Leaves are not the only salad

This is for you guys who think that having a salad means that it's just lettuce.
If you go to Bill's Produce Store, The Sancturary or Hove Park Cafe you'll find a whole range of dishes that make up a salad plate. Admittedly, some of their varieties can be rather calorific but you can easily make healthy versions.
These dishes take longer than shoving some fish in the oven but if you make plenty, you can have it cold for lunch, or it can accompany a meaty dish that your family is eating so you don't have to cook twice.

Lentil & Beetroot Salad with yoghurt dressing
Cook some puy lentils and then finely slice raw organic beetroot. it doesn't need cooking as it's much more delicious eaten when crunchy. Combine the two along with some roughly torn fresh mint leaves. Mix a few tsps of no fat yoghurt with fresh lemon and a touch of Dijon. Combine and serve.

Morrocan style cauliflower salad
Using a bit of veggie stock, saute some garlic and onion. Add the cauliflower, a handful of plum tomatoes, more veggie stock. Add salt and pepper, cumin seeds, ground cumin, coriander and tumeric to taste (sorry, i never add measurements as it's up to you!)plus about four dried apricots chopped. Stew until cooked through (not mushy!) add some tomato puree if needed. The liqud should cook down so it's literally just coating the cauliflower.