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Salad for Salad Haters

How can you eat healthy if you are kind of lazy about making food and you don’t really like salads?

Erik Engheim
5 min readAug 27, 2020
A dish made in 5 minutes consisting of carrots, tomatoes, onion, egg plant, apple, pepper, guacamole, red and green pesto with canned tuna fish

What do you do if you want to eat healthy but you cannot really put in the effort and frankly you don’t think a lot of the healthy food tastes all that great? You would rather just eat french fries, pizza and burgers?

The key is to find some healthy combo you like. I am not a fan of the typical salads with green leaves, which leaves you rather hungry. Fortunately I discovered a Salad place in Oslo, Norway where I live called Kvadrat Salat which really changed my perspective. They sell kind of Mediterranean inspired salads made from grilled or roasted vegtables. You can see some examples of what it looks like in this Salad bar below.

Some of the selection of roasted vegtables at Salat Kvadrat.

What I like about them is that they are not limiting themselves to the simple combo of lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes you all too often see. Here they got a wide variety of vegetables prepared in different ways.

Now with COVID19 it is not easy for me to buy salads there any more as I am mostly working from home. But it turns out that doing something similar to what they…

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Erik Engheim
Erik Engheim

Written by Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.

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