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I’ve never had a good diet and I’m underweight. Please educate me on what a decent breakfast and lunch would be?

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Wjatfoods · 22/07/2025 17:47

I’ve never learned to cook properly and growing up we didn’t have full meals it was often ready meals or snacks. I’m embarrassed to say I just don’t know where to start with what a healthy meal is for breakfast and for lunch? How much is enough? I can have a biscuit and a tea and then one small ham sandwich for lunch and I don’t feel strong or energetic. What do you eat?

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TY78910 · 22/07/2025 20:08

Scrambled egg on toast, bagel with cream cheese, toast with jam - you want to start small / bland as you’ve never really had breakfast from what it sounds and you will be feeling ill ‘forcing yourself’. I’m not underweight but bordering and I actually don’t have breakfast at all - I have lunch and dinner but they are hearty and big so I cram all my calories in to those two. However when I go through a period of stress, I don’t eat. My brain and body are just wired like that and after a couple of days of nothing, when I start eating again, I have to ease in to it. Massive meals would throw me off.

for lunch try get yourself something like a tomato soup alongside your small sandwich, then you can start having other things like a burrito etc

NarnianQueen · 22/07/2025 19:59

But to answer your question, a good healthy breakfast would be some fruit with Greek yoghurt and nuts or granola.

JacquesHarlow · 22/07/2025 17:51

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