I like to have a substantial salad as part of my summer meals. I am also trying to increase my protein as I age. A few people have asked me for the recipe of my bean salad that I posted in a recent picture, and so I am posting it here. 
I didn’t have the amount of tomatoes and cucumber as stated, and so I swapped in some radish. We also didn’t have a red onion and so I used a shallot. I think chopped peppers would be nice to add, too. Maybe defrosted sweetcorn as well? Use what you have, basically, to keep costs down.
Ingredients
Vinegarette
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 lemon juice.
1 grated glove of garlic
1/2 tsp salt.black pepper to taste.
Salad.
Tin of chickpeas
Tin of mixed beans in water
1/2 cucumber
1/2 cup of halved mini tomatoes
1 red onion diced,
Handful of chopped parsley.
Feta cheese crumbled (optional)
Olives (optional)
Method
Make the vinegarette by putting all the ingredients into a bowl and whisking to emulsify it.
Drain the tins and mix your chopped salad ingredients together in a separate bowl (except the feta and the olives), and then toss in the vinegarette.
Sprinkle the feta or olives over the top before serving.
Store leftovers in the fridge. Ours served two of us 3 meals each as a side dish, and kept for 3 days in a glass box. 
This was delicious to get out of the fridge on a hot, sunny day.
Other salads we like
Vegetable salad and how to turn it into Spicy Coleslaw.
The salad looks delicious!!
Thank you. It tastes good as well.
The salad will be lovely on a Summer’s day thank you.
No worries. It is. It is filling as well. Thanks for commenting
I’m definitely going to try this & I like the idea of feta cheese I have some in my freezer that needs using up .I’m guessing you could add any squeezed fruit or chopped fruit too . Thank you x
Yes I can’t see why not. Good idea. It will be nice with fruit in. The dressing will probably need to be acidic to emulsify.
Thank you for the recipe. I have some tins of bean salad that I could use for this along with whatever in the fridge.
Brilliant. Thanks for commenting
This is the kind of food I love to eat. Great that you included the recipe for the dressing too. I’m going to try it tomorrow. Thank you Toni