Comments on: Chicken Pesto Salad and…Critically Fed

By: Mandalahi1010

Mandalahi1010 — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:52:00 +0000

hy, What you wrote was very nice, and really helped me, thanks for sharing

By: Helene Dsouza I Masala Herb

Helene Dsouza I Masala Herb — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:28:48 +0000

pff difficult people.. I know what r u going through. why they have to make our lives so complicated?!

but it seems u found a greta solution to the problem. chicken pesto salad is a must try dish. I love pestos, so looking forward to give your recipe a try!

By: hotlyspiced

hotlyspiced — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:08:04 +0000

My mother used to give me marmite and lettuce sandwiches and they were my favourite. My friend used to be given marmite and walnuts. Another friend was given marmite and cheese. It seems marmite can be paired with a lot of things. I haven’t tried it with cucumber but I imagine it would be similar to the lettuce with the crunch factor. I was also given orange drink (juice was far too expensive). The drink I was given was called Tang – made from a powder. I hated it then and I hate it now. Foul stuff xx

By: A_Boleyn

A_Boleyn — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:02:13 +0000

I made this on Monday (great minds think alike) using leftover roasted chicken legs/thighs from a rotisserie bird I bought at CostCo (big box grocery store chain in Canada and US) and the last of the basil/walnut pesto I made with last year’s crop of basil. Very tasty stuff. 🙂

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:09:31 +0000

Ha, my wife laughs when I talk about lunch boxes – it’s a rather alien concept in Swedish schools, but back in England where I grew up, until I changed to the school I’d stay at from 9-18 years I had lunch boxes each day and it was invariably the same: a sandwich with some obnoxious fish-paste filling (or sometimes marmite and cucumber which is actually delicious!) a cookie and an apple. I had a small flask in which I got orange drink (not juice… drink!) – my parents weren’t the richest back then so I had to make do with what I was given!

By: Gretchen O'Donnell

Gretchen O'Donnell — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:39:44 +0000

That looks delicious! I love pesto and I love salads. I tried making pesto once but it wasn’t very good (too lumpy) – but now I have a beter food processor so that will help. I must try this – and good idea buying the chicken cooked. I rarely make the kids lunches…though I do for my husband…when I remember!

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:17:06 +0000

Lovely recipe! I would gladly take that to lunch! I don’t have children at home to pack for, and it is one aspect of motherhood I don’t miss! I think the whole lunch routine has always been a chore, but the nly thing that’s different today is that when I was doing it we didn’t pay as much attention to the differently nutritional aspects as we do today. Peanut butter was also not on the “banned” list.! I still struggle for myself, though. It’s one more thing to do…and so often I end up eating something I don’t really even want. I need to rethink that plan…or lack of plan! Debra

By: Libby

Libby — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:45:38 +0000

Haha my mum usually made us kids pack our own lunches. Yep, even when we were still in primary school! She was very mean 🙁

By: Tina @ bitemeshowme

Tina @ bitemeshowme — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:20:40 +0000

Pesto pasta is definitely a hit with my nephews! Actually, it’s a hit even to me! Haha. I can’t even think of what to pack my kids for lunch (whenever that time does come – no kids for years to come) but i wonder how my parents did it back those 15 odd years ago. I got a sandwich, a juice box and 2 pieces of fruit. Lol.

By: April

April — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:23:27 +0000

I’m going to make this pasta this week! It looks so good and I love pesto.

It’s funny how picky kids are “nowadays”! I don’t remember ever really minding at all what my mom placed in my lunch box. And on hot lunch days at school the lunch ladies loved the fact that I went for seconds on vegetables.

Ahhh…the good old days. 😉 Our son, on the other hand, has always been a picky eater. Packing a lunch for him was a nightmare. I used to try to talk him into eating the hot lunch at school, but he wouldn’t do it. He’s never eaten a sandwich. Yep. Still, and he’s almost 20. He’ll eat all of the meat inside, but never the bread and meat together. He didn’t try pizza until the 3rd grade and didn’t discover that he liked spaghetti (and my husband is Italian!) until around the 5th grade. Now he’s living on his own and called me the other night to ask how to make mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus. Shocking! At least I know he’s eating a vegetable every now and then. Haha!