What do I eat with my salad.

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Tips please.

The garden is producing ample cucumber, lettuce, radish and baby tomatoes so two weeks ago my wife declared a family diet.

We have hard boiled eggs, small baked potatoes and omelette but I really need a change.

We are both vegetarian and I can't persuade her towards cold soups.

Does anyone have any suggestions ??

[emperorburger]

Add some cooked barley groats to your salad.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/melvit-jecz...

Available in all the big supermarkets in the world food aisle.

Make sure you salt the water.

Also great with feta cheese.

[Monkeylegend]

You have cold soup and let her have what she wants

[Drumroll]

Fruit and nuts. Just had a tossed salad for lunch that had dried apricots, cranberries and walnuts in it.

[Dyl]

Roasted peppers stuffed with cous cous and cheese of your choice? We use feta if doing this.

Totally veggie or fish permitted? If the latter, some mackerel fillets?

[sherman]

Spiced grilled haloumi.

Grilled quorn pieces

Batch cook soup and freeze it for winter

[NMNeil]

Potato gratin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjmRF5r4pa4

[Strudul]

Tuna, kidney beans, olive oil, and black pepper.

[Sporky]

sherman said:

Spiced grilled haloumi.

I was going to go fried, but halloumi is an excellent call.

Maybe some munchy seeds or similar for a bit of crunch and so on.

[LordHaveMurci]

Mackerel/pilchards/sardines/tuna

Cheese (my lad has cheddar, feta seems more common)

Boiled eggs

Panko breadcrumbs sprinkled on top for a different texture

Add some pasta & perhaps some cannelini beans?

Edited by LordHaveMurci on Sunday 1st August 14:32

[Bill]

Not the most diety thing but a goats cheese tart is easy.

[Bill]

Toasted pine nuts are great too, but not with goats cheese...

[21TonyK]

Not exactly "diet" but shallow fried spiced potato cakes are great and for variety dehydrate tomatoes in the oven on very low to make your own sundried tomatoes (keep in oil for a few weeks in the fridge easily). Pickle some of the veg, especially radishes, carrots etc BBQ the lettuce and put with a blue cheese dressing.

I'm not a big salad fan but something like a Caesar always wins, add in lots of char grilled croutons and a couple of poached eggs on the top and you have a decent meal.

[ThunderSpook]

Steak.

Just forget the whole vegetarian thing.

[BoRED S2upid]

LordHaveMurci said:

Mackerel/pilchards/sardines/tuna

Cheese (my lad has cheddar, feta seems more common)

Boiled eggs

Panko breadcrumbs sprinkled on top for a different texture

Add some pasta & perhaps some cannelini beans?

Edited by LordHaveMurci on Sunday 1st August 14:32

You missed the veggie bit.


Why does a veggie ever need to go on a diet in the first place?


I’m not a veggie by any means but we eat veggie food a few days a week and find falafel with salad and hummus is a good combination or sweet potato pakoras.

[Sporky]

BoRED S2upid said:

Why does a veggie ever need to go on a diet in the first place?

Cheese & cake.

[moorx]

Quiche?

[85Carrera]

ThunderSpook said:

Steak.

Just forget the whole vegetarian thing.

This. Steak.

And chips …

[Monkeylegend]

85Carrera said:

ThunderSpook said:

Steak.

Just forget the whole vegetarian thing.

This. Steak.

And chips …

I suspect wifey won't let him

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Monkeylegend said:

85Carrera said:

ThunderSpook said:

Steak.

Just forget the whole vegetarian thing.

This. Steak.

And chips …

I suspect wifey won't let him

'Course she will.......its just that I haven't asked her yet. 😇