Men and salads

Aveline

Is it just my DH who's not a fan of salads?

No you’re not alone. My DH hates salad with a vengeance (says it gives him indigestion). To him a meal is not a meal unless it contains potatoes, preferably mashed) and cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots and or beans/peas many of which he grows on his allotment. He acts hurt if I sometimes prefer a salad. He does like pasta occasionally but hates onions and anything spicey like curry. He was one of three sons brought up by his widowed mother and, as money was tight, I think potatoes and vegetables were used to fill them up.

My dad told my mum very often he was not a rabbit who eats salad. My DH says he hates salad but if it comes with a meal in a restaurant or pub he eats it total hypocrite!
Our son and daughter eat alot of salad in various forms because I eat it and gave it to them growing up.

I think they can be if you want them to be.

Macaydia

Salads are not a main meal.

I guess it depends on how you define 'salad'. Most of the salads I prepare do not include lettuce but certainly meet the requirements of a 'main meal'.

Macaydia

Salads are not a main meal.

Of course they are. Just depends what you include as part of a 'salad'.

They're a main meal to me just not to my DH no matter how much protein and carbs included.

ViceVersa

Macaydia

Salads are not a main meal.

Of course they are. Just depends what you include as part of a 'salad'.

Chicken, ham, cheese, hard-boiled eggs….

Chicken and mango is delish, I must do it again next time I have cold roast chicken to use up.

I make a spicy Coronation chicken using Mango, one of our family favourites. Nice with a salad and with or without a jacket spud.

My mother was convinced they would get malnutrition unless they got at least one hot meal a day

I love salads with lots and lots of ingredients but never any dressing. I can’t bear anything acidic and never have. No vinegar, wine, berries.
I know someone who pours vinegar over cooked vegetables.

Mine hates salads, even if it just a garnish on the side of the plate, though he may occasionally eat one if it has boiled eggs, cheese, chicken, sausages, ham etc. on the plate. Basically the lettuce and cucumber have to be completely overwhelmed by the protein.
He won't eat any brassicas at all, or spinach - though to be fair both these make him physically sick.

Macaydia

Salads are not a main meal.

My husband's view entirely

To my mind, a good salad is not only a meal, buy, probably in the kind of proportions that are reccommended.

Let him cook and eat what he wants, and you just have a salad with whatever he cooks when its gone cold?

I am making a Minted Courgette and Potato Tortilla tonight to have with salad. A family favourite, easy to make and delicious.

My husband likes salads.He needs a bit of bulk in it tho.So i make. A potato salad..with onions..bit of Tuna..and cold pasta..⁰...

Yes, Aveline there are. I have one of them! 🙄

my DH called it rabbit meat

I only eat salads if courtesy to my host forces me to, so your husband is not alone.

I do not know whether more men than women find salads a waste of time and money, or whether they are just more willing to say so than women are.

I imagine I am not the only woman in the world to find salads a completely over-rated dish.

AuntieE

I only eat salads if courtesy to my host forces me to, so your husband is not alone.

I do not know whether more men than women find salads a waste of time and money, or whether they are just more willing to say so than women are.

I imagine I am not the only woman in the world to find salads a completely over-rated dish.

No AuntieE you are not, I don't mind a salad if I'm not very hungry not it isn't really a filling main meal. I'm trying to lose weight at the moment and eating salad if we go out for meals, but feel pretty deprived...

Marmin

I wonder if , like me, he was raised on a very english idea of what a salad is. My mother was an exceptional cook but only across a fairly narrow range of dishes. A salad was a lettuce separated into its leaves, tomatoes cut in half and a few spring onions. That was it. No seasoning, no dressing. Not even the ubiquitous jar of Heinz salad cream. I hated them!
Now, I make salads of all varieties, all packed with flavour.
Might I suggest a potato salad as a start? A greek potato salad does not use mayo but packs a lot of flavour as well as potatoes of course!

Yes! THAT'S a salad - lettuce, tomatoes... Not this silly modern idea of bits of limp 'leaf' drenched in oil.

My husband felt like yours Aveline, a cold raw meal isn’t a meal even when it’s very hot out. What I found was over the years he’d peer at what I’d made for myself and like the look of it, and gradually he’s become happier with a hefty salad supper from time to time. My enjoyment seemed contagious!

I know I am in the minority but I hate salad . I force myself to eat lettuce , I love tomatoes, but any other salad ingredient I loath …… beetroot, spring onion …. Yuk .
I so wish I loved them and have tried but no !!!!!

Add a large jacket potato to the salad for him … my favourite meals are full salad, tinned salmon, and a baked potato with butter …. Can’t go wrong for men or women imo!

We eat a lot of different salads but I don't really like lettuce so rarely include it in a salad. Red cabbage thinly sliced with a little onion, some apple, radishes a few nuts perhaps a handful of raisins stored around with a lovely dressing or a little Greek yogurt. Served with crusty bread.