Making salads palatable, and recommendations for strong-flavored healthy food?
In the “strong flavor but healthy” category: if you like spicy foods, you could try making your own spicy pickles. It’s very easy. Just buy a jar of pickles from the store, and cut up some fresh peppers (I like to use habanero, but it’s good with jalapeno, too) and some fresh garlic. Eat a couple of the pickles to make some room in the top of the jar. Put the garlic and the peppers in the pickle jar, close the lid, shake it up, and put it in the fridge. In a week or so, you’ll have a jar of hot pickles. Pickles are something like 5 calories apiece, so they’re pretty healthy, so long as you’re not watching your sodium or anything. Plus, since they’re so hot, they suppress the appetite a bit. If you like to drink, try mixing tequila with some of the hot pickle juice. I know, it sounds nasty, but it’s actually quite good!
