Laugh or cry - you decide

[SueEK]

Just been out for a meal with my husband and two of our grandchildren, I was very good (gold star please) and ordered chicken and pulled ham salad. However it came with a huge tortilla and I lost count at 60, yes 60, croutons. The salad was nigh on impossible to eat as each forkful had about four croutons on. After dissecting it for about 15 minutes I returned it and said that although the meat was lovely the salad was in fact a plate of carbs and as a diabetic I need to avoid carbs. They said that they have written instructions of exactly what amount of each food stuff must be put in the salad, although they did agree there was far too many. Beware ordering a salad is all I can say - amazing!!
PS tested 2 hrs later, only 4.2, my lowest ever reading, no wonder, I barely ate anything 😱😱

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear you had trouble with your meal Sue - hope it didn’t spoil your enjoyment.

After that 4.2 next time maybe you could have eaten more of it? But I completely respect your self control - I would have been hopeless in that situation if I were T2!

 

[SueEK]

Thankfully not keen on croutons, probably one of the only carbs I don’t like. To be honest we enjoyed the time with the grandchildren and I was just laughing trying to count them all. I confess I came home and had my first packet of crisps in weeks and weeks, yummy 🙂🙂

 

[KARNAK]

Ah @SueEK, crisps the final frontier,😳 jealous you got time with your grandchildren and hubby, mine live 350 miles away except the hubby bit.🙄 I miss the kids dearly so treasure what you have.🙂

 

[SueEK]

Ah @SueEK, crisps the final frontier,😳 jealous you got time with your grandchildren and hubby, mine live 350 miles away except the hubby bit.🙄 I miss the kids dearly so treasure what you have.🙂

We have them every Monday, 2 live 5 mins one way the other 5 mins the other way. There are good and bad points to that!!

 

[Grannylorraine]

Sue
it is ridiculous, that when you order a salad you actually get more carbs than salad. I have had this discussion with the canteen at work, they add pasta, rice, crutons, couscous to everything on the salad counter except the lettuce and cucumber. I was standing there one day picking out as much as I could of the actual salad and they asked why, so I told them, I then suggested that as a salad bar, that is exactly what it should be, by all means add some pasta and rice in bowls for people to take, but don't mix it in with the salad. But it fell on deaf ears.

Good for you, for pointing this out to them.

 

[nonethewiser]

Croutons on a salad, never heard of that before, in soup yeah.

Had a salad last month in a chippy restaurant, didn't fancy the chips so just pinched a few from wife to go with the fish, the salad came with strawberries in, never seen that before and have since started added them to our own salads, its a nice touch, just buy the value strawberries from the supermarkets.

 

[SueEK]

Sue
it is ridiculous, that when you order a salad you actually get more carbs than salad. I have had this discussion with the canteen at work, they add pasta, rice, crutons, couscous to everything on the salad counter except the lettuce and cucumber. I was standing there one day picking out as much as I could of the actual salad and they asked why, so I told them, I then suggested that as a salad bar, that is exactly what it should be, by all means add some pasta and rice in bowls for people to take, but don't mix it in with the salad. But it fell on deaf ears.

Good for you, for pointing this out to them.

They were really nice about it but the actual salad consisted of a gem lettuce, tomatoes, chicken and pulled ham plus millions of croutons and a huge tortilla. I explained I was diabetic which was why I had chosen the salad. I really don’t get it and won’t be having it again but it wasn’t their fault, they were following ‘company instructions’.

 

[Eddy Edson]

but it wasn’t their fault, they were following ‘company instructions’.

Well, that defence didn't work at Nuremberg! j/k, but what a bizarre salad-policy. It's like something out of the 1950's.

 

[SueEK]

Well, that defence didn't work at Nuremberg! j/k, but what a bizarre salad-policy. It's like something out of the 1950's.

I know, it is the Stonehouse chain of restaurants, I’ll have the carvery next time!!

 

[rebrascora]

It just goes to show how carbohydrate focussed our modern day diet is when they have to do that to a salad. You would think in these times when obesity is such a huge health issue and so many people are trying to lose weight, let alone the increasing number of diabetics, that eating establishments would stop making their only potentially low carb/low calorie option as carb and calorie packed and unhealthy as they can! At least it was gem lettuce and not iceberg though, so it had something going for it!