To ask what you have in your massive salad

Black beans are good to bulk up a salad. I also tend to add spring onions for flavour. Soy sauce and lime juice is not too bad for an oil free dressing.

A salad of tuna, beansprouts, mayo, vinegar and salt is delicious.

Grated cabbage and carrot ( it's cheap )
Tinned sweetcorn

Handful nuts and an apple

grated cheese ( lots of types )

Tinned fish ( tomatoe sauce instead of mayo) or prawns ( luxury version)

Mixed beans - with a splash of heat into any mayo

Hummus on the bottom or cannellini beans blended with lemon, oil and garlic. Cooked lentils or beans (straight from tin). Kimchi. Tomatoes & cukes and peppers chopped up. Leftover roast veggies. Nuts and seeds. Sometimes feta or other cheese. Grated carrots and courgette. Leaves. Lemon juice. So filling

Pomegranate
Coriander
Falafels
Feta
Halloumi
Roasted veg
Basil
Coleslaw
Cottage cheese
Butternut squash

If you want to lose weight I would cut the cheese / avoid nuts and have low fat humus

Try roasting your chickpeas

Roast some veg that goes well in a salad

Marinade some tofu and air fry

Tuna goes well
With capers and olives

Massaged Kale? Even veggies get a bloody massage, but I still bloody don't.

I do love a bit of coleslaw in salad, but some great ideas on here to make them nicer and more filling. I need some homemade dressing ideas.

What the one I’m eating while laughing alone?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/women-laughing-alone-with-salad

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I love a salad, especially if it’s got sausage rolls, pork pies, scotch eggs and crisps with it

Halloumi
Sweet corn
Beetroot
Pomegranate

No, you don't have to cook kale for a salad. I remove the stalks as they really are very tough.

OP, do you eat fish? You don't mention it, and it's one obvious way to add protein given that you don't eat meat, poultry or eggs.

Daft Q of the day .. but do you cook the kale first ?

Mine is so basic,
Lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion, red cabbage, cheese, dressing + chicken/tuna/bacon

Sometimes I'll throw in sweetcorn or grated carrot, or beans, or pomegranate seeds, or pickles, but I eat more salad when I'm not making more work for myself by over complicating it.

I detest salad.....so, dust.

I change it up but my favourite ingredients overall are rocket leaves, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, shallots, halloumi cheese, scamorza cheese, saurkraut, pickles, pimento peppers, red cabbage, endamame beans, crispy onions, roast chickpeas, cous cous, toasted almonds, tofu, roast asparagus, baby cucumber, vine tomatoes, walnuts, homemade crutons and grilled aubergene 😋.

I do a sort of chopped salad for a couple of weekdays and it often does one evening as a side dish, dressed with a little evoo , salt and lemon juice.
A selection from
Lentils/ chick peas/ cannellini beans
Little gem/ red or green chicory/ other leaves
Tomatoes often a mixture
Celery
Avocado
Cucumber
Grated carrot
Cabbage or fennel
Walnuts
Seeds eg sunflower
Jarred artichokes
Sundried tomatoes chopped small
Olives
Gherkins
Sauerkraut/ kimchi if I have
Feta/ cheddar/ tuna

Oh, and sauerkraut!

Fermented foods are essential if you’re trying to lose weight.

Definitely add nuts, seeds and avocado for the fat.

You don’t if say you eat fish? If you do, fry a mackerel fillet or two or include a whole tin of tuna.

There’s not enough protein in your current salad to keep you full so you’re very likely to fall off the wagon.

I like the dressing in this recipe although I cut down the amount of honey a bit

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oriental-duck-salad

I have some really nice coarse grey sea salt with thick sweet balsamic vinegar

Depends what's in the fridge but usually lettuce, cucumber, tomato, carrot, red onion or spring onion, sweetcorn, red pepper and seeds (usually sunflower or pumpkin). Spinach, radish and sun dried tomatoes also appear if I have them.

I always add a main protein item e.g. salmon, chicken, hard boiled egg, chickpeas, mozzarella balls. And the dressing varies depending on the protein e.g. French, sweet chilli, Asian-style, honey mustard.

Tinned fish
Marinated beans - tinned beans left in a combo of red wine vinegar, olive oil, chilli flakes and herbs for a few hours
Pickled red onions (very easy to make)
Halloumi
Griddled courgette and aubergine

I often do a nicoise:

Salad leaves
Green beans
Black olives
Tomatoes
A tin of tuna
A hard boiled egg
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar

I also make this:
Salad leaves
Tomatoes
Roast butternut squash and roast red onion
Goats cheese
Toasted walnuts
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Honey
Thyme

And this:
Salad leaves
Orzo
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Roast beetroot
Crumbled Stilton
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar

And this:
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Green pepper
Red onion
Feta cheese
Olives
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Oregano

Tinned gigantes beans
Napolina bean salad
Spinach
Fennel
Lambs lettuce
Pomegranate seeds
Spicy Ayvar
Tinned dolmades
Vegan Weiner/frankfurter
Smoked tofu
Dried crispy onions
Dried bacon bits (I don't think they're made of meat)
Sultanas
Black olives
Artichokes from a jar
Mushrooms
Sundried tomatoes
Pickled chillis
Pickled onions
Cornichons
Basil
Parsley
Chicory
Radicchio
Sweet potato
Butternut squash

I put soy sauce on my lettuce, just to pep it up a bit. Other than that my salads are usually a pile of green leaves of whatever type, tomatoes, cucumber (lots because I love it), chopped onion and I have a herb garden so I'll shove a lot of chopped herbs over the top. Sometimes some balsamic vinegar, but that makes my mouth sore so not often. And whatever I've got hanging around that looks like it wants using up, pomegranate seeds, chopped nuts, some dried fruit, orange slices...