Fresh Salad Bar

I don't eat much from salad bars, but the image you left me with - someone biting something and putting it right back - reminds me not to go at all hehehehehe I am always really interested in seeing what your aerogarden can do, because I am planning on getting it - just don't know when LOL I love salads, but I prefer to eat them home when I can wash things the way I like and use my favorite dressing - which is just salt, oil and vinegar :) Wish you a wonderful week:)

I am so jealous... i love salad... and your AeroGarden salad greens look so yummy... since i do not have a salad garden of my own... my only option is to buy the veggies from the supermarket... or go to a restaurant and order myself a salad... but of course... i only go to one that i know has a reputation of being very clean... When i was pregnant... i used to just buy the greens and and other stuff... and make my very own salad... but now that i am quite busy... with work, house chores and baby stuff... i would just sometime treat myself out... and the salad is always my first choice...

I have seen lots of unattended children who are too young to be really clean go to salad bars by themselves. Mom or dad does not want to go up with them. Dirty hands go in, bites get taken and put back, you name it, it happens. I find that the grocery store salad bar is cleaner and more trustworthy and has more variety than the restaurants.

hi drannhh! wow. you have your own salad bar?? that is so nice! that's a really healthy habit you got there. i wish i can make something like that too. but it would be impossible here in our place. no one would take care of it if i'm gone. i haven't seen something disgusting in a salad bar. although i have seen unattractive vegetables which means they aren't fresh anymore and they look like its going to be good for the trash anytime sooner. that is why i get turned off from eating vegetable salads in restaurants and fastfood chains. but if the vegetables look fresh and crunchy, i'd eat it whoever prepared it. ^__~ just like last Friday. we had a vegetable salad together with our lunch. i so love the lettuce! so tasty and crunchy! it felt like it was freshly picked up from the garden. i love your salad bar drannhh! ^__^

Your salad greens look delectable! I used to soak fresh produce that I had bought from the market in a solution designed to remove any residual pesticides, but that is very time consuming so I don't bother with it anymore, I just give them a quick rinse. I prefer to eat produce from my own garden and I do not bother to wash it off since I use no pesticides on them. I figure the rain has washed them plenty. I used to like salad bars too, but you never know what atrocoties have been committed on the offerings there. Everybody and their brother has had there hands all over it and it has been sitting there under lights with all the cut surfaces exposed to the air, loosing more and more of it's nutritional value with each passing minute. I don't like to eat in restaraunts at all... I worked in too many of them and know some of the 'dirty little secrets' that go on back in the kitchens of many of these establishments. I grew 32 tomato vines this year and I now have a freezer full of tomatoes for the winter. I found a packet of fennel seeds and so I also grew a bunch of it, but I have no idea what to do with it so it is just growing bigger and bigger in my garden.

Great job on growing your aero garden. I bet you are excited and ready for them to be 100% ready to eat. I would prefer to eat food I have grown on my own but I have not had a garden since I was a kid. I am seriously thinking about trying to grow my own veggies next year though. Green beans are now almost a dollar a can that is crazy. My mom can show me how to can everything and in today’s times it would probably be a great thing to know and pass on to my kids. That story was disgusting. I have not personally seen something gross at the salad bar but I have seen it on those busted on the job series. They tend to put stuff on the buffet that has been dropped on the floor on those shows.

Your salad greens are looking good. I have herbs going in my aerogarden right now. I also have two pods that I am experimenting with my own seeds in. Good luck with yours. I love mine.

I'd eat any salad once there's enough Italian dressing and nothing hard in it. I can't think of any other way to put this. Italian dressing gives the best taste ever. Nuts and other hard stuff changes the eating too much. A salad is supposd to be soft and munchy. Don't forget the mayonnaise. Thats a good alternative.

I think its great when people plant their own food cause then there are less pesticides involve and its much much more healthier then what the restaurants can offer you. (because they wont have pesticides, would be fresh,etc) and if you have to much you can always give some to your neighbors. I'm sure they be glad to get some fresh greens but then again too healthy is not the best way to go. Whats life without a little germs?!!

I envy you. I planted mint, parsley and basil from seed packets around March and until now I only get tiny green leaves... Only the basil seem to be growing but not as fast as your aerogarden. Now I have an idea for my own wishlist and gift ideas for my family members.