Perhaps a salad once in a while?

[smartenglish]

What does she mean by "Perhaps a salad once in a while?"?

 

[bhaisahab]

She is suggesting that he is overweight and it would be good if he ate more salad.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Exactly. It's conversational shorthand for "[Do you think that] perhaps [you should eat] a salad once in a while?

The idiom once in a while means sometimes, occasionally, from time to time.

 

[Tdol]

Salad dodger is a slang term for overweight people.

 

[emsr2d2]

It is but it's not very accurate - I know plenty of overweight people who eat salad and plenty of thin people who never touch a vegetable!

 

[Tdol]

It is but it's not very accurate - I know plenty of overweight people who eat salad

Guilty, m'lud.

 

[SoothingDave]

We put French fries on our salads around here. No, I'm not kidding.