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To tell you about the most delicious, healthy salad ever?

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CocktailQueenie · 14/05/2024 19:41

Yes, I know I could have made it and plastic packaging is bad for the environment but because it's just me tonight, I picked up M & S Superfood Green Salad and their salmon fishcakes as a one-off - Wow! It tasted so fresh and moreish and I could happily live off the stuff forever.
I love salad foods and eat them year-round but usually stick to peppers/rocket/lettuce/cucumber/white cabbage/courgette/olives/beetroot and carrot kind-of-thing. Also, watermelon/mint/feta is a favourite.
I would love to know what other salad-loving MN's think is tasty and whether any other shops have amazing fresh salads to go? Need to know what else I am missing!

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IamSlave · 14/05/2024 22:39

I also really like m and s salads but I can't access them at the moment.
I used to love their tuna nicose one and also they used to do the most amazing chicken breast.

Lumpalicious · 14/05/2024 22:23

Regrettably I cannot get excited about this amount of greenery.

But I will share what I can assure you is a most delicious salad recipe with some colour to it.

I replace the chicken with quorn fillets but this is obviously not mandatory.

https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/chicken-orange-salad/622ddd96-124c-43fd-bc48-26c19ce07c95?nk=0d13b860f1a16d2dffb82645530aa33e-1715721618

Chicken & orange salad

With juicy oranges and a yoghurt dressing, this chicken salad is a treat on any spring table.

https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/chicken-orange-salad/622ddd96-124c-43fd-bc48-26c19ce07c95?nk=0d13b860f1a16d2dffb82645530aa33e-1715721618

Crabble · 14/05/2024 22:14

The watermelon and feta one is lovely. It’s really low calorie too and I have it when I do my fast days.

i used to love the orzo and tomato one but they changed the dressing a couple of weeks back and it’s not so good now.

JacketPotatoFoodOfTheGods · 14/05/2024 22:08

Looks yummy. Will grab one next time im in! 💚

StormingNorman · 14/05/2024 21:54

Unopenedpackofmenssocks · 14/05/2024 20:00

Is it this one?

This is a good one! Used to be a regular lunch when I worked next door to an M&S along with the giant couscous one.

Davros · 14/05/2024 21:43

@soupfiend I saw watercress in M&S yesterday but I agree, it's often hard to find. Delicious with a juicy steak and some bearnaise

EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 14/05/2024 21:39

MILTOBE · 14/05/2024 19:42

Hello, M&S Marketing Woman!

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Macbeff · 14/05/2024 21:27

I love any salad as long as it’s massive.

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CocktailQueenie · 14/05/2024 21:24

Have just seen the salad thread on Chat, so many good ideas.

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CocktailQueenie · 14/05/2024 21:21

Thanks all for your suggestions, will try the nutty one, also they sell watercress in Asda too. I flipping love salad but also eat some UPF too 😉

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MaryFuckingFerguson · 14/05/2024 21:19

If I go to the office, I often buy their nutty superfood salad. It’s so filling and completely delicious. I also love the 2 conscous salads they do.

catwithflowers · 14/05/2024 21:16

Unopenedpackofmenssocks · 14/05/2024 19:45

Do you know what OP. I absolutely love that you are such a positive person that you wanted to post on MN about how delicious your salad was. However I predict that the next 5 responses will be:

  1. M&S is overpriced, I refuse to shop there
  2. M&S salads may be nice but their knickers are shit now.
  3. Was it in a plastic container? That is shocking OP, won’t you think about the planet?
  4. I can make the same salad for 25p using vegetables I grew myself. You are so lazy.
  5. Salmon? Disgusting. You should not eat animals.

Ha! Indeed 🤣🤣🤣

DuesToTheDirt · 14/05/2024 21:10

I love M&S salads. Especially the ones I'd never make myself, with quinoa, fancy dressings and stuff. Mmm.

AhBiscuits · 14/05/2024 21:02

I bought a salmon poke bowl in Lidl and it was so delicious. I want it for lunch everyday but will settle for once in a while.

To tell you about the most delicious, healthy salad ever?
soupfiend · 14/05/2024 21:00

They might do but a) I dont shop in Sainsburys, I shop in lidl or aldi most of the time and b) despite not shopping in there, I was actually in there on Saturday AND today and no watercress.

minipie · 14/05/2024 20:59

I’ve had to be at a hospital across lunch a fair bit recently and it has an M&S… I am now another Super Nutty Wholefood salad fan. It’s all beany and seedy with a really nice zingy dressing.

Anyone got a link to an interesting salad recipe online? Ideally tried and tested…

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 14/05/2024 20:57

soupfiend · 14/05/2024 19:58

I tell you what disappoints me these days, is that you cant easily find watercress, on its own, in supermarkets. Its nearly always in a bag with spinach and rocket. I dont mind spinach or rocket but dont want to eat as much as they put in the bag and actually I just want a little bunch of watercress.

Actually this thread has triggered me a bit, there was a thread recently about someone complaining that her friend went for lunch with her and only ordered a tomato salad, enthused about the tomato salad and apparently kept banging on about how petite she was

Now she shouldnt have kept banging on about how petite she was, but some of the incredibly bitchy posts on that thread about how could ANYONE enthuse about a tomato salad and someone ordering that is abormal/disordered eating, wheres the steak and chips (I see this one reared its head on here), teenie tinies etc etc. Horrible horrible posts.

I bloody love a tomato salad.

Sainsbury's do watercress on its own.

pizzaHeart · 14/05/2024 20:54

CocktailQueenie · 14/05/2024 19:51

@Unopenedpackofmenssocks Yes, I totally understand but this was a one-off. I usually sprout my own mung beans/grow all veg on my miniscule patch/knit my own knickers with twigs and DH's pubes harvested from the bathroom floor😂

Ohhh I love interesting salad. Hope to be near M&S tomorrow so will have a look. I like their fruity coleslaw with extra avocado and their bistro style salad with extra goat cheese.

By the way can you post a pattern for knickers when you are free from gardening/ recycling/ DIY jobs? I harvested a lot of pubes in the bathroom recently and wouldn’t mind extra income. 😉

daliesque · 14/05/2024 20:53

Blackcats7 · 14/05/2024 20:29

All salads just taste like grass to me so I won’t be trying it. I have a huge aversion to green food.

How can you call yourself a mumsnetter with that discusting attitude to a massive salad. I'm so shocked I'm literally shaking and crying here.

PoppingTomorrow · 14/05/2024 20:52

I still think about a pre-packed salad I had at Barcelona Airport c 2001.

Wild rice, tomato, cucumber, walnut, feta, oregano, balsamic dressing, and probably some other things.

I like the m&s nutty super wholefood NOT with hummus.

Love a good (Asian) slaw - hard to re create at hone because what do I do with the other half of cabbage?

Love beetroot spinach goats cheese walnut lentils

Roast beg pearl barley chicken and rocket

Watermelon feta black olive

viccat · 14/05/2024 20:43

Last week I remembered the giant cous cous and lentil salad they used to sell a few years ago. Found a recipe online and recreated it, and it's so good!

www.nutmegnanny.com/lentil-couscous-goat-cheese-salad/

FloatyBoaty · 14/05/2024 20:42

No YANBU OP.

I had to have train tea the other week and picked up one of those salads because it was yellow stickered and one of those chocolate meringue puddings they do (also yellow stickered) and it was the most enjoyable dinner I had all week. I hadn’t made it, it was all delicious, I didn’t have to wash up, and I didn’t have to clear up child-dropped mashed potatoes from the floor. All round win.

soupfiend · 14/05/2024 20:40

Shredded carrot with chilli, sesame oil, sesame seeds and crushed salted peanuts over it with shredded coriander and spring onion. Thats lovely

Very rarely make it as I end up with too much waste. OH wouldnt touch it.

WimseyofBalliol · 14/05/2024 20:38

ssd · 14/05/2024 20:33

Blimey, who's ripped your knitting?

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I love that expression. Which is a new one to me…

My favourite bought salad ever was the discontinued Leon kale and peanut one. I’d have eaten that daily.

In France, I love those finely grated carrot salad with a thick vinaigrette. They tend to pollute it less with sultanas.

bridgetreilly · 14/05/2024 20:37

Also not an M&S PR person, but I really like their avocado and feta salad, and their crayfish and mango salad.