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.

You ate salad after going out drinking? What’s wrong with super noodles on toast ?

Well yes it's fine

It looks about 300 calories but it’s actually about 900! Depending on the amounts of oil and cheese. The Avocado is 240 cals. This would be a great high fat OMAD (one meal a day) dinner though. With a healthy afters. Yum.

Not one in the UK. And They're about 300-350 each.

I don't actually get my meat from the supermarket normally, I was just using it as a reference point because I know the weights there. I only get meat from there when I'm disorganised. Either way, if I buy it pre-diced, I get the 500g pack, so that's the volume I'm aiming for (though I'd do the same size pack if it was 4 people).

I'm making Mediterranean Mozzarella Chicken for our next meal, and aiming for 125g of chicken breast for myself.

Sounds like a decent main meal to me.

DD and I both find breast meat really dense and filling so we usually share one sliced up and sometimes dont eat all of it. So I do get the suggestion that a whole chicken breast would be too much for one person, especially with all the other food.

Are you in Australia? Ours are like that. Huge bloody chickens.

Yes. :-)

It's not out of the ordinary for an adult, but for an AIBU context matters. For example, if you ate this for dinner, someone told you it was an insufficient amount of food and urged you to eat more and you declined, then YANBU. If you made this for each of your family members and someone ate theirs and was still hungry and you're flabbergasted by this and insulted that they ate something else in addition, then YABU.

You don’t actually need to eat it, a sniff or lick is quite enough.

OP, I don’t eat meat but it sounds fairly normal to me. Mumsnet is known for a lot of disordered eating though, so you will get skewed replies.

Sounds lovely. I would probably have either the avocado or the potatoes though as both together would be very filling

@Flomingho yeah I just re read and think that a whole avocado is over kill with everything else.

Take off the whole avocado and it’s fine. The avocado pushes it into the too much category.

Oh, gawd, what you'd say about my typical salad... 😂🫣

A small chicken breast is perhaps 120g, a really big bugger 340g if you're very lucky..

So it really depends on the size of the chicken breast as to whether the OP is a greedy piglet, or you're starving three adults on a pinch of chicken per person!

Morrisons pack of three is 630g, so 210g each. Ocado do a 1kg pack, thats usually 5 chicken breasts.

I think you need to have a look at the packaging again, possibly with your specs on.

Or greasy pizza by the slice at the late night take away?

You have made me giggle in the midst of my sleeplessness! Thank you. OP I could eat three times that no problem but I am a salad fiend! 🥗

I mean it’s water effectively at 45 calories so think ok

Looks fine to me. I’d only have half an avocado and no onion or potatoes. I’d probably have more chicken and go very easy on the dressing. It’s probably around 500 calories which is ok if it’s one of 3 meals at around 500 calories each.

Why do you ask OP?

I voted YANBU as it's a decent sized meal, as well as sounding healthy and delicious.

Is this about a DH who can't get past 'salad' not being a 'proper evening meal' even though it's as substantial as a similar meal of roast chicken, roast potatoes and vegetables? Plus there's the feta and avocado that add substance as well as the chicken and potatoes.

But it really depends. It could well be plenty/too large, if you've had a decent lunch and breakfast and sounds like the sort of food that the 'I only ever eat salad so don't understand why I can't lose weight' crowd eat because they're oblivious to the fact that it has more calories than a Big Mac and fries.

But I can see that an active and/or large person who's not eaten a lot earlier in the day might still be hungry after they've eaten all that.

Sounds fairly reasonable to me. Personally I would half the avocado purely to keep the calories more reasonable, but I often eat something quite similar.

Sounds like a decent amount for a main meal. I’d probably skip the avocado though.

I eat salads often including as main meals. I am obese so not a performative undereater by any means. That is one massive salad and how I’d adjust it as a ‘normal’ meal.

Two celery stalks - 1 stalk
One chicken breast - 1/2 chicken breast
Five baby potatoes - 2 baby potatoes
Half a red onion - 1/8 or less but this one is more ‘to taste’
Cucumber - 1/4
Four small beetroot balls - 2 small balls
One medium avocado - 1/4 medium avo
Watercress, rocket and spinach leaves - decent quantity
Chopped feta - 1 to 2 metric tablespoons

Seems about right though potatoes vary a lot in size, I’d cook about a fistful in volume per person

All this for one meal! Way too much food, portion it out into containers and it’ll last you for 2 weeks worth of lunches.