Salad Is Not Real Food

We go to buffets quite often. And a couple times now I have just gone for the salad bar and fixed myself a big, grand, salad. Twice now it has happened where I bring my salad back to my table, and the kids I am sitting with look at my heaping plate in amazement and ask me “But Auntie aren’t you going to get food?!” I look at my salad which is big enough to be my entire meal, and tell them that I have a huge plate full of food. But they insist that I have not taken any real food. They point to their plates filled with chicken, mashed potatoes, fries, and a variety of other such stuff and tell me that they have food but I do not. So at the end of a meal when I am completely full from my salad they are all still amazed because I did not eat any food for dinner. (can you tell how fond they are of salad!)