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.

A whole avocado?? Anyway, a hard boiled egg is aways needed in a salad.

Only a month??

Oooh a mythical Mumsnet "really large salad" thread. I thought these were just rumour....I never thought I'd experience one myself. I'm honoured!! I feel like part of a club now, like that time I found a crab bell in TK Maxx!

Look at how much they weigh. A serving is about 125g. A chicken breast is typically more than that. I would use one whole breast to make a curry or something for three adults - two of them hungry men.

Well there's not enough pizza in it for my liking but I guess that's not the answer you're looking for.

6?! My teenage son (healthy weight, gym rat) happily eats 2 chicken breasts himself.

What else are you serving with that curry? 1/3 of a chicken breast for a man doesn't seem like a lot.

Depends on the size of the breast. Making a curry I'd probably use a total of 500g of chicken meat. That will go three ways. The curry will have coconut milk, proper spices, maybe some paste, some veges and will be served on rice. Assuming that's bulky enough with all the veges, that's it. Otherwise they might get some steamed broccoli on the side, or something like that. Fresh coriander sprinkled on top. It's heaps.

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My goodness it seems like years since we had a Mumsnet massive salad thread!

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Too much salad for me. I would have half the salad and a side portion of carbs.

Beetroot and potato aren't low carb though.

You think a typical chicken breast weighs 500g? (As you previously said you'd use one chicken breast between three people.) Surely 500g is much more likely to mean at least two of them, on average?

Just put it in a bowl and call it a Buddha Bowl, or straight on the table to “graze” on or on a slab of dough and call it pizza…..it’s all good.

If I buy a pack of two at my supermarket, the whole pack is about 600-700g. I'll use either one breast (if it's extra large) or 500g of it. The rest gets poached for the dogs. If I buy it ready diced, I buy the 500g pack.

I'd swop chips for celery. !

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I love salad - I can go to bed with a full stomach and know I’ve only had 500 calories. Tonight I had a whole gem lettuce, a quarter cucumber, some pomegranate seeds a couple of tomatoes (all with balsamic dressing) and 100g of anchovies plus a Fry’s Chocolate Cream. It was very tasty, I’m really full and I’m well within my daily calorie intake. I have salads of various kinds almost every day. I easily get in 30 plants a week, and it’s packed with vitamins, fibre and prebiotics.

Tomorrow I’m having rocket, Parma ham, Gorgonzola, figs and toasted walnuts with a honey dressing (that will be a bit more calorie-heavy). On Saturday, it will be spinach, avocado, radishes and feta with lemon tahini dressing.

Did you make it in the bath?

I think you are being unreasonable to have salad as your evening meal in October. Salad
is an appropriate evening meal only when it’s too hot to put the oven on.

Not this time. Standard pasta bowl 😀

Excessive as it’s too much insubstantial wet stuff. And it’s all so cold. Needs a few chips with it.

I'm a bit of a fat.greedy fucker and that seems like a.lot of food!

Which supermarket is this? I regularly buy packs of two chicken breasts from either Waitrose or Sainsbury's; the former is 380g and the latter 320g.

How big are these chickens that have a kilo of breast meat each?