If it hasn't been evident in all of my reviews, I'm not much of a salad person. I don't think I've ever ordered "just a salad" for a meal going out and come to think of it, the only time I eat them is if they are sides or part of a course on an event dinner menu. It's not that I have anything against vegetables. Completely the opposite, in fact. I love vegetables. However, salads just don't do it for me. They are never big enough, never filling and leave me hungry a few moments later. I even discourage my personal training clients from eating salads as a meal, encouraging them to eat them as sides or snacks (because you have to eat a massive salad to get enough calories). Since eating at Mad Greens, I think my perception has changed.

"You will never believe what I'm about to say," my husband tells me as we are thinking about what to eat for dinner. At first I thought he had something serious to talk about, something other than dinner. With a deadpan look, I wait for his answer. "We should grab Mad Greens for dinner. I feel like eating a salad." Can you believe it!? My meat and potatoes husband wanted a salad for dinner. Hell must have been freezing over. He jotted down the ingredients he wanted to build his own and off I went to go pick it up as fast as I could before he changed his mind and wanted Five Guys instead.

Mad Greens is a Denver-based chain focusing on made-to-order salads named after historical "Mad Geniuses". Marley Hodgson and Dan Long founded Mad Greens - Inspired Eats in 2004, with the first location by Park Meadows Mall. There are currently eight other stores around the Front Range, one being in Fort Collins on East Harmony and Timberline by 24 Hour Fitness that opened last year. They are opening a second location on College where Waffle House used to be (next to Bann Thai and Los Tarascos) which should be up and running in March...

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