Salad Bar Tuesday heads West

The gauntlet was thrown. The challenge was on. Could we replicate the Salad Bar Tuesday experience on Cape Cod at the corporate office in Middletown, NY?

We think we've made a good run at it. Here's the list of participants and their contributions:

Patrick Mullen:

• Fruit salad
• Hummus
• Crackers
• Fresh mozzarella

Richard Hoover

• Sliced cantaloupe
• Fruit salad
• The thunder and the noise

Kurt Lozier

• Baby spinach
• Peas
• Chickpeas
• Dried cranberries
• Tortilla strips for croutons
• Tomatoes
• Cucumber
• Mushrooms
• Cutting board and Rachel Ray knife
• Feta cheese
• Shredded carrots
• Newman's Own Olive Oil and Vinegar

Sean Polay

• Spring mix
• Chopped celery
• Chopped green onions
• Mini pepperoni
• Smoked salmon
• Goat cheese crumbles
• Dried cranberry, raisin and strawberry mix 
• Spicy sprouts
• Snow peas
• Newman's Own Light Roasted Garlic Balsamic
• Riceworks Sweet Chili chips
• Snickerdoodles

The photographic evidence:



We have such an obscene amount of food, Salad Bar Tuesday is definitely extending into dinner for me. And I thought eating healthy on the road would be a challenge.

It's the healthiest Tuesday meeting we've ever had, and we liked it. We're already plotting our strategy for the next one. We're ready for our chapter assignment, too, though we think adding Merry to our title -- making it Merry Men of Middletown -- has a nice Robin-Hood-like ring to it.