Salad Ideas for a balanced and colourful lunch!

If you tolerate raw food well, lunchtime is ideal for salads, leaving cooked meals for dinner, as raw food can be harder to digest.

A nutrient-dense salad is much more than just lettuce, tomato, and cucumber—it should truly nourish you!

Feel free to create your own variations with foods that suit you, but ensure you have your carbs, protein and fats!

• Carbs: Colourful veggies packed with fibre and polyphenols (nature’s antioxidant powerhouses!) + some quinoa.

• Protein: Eggs, sardines in olive oil, quinoa

• Fats: Half an avocado, eggs, olive oil, nuts & seeds

I also added some kimchi (a traditional Korean fermented cabbage) to give my gut a boost with healthy probiotics!

Exact list of ingredients and where did I buy the foods from:

From my supermarket (Tesco)

• Avocado

• Sardines in olive oil

• Quinoa

• Tomato cherry (organic)

• Blueberries (organic)

• Pumpkin seeds, slightly toasted (organic)

• Walnuts (organic)

From my local farmers market on Sundays

• Beetroot (organic)

• Eggs (organic)

• Cucumber (organic)

• Purple carrots (organic)

• Radish (organic)

• Mustard greens (organic)

• Kimchi

If you can:

• Have a look at this article, which highlights 12 foods that are best eaten organic.

• Whenever possible, buy from your local market and choose what's in season (if it's organic, even better). This ensures you get a good variety throughout the year.

Balanced salad with kimchi