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.

As someone else pointed out above, the chicken breasts in Australia are huge, just like I said. I'd love to get 120g chicken breasts. That would be perfect for making individual portions easily.

All I know is I adore my salads everyday usually lettuce,radish,cucumber, tomatoes,celery,potatoes,boiled eggs or ham,beetroot,grated cheese,carrot,pepper. Pile my plate up daily if not two meals a day and fit and healthy sometimes swap cheese n ham n potatoes for pasta and tuna and sweetcorn

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As someone else pointed out above, the chicken breasts in Australia are huge, just like I said. I'd love to get 120g chicken breasts. That would be perfect for making individual portions easily

Arrhhh, yes. I answered half a chicken breast as I was agog at a whole one, but I did so on the basis of a chicken breast being approx 250g. I’m in Australia and this is standard. We allow 4 breasts to feed 8 but that’s working on the basis 4 breasts are approx 1kg so gives everyone 125g a serve.

Don't want to derail thread, but cant be arsed starting a new one. Why are the chickens in the UK so small? I only buy truly free range (not what they claim passes for free range, which I don’t believe does), but I notice here, there is no difference in size between free range and the unfortunate intensively farmed ones, so our Aus vs UK size difference can’t be due to that, so what is it?

ETA - I’m now sitting here imagining your chickens being the size of our pigeons 🤣

It sounds fine for an evening meal, although I wouldn't ruin it with slimey avocado.

I love salad. You actually have a very balanced meal there. Heaps of fibre, various vitamins and minerals in the veggies and almost no calories. Anchovies add a small amount of protein, a small amount of omega 3 oils and some calcium. Lemon juice provides vitamin c which not only wards off scurvy, but helps you absorb the iron from the greens. Cucumber contains lots of water and is hydrating. Beetroot has high antioxidant levels as well as reasonably high trace mineral elements. Avoid if you have gout, though. Olive oil promotes a reduction in HDL cholesterol and some oil is necessary for brain health. You have potatoes for filling starches which promote satiety. Gold star:

If you're an 8 stone post woman whose sat at a desk all day, it's fine. If you're a 13 stone man whose done a day's manual work, you probably need to add a kebab and chips.

As it happens, I have just returned from an Australian supermarket where I bought two packs of two chicken breasts. They are true free ranged chicken, as that's the only meat I will buy.

The first pack - two breasts = 600g.
The second pack - two breasts = 614g.

So let's say 300g a breast.

I'm just cooking for two tonight, so we will have half of one of those breasts each, and the dogs will get the other one between them.

I love salad every day - but not that amount in one go. 😳

I wouldn't entertain it, no chicory leaves. What an abomination!

It sounds very healthy, lean protein, essential fats, a mix of vegetables, no sugar, no trans fats. Well done I say.

There is no amount of salad that is enough for one person. Salad is a healthy and often tasty accompaniment to a proper meal.

I think the salad part is fine. I wouldn't have chicken, a whole avocado AND feta. Chicken and half avocado maybe. I wouldn't have the spuds either but then I am currently "dieting"

I think that is a very big salad and a lot of food for a single portion.

I shop at Aldi the packs of 2 chicken breasts are either 300g or 350g, Tesco is the same. Aldi’s 1kg packs have either 4 of 5 breasts in them. I’d also like to know which supermarket has a 500g pack with 2 breasts…

AI seems to think it is about 945 calories so quite high for a single meal.

Total ≈ 945 kcal

⚖️ Macros would roughly be:

Protein: ~55–60 g

Carbs: ~80 g

Fat: ~45–50 g

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I’m waiting for someone to explain the difference in chicken breast sizes between Oz and UK…

Wtf no it isn't!! 🤣

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Ignore me, I hadn't had my coffee yet!

I know right! How did you fit all that on a plate? @glittereyelash

Now that makes sense to me

@NotSmallButFunSize

yes, it’s loads. A whole avocado for example? Why not have half and save the other half for another meal? They are not exactly cheap nor particularly low in calories.
there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding that portion control can go out of the window if the foods are healthy and that’s just not true.

@JamieCannister

whats a proper meal?

Some of these responses are mad. Everyone should be eating more plants, more whole foods and fewer processed foods. Also everyone’s appetites and calorie needs are different