This Lunch Will Honestly Change Your Life, Especially If You’re On A Weight Loss Journey And Are Always Starving
by The Candidly Team
We’ll get straight to it because we’re both hungry:
It’s curried chicken salad with apples.
And we won’t insult you with an official recipe.
If you’re on a weight loss journey, health journey, or any kind of journey that includes being mindful about what you put in your mouth, creamy salads feel like a pipe dream. But if you’re someone who sort of couldn’t care less about a scoop of ice cream, and would FAR prefer a scoop of macaroni salad, this may just be the lunch of your dreams.
First of all, get yourself a big rotisserie chicken. We like the “naked” one from Whole Foods because it’s not injected with a bunch of crap, but get whatever version you like. While it’s still warm, rip all the skin off and chop it up. Add about a cup and a half of Fage 0% yogurt, a few stalks of chopped celery, half of a small red onion chopped, a whole chopped apple (our current apple obsession is Hunnyz, if you can find them) and a huge sprinkling of curry powder. Salt and pepper goes without saying. Our version came to be around 1350 cals and 200 grams of protein, which is 4 servings at 338 cals and 50 grams of protein per serving. YES PLEASE.
Let’s gaze upon this beauty again:
We are wowed by the Joseph’s pita bread with flax as it has only 60 cals and beautiful ingredients. We also are currently going ape for their lavash bread which is also 60 cals a serving.
The buttery, gorgeous lettuce is grown from our Lettuce Grow and we highly recommend growing your own lettuce because why? You feel a deep pride and ownership that you yourself grew it, so you actually will eat your greens.
A bountiful Lettuce Grow farmstand bursting with greens
One bunch from a big harvest of butter lettuce
You can omit the pita altogether if you’re staying away from carbs or gluten and just do a butter lettuce wrap—though trust us from personal experience, carbs are not the devil, and in fact, we find that the more we restrict carbs, the hungrier we are leading to overeating so we include carbs in every meal. This is also lovely as a big scoop in half of an avocado with a drizzle of thick balsamic vinegar.
Are we geniuses for thinking of this? No. This salad has been done so very many times. But it’s one of those sort of old school meals that’s easy to forget about. And big batch salads like this are so lovely to have in the fridge, just waiting for us to scoop into them.
We make a similarly conceived batch of tuna salad with THIS tuna, with some chopped celery, red onion, Fage yogurt, some dill relish, a ton of lemon juice, fresh dill, dried dill, and copious shakes of onion powder. S&P of course.
In our weaker moments, we try this concept with a protein pasta to mimic a macaroni salad, but that whole system usually breaks down in that we eat the entire batch in one sitting, so we can’t recommend this. Ditto crab. Sorry, Krab. Yes we love those shredded krab sticks but they’re pumped full of sugar so we tend to stay away.
We don’t write a ton about recipes and food because we tend to write about things where there’s a dearth of information online, and recipes are not one of those things. So tell us in the comments (yes, we read them!) if you like this. Perhaps a recipe video would be a pleasing accompaniment?
Anyhow. Try this. You’ll be so full. It’s so wonderfully sweet and creamy and satisfying. And if your main issue on a calorie deficit is trying constantly to stay full while getting in the near-insane amount of protein we all apparently need every day, this little lunch or snack is such a fun and easy solution.
And yes. If you hate curry, leave it out. Obvs.
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