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.

Yes, it’s fine.

You will get some insane answers on here though.

What do you think? Did you feel full afterwards?

À WHOLE leaf?! Urrrggg!!!
That is a MASSIVE salad!!

Is it feeling not enough as it’s a cold meal and cold day (I’ve had hotpot in comparison)

Two sticks of celery too many.

It's not a balanced diet and it's too much salad in one sitting.

Sounds like a substantial salad but salad is mainly water tbh. Its alot of red onion !

It’s OK for quantity but I wouldn’t enjoy it much. I’d want the chicken breast to have been marinated in something flavourful, more potato, leave off the celery, beetroot and feta, and add a big dollop of mayo.

What? How on earth isn’t it balanced?

Is this a massive Mumsnet salad?

Sounds nice. It's big enough. I would have no problem eating it all.

That sounds amazing OP and just right for a main meal. Chicken breast is lean, feta is low fat - the highest fat/calorie item is the whole avocado but FFS it's an AVOCADO, it's hardly the last days of Rome. And I LOVE red onion and always put a whole one on any salad I eat (and have no friends 😂)

I'd eat it all bar the avocado. Once digested would be tempted to have a nice dessert

I don’t know what’s excessive about any of what you described. I mean I’d swap the celery for cherry tomatoes and sliced peppers myself but that’s just a matter of personal taste. As for whoever said it’s a lot of salad, it’s easily known that many people don’t eat enough vegetables. I grew up in a home where we ate little fruit and veg but as an adult I try to change that.

Same. God forbid someone eats too much… onion

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

Sounds great to me. As a veggie though I'd leave out the chicken breast.

It sounds lovely!

How much is enough surely depends on how hungry you were!

If I ate that for my lunch in the office I wouldn’t be able to cycle the 10 miles home - I’d need a lot more carbs than 5 baby spuds.

I think it sounds enough but maybe not loads. I might want a bit of bread and butter with it.

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It depends, if the person eating has a heavy manual labour type job it might not suffice.

Sounds fine to me.

If you’re full after eating it then it’s reasonable. If you’re still hungry, then it’s not reasonable. That’s really all there is to it.

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.

Seems excessive to me.

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.

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)