What do normal sized people eat?

I'm a healthy weight BMI 23/24, I'm 5'8.

What I eat daily varies massively. For breakfast I would usually yoghurt and fruit or a slice of toast and peanut butter. Lunch would be some form of protein on toast, fruit, salad bits and usually a proteiny snack like a boiled egg or some cheese. But sometimes it's a salad, sometimes it's soup. Sometimes a sandwich

Dinners again vary a lot. Some days I'll have a salad or fish and new potatoes. Some days I'll have a pizza.

I normally have a small amount of chocolate after dinner, I don't snack a lot otherwise. I walk an average 10000 steps a day and go to the gym twice a week.

I eat out probably one lunch and one dinner a week and maybe a takeaway once a month. I too would be starving and pretty bored, on the amounts many eat on MN

Mumsnet is the worst place on the internet to get advice on food and eating.

This place is full of idiotic competitive under-eaters. It’s vile.

You are best asking a qualified dietician or personal trainer. As everybody is different, with different circumstances and lifestyles.

Dust.... sorry couldn't resist.

Breakfast - bowl of cereal with milk (if I have it, I often don't eat breakfast)

Lunch - a roll with ham & salad, or sometimes I have fruit toast with peanut butter. Usually have fruit and a yoghurt with it.

Dinner - usually something like spaghetti bolognaise, cottage pie, chilli, chicken curry... All home cooked

Maybe an ice cream for dessert. Or some chocolate.

I'm a size 12. I think I must eat fairly small portions, as I do eat junk food. I just stop eating when I'm full. Sometimes I skip meals because I don't feel like it, and just eat a few carrots and some hummus or something instead. Just very much base my eating on how hungry I feel, rather than just eating because it's time to eat.

I'm typically around 70kg and 5'8" (BMI around 22 ish). For this I have:

Breakfast: Shreddies (a big bowl, about 500 calories)
Lunch: frozen pizza or toast or a sandwich, it varies between 400-1000 calories I'd say
Dinner: two fish cakes and roast potatoes and peas would be typical. Ben and Jerry's for pudding.

To be 10kg lighter but not losing I had to have two apples and a satsuma for breakfast, salad with low fat dressing for lunch, and then casserole or stir fry for dinner.

I hover around 9 stone and am 5'7. For breakfast I have either scrambled eggs on a slice of seeded toast or peanut butter on two slices of toast. Then I have a banana after, whichever breakfast I choose. Mid morning I might have some fruit or sometimes I go for an early lunch instead. Tbh when I have eggs I definitely snack less. For lunch it really varies, if I'm being healthy then maybe a salad but more usually, leftovers, cheese on toast, mackerel on toast, something like that. I probably do eat too much bread. Usually end up having something sugary every day which I am trying to cut down on, like I might have a chocolate bar in the afternoon. Dinner is our healthiest meal, we usually have meat or fish or a vegetarian meal including at least three vegetables. I have a lot of coffees with milk as well throughout the day. A couple of times a week I'll also have a glass of wine in the evening.

I'm 5ft 2, 7.5st, 34 year old mother of 2

I eat one meal a day

It works for me

For me it varies, cut out deep fried food, if getting a takeaway get something grilled/ boiled instead of fried. Crisps are also fried, try stop eating them as they are empty calories, you could always try popped chips but they aren’t the best either, no fizzy drinks, limit sugary alcohol and beer/ cider, have a gin and diet tonic.

Ease on the carbs, it’s ok to have carbs but most of your plate should be filled with protein and veg not rice or pasta.

Sugary foods are addictive, try cut them out for a while and I guarantee you won’t enjoy them or crave them much anymore.

Eat when hungry only. Don’t skip any meals, always have high protein breakfast (high protein yoghurt, or eggs) so you won’t be tempted to binge by 11am.

Try exercise every day. Even just walking.

Less, they just eat less.

I love a Chinese but I do do some damage limitation…

I stay away from the prawn crackers, or just have two or three if I really fancy them. That’s my easy win.

I have a favourite king prawn dish with ginger and spring onions. Actually salt & chilli squid too. Seafood tends to be lower in calories, so I eat more of this and less of the other dishes like crispy beef.

We have the plain rice rather than fried and I’ll have a relatively small portion, about a third of the container.

We also get beansprouts as a ‘healthy’ side.

Small portion sizes works for me and decreasing as you get older.

I still have all the enjoyment of the tastes that I like but in a small amount.

I am also very active.

I am the low end of the healthy BMI at 5'8".
I am very active (run, cycle, swim, strength stuff and always walk as if I'm fleeing a fire), but I also have a desk job.
I have no idea how many calories I consume.
My diet is a bit chaotic and I'm kind of dreading DS2 leaving home as I will have no reason to cook meals and will graze.
I eat slowly compared to others (not consciously) and do not have large portions (again, not consciously, it's just what I want).
I do think I naturally compensate for eating more than I need one day, by eating less the next - or over the course of a week I think it averages out.

I've not read all the rest, sorry, but I'm 5 foot 8, 8 stone 10 ish and 54. This is my week in terms of meals and fitting in vegetables: I make a vegetable stew of a whole head of celery, load of carrots, several leeks onion, whole thing of mushrooms. Chop up. Flour and milk, lots of spices. Two sliced potatoes on top. Cook 40 minutes. Makes four meals.

I've been the same weight all my adult life, sole parent, worked full time throughout. No maintenance (all cheap food).

I don’t think of myself as normal, but I have a bmi of 21 and a typical day would have

breakfast
bowl of porridge, made with whole milk, flaxseed, fruit and berries. Half a smoothie (dd’s leftover breakfast) and a handful of whatever fruit is going in lunch boxes that day.

lunch
omelette - 2 eggs, cheese, ham, spinach with brown soda bread.
Or, baked potato with cheese and beans,
Or, wholemeal wrap with ham, pickles and spinach
Or, egg salad sandwich on wholemeal bread with small salad.

dinner
spag bol with green salad
Or, chicken curry and rice
Or, lentil/chickpea curry and rice
Or, roast chicken, gravy, with veg, and potato
Or, spaghetti carbonara (egg, cheese, bacon) and salad
Or, bacon, cabbage, potato, white sauce.
or, poached salmon with stirfry and rice or salad and brown bread.

If I’m peckish I’d have cheese and crackers, yogurt and fruit, hummus and carrots, or just an apple or banana.

Ordering a carvery or takeaway, I’d only manage 2/3 at most. I drink a lot of water and black tea, and walk about 7.000 steps. I have a 12hr fasting window.

The only thing I actively avoid is obviously processed sugar foods (cake/icecream/chocolate) because even a small amount gives me cravings that last for a couple of weeks and it’s easier to just avoid it altogether. I eat red meat occasionally but just not a fan.

My diet is a bit low in iron and calcium so definitely not ideal.

BMI 24 5'7" 68kg
reasonable amount of excercise I walk or run at least 2 miles a day minimum. Cook from scratch 80% of the time
breakfast is yoghurt. Nutribrex and fruit
lunch is salad with low calorie dressing and a roll
dinner spaghetti Bol and salad or veg
chicken and potatoes and veg or similar normal food
snack jam of peanut butter on one slice of toast
pudding is be bar of a twirl or similar
drink water tea and coffee
I don't drink
alcohol Or soft drinks

I would say I am slim/ athletic/ healthy body. A size 10 in clothes.

This is what I've eaten today and roughly each day looks pretty similar. I am maintaining my weight.

Breakfast- 2 plain yoghurts, 1/2 banana, scoop oats, about 12 raw cashews

Snack- few raw almonds and 2 slices dried pineapple

Lunch- salad of chicken, spinach, quinoa, sweet potato

Snack- bowl containing 5 pecans, 8 raw cashews and handful raisins

Dinner - lentils, rice, pesto and vegetables

(Exercise wise I do 2 or 3 shorts runs a week, weights twice a week and yoga once a week. Walking inbetween)

I've recently started tracking calories, to hit a specific goal, and surprised at how many calories are in certain foods. Tracking isn't for everyone if you don't have a healthy relationship with food, but it is eye opening. I generally am eating 1900-2200 calories a day to stay healthy and recomp, but that is with working out 4 times a week and I'm 5ft7/8. In that I still might eat out and have fast food etc I just factor it in.
Today I ate 4 large protein pancakes with honey, punnet of strawberries, sausage roll, 1.5 donuts, feta tomato pasta (which is 100g dried pasta), and a fibre one bar. That's about 2150 calories from 3 meals and is definitely filling enough.
I was getting takeaways weekly before and now I might do it every few weeks instead. I was already a healthy BMI but with eating better I've seen a huge difference in my body. Cutting down doesn't have to mean cutting out any foods at all, but just having things more in moderation and being aware of portion sizes.

I massively cut down on carbs and my weight went back to normal size.

Bananas, avocados, eggs feature quite a lot in breakfast/lunch since cutting the bread

47 yo, BMI is 20. I eat as little saturated fat as possible as it gives me terrible acid. Other than that, I eat anything I want. Sometimes I just want a sandwich for tea, sometimes I'll have a three-courser. I do walk for half an hour most days though, helps keep the arthritis at bay and probably keeps my metabolism quick as well.

I don’t eat a takeaway very often, so it wouldn’t make any difference the couple of times a year max. But I don’t eat more just because it’s a takeaway, I would usually have a normal plate worth then be full, and eat any remaining the next day for lunch. I wouldn’t eat double as it’s there as too much makes me feel I’ll

I eat a big variety of food, some healthy, some not... but this thread confirms my quantities are two to three times what everyone else has. Sigh. I blame mum who cooked us two three course meals a day growing up.

As a pp said, it's not so much what I eat at meals but that I rarely eat in between meals. The only snacks in the house are biscuits and a tub of ice cream. I only eat if I'm actually hungry, a lot of people snack so much they don't ever get properly hungry, it's almost as if they're afraid of it.

Breakfast : yogurt and a banana. Sometimes with granola.
Lunch: generally a large sandwich and apple. Sometimes soup and bread. Used to also have a 'breakfast bar' type thing but have cut that out recently as they are so high sugar.
Dinner: varies - things like homemade curry, pasta, stir fry, bolognese, pizza and salad. These all have a decent amount of vegetables in them. Occasionally have a dessert, or chocolate or couple of biscuits immediately after my main meal but not everyday.
Later in evening: nothing. I very rarely eat anything after dinner has ended.

Overall I think my portions are big but I don't snack between meals. We make our own pasta and curry sauces. Takeaway is a treat - usually Indian and twice a month at most. I rarely drink alcohol at home.

Im fully plant based and very active so mostly carbs, aiming for ~2500kcal a day

Yes if I'm healthy all week and have a takeaway, then back on healthy then nothing changes.