Healthy Grapefruit & Avocado Salad

My only memory of grapefruit as a child, is that my mum would eat it when she was on a diet. She’d eat half of a grapefruit for breakfast, every day. I had no idea what it was, other than sour and apparently what was required to loose weight. Not that inspiring, right?

I recently won a competition on Twitter to win a hamper full of fruit and vegetables. How cool is that? But inside the hamper was a fruit I’m not so experienced with: grapefruit! Like I said – my main memory of it was as a diet aid for my mum during the 1990’s so I wasn’t really sure where to start.

My first port of call: flavour thesaurus. It’s a gift I got for Christmas and amazingly useful so far. In it, it lists avocado as a best bud for the bitter grapefruit.

I decided that the best way to try it out was to keep things simple in a healthy salad. Bonus points were awarded for something that I could make easily and pack up in a Tupperware to take to work.

Keeping it simple

I really did keep things simple in the resulting grapefruit & avocado salad. Like, seriously simple! Aside from the headline ingredients, we’ve got:

• Lots of leafy greens
• Raw pumpkin seeds
• Brown rice
• Dressing of choice (or none at all)

Even with that, there’s wiggle room so you can work with what you have. Just got lettuce? Use that! No pumpkin seeds – your salad crunch of choice is fine! Prefer white rice? Use that, no problem. Dressing, schmessing – I’ve had this with

• nothing
• lime juice (my favourite)
• salsa
• hummus

So really… I’m just giving you a different way to eat grapefruit, where all the other parts are swap-able. Like a “build your own salad” but based around grapefruit. Don’t forget to let me know what your favourite combinations are in the comments below .