What do you HONESTLY eat on an average day?

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As the title says - what do you honestly eat on an average day?

For breakfast I would have beans on toast, poached egg, homemade pancakes or toast and fruit. Sometimes if I have a busy morning this will become brunch.

If I eat lunch it can be anything from leftovers, cheese and crackers to a sandwich and fruit. If I don't have lunch I'll snack around 4pm and anything is fair game!

Dinner will be pasta dish, roast dinner, stir fry, pizza etc. I normally eat chocolate most days either in the day or after dinner.

cereal/toast
coffee
coffee

egg/beans/cheese on toast / leftovers / sarnies / fruit

Idontlikethat / whatisit / fineilleatitbutiwontbehappy /mmm
depending what the kids want

coffee
crisps / biscuits / popcorn

Usually:
3 cups of black coffee, 1 skim milk cappuccino, no breakfast unless it’s the weekend
Lunch is a salad with bread or a sandwich
Occasionally a cookie mid afternoon if there are any in the office
Dinner is a proper meal and varies but is too often takeout, often accompanied by wine

Today:
2 scrambled eggs 2 bacon
Cheese and pickle sandwich
And having fishcakes, new potatoes and asparagus for lunch.

Yesterday:
Toast and peanut butter
Onken grain yoghurt thing, 2 crackers and brie
Tuna pasta and salad

Same sort of stuff all week, throw in a bottle of red and maybe a pizza at the weekend.

today: piece of toast and peanut butter
lunch: risotto with asparagus courgettes peas and green beans. Slice of banana bread. All homemade but I eat far too many carbs and am a stone overweight because of it.

Typical day for me

2 boiled eggs
One slice of dry toast

Tuna salad (with light mayo, whole tin of tuna) or a big fruit salad with low fat yoghurt.

Snacks, a banana and Apple throughout day/sometimes a couple of ryvitia and slices of wafer thin ham.

Dinner

Fish or chicken and a big heap of steamed veg or salad, probably five nights out of seven with some form of sauce. I don't eat bread rice potoato with my evening meal which frankly bores me!

2 litres of water a day, five black coffees and a Diet Coke.

Weekends eat out a bit, drink quite a bit, do what I like.

I do four exercise classes a week to counter act the naughtiness at weekends.

In general:
Breakfast is usually porridge with banana and honey (in the winter mostly) Weetabix with banana and honey, toastx2 with jam/marmalade or muesli with yoghurt and fruit

Lunch: in the summer, I eat more salads with tuna/salmon/cheese, occasionally ham or chicken. In the winter, homemade soup with bread. Other lunches can be sandwich, quiche, egg on toast, omelette.

Dinner: family meal so spaghetti Bolognese, curry, pasta, sausage and mash, etc.

However, at the moment I'm pregnant and appetite is all over the place. I eat quite healthy meals, my problem is portion size and choosing garlic bread instead of salad with pasta (for example) as it's easier to throw in the oven. I also have a major sweet tooth so always snacking on biscuits, chocolate, cake etc.

After the baby, I have about 3 stone to lose. I know my problem areas so need to focus on these. I do actually enjoy salad, fruit and vegetables but I also love chocolate. I don't really drink fizzy drinks, but a lot of squash and tea.

Today is a very typical day:

Coffee when I woke

Breakfast: egg white omelette with feta
Snack: few grapes
Lunch: sashimi and seaweed. Miso soup
Dinner: chicken and steamed spinach (will be)

3 x cups of tea.

Endless cups of tea throughout the day.

Two pieces of homemade (generously) sliced toast with butter and marmite and a banana.

Mid morning a slice of cake.

Lunch is usually a toastie or a wrap with some salads bits and a bag of crisps with an apple.

Some biscuits mid afternoon.

Tea is something like spag Bol, roast dinner, curry, fish pie, stir fry, risotto.

(At some point I will pretend I'm not snarfuling a handful of chocolate out of the fridge )

Boiled egg
Banana
70g dry weight pasta with teaspoon pesto and cherry toms
Beetroot and cucumber to fit in a smallish pot
Options hot choc
Loads of herbal teA
Tonight gammon egg chips

Really depends if im hungry or not. I only eat when i want it, not when the clock says its a meal time.

Breakfast at 8. Coffee and 2 slices of brown toast.

Lunch and 12. Cheese sandwich and 4 jaffa cakes with a cup if tea.

wont have tea and i need to take DC1 to a football match and theyll have food afterward in a pub. If there us anything left ill eat it if i fancy it, otherwise ill have a few crakers with pate ince i get in.

Ive just been on a 7 mile run and im trying to lose half a stone. Been injured and haven’t been able to run so feeking lazy and podgy round the waist!

Well I'm 9 weeks pregnant with nausea and a sweet tooth, so:
2 weetabix
Banana
About 9 bourbons
3 packs of strawberry laces
Blueberry muffin

😂

I wasnt like this before pregnancy, I promise!

Coffee first thing. I can't eat breakfast, just can't face it and I'm never hungry.
Another coffee at 9 when I get to work.
Very occasionally I'll have a small snack like a cereal bar if I'm hungry.
Lunch at 12 is usually a sandwich/ wrap/ crackers.
Coffee at 3.30 after the school run.
If the kids don't have clubs we eat tea at around 5.30-6. Things like jacket potato, chilli, quiche, curry, chicken pie, pasta, enchiladas etc.
Then in the evening I have zero control and tend to eat crisps or dip some biscuits in a cup of tea.
If the kids have clubs they eat their tea early and OH and I tend to eat late at maybe 8.30-9 which usually means rubbish food like a takeaway or frozen pizza because we can't be bothered with cooking that late.

On a work day:
Breakfast at 7am: brioche roll or 2
Lunch anytime between 12.30 and 4: microwave meal
Drink very little of anything, probably about 1L in total

On not work days:
breakfast: slice of toast
lunch: wrap or soup
dinner: DH is now vegan so often curry or chilli or similar
snacks: biscuits and chocolate throughout the day to keep me going
drinks: cup of tea in the morning, water or warm squash whenever

cloudhopping I eat like you!

I’m interested to know if people are skinny/normal/overweight with these diets. I’d be starving based on some of your diets

I’m average weight for my height. Size 10-12. I eat a lot of pasta and drink a lot of wine

Tea & Toast with jam
Bike to work & down tonnes of water
Tea at work 9am ish
Tea at work 11am + cereal bar of some sort
Cashews & go home for a sandwich if I can be bothered
Tea at around 4pm
Tea when I get home 5:20ish
Dinner tonight is Ceasar Salad, last night we had a stir fry.
Sometimes a yoghurt for dessert. But would usually rather have another cuppa & some biscuits.
Other dinners for this week: burritos, pasta with pesto & chorizo, curry, spicey bean burgers, kievs etc

Try my best to do roasted wedges rather than chips. And to eat cashews rather than crisps.

today I have had:

Breakfast: mug of filter coffee with low fat milk, 3 sesame rye crispbreads, real butter, small sliced banana on top, small glass freshly squeezed juice

11am: small mug filter coffee, 1 chocolate oatie biscuit

Lunch: a box of salad from the very nice deli next door to my office. I think it feels healthy but is laden with calories. They do a choice of about 6 things and in the box they put a serving spoon of each - all very well flavoured with Indian or middle eastern type spices. Today I had spicy cubes of potato, raw broccoli in a wasabi-ish dessing, roast cauliflower with other spices, chickpeas with aubergine and spices and bulger wheat with lots of herbs and a bottle of sparkling water

Dinner: High Tea! In other words breakfast for dinner - sausage, bacon, black and white pudding - all grilled. Oven cooked hash browns, fried eggs and baked beans. White buttery toast for those who want it.

Wine - perhaps but probably not tonight!

This is pretty representative

Yesterday I was off work and had

same breakfast as today

Lunch: homemade roasted tomato soup (amazing!), rolls hot out of the oven for dh and dd

Afternoon: filter coffee and a slice of homemade banana bread just out of the oven

Dinner: traditional spaghetti carbonara, green salad, 2 small pieces of garlic bread. 2 glasses of organic pinot grigio

Breakfast mon-fri is normally one piece of brown toast, with butter or cheese or a fried egg, cooked in turmeric (purely for health reasons) Breakfast sat-sun is a full English on one of the days and bacon and beans on toast on the other. Always 2 cups of strong black, proper coffee ever day.

Lunch is usually a sandwich on brown with ham, cheese or tuna mayo or a jacket potato with plain tuna and coleslaw or cottage cheese or with beans and cheese. Always have a couple of pieces of chocolate after lunch.

Dinner varies a lot, but most weeks include a tofu laksa (my favourite), salmon with wedges and veg , roast on a sun, chicken with cous cous and halloumi, curry, one takeaway and a roast on a Sunday 9 times out of 10.

Camomile tea with honey in the weekday evenings and a few glasses of wine fri-sun, probably working out to a couple of bottles.

I need more veg in my life and possibly a little less wine at the weekends, but overall, not too bad.

Oh and just to clarify, my username is purely fantasy

I am 49, 5ft 9" size 12

breakfast is usually a glass of OJ, a cup of tea and a cereal bar

mid-morning tea and a bit of toast

lunch, sandwich or soup, yoghurt, crisps

afternoon some fruit and another cup of tea

dinner: whatever really - pasta, baked potatoes, fish & veg.

I don't drink anything like enough water, but I do drink gallons of tea!

I honestly don’t have an average day but I probably average 2000-2500 cals per day. I eat a nutrient dense diet but like my wine and treats. Athletic size 10. Age ‘ right side of 40’. I do a fair bit of exercise (40-50k trail running pw plus 2-4 strength sessions) but my job is 100% sedentary.

On an typical day:
A mug of black coffee with no sugar
About 30g of shredded wheat
About 150ml double cream
About 100ml of whole milk
A handful of berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries)
One or two slices of cheese on toast
A mixed salad, with fish or cheese
2 mugs of green tea
A large chocolate chip chewy cookie
A mug of black decaf coffee with no sugar

I've no idea how many calories that is, but probably quite a lot because of the cheese and cream.

When I'm being good.

Breakfast
Greek Yoghurt with berries
Coffee

Lunch
Soup or Salad

Dinner
Something like chicken and cous cous with veggies, or a stir fry etc.

I'll also have a coffee around 3pm and maybe some nuts / crackers in the evening.

When I'm being bad, like today and most days
Breakfast
Sweet Chilli Coated Peanuts
Cereal Bar
Coffee

Lunch
Sandwich with 2 packets of crisps
Coffee
4 choc digestive biscuits

Dinner
Pasta Bake with looooads of cheese
Probably some fudge and more biscuits, some chocolate, or nuts.

I wish i could be the flaxseed dust and hot water with lemon people that so many are but I'm addicted to bad food!

Typical daily diet is :

Scrambled eggs
Greek yog and low sugar apple compote

Big salad for lunch with lentils, chick peas, tuna, chicken, feta. Or a massive bowl of lentil and veg soup with cottage cheese

Chicken casserole, chicken curry, fish in tomato sauce with baked potato and veg in winter
Steak, chicken, pork chops etc done on bbq with roasted veg or a salad in summer

Treat is wine.

I never eat choc, biscuits, cake, crisps, sweets, donuts etc.

Very occasionally I'll have bread, rarely pasta and rice

Morning
Nespresso latte, two Weetabix (with sugar)

Lunch
Cheese and pickle sandwich, crisps, 6 mini eggs (4 Lindor and 2 creme egg from the share box at work), carton of apple juice

Dinner
probably chilli and rice