Let me explain...no, let me sum up: I hate making salad. Hate it with a passion. Whenever we invite someone over for dinner and they ask if they can bring something, I always tell them SALAD! For some reason, to me, salad always tastes better when someone else makes it. Don't get me wrong, I like salad, I just hate making it. The washing, the chopping, the tossing. It's all far too much work for a vegetable.So, along came bagged salad. Behold! Here is the lettuce already cut up and washed! One step saved! All you do is throw some vegetables into a bowl, and voila! Salad! I've been using bagged salad for a while now -- there are all sorts of yummy varieties: Baby Greens, Spring Mix, Italian Style, etc. with all sorts of interesting and unusual lettuce types. However, I've noticed a disturbing trend: the salad in bagged salad goes bad quickly. Like, a day after you open it. It's not cheap either. So, if you open a bag, make a small salad, and return said bag to the refrigerator, the next day you will have a runny mess of arugula, and there's $3 down the drain.
In the past few months, gas prices have been high, and consequently, food prices have been high. I've seen my food expenditures go up, up, up and Z isn't even on formula anymore. To counteract this, I've been clipping coupons and shopping sales. I realized that one of the things I'd have to give up was the bagged salad. It was MUCH more cost-effective to buy a head or two of lettuce, do your own rinsing and tearing, and just suck it up. So I did. I still don't like making them, though, but at least I feel like I'm saving money.
