Potato salad.

I don’t eat salads either but I often eat variations of Buddha bowl which includes raw veggies. I also add arugula and tomatoes to many of my meals so that’s a mini salad I guess lol I eat plenty of veggies but I haven’t had lettuce in years.

I like salads, but never make them. So I don't really eat salads

I am vegan and I love cooked vegetables, but I don't really like eating salads.

I like raw carrots, peppers, cherry tomatoes and some other things, but I don't enjoy raw leafy greens, which is why I never order a salad or make one for myself.

HOWEVER, raw vegetables are really important, especially greens! I have now found a system to eat them. Whenever I cook a meal, I prepare a small side dish with raw vegetables and a little bit of green raw vegetables, not mixed, but separated. I eat it while I eat my main hot dish. That way, I actually enjoy it. I only have to force myself a little with the greens, but it's only a little quantity and it's better than nothing!

Also, wraps can be a good idea. I don't make them myself, but when I get them to go from some restaurant, I must say I really enjoy them and they contain a quantity of raw leafy greens or raw red shredded cabbage which I would otherwise never manage to eat outside or the wrap ...

I don’t mind a salad but I only eat ones without lettuce. Like beans, corn, tomato, cucumber, onion mixed with hummus

I suppose it depends on what you mean by a salad.

I bloody love salad. But I don’t love a big bowl of plain leaves! What I do on my best days is have salad leaves mixed with some other hearty flavours and have it either before or alongside my main meal.

Small amounts of fermented or picked veg and olives. Or hummus and dipping veg. Lemon and yoghurt dressed eisberg and grated veg with a curry. Spicy corn, green pepper and tomatoes with feldsalat to go with Mexican food Smashed cucumbers and shaved kohlrabi with soy dressing.

Although my most favourite food at the moment is a pre made No Egg Mayonnaise which is spot on with both texture and taste, so I’m eating that in wraps and sandwiches with lots of cress, eisberg, rocket, and tomato. So I guess that’s a salad sandwich!

I rarely eat something arranged like a salad, but I eat lots of assorted leafy greens in tacos, sandwiches, and wrapping Korean barbecue tofu, mushrooms and soy meat.

Not in winter, no.

Salad is a summer meal as far as I'm concerned and just a side dish any other time.

It's why any cafe that only offers salad as the vegan option doesn't get my custom.

I’ve come around to eating salad in recent years but it’s not a top choice and it has to be made in a certain way like with vegan cheese and vegan meat or cooked mushroom. In general I eat it very rarely

If I'm eating salad, it's usually because it's the only vegan option on a restaurant menu.

I only eat salads with a minimum of like 15 ingredients. Anything else is boring and not filling enough for me

I’m starting to get into eating salads after being vegan for over 20 years.

I’ve never had salad. Like ever.

I feel so seen by this comment thread lol. Not that I've ever particularly connected salads and veganism (for the same reason that I couldn't wrap my head around my mother's excuse for not going vegan—'I don't know how to cook vegetables'—it's not reflective of how I perceive vegan cooking and meal composition), but I do unfortunately have moral weights assigned to food and assume most morally good people eat better than I do.

Salad is a "morally good" food, and I feel guilty and alone for rarely eating it, so this thread was a nice read. I should still eat more fresh leafy greens than I do lol.

I rarely eat salad (maybe a couple of times per year?). I never make them at home, but every once in a while I’ll get one from a restaurant.

I've been vegan for 15 years and have probably eaten a typical lettuce salad like 15 times. Once a year at best.

We have salad with a few of our meals, just to up the raw roughage in our lives. So if we make quiche, or filled potato, we have salad, and for lunch we often have salad on a roll with felafel.

Although I do eat salad, it doesn't usually consist of green leaves etc although I'm trending in that direction. I eat things like pasta and tofu salad and potato salad. Before I was vegetarian I used to practically live off green salad though, back in the '70s and '80s. Cucumber and lettuce, celery, that kind of thing.

Salads are boring. I'll take potato or macaroni salads any day over green leaf salads.

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Very rarely. But only because I’m stubborn and don’t want to conform to the stereotype that vegans ca only eat salad.

Do Poke, and Buddha bowls count?

I ate a lot more salads before I went vegan…although when I first went vegan I was basically only doing salads and smoothies in the beginning. 🤷

Wasn't a big salad fan before becoming a vegan and still not lol. I will occasionally order one if a restaurant doesn't have anything other options.

We rarely eat raw salads. We have lots of cooked veggie/grain bowls though

I eat salads regularly, but the spinach is probably the last ingredient. It’s the dressing for me; you gotta find a great dressing, invest in the stock options, and always keep it on hand.

lol yes, me🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ I think it comes down to 2 things, 1) idk why but I just love warm food, like I’ll microwave my dinner halfway through just to get it nice and hot again. And 2) my whole life I haven’t liked leafy greens. Kale, lettuce, spinach, anything. Tried it in smoothies, prepared so many different ways, even have taken the time to physically wash it literally leaf by leaf, but no matter what, all I can taste is dirt ??? I’ll eat everything else that’s in a salad, like I’m not a veggie hater lol or greens hater, I love broccoli, green beans, Brussel sprouts, peas, etc etc.. but for some reason leafy greens just taste like I’m eating dirt!

I’ve honestly started to think it’s like the cilantro thing, how some people taste soap when they eat it? I feel like I can’t be the only one who tastes a strong dirt taste with leafy greens no matter how it’s prepped, or hidden in something

I’ll eat salads happily most of the time, but I generally don’t make them or order them.

I think the reason (for me) is that when I ate animals, I used to eat salads because they served a purpose, to be a lighter side to a very rich or very heavy main. But now that I’m vegan (almost 12 years now) most of my meals don’t feel heavy since there’s lots of vegetables involved, even when I eat a burger or grain bowls it doesn’t feel heavy. I will add several lettuce leaves to my burgers and sandwiches and I love making cucumber salad as a side, but a salad with lots of leafy greens just seems redundant.

I've never liked salad. People assume I must like salads since I'm vegan, but I just can't convince myself to like them. Lettuce is just gross to me. I'm fine with kale, I love vegetables, potato salad or pasta salad are fine (though I'd rather they be warm versions), but your typical salad just grosses me out. I told my manager at work that he doesn't have to order me a lunch when the team gets catering since I'm vegan and there are rarely good options from the places they order from and he said "what about salad?" I said I don't like salad, and he was genuinely confused. He asked me what I eat then if I'm vegan and don't like salads. I just said I eat a lot of beans lol.

I’ve always hated salads, and going vegan didn’t change that. I also thought I would have to eat them all the time, but turns out the requirement is zero.

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I love salad, but I don’t eat it very often. With the exception of Sweetgreen or similar fast-casual places, I wouldn’t choose to eat at a restaurant where the only option was salad.

I do pine for a really well crafted salad if it’s a starter or one course of a meal.

Example of a great salad I had for Thanksgiving form my favorite vegan restaurant:

Gunpowder Potato & Roasted Beet Salad A warm salad of roasted baby potatoes and jewel-toned beets tossed in tamarind-lime vinaigrette, layered with mixed harvest greens, fresh herbs, and spiced nut crumble finishes with mint oil.

I haven’t had a salad in over 10 years