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Hard to say without knowing the exact ingredients BUT it may be too low on fat (depending on your protein choices) and it may be light on some minerals that are usually easier found in grains/starches. It also may be light on calories, again depending on the exact ingredients.
If you’re eating salad once daily but with other foods at other meals, you’re probably fine. If you’re eating salad exclusively, I’d be careful (this goes for ANY meal you’re eating exclusively).
As long as you have a protein source like salmon that can give you some B12, EFA’s, D3, and all that kind of thing, you’re probably fine. Salad is such a huge umbrella, there’s not too many foods that really can’t be included in it. Excluding bacon bits and heavy dressings isn’t excluding anything with critical micronutrients anyway. I imagine someone will come along and try to argue about the differences in micronutrient content between raw and cooked vegetables, but plenty of people including myself put cooked (and cooled) vegetables like lentils and beans, peppers, onions, etc, on salads all the time.
I am wondering the same… can I live healthy and thrive on only (premium) chef salads?
(a lot of mixed lettuce with chicken, hardboiled egg, two kinds of cheeses, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, croutons, creamy dressing, and maybe a few other common green salad ingredients like radishes and carrots)
If I only ate chef salads, one salad at 10am and one at 6pm, what nutrients or dietary necessities would I be lacking? What imbalances in my diet might occur?
“Full of vegetabales and protein”…
What exactly do you include in the salad?
Ofc you can live of meat and veggies alone, no need to eat bacon or heavy sauces…
But keep in mind that heavy sauces and bacon allow you to hit specific macro amounts more easily if you need it.
In Germany we eat stuff like potatoe salad, which is full of mayonaise, but you can replace it with something more healthy… just as an example that basically anything can be a salad.
My absolute favourite salad tho is: Tomatoe, onion, thuna with a vignarette with a tiny amount of cream and sugar(if not included in the vignarette), spring onion and parsley as topping.
If it comes to green leaves i really love lambs lettuce with white vinegar,water, milk, salt and sugar, again finely chopped onions, finely chopped apple and walnuts.