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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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Hotttchoc · 14/05/2024 20:34

I hope you don't work for M&S

I do love some of the M&S repacked salads

The superfood one is good as are the grains & greens packs

soupfiend · 14/05/2024 20:34

Agree with other posters though that shop bought salad means that you can actually eat salad without chucking a fridge worth of stuff in the bin.

ssd · 14/05/2024 20:33

VestibuleVirgin · 14/05/2024 19:58

Yabu for posting such a vacuous post in aibu

Blimey, who's ripped your knitting?

Jumbojem · 14/05/2024 20:31

Not tried that one but based on the good reviews will do soon. I love the M&S nutty wholefoods one. No M&S in my town anymore but if I travel for work I treat myself to a "better" meal deal lunch of the nutty salad along with olives with cheddar snack. Yum!
Keep meaning to make salads for work lunches but somehow never remember to prep in advance so will also do better and try some of the recipe suggestions here. Have to say the feta, watermelon and mint someone mentioned sounds delicious for a hot day. Love a basic mozzarella, tomato and basil salad too, with a good drizzle of oil and sprinkle of salt.

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.

Trickabrick · 14/05/2024 20:29

Edenmum2 · 14/05/2024 20:23

It's great apart from the fact that they stuff it with coriander which makes it inedible

Oh no, that’s me out 😭

Edenmum2 · 14/05/2024 20:23

It's great apart from the fact that they stuff it with coriander which makes it inedible

Trickabrick · 14/05/2024 20:23

I love the M&S Greek salad, will check out that green one now too!

Kitkatcatflap · 14/05/2024 20:22

That is a lovely salad, I have moved now but when I always pick up one of those at the airport to have on the train.

Expo23 · 14/05/2024 20:20

M&S bang bang noodle salad is so good.
I have added the salad you have written about to my order but I'm not convinced, it looks very... green!

VeraForever · 14/05/2024 20:18

murasaki · 14/05/2024 19:43

Steak cut chips with that?

(Sniggers.)

MummyInTheNecropolis · 14/05/2024 20:18

I love a good salad. In the last few days I’ve had beetroot, feta and walnut salad, halloumi and pomegranate salad and tonight I had a scandi-style smoked mackerel and potato salad. Made them all myself, so quick and easy and filling too.

WetBandits · 14/05/2024 20:13

Is it massive? Grin

TikehauLilly · 14/05/2024 20:12

Just added the super salad to my 9cado order ... thanks op!

With regard to salads

Love a tomato salad (no.steak /chips).with a djon vingegarette and chives

Any coleslaw but esp an Asian one

There was a fab dressing I saw on tik tok and I've lost it had bosh yeast in

This one too
https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/pink_lady_apple_redcabbagefeta.html

Pink lady apple, red cabbage & feta

https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/pink_lady_apple_redcabbagefeta.html

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CocktailQueenie · 14/05/2024 20:11

I thoroughly enjoyed it, have enough to mix with some rocket and watercress for lunch tomorrow.

I have never bought a supermarket ready-salad that I have enjoyed, they always taste synthetic but this stuff is really good.

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Mollyplop999 · 14/05/2024 20:09

CocktailQueenie harvested pubes 😂😂😂 Brilliant

clare8allthepies · 14/05/2024 20:06

@StormingNorman that sounds delicious!

I had a take out salad from M&S years ago (probably about 15 as pre kids) and it was so lovely I made a copy at home many times. Mixed salad leaves, cherry tomatoes, chicken breast chunks, croutons and Parmesan shavings. It had a pesto dressing that I used to mimic with a spoonful of pesto shaken up with some ready made French dressing. I’ve got some cooked chicken breast in the fridge for my lunch tomorrow, I think I’ll make that!

Barneysmomma · 14/05/2024 20:03

Pret do an avocado & hot smoked salmon salad which is really delicious. Trouble is my nearest Pret is 30 miles away 🙁

Xmasbaby11 · 14/05/2024 20:03

I love that salad! It really is so tasty, though I usually have it as a side with less healthy things like quiche!

AppleKatie · 14/05/2024 20:02

😂😂😂it’s just me in tonight I think I’ll pick up a green salad…. We have nothing in common OP but you do you!

Unopenedpackofmenssocks · 14/05/2024 20:00

Is it this one?

To tell you about the most delicious, healthy salad ever?
StormingNorman · 14/05/2024 19:59

Sounds delish.

I’m into a sort-of Vietnamese style salad at the moment.

Glass noodles
Spring onions
Carrot
Cucumber
Radishes
Tomato
Mint
Coriander

Slice the vegetables super fine and dress it with:

A few drops of fish sauce
A few drops of rice vinegar
Half a lime
Little glug of oil

Prawns, chicken chunks, pork mince and/or peanuts on top to ring the changes.

emergingfromthis · 14/05/2024 19:59

@CocktailQueenie Totally agree - I adore this salad and is genuinely the only premade one I buy - and yes, as a treat, as it is not cheap.

But no way could I put that range of ingredients together for just one or two of us without it taking ages and involving a fair amount of waste... And Yes, it does taste fresh and delicious and different.

So do continue to enjoy! And shout it from the roof tops!

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.