Originally Posted by
morninglemon
I requested the low-cal meals for dietary reasons, not to get a better tasting meal. But just because a meal is requested for dietary reasons doesn't mean it should taste like nothing, which these did. Anyone who is on a restricted diet knows that the food is a big enough problem on its own, and making it taste inedible only magnifies the suffering.
Old style CX meals are known for being "somewhat" bland. Pepper & Salt are on request and then you get a huge amount of it.
And with a low-cal diet, sauces and baked stuff (ie those items that bring taste to a meal) are (in general) out of the question due to the high amount of cals it brings.
Herbs would be nice, though the old style normal CX meals neither do get that (or only very limited).
The salad course could have been better I think, for example, by using pure lemon as a dressing on small cut raw carrots with beet root and onions or so. Add pepper and it tastes good.
With the new style CX menus, the herbs usage is significantly more interesting, so to say, so let us hope, the low-cal meal does get improved to.