Correction: I actually measured my last salad and it's not 8 half-cup servings. It's more like 10 to 11 half-cups. That includes the cup of beans.
Another idea to control weight: I only have a few ears of corn when corn is in season. I estimate about 6 to 8 ears of corn. I break them in half and only eat half an ear with a meal. Eating lots of corn is a fast way to gain weight.
When I was a kid I lived on a farm and my brother told me that he would feed starches to the cattle when it was time to fatten them up for market. The main starches were corn, potatoes, grain and bread (he sometimes bought a truckload of stale bread for that purpose).
Cattle can graze on pasture grass all day long, every day, and never fatten up. So think of a green (starch free) salad as being the grass. That's what you want to concentrate on.
Last edited by Villages PL; 11-23-2012 at 12:37 PM.
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