This isn't a bowl of wet lettuce you push around with a plastic fork while crying into a Zoom call. This is protein, fiber, fat, and crunch in a quantity that actually fills you up. Fifteen minutes. One bowl. A lunch that doesn't leave you hungry at 2:47 PM.
Not a side plate. Not a cereal bowl. A BIG bowl. Pasta-serving-size. If you're going to eat a salad for lunch, it needs to look like a meal, not a garnish.
Three cups of mixed greens. Yes, three. That's what you're working with. It'll wilt down once the dressing hits, so don't panic about the volume.
Drain and rinse a cup of chickpeas — the rinse gets the canned-water taste off. Dump them in. This is what turns a salad into a meal.
Halve the cherry tomatoes. Dice the cucumber. Thin-slice the red onion. Add all of it. The more colors in your bowl, the more micronutrients you're accidentally eating.
Quarter cup of feta. Don't measure — just crumble it over the top with your fingers like a functional adult. Fat + salt = this is why salads actually taste good.
Two tablespoons of olive oil. Juice of half a lemon. Salt. Pepper. That's your dressing. Bottled dressings have more sugar than soda. You don't need them.
Toss it all. Eat it before you get distracted. A big-ass salad is the most filling, lowest-effort lunch on earth. If you're still hungry after this, you're not hungry — you're bored. Drink some water.