Salads to make your summer

From Good Gut salads to grab at lunch to perfect pasta 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 2026.

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Ellie Spicer
Summer salads

The best summer salads 2026

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 for picnics, or our Naked Chicken Caesar for a healthy lunch on the go, we've got next-level salads covered. Grab your favourites at the Foodhall now, or throw your own together using our salad recipes.

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.

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.

Chopped green goddess salad

Our best summer salad recipes

From best-in-season Jersey Royal potato salad to flavour-packed fajita inspired steak salads, to our easy-to-transport tabbouleh salad with chilli garlic prawns 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 campfire mayo to flavour this epic BLT salad, or tear our truly special ibérico ham into Tom Kerridge's summer orzo salad. Want a taste of more?

Published 11/05/2026