Thanks 
Looks like I’m the only one who actually does eat a salad every day 
Someone’s gotta pick up the slack — might as well be me. Dinner tonight was a YUUUGE choriatiki.
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I have a salad a day too but usually at lunch. Sometimes I even remember to take a picture to post on HO!
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So virtuous, we are 
It’s CSA season so there’s that.
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you don’t win friends with salad
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I’m not here to make friends 
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Obviously 
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I eat a salad 98% of the time, I just forget to take a separate picture and post it here. I shall do better in the future. Maybe.
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Not on my behalf
I enjoy seeing your (and others) creative salad photos. Salads at our house daily are usually boring - handful of fresh spinach with granola topping or “fancy” bag salad.
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I hope our posts inspire you to branch out a little 
I can’t do raw spinach — it sets my teeth on edge in a very unpleasant way, so all those theoretically appealing spinach salads with HBEs & bacon dressing are out for me.
I also find bagged salad mixes to have an unpleasant order, whereas the environmentally even less sound clam shells don’t. I adore the sunny crunch / sunny crisp lettuce, which is already washed and ready to go, but of course there’s also spring mix, baby romaine, baby green leaft, etc. — pick your poison
Also, aren’t you part of the weekly menu planning thread? I find that making the dressing & chopping ingredients takes the most time, so if you chopped up a bunch of veg & hard-boiled a couple eggs on Sundays for the week to come, you’re almost set!
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ODOR. ODOR. ODOR. 
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I know just what you mean by odor in the bagged salads - to me it tastes/smells the opposite of fresh. Sometimes it helps to give them a quick rinse and spin before using. Some of the salad kits aren’t too bad though. Also I really hate to pick out the slimy stuff like the baby red oak leaf lettuce, even though the date indicates that it’s not beyond “sell by.”
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Whatever makes it easiest for you is what works.
I use bags of arugula and spinach often, because the larger packs are too much quantity for me before they start getting slimy. Crunchy lettuce in good condition is harder — I find those slide faster in the bag, so I’ll only buy them just before I want to eat that type. Doesn’t work as well for advance thought, but that’s okay.
I wish romaine came in less than 3 heads to a bag, already browning at the base, and butter lettuce was more easily found nearby.
But it is what it is.
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I despise slimy lettuce & herbs… which is why I’m generally annoyed by how they’re packaged around here. I seem to have less of an issue with that with the ridiculous clam shells vs. the bags.
Spinach bags are also always packed pretty tightly for some reason (maybe it’s bc even a tightly packed bag results in a toddler’s thumb-sized cooked portion 
), and a huge offender on the slimy leaves front >shudder<
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“Cooking for 1 or 2” sized packages of greens are scarce. As I mentioned a while ago (maybe on WMP), bagged spinach now gets transferred to a large , vacuum seal lid, hard clear plastic storage container here. It’s rectangular and shorter than those clamshells, so 2 can be stacked on each other in our fridge. The spinach seems to appreciate the elbow room and very little of it becomes waste. But since it’s my husband’s favorite leafy green we both eat it often. I’ll buy a head of iceberg rather than a bag of iceberg, core and quarter it then ziplock bag the quarters. Cost is less than bagged, although it’s often just me eating it. I don’t feel too bad about some of it going to waste. Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp has been our “fancy bag salad” go-to. I just found Mann’s Family Favorite Rainbow salad mix (sale price was enticing) and we both like that. I’ve transferred it into a glass storage dish with leakproof lid and am hopeful what’s left of the bag will stay as fresh looking/tasting as it was today.
I have the same problem when it comes to greens, that’s why romaine is my go to, not necessarily my favourite, but it has a better shelf life than the others. I occasionally buy spinach and rocket, but rarely mixed greens. I wish they sold romaine hearts in 2 packs instead of the usual 3.
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Mann’s Better Romaine Leaf worked well for us as a reasonable quantity for 2 people to finish before it spoiled. Maybe we need to find a salad-buddy household to split packages of leafy greens with.
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