My New Year Resolution

         Every year, around this time of the year, I have a New Year resolution.  I have resolved this year to redo my every year resolution. To eat more salads. The problem is I hate salads. To the core.

            Why did I think I could blog about salads? I guess because I have so much to say about something I detest? Well, don't we all? What we hate most we can't stop obsessing over. Right?

            We have vegetables in India. Our vegetables are so varied and the vegetable dishes are called kootu or poriyal or kulambu or Sambar, depending on how they are cooked.. But I did not grow up with salads. Any reference to salad in India was lime seasoned cucumbers and tomatoes. But the American salad was different. Arugula and baby spinach. Iceberg and green leafy lettuce. Can be eaten raw with a bunch of toppings, vinaigrettes or dressings.  Caesar? Cobb? Harvest? House? Ooh sounded so healthy. So new. So adventurous.

            After several bouts of weight loss attempts, I decided if vegetables and salads can satiate my hunger and hold off that sweet craving, it has to be worth something. If they hold 0 points in my point calculating program, I can eat unlimited servings. If they are an absolute essential in my fiber intake, why not give it a try?

            Sooo, I convinced my taste buds that they like salad. Went to the store and bought a big stash of salad, salad dressing, croutons. The whole 9 yards. This was going to be the thing that turns me from overweight to over the moon. Several days later, my husband found a bag of rotten, blackened soggy bag of unrecognizable goop in the fridge. If not for the labeling on the package, we'd have never known to this day what it once was. I tried it again after several months- more goop, more broken promises. More salad dressings to replace the expired ones. More croutons that taste excellent by themselves. Who needs a salad when you have croutons???

            But I have not sworn them off. I still proudly order a salad in restaurants and curse myself when the bowl arrives. It is like eating your veggies. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Wait!!! this is eating veggies! No wonder this is so hard. I still reach for the biscuit basket more than I should be digging into the salad bowl. Oh for Pete's sake, the biscuits are so darn tasty!

           What is a New Year resolution you battle with? Let me hear it. Maybe that can be another post for another day in my blog. But tell me about the battles we lose that we don't have to, Battles we wage fearing we will not win. Battles that we have lost even before we started..

             I am happy to let you know, I have resolved to make a New Year resolution. It is going to be good. Not easy but it will be good.