Cook yourself healthy

The two fabulous foodies from Channel 4’s top cookery show, Sophie Michell and Harry Eastwood, are experts in creating healthy, nutritious dishes without compromising on flavour. As part of their campaign to ‘let you have your cake and eat it’ they’ve teamed up with UK salad bag producers to celebrate the delicious and nutritious green stuff.

Recipes to make you salad-vate!

To show just how enjoyable and easy to use salad leaves are, the girls have created a number of exclusive recipes which are easy to prepare and will leave you ‘salad-vating!’.

Salad leaves aren’t just a healthy, convenient way to your five-a-day; they are also highly versatile, allowing you to create a variety of mouth-watering meals from dinner party dishes to sofa suppers, party platters and BBQ buffets.

So, grab a bag and check out these delightfully delicious salad recipes.

Salad bags are a great way to help you towards the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables. They are also quick, convenient, and low in calories. For great recipe ideas why not check out our new seasonal recipes? For further salad recipes you can request a FREE copy of our booklet ‘Salads are not just for Summer’, which is packed full of recipe tips and handy hints.

Hail! The new Caesar

Harry & Sophie are also helping to launch a competition to find The Great British Salad

Inviting you to ‘grab a salad bag and let your imagination run wild’ the girls are asking the British nation to invent a brand new, tasty salad recipe. The winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and the opportunity to have their recipe published nationwide.

To give you a little inspiration, Sophie and Harry have created three exclusive salad recipes including an English Breakfast salad and a new twist on the Waldorf and Nicoise salads.

Salad bag nutrition

Salad bags are a great way to help you towards the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables, whether as a crunchy side dish, a refreshing starter, or a filling main course. Just one cereal bowl (80g) of salad leaves counts as one of our five portions of fruit and veg, making a bag of salad one of the easiest, most convenient and hassle free ways to achieve your ‘5-a-day’.

Salad bag art gallery

Trying to get kids to eat their greens can be a struggle. Check out our Salad Bag Art campaign and see how we encouraged the nation’s children to be ‘cr-eat-ive’ with salads.

UK salad season

The UK salad season traditionally runs from late May through until October (depending upon the weather), during which time around 93% of fresh prepared bagged salad leaves will be harvested from salad growing regions across the UK. There are around 14,000 acres of salad farms, stretching across the vale of Evesham, the South Coast, East Anglia, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, the West Midlands and Hampshire. Nearly 6,000 acres are dedicated to salad bags, producing around 40,000 tonnes of leaves every year.