A Week of Healthy Lunches
My friend Bríd brings the most wonderful salads to work every day for lunch. After we joked a few times about how I’d have to blog a week of her lunches, we got to a stage where I decided to do it. Being January, I’m trying to eat healthily and always find it difficult to think of things to put in my salads. Bríd’s lunchbox is always brimming with ideas. All last week she brought her lunch in on a plate instead of a lunchbox and made them even more colourful and delicious looking.
Monday
- Sliced cucumber with freshly ground black pepper
- Potato salad with homemade mayonnaise
- Smoked mackerel
- Iceberg lettuce and lime dressing
- Sliced red peppers
- Dates
- Celery and pumpkin seeds and whole-grain mustard
Tuesday
- Sliced red peppers
- Grated carrot with honey and mustard dressing
- Fresh chives
- Dates
- Potato salad with home-made mayonnaise
- Cucumber topped with sesame seeds
- Butterhead lettuce leaves
- Tinned salmon
Wednesday
- Pecan nuts
- Grated carrot
- Hard boiled egg
- Potato with wholegrain mustard
- Red peppers
- Raisins
- Cucumber
- Butterhead lettuce leaves and cider vinegar dressing
Thursday
- Chickpeas and pesto
- Grated carrot
- Chives
- Butterhead lettuce
- Potatoes and wholegrain mustard
- kiwi fruit
Friday
- Sliced yellow peppers
- Potatoes
- Pecans
- Butterhead lettuce leaves
- Home-made mayonnaise
- Dates
- Wholegrain mustard
7 Comments
Inspirational lunches…. I’ll have what she is having ;0)
Me too!
They really look so much more appetising on a plate! I’m inspired!!
Yeah, I’m afraid I eat mine out of the lunchbox mostly. I must start working on my presentation more, makes a huge difference.
I’d love these if someone else made them for me.
Me too Tric! I’d have no problem eating salad every day if I could do such a good job.
For me the secret in making tasty daily salads is to leave a few non perisable items on the counter or together within easy access of your worktop,for the week . These items may include oil (rapeseed/ olive? ) , cider vinegar , seeds(sesame/sunflower/pumpkin ? ) nuts (pecan, walnuts ?), fruit (raisons, pears ,figs ?), honey, wholegrain mustard etc . This way I can prepare a delicious salad from beginning to end in less than ten minutes .