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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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Titasaducksarse · 02/10/2025 21:33

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 02/10/2025 21:29

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

Ooo you greedy cow....one rocket leaf suffices

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Saveusename · 02/10/2025 21:32

SalamiSammich · 02/10/2025 21:30

It's not really a salad is it? It's 3x protein portions and little more than 5 veg.

It’s the very definition of salad.

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Hulabalu · 02/10/2025 21:32

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.

It is too much for anyone . Feta, anchovies & half the avo not needed in addition to a chicken breast. Quarter onion is enough

CountryQueen · 02/10/2025 21:32

How much feta though? 🤔

lazyarse123 · 02/10/2025 21:31

You forgot
Radish
Pepper
Potato salad
Coleslaw
Scotch egg

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 02/10/2025 21:31

Did this person have Pizza Hut buffet for lunch?

Mydadsbirthday · 02/10/2025 21:31

Handmethegunandaskmeagain · 02/10/2025 21:29

You’ll get a wide range of opinions on here, but watch out for the “that would feed a family of four, I’d eat 2 celery sticks and wash it down with a glass of righteous anger” crowd.

I think that’s a large portion of salad for one person but not ridiculously so.

😂😂😂

hopspot · 02/10/2025 21:30

5 baby potatoes is a normal serving for a portion of salad.

SalamiSammich · 02/10/2025 21:30

It's not really a salad is it? It's 3x protein portions and little more than 5 veg.

BustPipes · 02/10/2025 21:29

Zero. Zero is the right amount of 'salad' (when I were a nipper a salad just had fresh vegetables in it) for one person for their evening meal.

I would ask what a 'beetroot ball' is, but I'm just too exhausted on a Thursday night to muster the intellectual curiosity.

Someone wake me up when this is over.

(I do recognise I might be more energetic if I ate a 'salad' for my tea, but I can't even right now.)

Handmethegunandaskmeagain · 02/10/2025 21:29

You’ll get a wide range of opinions on here, but watch out for the “that would feed a family of four, I’d eat 2 celery sticks and wash it down with a glass of righteous anger” crowd.

I think that’s a large portion of salad for one person but not ridiculously so.

Cinaferna · 02/10/2025 21:29

Yes, that's a good salad. It is quite big but it's also not a huge amount of calories.

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 02/10/2025 21:29

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

napody · 02/10/2025 21:29

Sounds bloody spot on. Lovely meal.

MartinAynuss · 02/10/2025 21:28

That does sound massive. I couldn't possibly eat all that in one sitting, it would last me for at least a month

Trickabrick · 02/10/2025 21:28

I have no idea but it sounds lovely!

Thepeopleversuswork · 02/10/2025 21:27

Oh yippee, another performative undereating thread.

SummerFeverVenice · 02/10/2025 21:27

That is alot of food.

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Saveusename · 02/10/2025 21:27

Mandylovescandy · 02/10/2025 21:26

The whole cucumber? Overall maybe, depends how much exercise I have done that day I think

No, maybe a quarter of one.

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clipboardz · 02/10/2025 21:26

I'd eat that over a week

Mandylovescandy · 02/10/2025 21:26

The whole cucumber? Overall maybe, depends how much exercise I have done that day I think

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