You don't have to eat salads with lettuce- IMO anything with veggies is considered a salad.

How about hummus with carrot sticks and celery sticks?

I do cucumbers, red onions, and tomatoes with lemon juice and a bit of salt. You can use your favorite salad dressing if you don't want lemon juice and salt.

Also sometimes I just cut up a bunch of cauliflower and eat it with ranch- satisfies me

I just cut up some cucumber and buy those little carrots and put them in a ziploc bag (separate bags for each kind of veggie). I'm not fond of salads either (more making them) but I don't mind munching on the veggies in the bags.

Carrots? Are you on IP? Have you checked out the two recipe stickies?

Whoops...no I'm not. Sorry...got in here through the new posts and wasn't paying attention!

I reheat a lot of roasted IP veg, or steam them with seasonings. I also grill veg in advance too. You can eat them with our without the lettuce I also make bigger veg stir frys and portion out the extra veggies for lunch and add my protein to my dinner portions. Pretty much, I make a lot of veg at dinner and have leftovers for lunch.

Are you getting a good variety of veg? That seems to be the key. I can't eat broccoli every day, or mushrooms... etc. I need to vary it. Also, if I ate those veg raw one day, the next time I prepare them they will be cooked.

I eat a lot of cucumber spears with salt, have rhubarb, mashed cauliflower, or leftover veggies (especially roasted cauliflower, so yum!). We are supposed to have some kind of lettuce at lunch and dinner though.

I make a large pot of veggie soup and use that for lunch. Do you have a microwave at work?

My soup has a chicken broth base. I add broccoli, cauliflower, celery, fresh mushrooms and red cabbage. Season as you wish. I add garlic and lots of sea salt. Pre-cook the soup and dish out two cups daily for lunch. Just microwave and eat. EASY and quick.

Variety is the key though. I hardly ever have salad at lunch time.

Good luck.

What state are you in? I am having a difficult time finding rhubarb. I really want to try it. I found a website that was recommended by another member, but the frozen rhubarb was $5 pound. Sounds expensive. Any suggestions ?

I'm in Iowa, and have looked in the frozen section without much luck... those who have found it, do share!

I can't find it anywhere either. I have been to every grocery and health food store in town, fresh and frozen, with no avail. And I really wanna try it!!

Hi, I'm in Iowa also and the only place I can find it is at Hy-Vee in the frozen food section. Hope this helps!

Try a "warm" salad. I make my by sauteing broccoli, zucchini, mushrooms and garlic in a sauce made of mustard, soy sauce, hot sauce and a bit of splenda to take the edge off the mustard. Throw in some diced celery and sea salt at the end and serve warm over romaine or iceberg.

If you have a local farmers market, you should find it there. I am from Iowa and live on a acreage. We have 4 hills of it that come back every year. It is grows well regardless of weather. Does not take up much space and very little mait...other to harvest it... so you could plant some this year yet and have it for next year. I know of many in our local town that have it in their backyards too. It is a really good alternative to the routine veggies. Can cook it down into a sauce and add some of the WF strawberry spread and sweetner. Tastes like strawberry rhubarb pie without the crust.....

I agree with the others in this thread. Roasted and steamed veggies are a nice twist. Roasting makes them a little more sweet and flavorable.

Wow! Thank you everyone for the great suggestions! The veggie soup idea sounds good, Doxigirl. And Xanthia, I think variety is part of my problem. I tend to get stuck on a few types of veggies till I get sick of them and then desperately search something else out. I've tried rhubarb in the microwave with Spelnda, it was ok. The rhubarb itself was good, but I have a thing against Splenda, haha. I'll have to give some of these ideas a go! Thanks again!!!