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I have slowly drifted into being sick of all the greens and salads we have.

Well, mostly the dressings. Leaves are leaves.

For a long time, we have used the Paul Newman line of dressings, convinced, I suppose, that Paul himself had something to do with each bottle or, perhaps, that his charity for kids was worth some dressing for.

It isn't bad stuff. Middle of the road.

But suddenly they were not OK.

I was in the store the other day and was exploring "toppings" for dressings. Dry toppings.

This had started when I was inspired to make a Cobb salad. I had bought one when I was in San Diego. I had forgotten how good they were. A little on the too much fat side but what the hell.

So, when I went to gather the ingredients I found an old item "bacon bits" which can be real bacon or not or even turkey. But there are also other dry toppings!

McCormick makes one that has pumpkin seeds and stuff. Another had taco pieces and other crisp mexican things. Blue corn chips. Then another had some kind of cranberry mix. OK. I got them all.

Then right on the shelf below there was a line of dressings (the bacon bits were in the salad dressing section, not meat or spice or whatever). A line of the Kroger quality house brand Private Selection.

My gods they had everything. Well, a lot of things. I got this one and the balsamic vinagrette and the mexican ranch and, well you get the idea. Nine bottles.

Now I am working through them a day at a time. I also got "the original" caesar dressing in the produce department.

One more thing. I recently read that "chopped salad" was all the rage. You know, like Cobb salad only a bunch of other mixes.

It doesn't take long for corporate america to get the drift on something like this so I bought a few "prechopped' salads in bags. Not because I can't chop my own salad but because they put a lot of stuff in the mix (small leaves, parsley and so on) that I wouldn't bother with.

So. I came home and just dumped all of Paul Newman's products. When I am done I am done.

I made the new new new ceasar with the old old original first dressing. Pretty good. Tonight is cole slaw mix with a creamy poppy seed dressing.Tomorrow? I don't know. I am working arbitrarily from left to right on the dressings and winging it on the choice of greens.

If you shop at Kroger (ours is Ralphs) try out the Private Selection brands. They are very good.

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