rabbit food

American  

noun

Informal.

1. raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.

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Etymology

Origin of rabbit food

1905–10, for literal sense

Example Sentences

"They get everything they need from apples, carrots, and some dried rabbit food as well," he said.

From BBC

“I know I used to think eating this way would be just like nibbling on sad and soggy carrots and rabbit food all day long,” she says.

From Seattle Times

The growing multitude of people camped out at the bottom of the hill plays a role in the rapidly escalating tensions that go beyond Nami’s distress about being served nothing but “rabbit food.”

From Los Angeles Times

“The one that will finally answer the question — are salads really rabbit food?”

From Los Angeles Times

It's real food for real men — not the "rabbit food" that's reserved for ladies and lesser men.

From Salon