5 delicious salads you will actually enjoy eating

New Year, new you. That’s what we hear year in and year out. But we reckon there is nothing wrong with the you from last year, so keep doing her!

Meanwhile, we are trying to wean ourselves off the last of those Roses, even the Orange and Strawberry crèmes that litter the end of the box are starting to look appealing…

To help us in our time of lacking will power and skin breakouts, we’ve devised some salads that will help nourish us and not taste like we’re force feeding ourselves grass.

For each of these salads, simply combine all of the 'dressing' ingredients together before drizzling it over the salad ingredients. 

1. Simple prawn salad

Salad:
1-2 handfuls of iceberg lettuce
6-7 cooked and cooled king prawns
¼ cucumber

Dressing:
1 tbsp. Greek yoghurt​
1 tsp. ketchup
​1/2 tsp low fat mayonnaise
1/2 tsp tabasco

2. Chicken zest salad

Salad:
1-2 handful of baby spinach
1 grilled chicken breast
Seeds of one pomegranate

Dressing:
Juice of one lime
1/2 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. balsamic vinegar

3. Goat's cheese salad

Salad
1 handful of rocket
1 handful of baby spinach
2-3 round slices of goat's cheese
5 walnuts

Dressing
1 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. balsamic vingear
1/2 tsp. fresh or dried thyme
1/2 tsp. honey

4. Super salad

2 handfuls of baby spinach
1 handful of kale
1 carrot, grated
1/2 avocado
4-5 blueberries
5 strawberries
100g cooked quinoa
2 tsp. pumpkin seeds
2 tsp. sunflower seeds
1 tsp flax seeds

Dressing
Juice of one lemon
1 tsp. olive oil

5. Classic Caprese salad

1 handful of rocket
4 slices of mozarella
2 sliced tomatoes 
Fresh basil, torn

Dressing
Balsamic reduction