Are you looking for healthy no-cook meals that are delicious and inviting? With summer upon us, we're often looking to make filling meals for our families that don't heat up the kitchen. There are many ways to prepare healthy no-cook meals that are nutritious and taste great. Here is a healthy no-cook meal that is quick and easy to prepare and tastes delicious. Serve one dish after the other for a filling healthy meal that's loaded with nutrition and great taste and doesn't require cooking.

Main Course - Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

1 head of lettuce

1 red pepper

2 spring onions

1 cup raw sliced mushrooms

1 cup chopped fresh parsley

cup grated carrots

2 cups diced medium cheddar cheese

2-3 diced hard-boiled eggs

2-3 cups diced chicken breast OR diced chicken slices

Triple-cheese dressing

*Note: chicken can be leftovers from the day before, a store bought roasted chicken or fresh breast meat from the deli.

Things you'll need:

1 large bowl

1. Chop the lettuce into mouth-size pieces.

2. Add all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix together gently with two large forks.

3. Serve with triple-cheese dressing or the dressing of your choice.

This salad serves four people and provides a lot of nutrition including fibre, protein, iron and calcium. It may be labelled as a salad but it's very filling.

If you're a fish lover, you may want to substitute the chicken breast for 2 cups of canned tuna chunks. (Make sure you drain the juices well before adding to the rest of the ingredients). The nutritional values in the meal will still be very high and the only thing that will be different is the taste, which remains delicious.

Dessert Fruit Jello Delight

Ingredients:

2 large lime Jello packages

2 cups of fresh sliced strawberries

2 fresh peaches peeled and diced

2 fresh pears diced

2 ripe bananas peeled and sliced

2 oranges peeled, sectioned and diced

1 cup of semi-dried cranberries

Things you'll need:

1 bowl

1 bunt pan

1 large dinner plate

1. Prepare the Jello in a bowl as directed on the package.

2. Place all the fruit into the bunt pan. Try not to get any of the juices in the pan if possible.

3. Pour the unset Jello over the fruit.

4. Put it in the refrigerator and leave it there until the Jello is firmly set.

5. Put a large dinner plate upside down on the top of the bunt pan and flip it over so that the plate is upright and the bunt pan is upside down. Gently pull off the bunt pan.

You will have a colourful and inviting dessert that is filled with the delicious tastes of fresh fruit. It's loaded with nutrition including lots of fibre, potassium and vitamins. You can add a small scoop of whipped cream on the top and serve it as the perfect finish to your Chicken Salad dinner.

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