Craving Salad!

I have been craving a salad so bad for the last few days but I'm only on soft foods. I finally settled today for 1/4 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese and just a little bit of Italian dressing over it. It was AH-MAZING! At least it satisfied the craving. 

Do you like feta? A bit of feta with some Greek vinagrette would be pretty much everything I think. (I get to start mushies on Monday - that's one of the things I'm looking forward to!)

I don't know that I've ever actually tried feta cheese. The Greek vinaigrette sounds wonderful though! I hope the weekend flies for you so you can get to the yummy mushies!

I hear you, and what a great craving!  I was not a salad eater o fresh veggie eater prior to the sleeve, and by week 6 that was all I wanted to eat.  Still love it too :)

I liked salads before surgery but never have I craved one so badly! I've also been dying for some green beans today as well but I'm still trying to get my protein in first. I hope I continue craving veggies in the future. Chips were always my downfall before and thankfully I haven't been wanting those.....yet. 

I love salad and I'm 5 months post op today and still can't tolerate lettuce.   I get mad because I want to eat it so bad.

Oh I'll be so sad if I can't tolerate lettuce. I'm not sure when I'm allowed to try it. I go back to see my surgeon on the 25th, I'll ask him how much longer before I can have green leafy veggies. 

Can you tolerate cucumbers and tomatoes? Asking because a great Greek restaurant near me* offers something they call a "Village Salad" which is just chunks of cucumbers, onions** and tomatoes, with feta and Greek vinaigrette (what makes that different from Italian dressing I don't know), with optional gyro meat on top. It might hit the salad craving without the leafy green veg.

*Shoutout to Yia Yia's Kitchen in Beltsville, MD.

**I cannot abide raw onions at all so I always have the salad sans the stinky things. I can eat them cooked but raw makes my sleeve turn somersaults inside me. Ughhhh.

That sounds fantastic. I haven't tried cucumber or onion yet but I love tomatoes. I'll have to try and mix up something like that tomorrow maybe for lunch and see how it goes. Fingers crossed!

May I suggest peeling the cucumbers and not chunking them but slicing them and going slow? I think the big thing is the big flavors. 

There's also a Bulgarian salad called Shopksa Salata which is the same ingredients pretty much, just cubed really small - also see recipes for "Israeli Salad" which is come to think of it pretty much the same. Any of the Mediterranean cuisines will include mixing cucumbers, tomatoes and onions in some form of vinaigrette, and most call it uniquely their own and aver that it has nothing to do with what the neighbours are eating!