Happy Friday guys!
As I'm heading out Saturday night for a friend's birthday, I thought it might be an idea to eat healthily today - I'm hoping it'll act like a pre-emptive hangover cure ;)
Pod is a chain of eateries (think Pret-a-Manger or Eat) that span most of London. I think they have 22 Pods now, ranging in locations from Cheapside to Fleet Street.
If you're after health food, these guys know what they're doing.
All packaging is sustainable, they embrace Fairtrade, low food miles, sustainable fishing, Rainforest Alliance, and just about most ethical food movements out there.
Their food contains no additives, preservatives or colourings, and they base their menus on seasonality and UK farm produce.
Basically, if you eat here, you're more than justified in smiling smugly at passers-by while polishing your halo ;)
I tried their Salmon Avocado Detox Box, and was quite impressed.
The food on offer has much more interesting flavours than I've come to expect from traditional "health food". Rather than lettuce leaves and dressing and maybe a few stray carrots (health food, rabbit food, geddit geddit?) Pod uses ingredients like kelp pickle, edamame beans, and apricot kernels.
My Salmon Avocado box looked like this:
Aren't the colours gorgeous? It was like a pick n' mix of colours and tastes!
It contained Scottish smoked salmon, avocado, spinach, seeds & apricot kernels, kelp pickle, smoked salmon nori wrap an beansprout salad with a chilli soy & sesame dressing.
And it was a meager 397 kcal with 4.7g saturated fat. I won't lie to you, it didn't replace a Big Mac (or Quarter Pounder with Cheese for me) but as far as healthy lunches go, you could do a lot worse than this.
That's half an avocado with seeds and smoked salmon on top, which was a really nice combo. The vivid purple next to it is the pickled kelp, which is far tastier than it sounds, trust me.
I had a nice pot of edamame beans to go with it, which came with a light soy dressing. good value with a pot costing £1, but it didn't have the fun of popping the beans out of their pods yourself. Ironic considering the name...maybe it should be called Podless Pod instead? (I'm on a roll)
The Salmon Detox box was £5.95, which for a London lunch wasn't horrific. Considering the amount of exotic ingredients in it, and the freshness of the ingredients, I think this is a reasonable price, but it's still not exactly bargain bucket territory.
In all though, a nice place to eat if you're looking for something health-conscious and a little different.
For more info their site is HERE.
Emma
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