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

[Saveusename]

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.

Sounds a lot when you list them like that but when you really break it down it’s a very reasonable portion. The potatoes are small and you’re very much limiting them to focus on the salad. Only one chicken breast. Then avocado (theyre really not that big) and feta to fill up. Everything else is just mainly water and not that filling. I think if you were to get rid of either the potatoes or half the avocado, the ‘too much’ brigade would be on board with it.

What a depressing evening meal to me. A salad? Doesn’t matter that you tried to make it sound fancy, still sounds a sad meal. You actually counted the potatoes? Utterly depressing

How can a chicken breast, Feta cheese, potatoes, avocado, beetroot and loads of veg be 'depressing'?

For many people, a chicken breast , new potatoes and a salad is a normal meal. And very nice too! It is for me anyway.

Yep, sounds like a really yummy version of a healthy chicken salad. Avocado always makes salad more tasty and filling. The chicken could be nice and hot. A few potatoes too!

Let’s rebrand it - it’s not a salad it’s a chicken and avacado jumble or Buddha bowl or smorgasbord or canat

Yum.

I bloody love a massive salad. Absolutely one of my favourite meals, nicoise, caesar, waldorf, cowboy caviar. I'm happy to scoff them all.

This would be too much for me but that's only because I have long standing stomach problems and am a rubbish eater as a result.

Don’t be daft. Is a salad nicoise not a salad? A cobb salad? Larb salad? Olivier salad? Panzanella? Yusheng?

Is the humble Caesar salad actually bread with a side salad?

For those that were asking, it was for me and only me. It was delicious but I couldn’t finish it. A friend was at my house as I was finishing and commented that I was ‘starving’ myself. I thought it was a big meal.

Also, it wasn’t cold - the chicken had just been fried and the potatoes just boiled.

Not bothered about the calories.

Astounded at how many people are eating half an avocado. Would be like eating half a bag of crisps. Full one for me.

Well if you couldn't finish it, it was a lot for you, that day at least.

And it was plenty of food so couldn't rationally be an inadequate meal.

A whole avocado is quite filling. If I eat a whole one, it's a lunch in itself for me, with some green salad. DH and I usually always share one.

I was amazed at you eating 4 beetroot! I don't love beetroot that much anyway but one or two baby ones is my limit.

You had a chicken breast with salad.
The chicken was the main ingredient by weight !

Is the humble Caesar salad actually bread with a side salad?
No, it's Romaine lettuce with some croutons and a shaving or parmesan.

Hahaha massive? You guys are flipping hilarious

Salads are not defined by the weight of ingredients.

For an evening meal? Definitely not enough for me 😬 and my husband would be on the phone to the takeaway.
Seems like I'm the odd one out though 😬😂

Yea i agree. If someone they made it for has said they were still hungry, then it wasn't enough. Simple really

It’s the sort of dinner I make myself. But would ads more carbs in the form of baguette probably 😄

@Usernamenotav

how much more food would you need?

So what did you leave if couldn’t finish it

maybe you only needed half an avocado

Can’t remember now but can’t believe people are halving avocado. Would be like halving a jacket potato.

@Saveusename

its nothing like. There are loads of calories in an avocado. Also they are very expensive. So most people will have half of one and save the other half for the next day. Surely that’s not hard to understand?

Don’t you have to halve it anyway due to stone