You know those nice little m and a salads you get/used to easil get? How can I make them on the cheap?

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Maybe not exactly... But nearly...

The M&S ones? Tomato and basil pasta and all that?

The trick to the salmon pasta one is dill. And salt.

Yeah. The buy 3 for 2 ones they sell buy the door.

I just looked these up

It’s pretty easy and I’m not a fan of cooking.

Make enough for two days, I reckon.

For a tomato one, I use Aldi tomato and mascarpone sauce. Keeps two weeks in the fridge. You can freeze spinach and pop it in the pasta cooking water.

You can also freeze sliced pepper if it’s a faff to use fresh.

The spinach, pine nut, pesto - just get a green pesto sauce which also keeps in the fridge. Pine nuts are quite pricey though.

I don’t eat meat but you could get ready cooked chicken in the chiller bit if the supermarket, is it tomato, basil and chicken they have? Just get dried basil if fresh is a faff.

The bow tie pasta salad is easy. Just good quality olive oil, basil, half tea spoon of pesto , ,chopped fresh basil, voila. If it doesn’t taste like MandA , it’s because there’s not tonnes of salt. Try a little and taste to see