Are my dinners rubbish?

My daily breakfast is 5% fage Greek yoghurt, blueberries and mixed seeds. It's ace.

That would literally make me throw up. The blueberries and mixed seeds are fine, but the texture of Greek yoghurt is appalling.

Food is never a one-size-fits-all. You adapt to what people will eat.

No, I just live in the real world where most people can't afford to be buying 30 different plants every week.

Don't know what FML is.

You're incredibly rude- and maybe a teeny bit defensive?

If you are feeding your kids yoghurt with 3 teaspoons of sugar in a pot that's criminal.

You need to get your head around healthy eating. And stop scorning posters who do eat more healthy food.

That's a very narrow-minded view you have there.

I was raised on whole, natural, UPF-free foods but there were still plenty of things I didn't like, a plain yoghurt was one of them. It just tasted unpleasant to me.

In a perfect world we would be eating a rainbow, eating our oily fish, piling on the protein, getting just the right amount of dairy and getting pulses and grains down our necks whilst still finding room for seeds, nuts and fruits

Who's perfect????????

Your meals sound fine, small for us ( but DH is a manual worker and wants his meat and 3 veg )

You are doing what you can with the time restraints you have, you are doing your best

You'd need to be living under a rock not to have heard of that.

Yes peas are delicious in pesto pasta as is rocket on top. And extra pine nuts gives a protein boost. You can even add chopped almonds. If you chuck all that on it’s a totally different meal.

your meals are all nice but a bit more like cafe/restaurant meals: ie; taste nice, plate well but not really sufficient nutrition long term.

Because they don’t like it. Why else?

But no it must be because they’re used to having too much sugar. Because that’s the only alternative. FML.

Bore off back to your plain yoghurt.

I'd struggle Monday- Wednesday, they seem rather light and not overly filling.

Salad is great but I wouldn't put lettuce leaves with cucumber & peppers in the same category as vegetables like carrots or broccoli.

Don't get me wrong, in summer I would have something like Salmon, new potatoes & Salad, but it would be a green bean salad or carrot salad plus a lettuce one.

If you feel it's enough and nobody is snacking 30 minutes after dinner, then it's fine.

Your children have devices? How disappointing. Naturally my DC only read novels printed on 100 percent recycled paper.

I would bet good money that the vast majority of people don't eat "30 different plants a week" - it's not something I've ever even heard of outside of MN.

They are nice but several lack enough veg. For example gets and red onion salad only has red onion ( and presumably not piled of it!) . Pesto pasta isn’t really a veg portion and the salmon with salad is only salad - which could be great if loaded with cherry tomatoes and asparagus spears, or could be little more than a few leaves with dressing. Your proteins are good quality though.

why?

Only if they have been brought up on the fruit stuff filled with sugar.

Maybe you need to 'educate' their taste buds?

My daily breakfast is 5% fage Greek yoghurt, blueberries and mixed seeds. It's ace.

I think you'd be incredibly surprised by just how unhealthy your 'healthy takeaways' are tbh OP. It doesn't need to be a chinese or a curry to be incredibly unhealthy. There's a restaurant near me that offers takeaway and bills itself as 'healthy' and their chicken salad (not even chicken ceasar) is 900 calories. One of their 'light' 'healthy' pizza's is 800 calories.

Your food sounds fine, but yes it does sound rather bland. Not much variety on the veg and, I assume, the fruit. Also, nachos and rice and dip with chilli!?

Do you eat at least 30 different plants a week? You dinners seem quite limited, but if there are healthy lunches in the mix, it’s not too bad.

It takes minutes to make a more interesting pasta sauce.
Mushrooms, jar of pesto or can chopped toms, an onion and that's it.

You can add a tin of sardines for more protein.
Or do a pasta with broccoli florets, mushrooms and a creme fraiche sauce.

@Sowhatbigdeal Maybe buy a vegetarian or vegan cook book- or look online?
You don't have to 'go vegan' but a lot of the recipes can be eaten alongside a portion of fish, chicken, etc.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall has 2 books 'Eat more Veg' and 'Veg daily' that may give you ideas.

I can only imagine my 10 year olds face if given plain yoghurt and seeds.

Only on mn would you be told it was too much salad..

No shit, you're a fussy eater...

Perfectly normal range of meals for me. Pesto pasta once a week ain't gonna kill anyone.

@AllThatGlistensIsntCold did you miss the meal with salmon?

Why are people saying there’s no fish? Salmon was fish last time I checked…

For some kids it might be, that's why I was asking.

Are nuts a common snack for a 7 yr old?
I cannot imagine an average 7 yr old faced with plain yoghurt and seeds. Tell me I'm wrong by all means.

Sounds perfectly fine to me

I'd suggest you think again.
No pulses, except the chili, no fish, little dairy, not much variety of veg.

No one should have a takeaway a week as they are usually cheap ingredients. The pasta and pesto sounds a bit dull it’s the sort of stuff I have as a side with a protein and veg. I’m assuming it’s not the same every week. There is nothing horrendous but it’s very safe.

Sounds normal to me. I'd probably include green beans or broccoli as a side if there aren't other veg involved. Or chopped up cucumber, carrot and peppers.