11 Satisfying Make-Ahead Lunch Salads

This cool and crunchy slaw is a delicious way to eat your colors.

Most egg salads are bland, mayo-laden affairs, but this one is vibrant, fresh, and full of flavor.

Made with a rotisserie chicken, this salad is easy to whip up and full of bright, spicy flavor.

This is a classic, and it’s the only tuna salad recipe you’ll ever need.

Peanuts add delicious crunch and protein to this tangy and sweet cucumber salad.

This hard-to-stop-eating salad is best made ahead of time, making it ideal for lunch packing.

Zesty pesto, green peas, pine nuts, and mozzarella pearls make a lovely pasta salad.

Simple but packed with flavor, this salad is a standard accompaniment to most Israeli meals — even breakfast.

This flavor-packed black bean shrimp salad is the perfect packable lunch.

Super-simple, this chickpea salad makes a delicious lunch or side dish to grilled shrimp or chicken.

Savory-sweet chicken salad is delicious in a sandwich, scooped over greens, or eaten straight from the bowl.