Ham/egg/potato/tomato salad – 2 for £3

So, clearly these are fair portions designed to assist those looking earnestly to lose weight.  However, at that price point, and with my girth, it clearly becomes a case of combining two options together to make a passable portion-sized salad.

Gotta say this upfront: I’ve had these salads for two days running now.  Get an egg+potato salad and a ham+egg salad and you’ve got a really decent meal right there.  Comes with a pretty standard but tasty salad cream – actually about four times as much as you could feasibly need, unless you particularly enjoy, say, physically bathing in the stuff.

So yes, so what, I’ve had 4 salads for 2 lunches in 2 days.  I completely undermined any sense of eating to lose weight, like Homer in the Blisstonia episode when he eats so much will-sapping gruel that he doesn’t actually lose any will at all.

Why the salads all of a sudden?  Well, aside from the utter tedium of gnawing through 20 cubic metres of lettuce – weighing in at about a total 1 gram of lettuce – the rest of the stuff is actually good.  (Well, a good accompaniment to say, a big burger).  Fresh tomatoes, cucumber, onions, eggs, potatoes, ham and the aforementioned vast quantity of lettuce.

And, for once living up to Marks and Sparks’ claims about being not just food this goes beyond the typical last-week’s-leftovers you might be fortunate enough to stumble across at the Gabattoire for example.  All in all, if you’re a bloke you’ll be looking at two of these at a reasonable price for a pretty solid, semi-healthy lunch.  For once you won’t have to charge into the fountains in Piccadilly Gardens loudly decrying your own very existence, weeping tears of utter defeat at the futility of having to choose what to have for lunch for the 50,000th time and having absolutely no answers at hand.

Incidentally, M&S, bring back Dervla Kerwan, we miss her!

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