Mega Salad

[Caz28]

Made this salad for my main meal, quite high in calories - 674 - but I think healthy, with the exception of the bit of sage& onion stuffing and half a pack of crisps. There's romaine lettuce, pea shoots, cucumber, celery, grapes, pecans, low fat soft cheese, continental cheese.... would you agree it's healthy?

[IndigoBlue61]

Love a good salad, especially with cheese 😊 Yum yum 

[Nelliecat4]

Looks good enough to eat!  I've given up crisps, but would add radishes and tomatoes instead, as they are my favourites at the moment - and they would add another colour to the mix  Nothing tastier than a big plate of healthy colourful salad!

[Caz28 in reply to Nelliecat4]

I don't like raw tomato but yes to the radishes!

[linlow]

That certainly does look scrumptio-licious.  I love salad - but I am another one who likes plenty of colour on my plate (and my plate looks like your plate ) so I'd be inclined to add some grated carrot perhaps with a splash of herby olive oil.

Depending on mood, and what I have in, some other things I might consider are beetroot, bell pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, cress, cranberries, fine beans, satsuma.  The more colour you eat (with regard to fresh foods) the more chance you have of getting the full range of micronutrients.

This is a great site for working out what benefits you are getting from your produce fruitvs.com

[Caz28 in reply to linlow]

thanks for that!

[linlow in reply to Caz28]

I hope you enjoyed it, it is making me hungry just looking at the photo

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Does the stuffing have bread mixed in?

[Caz28 in reply to Activity2004]

I assume so I bought it from the supermarket ready done

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to Caz28]

Can a person use GF bread as a substitute, or is it pre made?

[Caz28 in reply to Activity2004]

I would normally have made my own chicken and not bothered with stuffing, it was just for quickness as I was pushed for time, but yes I think you can make gluten free stuffing

[MaminaElsie]

Instead of the crisps, you could add sweet potato - cubed, rubbed with olive oil, black pepper, pinch of salt and baked. Healthy and yummy. 

[Caz28 in reply to MaminaElsie]

thanks, tend to avoid olive oil though cos of the high calories!

[linlow in reply to Caz28]

Olive oil can play a part in a healthy weight loss diet as demonstrated in the mediterranean diet and explained (briefly) in this post precisionnutrition.com/10-w...  But if you prefer to avoid it and are looking to lose weight rather than just eat healthy have you checked out lemon water?  tasty-yummies.com/2013/03/1...  If you have access to organic ones you should ideally use the peel, either blended into your water or grated into food, for the extra benefits stored within it. healthextremist.com/lemon-p...

Take a look at this video (sorry about the voice ) for how vinegar has been shown to help.  nutritionfacts.org/video/ap...

[Caz28 in reply to linlow]

Like the idea of lemon water n the morning 😊

[Caz28]

thanks for the advice! will check out the link

[Caz28]

thanks for the suggestions!