Salads to make your summer

From Good Gut salads to grab at lunch to perfect potato salads for your picnic, we’ve rounded up our favourite exclusive-to-M&S freshly prepared salads and the best summer salad recipes to try in 2025.

Food Editor

Malou Herkes

The best summer salads 2025

Zingy or creamy, light or hearty, protein-packed or gut-friendly, and always, always refreshingly delicious, summer salads can be whatever you want them to be. Whether it's the best potato salad, made for picnics, or our Naked Chicken Caesar for a healthy lunch on the go, there are salads for every occasion. Grab your favourites at the Foodhall now, or throw your own together using our salad recipes.

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Healthy salads to go

Level up your lunch this summer with our range of healthy salads to grab and go. Choose our Naked Chicken Caesar packs in the protein, or our Gut Booster Salad, choc-full of 35 different plants. Find them all in the Foodhall.

Best for protein: Naked Chicken Caesar Salad

Swap the croutons for courgetti and boost your protein with our Naked Chicken Caesar Salad. A tasty combo of tender chicken, crispy bacon, parmesan and eggs on a courgetti base. Toss through our fresh and creamy Greek yogurt dressing, and you’re good to go.

Best for gut: Gut booster salad

Jam-packed with an array of veggies, our Gut Booster Salad contains 35 different plants for a grab-and-go lunch that’s great for your gut health. Part of our Good Gut range, this colourful salad is paired with a golden turmeric and tahini dressing to bring it all together.

Best to up your greens: Shake-a-Salad Summer Greens Pasta

Counting as two of your 5-a-day, this vibrant-green bonanza of a salad is packed with a mix of peas, edamame, courgette, cabbage, avocado and asparagus, and tossed through healthier, egg-based pasta. We cook our pasta fresh on site until perfectly al-dente, and serve it all up with a herby green goddess dressing to drizzle over.

Picnic picky bits

Whether you want some last-minute picky bits for the park or you're planning a weekend picnic without the fuss, our ready-to-go Foodhall salads will serve you well. Find them all in store.

More picnic food ideas

The best potato salad

What’s a picnic without a potato salad? Try our brand-new Cornish Cruncher Potato Salad, made with extra-mature cheddar that's produced exclusively for M&S by Davidstow Creamery in Cornwall, for an extra-rich, umami salad and topped with tangy pickled red onions.

Best veggie option: Everything But The Burger Salad

For all the flavours of your favourite burger, without the meat.this salad is for you. With crunchy croutons, pickled cucumbers and crisp lettuce, tangy grated Emmental and lashings of burger sauce, it's a flavour sensation.

For a colourful twist: Sesame Prawn Summer Roll Salad

If you love Vietnamese summer rolls, try our deconstructed Sesame Prawn Summer Roll Salad to balance out your picnic spread with something fresh and zingy. With delicate rice noodles, a refreshing cucumber and mango slaw, and a zesty peanut, coconut and lime dressing, it's ready to go in the Foodhall now.

The kids will love 'em: Greek salad chicken pittas

Greek salad tastes even better left to mix and marinate, the tomato juices releasing to make a delicious dressing you’ll want to spoon directly from the bowl. Easy to transport, this makes it a great salad for a picnic. Try this recipe that’s easy to elevate without the fuss with our brand-new Everything Greek Seasoning, packed with Mediterranean herbs for extra flavour in one shake. Bring your own pittas to stuff and enjoy – the kids will love them too.

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Our best summer salad recipes

From healthy superfood fattoush salads to refreshing Thai-style watermelon salads to our easy-to-transport antipasti pasta salad (perfect for leftover deli bits), our summer salad recipes are bright, vibrant and totally delicious. All our recipes make use of our exclusive-to-M&S ingredients to make them sing – use our new Green Goddess Dressing to transform this crispy chickpea chopped salad in no time, stock up on our Everything Seasoning to flavour this epic potato salad, or tear our truly special ibérico ham into Tom Kerridge's summer orzo salad. Want a taste of more?

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Published 6.4.2025