Salads - how do you eat yours?!?
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lancsgirl
yummy mummy in the making
I know i cant eat it if its too big chopped up!...i tend to cut up all my stuff small, lettuce, toms, celery, cucumber, spring onions, radish, peppers, what evers free i have!..i then chop up chicken andd a few croutons (synd, and my cheese synd!)....i then have it and afterwards have a mixed fruit salad too. even better the whole family have it! x
I got some rocket at the supermarket yesterday, and they also had pea shoots, which I have not had before, so I am going to put them together in a salad with a sliced orange pepper, and some nice tomatoes which were one of Aldi's 69p offerings today. Probably some hard-boiled eggs too.
*angie*
loves food and cooking
If ever in the need for inspiration, go have a peek at your nearest salad bar (in a supermarket). Imagine what you would fill your bowl with, and try to create an SW version at home...
Successes from this method include:
low fat potato salads - spring onions, chives, yog / vlf mayo, diced egg
diced cucumber, red onion, cherry toms with or without feta cheese for a greek salad style ..
couscous with moroccan spices and grilled peppers
sweetcorn and chopped pepper mixed with ff vinegarette
lots of pasta salads
grated carrot mixed with dressing
chickpea / red onion mix
Successes from this method include:
low fat potato salads - spring onions, chives, yog / vlf mayo, diced egg
diced cucumber, red onion, cherry toms with or without feta cheese for a greek salad style ..
couscous with moroccan spices and grilled peppers
sweetcorn and chopped pepper mixed with ff vinegarette
lots of pasta salads
grated carrot mixed with dressing
chickpea / red onion mix
applejack1pie
Full Member
i like adding some chopped 'old el paso jalopeno' very nice in a salad if you like it hot! also some knorr aromat spice livens things up
flutterbyuk25
Full Member
I have salad for lunch most work days. It's usually a hit and miss mix of whatever I have in the fridge! I use up lots of leftovers in my salads e.g. potatoes, tofu, rice. When my salad box in fridge looks empty I have a look online to see what is on offer at Morrisons/Aldi/Lidl/Tesco etc and buy the best value things from the shop
I live on my own and I never can be bothered to make a salad every night so I tend to make a big one on a Sunday which lasts 3 days and then re-make on Weds night for next 2 days. This is just the salady bits and then I add extra to it as the week goes on.
This week I have cooked a big pan of pasta so will have pasta salad with mixed leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, sweetcorn, canellini beans and hard boiled egg. Topped with Hellmans fat free vinegarette. Sometimes I pack the egg separate so I can had it as a snack whenever rather than with lunch.
Sometimes I do rice or couscous instead of the pasta. I find tins of various beans make great additions to a salad.
A good tip is to have lots of tupperware to store the leftovers in and then add to the salady mix whatever takes your fancy.
When I'm feeling very lazy I just chop celery, carrots, cucumber and peppers into crudites, store in water overnight, and then drain and take in the next day for work.
HTH
x
I live on my own and I never can be bothered to make a salad every night so I tend to make a big one on a Sunday which lasts 3 days and then re-make on Weds night for next 2 days. This is just the salady bits and then I add extra to it as the week goes on.
This week I have cooked a big pan of pasta so will have pasta salad with mixed leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, sweetcorn, canellini beans and hard boiled egg. Topped with Hellmans fat free vinegarette. Sometimes I pack the egg separate so I can had it as a snack whenever rather than with lunch.
Sometimes I do rice or couscous instead of the pasta. I find tins of various beans make great additions to a salad.
A good tip is to have lots of tupperware to store the leftovers in and then add to the salady mix whatever takes your fancy.
When I'm feeling very lazy I just chop celery, carrots, cucumber and peppers into crudites, store in water overnight, and then drain and take in the next day for work.
HTH
x
thistimeisdifferent
Full Member
i know this has been covered around a trillion times before here but can someone give me a recipe for syn free huommus and can someone confirm whether it is free on orginal?
Thanks!!
Thanks!!
Going2be*fab*at40
Silver Member
I love my salads!
I have chopped curly leaf lettuce, rocket, watercress, spring onion, red onion and chopped mint and chives. I love cold roasted peppers and tomatoes with a laughing cow triangle to go with it!!!
(looking forward to lunchtime now :-D)
I have chopped curly leaf lettuce, rocket, watercress, spring onion, red onion and chopped mint and chives. I love cold roasted peppers and tomatoes with a laughing cow triangle to go with it!!!
(looking forward to lunchtime now :-D)
hayley morgan
Full Member
pretty mush the same as what everyone else has said but i have a little trick for making salads less boring. dunno it might just be me but for example if you cut a sarnie in a triangle instead of a square it tastes better lol well the same goes for salads chop it all up different everytime it works for me.
