Our top 4 ingredients for May, super salad recipes and weight loss diets explained

This week, we're experimenting with bold salad flavours, talking about seasonal ingredients and indulging our love of the chickpea.  Email not displayed properly? View the online version This week we're eating… Super salads Have the best dressed plate in town with one of our big salad recipes. Serve as a platter for a main course by getting adventurous with quinoa, noodles, lentils or barley, and go healthy by packing your dish with a rainbow of vegetables. Whatever your combination, with a little imagination the results can be delicious, nutritious and a visual treat… Try one of our brand new salad recipes…   Asian lamb & grapefruit salad Chicken garden salad & elderflower dressing Roasted grape, carrot & wild rice salad  Superfood salad with citrus dressing Popular diets Considering following a diet? From 5:2 to Paleo, make sure you have all the facts first… Find out about 5:2 What is the Paleo diet? More popular diets Just falafs Celebrate the humble chickpea by making a batch of homemade falafels. Falafels with cashew sauce & spring vegetables Beetroot falafel Sweet potato falafels with coleslaw Kids' party recipes We've got everything from stunning cakes to healthy snacks to make your child's day. How to throw a kids' party Kids' party recipes Inspiration and recipes for feeding a family We're talking about... What's in season The arrival of May makes us happy – some of our favourite ingredients are about to come into season. We can't get enough of asparagus, broad beans and new potatoes, and we're planning some elderflower-picking sessions in the coming weeks. If you have a seasonal bounty on your hands, be inspired by our May recipe collection. Promotions & offers Subscribe to BBC Good Food Subscribe and receive a set of cake tins from the Silverwood/Delia Online range, plus Bake-O-Glide liners – worth £36.99. Subscribe today Good Food Channel Throw a lavish feast for friends with an impressive dessert, like Rachel Allen's salted caramel torte. Impressive dessert recipes Reader Offer: Pact Coffee Get 250g of hand-roasted Pact coffee delivered by post for just £1 with free P&P. Find out more Reader offer: Balance Box  - free A fresh, ethical and calorie-controlled diet delivered to your door. Order today and save £15. Click here to claim Most read top 10 lists this week…   1. Top 10 things to do with courgettes 2. Top 10 pancake fillings 3. Top 10 cake problems solved 4. Top 10 tips for cake making success 5. Top 10 vegetarian main courses The Good Food website is run by BBC Worldwide Contact us | Unsubscribe Please note that our email inbox is not monitored for unsubscribers. If you wish to opt out of receiving these emails, please click here. If you have any queries please forward this email to dataprotection@bbc.com BBC Worldwide is a commercial company that is owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this newsletter. The profits we make go back to the BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TN. Company registered in England and Wales under company number: 01420028