, i would have to put some chicken on it though :P

Coming from a chubby guy....salad is NOT enough for a meal. Unless you have like 6 of them.

Hi Mayka, Eating salad is not a very viable option in India. It has recently caught up with us or maybe people in the glamour industry always had salads as meals to maintain an ideal weight. But for middle-class Indians, salad is not a viable option as a meal. The main cause of this is the unavailability of various food which you can eat as salad or even if these are available now at supermarkets, its quite expensive and way beyond our regular means. Not many of us can afford to eat expensive cheese or bacon or zucchini or imported veggies and fruits every day. The locally available and affordable options for us are only tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuces…even the salad dressings with olive oil base are quite expensive. So salad as a meal is not an option for me. But I eat fruit salad which is a mixture of local and seasonal fruits available readily with my corner fruitseller.

Well I do not have salads as the only course in the whole meal but it has to be there in every meals. I just love it, except the creamy, mayonnaise ones which gets very heavy. I like fruit salad as well and sometimes take it as dessert. Thanks.

Sometimes my wife and I will have salad only for lunch. We put in lettuce, tomato, red onion, cucumber and sometimes tuna or cheese as well. There is also a dark green leafy vegetable which is a little like the taste of cress that we put in it as well but I am not sure what the English name is for it? It is a healthy and light way to fill up sometimes but it does get boring if you eat it every day. Sometimes my wife makes a chicken and pasta salad too and this is pretty tasty!

Hmmmm who are those guys and gals welll i have salad WITH the meal but not as a meal i am bad in dieting. i make sure i eat three times a day LOL Take care

I do not know if I could eat salad as a meal every day but there has been a few occasions where me and my fiance have shared a salad for a meal because we were not really hungry and salad is good for us,I like salad with lettuce and cucumbers but that is about it,and it always has to have a ton of ranch dressing or it is not any good,and my fiance also likes ranch dressing on her salad.

Hi Hi Sometimes we all will just have a salad for dinner . We do this maybe 3 times a month and a few times a week we have salad as a side . When the salad is a meal there is a bit more to it. Like a chicken salad will have galric bread, cheese, chicken , french fries and veggies . Same with the steak Salad . Then sometimes we have a sweet salad with nuts and feta cheese .

My husband loves when I make Caesar salad with blackened chicken. I add some goodies to the salad and then with the chicken it really is a complete, satisfying meal.

I could eat caesar salads for breakfast lunch and dinner. Romaine lettuce, caesar dressing, croutons, and sometimes grated cheese. Mmm. Caesar dressing is made from anchovies. I have never tried anchovies but I bet I'd love them. :)

well,i never had salad as a whole meal but i do have salads regularly.since my in-laws are aging and have health problems(we stay with our in-laws).i just put slices of cucumber and tomatoes with a pinch of salt or curd.

I very rarely eat a salad as a meal but when I do I create it with cheese, sunflower seeds,beats,meat's egg,onion,lettuce,beans and whatever else I have close by to through in.

well i have not tried having a salad as a whole meal. but a salad to start a meal is good for me. i don't take too much greens so the salad helps in that way. lettuce is a must for my salad, though anything else is optional. i like sour dressing for my salads. either vinegarette or japanese sesame dressing is a great way to have my salads. some days i like to have eggs in my salad too.

There are a few of salads I will have a meal on occassion. Chicken Caesar salad, Taco salad, Shrimp salad( this is one of my favorites.), and this one salad I cannot remember the name of at this restaurant which has chicken, lettuce(various types) mandarin oranges , walnuts(candied it think) with a raspberry type of balsamic vinegar dressing. I always like to try new salads, I think they are so refreshing. The shrimp salad mentioned above is very simple to make, very few calories and delicious. It is just cooked shrimp, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes(chopped), lemon juice, salt and pepper. Mix the shrimp, lettuce and tomatoes, add the lemon juice to taste and spice up with salt and pepper and mix. Let sit for a while so the lemon gives it flavor and ready to eat.

Hi I love salads but never had salad as a full meal. I always have salad along with other food.

I also heard about this that some people have only had salads as a meal. I dont have whole meal as a salad,but for meal we used to have salads. we have carrot, beetroot, khakhdi,tomato,onion. having salad is good for health becoz it keeps our body cool.