Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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.

OP posts:
Mandylovescandy · 02/10/2025 21:26

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

clipboardz · 02/10/2025 21:26

I'd eat that over a week

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.

OP posts:
SummerFeverVenice · 02/10/2025 21:27

That is alot of food.

Thepeopleversuswork · 02/10/2025 21:27

Oh yippee, another performative undereating thread.

Trickabrick · 02/10/2025 21:28

I have no idea but it sounds lovely!

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

napody · 02/10/2025 21:29

Sounds bloody spot on. Lovely meal.

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 02/10/2025 21:29

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

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.

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.

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.)

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.

hopspot · 02/10/2025 21:30

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

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.

😂😂😂

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 02/10/2025 21:31

Did this person have Pizza Hut buffet for lunch?

lazyarse123 · 02/10/2025 21:31

You forgot
Radish
Pepper
Potato salad
Coleslaw
Scotch egg

CountryQueen · 02/10/2025 21:32

How much feta though? 🤔

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

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.

OP posts:
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

Verite1 · 02/10/2025 21:33

I think that’s a decent size salad (though a bit boring). I like the sound of the dressing though - i love anchovies!

JadziaD · 02/10/2025 21:34

I think that seems perfectly reasonable. It needs to be a large salad to be filling enough. Some people will be outraged that there's so much avo.

NoCommentingFromNowOn · 02/10/2025 21:34

Vegetarian here, so no chicken or anchovies thank you.

Without the celery, onion, mustard and honey (don’t like them) it would last me about four seconds.

It would be nice accompanied by something like pasta, lasagna, bread and butter, chips, jacket potatoes…….

InMyOpenOnion · 02/10/2025 21:34

I would probably drop the avocado but otherwise I would eat that for dinner.