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Preparing lunch or salads for dinner is very difficult if you are a single person, or if you are just cooking for two. In fact when making salads have you ever noticed that you have left-overs after you're done cutting? It happens all the time because you don't want to put so much of a certain type of vegetable into your salad, otherwise it overwhelms the salad, and then more or less you have either a tomato salad, or cucumber salad. Likewise it's nice to put a few carrot pieces in, but then you have half to carrot left, because one is not enough, and two happens to be too many.
Further, if you know anything about nutritional health, you probably realize that once you cut open a fruit or vegetable it loses much of its antioxidants value very quickly. Therefore it's of less nutritional value the second time around when you cut the rest of it. Because of this fact, I've been known to take the leftover salad ingredients and; Soup It!
That is to say I chop up the leftover ingredients in very small little cubes and put it into a small pot, throw in some spices, the types of spices you need in your diet, but probably don't want in a salad. And then I boil it slightly with the lid on the pot, let it cool, and put in the refrigerator for later. This helps because now you have extremely good soup base and all those antioxidants are trapped in the water. Later you can add anything to that soup that you'd like, therefore all that chopping you did on your salad will not go to waste, nor will any of the other ingredients.
Some people will chop up the ingredients for their salad, and then put all the leftover ingredients into small Ziploc bags. But that will not hold all those escaping antioxidants, nor will it prevent the leftover vegetables from losing their nutritional value. Yes, it will prevent a bit of that nutritional value from being lost, but most of it will be gone. This is why it makes sense to put it into a soup.
If you have leftover such as tomatoes, onions, and other items that would make for a nice chunky salsa, then you might be able to save yourself some money and buy the less expensive, and less chunky salsa at the grocery store, and add those ingredients to it, therefore you have the home makings of a more expensive salsa with many more ingredients. Well, I hope you've enjoyed my home chef tip of the day. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,777 articles by 7 PM on June 27, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..