Panera Salads: Half & Whole Salad Menu

Panera Caesar salad and Panera Greek salad tie as the cheapest Panera salads at ($9.29 – 9.49)/whole, but don’t assume cheap means light; both sit mid-pack on calories. The real low-calorie pick is Asian Sesame Chicken Salad: 530 calories with chicken included, matching plain Caesar despite having protein in it.

On price, Ultimate Garden Steak Salad tops the menu at $14.59. On calories, though, Harvest Medley Chicken Salad wins at 880, and it’s actually $0.9 cheaper than the steak salad. Bigger doesn’t always mean pricier.

One rule holds across the whole Panera salad menu: chicken adds a flat $3, every time. Caesar jumps from $9.29 to $12.39, Greek does the same, so once you know a base salad’s price, you already know what the chicken version costs.

Panera Salad Stuffers: The Wrap Version

A salad stuffer takes the same salad and wraps it, and the pricing pattern is consistent: every stuffer costs roughly 0.41–1.20 less than its whole-salad counterpart. Compare Harvest Medley Chicken Salad ($13.69 , 880Cal) to the Harvest Medley Chicken Salad Stuffer(11.68, 770 Cal), you save about $2.01 and shed 110 calories by choosing the wrap version of the same salad.

 That pattern holds across nearly every matching pair on the menu, which makes stuffers the better default if your priority is value rather than a fork-and-bowl format. The one item that doesn’t fit that pattern is Green Goddess Chicken Cobb Salad: the stuffer version (600 Cal, $11.98) is actually only 20 calories lighter than the whole salad (580 Cal, $14.19) despite costing less, meaning here the savings come almost entirely from format, not from a meaningfully smaller portion.

If you want something extra on the side, check the Panera bakery menu for breads and pastries, or the Panera breakfast menu if you’re ordering earlier in the day.

Panera Bread Salads Dressing

Dressing swings a salad’s calorie count more than most people expect. Across Panera’s current lineup, a whole portion ranges from 60 calories for Poppyseed to 440 for Greek, a 380-calorie gap from one small cup.

Dressing	Half portion	Whole portion
Poppyseed	30 Cal	60 Cal
Green Goddess	80 Cal	150 Cal
Asian Sesame Vinaigrette	80 Cal	170 Cal
White Balsamic with Apple	150 Cal	300 Cal
Caesar	160 Cal	320 Cal
Creamy Garden Herb	160 Cal	330 Cal
Farmhouse Ranch	170 Cal	340 Cal
Sesame Ginger	170 Cal	340 Cal
Zesty Smoky Lemon Vinaigrette	180 Cal	350 Cal
Greek	220 Cal	440 Cal

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