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Is this a reasonable amount of salad for one person for their evening meal?

371 replies

Saveusename · 02/10/2025 21:23

Two celery stalks
One chicken breast
Five baby potatoes
Half a red onion
Cucumber
Four small beetroot balls
One medium avocado
Watercress, rocket and spinach leaves
Chopped feta

With a dressing of anchovies, lemon juice, olive oil, mustard and honey.

YANBU - That’s definitely enough. On the large side, even.
YABU - That’s not enough.

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cordeliabuffy · 02/10/2025 21:52

SorryNotSorry00 · 02/10/2025 21:50

I thought the whole point of eating a salad was that you could eat as much as you fancied of it (at least the healthiest parts) so what normal person is rationing out a few leaves? Sounds like the Hunger Games

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Yep! If I add salad to a sandwich or wrap then I’m stuffing it full
my pasta tonight had an entire broccoli in it (made two portions), if I add cabbage to something on the side then I do 1/3 plus loads of other veg

OnTheBoardwalk · 02/10/2025 21:51

We need a picture @Saveusename oh and get rid of the red onion it’s awful, I don’t understand how it’s now in everything

TurnThatLightOn · 02/10/2025 21:51

Salad always makes me hungry.

rockstarshoes · 02/10/2025 21:51

That’s a massive salad! 😬

SorryNotSorry00 · 02/10/2025 21:50

cordeliabuffy · 02/10/2025 21:41

Same. God forbid someone eats too much… onion

if I’m eating salad I eat the entire bag of salad leaves. Volume eating

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I thought the whole point of eating a salad was that you could eat as much as you fancied of it (at least the healthiest parts) so what normal person is rationing out a few leaves? Sounds like the Hunger Games

BadgernTheGarden · 02/10/2025 21:50

LivelyCrab · 02/10/2025 21:47

What’s wrong with the avocado??? I always thought they were healthy??

They are healthy but I think a lot of calories and heavy eating on top of chicken and potatoes and all the rest.

LivingTheDreamish · 02/10/2025 21:50

Yes that sounds like an evening meal sized salad. It could easily be quite high in calories if that is a concern (easily addressed by measuring the amount of cheese and oil in the dressing), but in terms of volume of food it sounds about right to me.

NImumconfused · 02/10/2025 21:49

I think I'd find the combination of chicken and feta and avocado a bit much, I'd maybe choose any two out of those three, but other than that it sounds great.

JellyCoffeeBean · 02/10/2025 21:49

Thepeopleversuswork · 02/10/2025 21:27

Oh yippee, another performative undereating thread.

you obviously have a HUGE appetite if you think that’s competitive undereatimg! A whole chicken breast and potatoes and a bit of veg, fine. But there’s also a whole avocado plus everything else. It’s a lot by anyone’s standards.

competitive undereatimg Is saying I had a spoonful of yogurt and 2 raspberries and everyone saying that’s loads

FurForksSake · 02/10/2025 21:49

i wouldn’t have an entire avocado in one sitting, probably a quarter would be sufficient for me with this. I’d also not include the anchovies, but otherwise I think it’s fine and substantial. Definitely a big meal salad.

StrawberryJangle · 02/10/2025 21:49

Remove the chicken and potatoes, add to a separate plate alongside peas, carrots and cauliflower cheese. Smother in gravy and eat.

ExtraOnions · 02/10/2025 21:49

The famous MN MASSIVE salad

… to me you are missing a Pork Pie, Cheese, and Pickles

BadgernTheGarden · 02/10/2025 21:48

More than enough, I might have a chicken breast 5 or less small potatoes and a couple of portions of green veg. The basic salad part seems a lot then with added feta and a whole avocado which is really heavy food and anchovies in the dressing. My DH would eat it all but he will always eat as much as you put on his plate!

Why no tomatoes in the salad, that's the best bit.

ObtuseMoose · 02/10/2025 21:48

If it's your only meal for the week it's fine.

Mylovelygreendress · 02/10/2025 21:48

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 02/10/2025 21:29

Pure gluttony. One lettuce leaf is enough for me for a month.

😂😂

FattyMcFattyArse · 02/10/2025 21:47

it depends on whether it's a 5 foot tall size 8 woman eating it or a 6 foot tall big framed construction worker bloke. We all have different energy needs and appetites.

Sadly I am a portly midget with the appetite of a basketball player!

LivelyCrab · 02/10/2025 21:47

What’s wrong with the avocado??? I always thought they were healthy??

Fangisnotacoward · 02/10/2025 21:47

I'd probably make that two portions, but thats not to say I wouldnt eat it in one

CherrieTomaties · 02/10/2025 21:46

SummerFeverVenice · 02/10/2025 21:27

That is alot of food.

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Jesus wept.

pumpkinscake · 02/10/2025 21:46

BlouseyBrowne · 02/10/2025 21:44

Seems excessive to me.

Honestly can't see how this could be excessive

DoAWheelie · 02/10/2025 21:46

I'd still be hungry after that tbh. Add a few more spuds maybe.

Haemagoblin · 02/10/2025 21:45

Oh man I am now ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE for a halloumi salad. With little sweety drop peppers and RED ONION and cucumber and tomatoes and loads of rocket with a french dressing. Ooh or balsamic glaze. That's tomorrow's lunch taken care of!

(NB always try to have half a block of halloumi with a salad but once I start cutting somehow the whole brick seems to end up in the frying pan. I know I am AWFUL)

incognitomouse · 02/10/2025 21:45

Sounds bang on the money for me. I can't eat more than 1500 calories a day without gaining weight so that's more or less a usual dinner for me, but sometimes I'd even leave the chicken out.

BlouseyBrowne · 02/10/2025 21:44

Seems excessive to me.

Lucy5678 · 02/10/2025 21:44

How long is a piece of string? It varies depending on the person’s calorie needs, previous meals that day, food preferences, exercise regime, size, age….

I’d call chicken, potatoes and veg a decent dinner, yes. As a slightly overweight middle aged woman who had a decent lunch and is allergic to exercise.

If the person eating the salad was a six foot and still growing male teenager who had done a couple of hours of sports training and had had only had a bowl of soup for lunch then no it’s not enough.

If the person is my granny, that salad would feed her for a week because she eats all her calories at breakfast and then nibbles at things the rest of the day.