When I was a child we would have a side salad with every
dinner at home. The only way we didn’t have a side salad if we were having
burger out for dinner. Even if we were having pizza out. We always had salad
with it.
Today fast food seems to be a staple food for people, but
when I was a child we never had fast food. I didn’t have McDonalds until I was
probably in my early teens. My friends would eat there all the time, but not
me. I didn’t resent it or even think twice about it because it was normal to
me. Occasionally we would have burgers or pizza out and it was a really big deal if my mom would agree to Taco bell.
My parents believed that if you
were going to go out to eat that it needed to be something nice, and a better
quality meal. If we went out it was for steak, seafood, or Mexican food, not
crap food as my Dad would call it.
Out of the blue it hit me the
other day that for whatever reason I didn’t carry on the side salad with dinner
tradition that had been instilled in me. When I was having a side salad with dinner
growing up I ate less and I was a lot healthier. I was certainly a lot thinner.
So I decided to change that and start having that side salad again.
Sometimes bringing back those old
traditions can be just what you need to start yourself back on a good eating
regiment. It can be as simple as lettuce and tomato, or something with
everything you can put in a bowl. The great part is there are so many ways to
serve a salad I don’t think you could ever get bored!
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