I only like Lettuce and onion in a Salad

Oh maaan.......mine are the most basic of salads. I suppose I got it from my mother and that's why I choose to buy mine 

I'd forgo cucumber and radish for some chopped green pepper.

I'm on mushrooms, peppers, onion, toms and fowl with brown pasta for the last six weeks. And fruit.

 

Lost ten pun - allied to a vigourous commando regime.

 

But I might wear my knickers tomorrow.

LMAO! 

im still cutting down on food

i had vegi burger + veg today

 

my sat night treat is salad, crispbreads & houmous

 

im starting to hate my diet

Tomato lettuce cucumber ham boiled eggs and mayo.

I should try being more adventurous  

I like lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, beetroot (pickled or not pickled) and grated carrot. I usually have cooked meat, such as ham or chicken with my salads and I also like some coleslaw or potato salad or pasta salad or rice salad too.

 

 

Most of the stuff mentioned on salads...except radish and cheese. I eat salads all the year round, although I would probably have a small jacket spud, rice or a tiny amount  low calorie chips with it 

that sound like an adventure with the SAS compared to the boring stuff im eating

That's more or less the same as mine home mades so now I buy my salads 

We're not eating till about 10 tonight - I just put a shepherds pie in the oven (one I prepared earlier) It looks scrummy - minced beef, onion, garlic, green beans, carrots, baby corn and mushrooms seasoned with a teaspoon of Chilli flakes and HP sauce - topped with mashed swede and carrot (for diet purposes) and a sprinkle of grated low fat cheese, We will have sprouting broccoli and cauliflower with it  YUM.

 

Took me almost as long to type it as prepare it 

SHART ARP!

im hungry

I eat salads all year round.

*high five* I love a good salad!!!!

A good salad ain't cheep.

 

Sun drieds, avos, springs, cheese, fancy lettuce, eggs, Maria Callas

Lettuce (either iceberg or Rocket...depends on the mood), cucumber, green pepper, scallions, red onion, jalepenos and sometimes grated cheese or boiled egg.

We outsource! At our local shop I buy a box mit various hedge back stuff, peppers, onions, and topped with chicken tika and irritant chillis. Just the ticket for these days of tree pollen pollution.

Me too but it isn't cheap is it 

pickled silverskin onions, they do it for me 

I eat all the wrong stuff 

 

 

I have as suggested above used peppers and mushrooms in my salads and they are good ingredients.

 

For tonights salad I have used what I bought the day before but cut down on the cheese and added a boiled egg.

 

I am so enjoying salads that I may not have hot cooked food for the foreseeable future !!

 

Although tomorrow at work we are having a special Fish & Chips day. 

ALL of the stuff mentioned above ..    I eat salads most of the time for my pack up lunch at work...  once the basics are added I then tend to throw whatever is in the fridge in it... 

 

as back up (to protect against a day of a boring salad...  should the fridge be bare)...  I have jars of cocktail gherkins, capers & olives to throw in! 

 

The only form of olive I cannot stand is in it's natural state. I love the oil and can eat it in cooked food, but out of the jar - Nooo.

 

Gherkins is something I rarely have, my Dad loved them. Maybe it's time I tried them again. 

And don't forget you can put fruit in an ordinary salad - apples, bananas, grapes....not necessarily at the same time.but you can if you want.

Cold meat, cold hard-boiled egg, potato salad, cole-slaw,red cabbage, cucumber, fresh garden peas....

 

The only limits to a salad are your personal tastes and imagination.

Oh - and the availability of ingredients.

I had a salad last night + today cos this thread put me in the mood

I added broccoli, red pepper + soya beans + and mixed some balsamic vinegar into the mayo. 

 

 

 

 

I have tried grapes in the past and apple, but that is as far as I've been with fruit.. for now.

 

 

Excellent. I have just got in from work and about to have my third in three days. It's going to be pretty much the same as yesterday - finishing up ingredients. Tomorrow however is a shopping day, so a few different ingredients will be purchased.

Some Feta Cheese might be nice ........or goats cheese/

 

Hi Soozy, thanks for the idea, I'm just not a cheese fan, I like a little bit of mild Cheddar, Cheshire or Red Leicester but that is about it. I've tried Feta and Goats and not really to my liking.

 

I am thinking of toasting a few pine nuts and throwing them into the salad. Definitely buying Green, Red and Yellow peppers to have tomorrow.

 

Anyone tried courgette?

Yes - I'm not a big fan TBH - it's a bit nothingy.

Crumbled blue cheese ain't bad in a salad.

 

And the piece de resistance - a pickled walnut  

Hi erin  

 

 

 

I was commenting earlier how I was not a lover of cheese, my Dad however loved a bit of blue cheese. I've never tried any blue cheese as the smell has always put me off. The pickled walnut sounds interesting. 

Blue cheese is lovely with pears and walnuts (not too sure about pickled ones though)

 

I once went to dinner at a Greek Cypriots friends house - she did a trifle topped with pickled walnuts very Vicar if Dibley

 

That does sound a shade unusual. Did you eat it?

I just put feta cheese in my Asda online basket after Soozy suggested it. Never tried it. Nor any greek food!