This evening's healthy option

[Mocatz]

Main meal of the day, pan fried salmon fillet, pasta with sun dried tomatoes and mushrooms, yellow tomato, cucumber and strawberries with balsamic vinegar ... And half a dozen grapes! Is this healthy????

[burntsun Maintainer Restart Feb 2024 6kg]

That looks absolutely delicious, lovely variety of colours! All I manged was a measly boiled egg, baked beans and some sliced courgette. It was an effort to pull something together and I didn't want many carbs as I wasn't feeling hungry - until I saw your photo!

[Pen55]

Lovely only problem your making me feel hungry

Enjoy

[yoyo-nono]

Delish!! I wish I had that!

[Hidden]

Looks and sounds healthy enough to me - and definitely delicious! Going to try it on Thursday as that's one of our fish days. Would also work well with rice I think. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes.

[Mocatz]

Glad you all liked it, I loved the refreshing mix of fruit and cucumber and tomato, really tasty.

[kiwifruit1]

Looks good but if you are trying to lose weight then remember that grapes have a huge amount of sugar in them.

Instead of the pasta you could have used zucchini peeled with a julienne peeler so that the zucchini looks like spaghetti. Mixed with your other "pasta" ingredients its a sure fire way of feeling full, tasting great without any of the extra calories that pasta brings

If losing weight isn't an issue then this really looks like a varied and lovely dish!

[Mocatz in reply to kiwifruit1]

Thank you kiwifruit1, is zucchini the same as courgette as I quite like that and may give it a go. The meal was my main meal of the day as I had a very basic salad at lunchtime so thought the pasta wouldn't be too bad.

[kiwifruit1 in reply to Mocatz]

Yep You don't cook it though and if you have a hot pasta type sauce then it heats up when it goes on top or mixed in. When I am really hungry I can sometimes have a huge bowl of this "pasta" the same calories in pasta for the same size/amount would be around 450! It has been my favourite "cheat"

The peeler looks like this- it has a little jagged blade instead of a smooth one like a potato peeler :

zyliss.com/Products/Gallery...

And the courgette will look like this: quinoakaleandexhale.com/wp-...

I have only recently seen them here in Sweden so before then I had to order mine from ebay.co.uk but I am sure in the UK you could prob find these easily in loads of shops

The do carrots and other veggies that are firm as well

[Mocatz in reply to kiwifruit1]

Thank you, I may have to buy one!

[Priodas2015 in reply to kiwifruit1]

In the UK you can buy a spiraliser,they are great fun and the courgette really looks like spaghetti!

[denvajade]

my mouth is watering how delicious.