On warm days, such a
salad makes a satisfactory lunch.
It is all right to make a fruit and vegetable salad. Instead of using
tomatoes, take strawberries, apples, grapes, or any other acid fruit.
These fruits may be combined with cabbage, lettuce, celery or cucumbers.
Do not mix too many foods in a meal, for to do so is indicative of poor
taste. Those with refined palates like simple meals, and there is no
reason for making salads so complex, when simplicity is a requirement
for building health. However, a complex salad made of raw vegetables and
raw juicy fruits does not play so much havoc as a mixture of
concentrated foods.
Lettuce and celery are the most satisfactory salad vegetables to mix
with fruits.
People who eat raw fruits do not need to eat the raw salad vegetables,
for fruits and vegetables supply the same salts. Those who avoid both
raw fruits and raw vegetables are not treating their bodies fairly.
The vegetable salads are most satisfactory when taken in combination
with flesh, nuts or eggs, together with cooked succulent vegetables.
They may be eaten with starchy foods, but then they should contain
little or no acid.
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