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Are you savingtools guys big salad bar fans like I am? Here is an interesting way to plan you next salad bar attack. Try to go for the most expensive items and you will be a winner. Interesting little article from npr attached.
The choice of lettuce is key. Avoid romaine ($3.06 per pound off the shelf) at all costs — and consider baby spinach ($6.67) and mesclun ($7.99) your friends. ...
Veggies can be a trap, but especially beets ($1.84), carrots ($1.69) and red onion ($1.99). A few white button mushrooms ($3.99) can perhaps be indulged in. The real value, however, is in sun-dried tomatoes — cheaper at the salad bar than on the store shelves ($9.99).
Go crazy on toppings. Check out how high the prices for walnuts, almonds, gorgonzola crumbles and croutons are in the graphic above. Much to its credit, Whole Foods doesn’t stock the best salad topping of all — bacon bits, obviously — in its salad bar. Why? Because it costs a whopping $21.28 per pound. With any luck your local salad-bar merchant isn’t quite as savvy.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/03/21/134729632/salad-bar-economics-veggies-can-be-a-trap?sc=nl&cc=pmb-20110321
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Sun-dried tomatoes are the best! I could eat a whole plate of them and nothing else. That was interesting, micharch. :)
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I love a good salad bar and it has to be good. There's nothing more disappointing than limp lettuce and veggies that look like they have been on the bar for days. I like everything fresh and crisp with a bucket of ranch dressing on the side. :D
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I'll be filling mine with all the high-dollar items now I know what they are LOL. Thank you micharch. :)
That's a great article, micharch. :) I love a good salad bar and go crazy on the bacon bits and mushrooms. I always get the romaine and spinach too instead of plain old iceberg like several of them have. I have no idea what mesclun is. Who knew the bacon bits worked out to be so expensive!!