Guest Author - Robin Rounds Whittemore
If you are one of the many people that reacts badly to lettuce, you have a couple of choices. You can just go without lettuce and forego any other substitute for lettuce, or you can choose something else entirely.
How are you with bean sprouts or alfalfa sprouts? If your body can digest them better than they can digest lettuce, you are in luck! Sprouts make wonderful lettuce substitutions in sandwiches. They go great in a bacon, sprout, and tomato sandwich, or BST if you will.
Try spreading mayo on both pieces of sourdough bread; then layering turkey, tomato, onions, cheese, and sprouts? If you want things a little spicier, there are spicy sprouts as well. You could turn up the heat with a little spicy mustard as well.
If you can eat cabbage, but not lettuce, it can serve as a very close substitute to lettuce. You can have a BLT, or BCT if you prefer. Whether you have cabbage raw on a sandwich, or cooked as in a corned beef sandwich leftover from St. Patrick's Day, is up to your individual preferences.
Here is a sandwich or hamburger example using spinach leaves in place of lettuce:
SALAD BURGER
Sesame seed bun
Hamburger or Veggie burger
Spinach leaves
Catalina dressing
Onion
Tomato
Avocado
Take a sesame seed bun and cut it in half. Place a finished hamburger pattie or veggie burger on one of the buns. Place some Catalina dressing on the other side of the bun and spread it all over the bun circle. The spinach leaves come next, and they go on the Catalina dressing side of the bun. The onion, tomato, and avocado finish off the sandwich.
This is a very filling sandwich and either way you go with the hamburger or the veggie burger; a lot of vegetables are being consumed. Nutritious and delicious combined can't be beat.
Keep in mind that any of the combinations of edibles that go into a sandwich are only suggestions here. Feel free to include what you like and skip what you don't like. This author would like to suggest that you try new things because as you age, your tastes can change along with the rest of your body.
