Does anyone wish they LOVED lettuce?

Can't do lettuce plain. Must have something delicious on it! Tonight we had shrimp tacos and used iceberg lettuce for the "shell". So good! Kept thinking "man, this would make a killer salad!"

they are just eating it to curb their appetite before their meals

I'm a vegetarian... I better love lettuce!!

there are so many kinds of lettece!!! I put the topping on usually, buy i just started going without the dressing. It's not that bad. I always feel better about using no dressing anyway

I have a friend that really does love just lettuce salads -with very little or no dressing. I just don't get it.

I'm the same way! I never put dressing on my salad. It's so yummy plain.

I won't tell anyone how to eat or live - but I like the taste of good-tasting food. If something doesn't please my palate, I don't eat it.

I rather have something like tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers with a little crunch and taste than what is to me the filler.

I like lettuce - but in a salad as part of the salad, or in a sandwich. It's just not enough for me, and I'm not doing this to punish myself by having just grass. I want the fruits and vegetables, too.

Today for lunch I had a bag of home-made salad greens - 2 cups of chopped iceberg, 1/2 cup cut-up peppers, 1/4 cup sliced cucumbers. No dressing - just had it as part of my lunch which also included grape tomatoes and cubed chicken. So the lettuce made for a little bit of crunch & water, but I don't see it as satisfying in itself.

Your mileage may vary, of course. And that's fine. I can get low calories from cut up veggies such as zucchini or cucumbers or peppers, which to me are just more satisfying, or I can get nearly no calories from lettuce and feel like I'm depriving myself. Can't do it.

As long as it's not iceburg or treated with some kind of preservative that kills my tummy, I love it. I eat a salad, sometimes two every day; very often they are "nekkid".

TMI alert - but it also helps keep me "regular".

No offense but I do not wish that at all. 1) Lettuce in general is pretty useless nutritionally. 2) I like food 3) even as awesome as Spinach is it has its limitations.

I think who ever it is that has that sad *kitten* meal is in for a rather rude awkening somewhere down the road.

huh? where did you get your info that lettuce is generally pretty useless nutritionally?

I love lettuce. I HATE iceberg lettuce but love the different varieties. I usually add stuff to it. spinach I add strawberries and walnuts or boiled egg a smoked tempeh. I like arugla with citrus fruits and a bit of feta cheese. Butter lettuce I could eat by itself with a good dressing, but I find it hard to find and rarely have it. I also like using wilted greens like kale or beet greens for salad. I also make my own dressings and that varies as well. I use olive oil, mirin, braggs apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, even pickle juice. My strawberry dressing is awesome! I find I use much less this way.

I think the key is variety

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My biggest weakness is that I HATE the low-sugar dressings, like vinaigrette and such. Vinegar is awful. Instead I go super light on my favorites (Catalina!)

Totally agree with this in that you should eat what you like and what tastes good. I personally like/love vinaigrette and don't much care for the super-sweet stuff, but that's just me, and I eat what I like. (I have to admit an absurd fondness for Thousand Island dressing, though. Ever since Sizzler I've had a taste combination of steak-potato-iceberg-salad-with-1000-Island-dressing fever.)

So eat what you like but eat in the right portions.

I have a side salad with lunch and sometimes dinner. I load up on the veggies and only use 1-2 tablespoons on dressing.

I PUT PEPPER ON MINE LAST WEEK AS I HAD NO DRESSINGS. IT WAS LOVELY! REALLY INTO IT NOW!

Play with your salads. Put all kinds of things veggie wise and then try adding some cut up apple, or strawberries, or pears, or blueberries...with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing it's yummy.