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

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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.

More plants but not the entire vegetable section in Waitrose.

As has been pointed out, this is going to be somewhere between 750 and 900 calories. Which, for a lot of people just is going to be too much across a day but that will depend on many factors.

About 900 cals. Id have that for dinner. I eat around 2300 calories a day, and maintain on that. If I worked an office job and sat down all day maybe I'd not be hungry enough I don't know.

would it be enough for me? Yes, absolutely. More than enough (on the vast majority of evenings).
Would it be enough for most people? I would think so.

Would it be enough for an 18yo construction worker? Not necessarily. Especially the calories (the volume might be fine, however).

would it be enough (or too much!) for an 88 year old, mostly sedentary man? Probably.

No wonder we have an obesity problem if people are normalising this much food in one sitting. Do you realise the calories in five baby carrots???!

I agree, too much to eat . Maybe OP is trying to make a point but not sure what it is!

I eat salad every night, my view is there is a lot of protein/carbs in the salad - chicken, cheese, potatoes and avocado.
If you could reduce down to just 2 of these items instead of the four of them, I then think it is fine but I would also substitute the potatoes for rice.

It's about 800 calories, 50g of protein and half your daily fibre. It's good.

I make similar size salads for dh and our teens and they look for chocolate 5 mins later. However, I dont give them an avocado each because we're too poor for that kind of craziness.

Yes, it’s clearly enough for most people for a main meal. It would be at least 750 calories, possibly 1000 depending on how much feta.Lots of protein and a reasonable variety of vegetables. Why are you asking? If someone has been doing a heavy physical job all day and actually needs 1500 calories it’s clearly not enough, and some people just don’t like salad for dinner regardless.

I just do small amounts of everything. I use the food processor for some bits like roasted cauliflour. I like having the ingredients fairly equally spread through. It actually wasn't even that big that was my lunch 😅

Sounds fab. High in protein. Some carbs. I would add tomatoes and or red pepper. The colour diversity benefit nutrient wise is good advice. Ignore anyone on here who says it's a large meal. It's nutritious 👏🏻

Woolworths. And it's two packs, each 600g and 614g, for 2 breasts (4 total). So 300g each. Just got them today.

Where’s the tomato? Your salad is lacking.

@Woodwalk

2300 calories for maintenance?? Lucky you!

No it isn't. The "very definition" of a salad is salted vegetables. Your interpretation is very loose.

@LivingTheLife1

poor chicken probably injected with steroid to make them that that big.

No, for humanitarian reasons I only buy properly free ranged, antibiotic and hormone free. As I said earlier, I don't usually buy from the supermarket. When I do, I'm fussy and will pay whatever it takes to get good stuff.

I'm cooking dinner at the moment. I just put one chicken breast on the scales. 316g.

This is an odd AIBU.

I mean, we’re you full afterwards? Surely that would tell you if it was enough or not.
I don’t really know what you want from this thread.

Absolutely. What kind of chicken has 300 g chicken breasts?? That must be the size of a small goose!

Our butcher sells chicken breast at about 110-170 g a piece.

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It is illegal in Australia to give chickens steroids. I imagine we just have different breeds in use maybe?

I don’t understand this attitude.
If someone wants to maintain a certain weight, surely they eat enough not to be too full and not to be too hungry ie satiated.
Whether that’s from 1500 or 2300 calories shouldn’t make a difference. If you feel satiated then job done - get on with other things.
Do I misunderstand?

Out of that lot, I'd eat the chicken and potatoes and maybe some cucumber! Don't like any of the other ingredients!

It’d be an okay dinner. Ideally I’d have more potatoes.
And then feeling virtuous at eating healthy I’d have pudding…
We are a household of manual jobs/heavy exercise though and the boys would be raiding the cupboards 10min after!

If I ever get to the stage where I think a salad is "excessive", i'd hope one of my friends would be kind enough to just blow my head off with a sawn-off shotgun. JFC.

How hungry are you? There seems to be a lot there, but much of it has more water than calories. Leafy salad, cucumber etc are great for vitamins but they don't fill most people up. Adding the protein, calcium, and a bit of carb makes it a meal, assuming you aren't hungry enough to eat your own head.

I'd eat it. I love a nice big salad with plenty of colour and feta and anchovies absolutely make my day. 😋