Choose romaine lettuce for your salad

"Not all lettuce is created equal, but if you start your meal with a salad made of romaine lettuce you will be sure to add not only a variety of textures and flavors to your meal but an enormous amount of nutritional value. The vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and fiber found in romaine lettuce are especially good for the prevention or alleviation of many common health complaints.  Due to its extremely low calorie content and high water volume, romaine lettuce is often overlooked in the nutrition world as a very nutritious food. Based on its nutrient richness, our food ranking system qualified it as an excellent source of vitamin A (notably through its concentration of the pro-vitamin A carotenoid, beta-carotene), vitamin K, folate, and molybdenum. Romaine lettuce also emerged from our ranking system as a very good source of dietary fiber, four minerals (manganese, potassium, copper, and iron), and three vitamins (biotin, vitamin B1, and vitamin C). " From The world's healthiest foods.

Today we enjoyed bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on our deck in Lakeside with our friend Harry Parsons from Columbus.  The lettuce was indeed, romaine. He had grown the tomatoes and also baked the zucchini bread which was so tasty.