Is your salad REALLY that healthy? We break down the staggering calories in your leafy lunch bowl - and suddenly McDonald's doesn't seem so bad...

We all start the week with our best intentions.  But maybe picking up a salad for lunch is not the way to go about it.  


Office workers will be well-accustomed to the lines pouring out of Chop'd, Just Salad, Pret, Sweetgreen and Fresh&Co from about 1pm. You may have just stood in one of those lines yourself. However, that hefty plastic bowl of greens packs a lot of calories - especially when you add all the recommended trimmings. Daily Mail Online has crunched the numbers on your favorite midday meal, and looked at the supposedly less healthy alternatives.