Famous Jennifer Aniston Salad - as told by her! • Low Carb with Jennifer (2024)

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What is the actual Jennifer Aniston salad? ›

The real Jennifer Aniston salad is a riff on a Cobb salad and contains salami, chicken, turkey bacon, garbanzo beans, pecorino cheese, tomatoes, and Italian dressing. It does not contain cucumbers, feta cheese, a whole grain, or a lemon vinaigrette.

Jennifer Aniston's go-to lettuce-less salad boasts a nutritious blend of assorted vegetables, crunchy nuts, and hearty plant-based proteins to deliver a high-protein, low-carb meal that you can make in minutes.

It's a Great Source of Protein

Feder tells us that Aniston's favorite salad is packed with protein, which helps with weight loss and maintaining good health. "The cheese, eggs, nuts, and seeds, provide great sources of protein.

The salad Jen ate on the set of Friends was a Cobb Salad, while this salad is a riff on a tabbouleh. She shared it years ago on Instagram with the caption “My perfect salad”, and was nice enough to also list the ingredients that were inside her bowl. Celebrities — they're just like us!

She did in fact, eat a cobb salad instead everyday consisting of chopped lettuce, chicken breast, turkey bacon, boiled egg, and so on with her co-star Lisa Kudrow.

That claim comes from an Instagram post made by Aniston as part of a campaign for Living Proof that's no longer online (you can still find it on the Wayback Machine). In 2015, Aniston called the mix of bulgur, cucumbers, parsley, mint, red onion, chickpeas, feta cheese and pistachios her "perfect salad."

According to Cinema Blend, she lost the weight by giving up foods like white bread and mayonnaise, along with butter and all snacking between meals. And afterwards, she said she felt more confident than ever. 'It was amazing to see this thing emerge. I never knew I had this body in me,' she told Rolling Stone.

"For me, I stick to 1.7 grams of carbs and 2 grams of protein per my kilo weight to support muscle-building." In 2016, Jennifer herself told Yahoo! Food, "It's pretty clear: eat as much organic fruits and veggies as you can, keep sugar [intake] low, drink tons and tons of water, and get good sleep." Noted.

Aniston keeps it simple for both lunch and dinner, opting for "some form of vegetables or salad with protein—pretty basic." Her dinner is "probably the same," though she's been known to mix it up with a chicken burger wrapped in lettuce.

“When I wake up, I have warm lemon water and then I have a shake or avocado and eggs, which is one of my favorites,” Aniston says. “I sprinkle a little coconut oil on that. Sometimes I'll have a puffed millet cereal with a banana, or I'll do oatmeal with an egg white whipped in at the end.”

Can you meal prep the Jennifer Aniston salad? ›

The Jennifer Aniston Friends Salad

This salad recipe is easy to meal prep and serves 4 generously, but I was able to squeeze out leftovers for two lunches too. IF you are planning to make this for the week, do not add the cucumber or the pistachios until you are ready to eat it!

Jennifer Aniston Quinoa Salad (Famous Viral Recipe!)

this flavorful and crunchy salad is one of the best I've ever had. Packed with plant-based protein, fiber, and healthy fats … this lettuce-less salad is just as nutritious as it is delicious. Perfect for a healthy dinner, lunch, or meal prep!

Although Aniston doesn't eliminate any food groups from her diet, she typically avoids processed foods and limits her intake of sugar. Here are some of the foods she limits: Processed foods: frozen meals, french fries, chips, pretzels, fast food, fried foods.

"I always have cut raw vegetables in a Tupperware container. Hard-boiled eggs are always great to have in the fridge, as well as a big head of butter lettuce. I also include protein, such as pulled chicken," she tells Yahoo Food.

'The one I ate on the set of Friends was like iceberg lettuce, it was a cobb salad. I'm trying to remember [what was in it], pecorino, turkey bacon, chicken, and garbanzo beans,' the media reported quoting Aniston. In the show, Jennifer also talked about her sandwich preferences.

ICYMI, Aniston was known to bring the same salad each and every day of filming Friends to share with co-stars and pals-in-real-life Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow (we have the recipe here!). But the fact that Aniston is such a creature of habit in some areas of her life has served her well.