PreTeena by Allison Barrows for June 21, 2016

To me, anything “ranch” tastes like barf.

I’m there with you on the olives. Use olive oil all the time, but can’t stand to even look at the nasty little things. Wife loves black olives. I give them to her separately.

Funny.

Every once in awhile, Jeri gets it right.

Living as a widower I buy salads by the bag, I don’t mind carrots or radicchio, and I prefer bleu to ranch; ranch is the ketchup of salad dressings.

Skip the dressing, that’s usually not good for you. If I have a salad, I’d prefer non-purple onions, but can live with them. But give me some protein – boiled eggs, cheese, and/or bacon bits, or I’m not interested. (I’m supposed to have high protein & high carb diet, so most salads aren’t high on my list.)

I used to love carrots when I was a kid – unless they were cooked. I’d eat a raw carrot, but it took time for me to adjust to cooked carrots.

The purple stuff is, I believe, red cabbage. I’ve found that it goes well with salad. Chopped black olives are great in salad!

What really got me eating salad was when my mom (r.i.p.) suggested I try it with thousand island dressing. I’ve been hlatching down salad ever since! And I think it’s the best salad dressing you can ask for.

Seems to me these two are old enough to prepare a meal for themselves if they don’t like what she serves them. Maybe making them pay for the food they use would be an incentive to stop complaining & either eat or go hungry.

What a set of whiners.

I’m with Tina on the onions and olives in my salad. Carrots and cucumbers I can handle, and of course I gotta have my ranch dressing!