What do you HONESTLY eat on an average day?

[Ohhellothereladyface]

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

Sorry meant to say I've been drinking wine over the last few weeks.

Coffee first thing, then it can go one of two ways. Healthy salad or soup lunch and a home cooked wholesome dinner, maybe crudités or almonds as snacks if pecking.
Or..
Shop bought roll with bar of chocolate AND crisps for lunch, graze on chocolate or office pastries throughout the day, feel like shit, tired and lethargic so combat this by adding sugar to my coffees and swapping my black coffees for fatty milk and cream laden desert like drinks, might try to pull it back at dinner time and eat the same healthy dinner as the rest of family but will push it around on the plate, half heartidly eat but end up making burger and chips or just crisps and dip late that night!

If I have that salad the rest of my day isn’t even remotely consumed by food and I can be one of those people who “forgets to eat” but if I choose the roll my whole day is wondering when I can next eat

I'm astonished at all the people who don't eat breakfast,
or seem to have one meal a day. I don't know how you all keep going.

Astonished? Really? Humans aren’t meant to be eating constantly. Developing science is showing that the “rules” around eating are based on lies - usually by those with a financial interest in flogging sugary cereals etc. It’s proving that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” is bollocks.

I’ve never liked eating breakfast. Never did when I was at school because the thought of eating within 2-3 hours of eating makes me feel sick. Hunger isn’t a feeling to fear at all costs.

Don’t forget, until relatively recently we would have spent 8+ hours a day hunting/foraging for our meals. Now we’re surrounded by “food” that’s had all the nutrition processed out of it. But are told that it’s healthy.

Astonished? Really?

Yes, really. And I wasn't just talking about breakfast, although you seem to have ignored the 'or seem to have one meal a day' part of what I said.

Also, when did I say I thought people should be 'eating constantly'?

Don’t forget, until relatively recently we would have spent 8+ hours a day hunting/foraging for our meals. Gee, yes, I 'm so stupid I'd forgotten that Thanks for the patronising reminder.

I'm not much of a fruit-lover, I will eat blueberries and raspberries in Greek yoghurt though 203 times a week.

I loath breakfast but today at a whole pack of M&S cheese & onion muffin type things. I probably won't eat lunch but I might eat a mini sushi pack if I'm hungry later.

Dinner today will be pork loin, new potatoes (I might roast them), some carrots and peas.

Can I ask, how much WATER do you all drink? I keep buying it with the intention to drink it - sparkling, Rosemary, Apple, plain, all kinds - and we have nice tap water here too - but I shy away from drinking it. I'm trying to change that. How do you drink more water? Any tips gratefully received.

@rosewater20 Because I'm on hols I made this one because it is a labour of love but is amazing: www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/menus/slideshow/california-persian-cuisine

However, at home I make this all the time, I use one of those ready made pouches of puy lentils: www.lactosefreegirl.com/2018/03/adas-polo-o-morgh.html?m=1

I too am a bit surprised at how little people eat. Whenever I pick my son up from a school off a retail park I see loads of people having coffee and cakes every day pretty much but are stick thin.
Every Facebook post I see of friends is usually gin, and cakes posts and big lunches out so I don't know if mumsnetters are exceptionally healthy and the norm or in everyday life I find people do have cakes and coffee

Dont get much time in the morning so usually a yoghurt and cereal bar. If i have time at the weekend i’ll make porridge with some fruit.

Lunch is either beans & cheese on toast, dippy eggs and toast, scrambled egg, sandwhich or salad with crisps (love crisps)

Dinner things like cottage pie, spaghetti, roast, fajitas / burritos, just normal dinner-y things.

I snack on yoghurt, chocolate covered rice cakes (if i eat normal chocolate i end up eating an entire share bar so can’t) nuts, fruit, cereal bars.

I used to eat crap but realised I need to do something about my weight. Some days i would eat 2/3 share bars of chocolate!

Humans aren’t meant to be eating constantly.

Having breakfast doesn't mean that one is 'eating constantly'. That's a little silly.

A typical day for me is:

Breakfast - Tea; two weetabix with full fat milk

Morning - Tea; bowl of blueberries, grapes, strawberries etc; banana; boiled egg

Lunch - Cheese sandwiches; banana

Afternoon - Tea; jam sandwich; bar of chocolate; crisps

Evening - Baked potato, chicken breast, peas; then rice pudding, or more fruit with melted white chocolate

I've always weighed about 8 stone but am now creeping up towards 9 and need to change.

Goodness. People eat very little.

I eat a lot:
Tea, yoghurt and blueberries
Salad and chicken or leftover dinner
Endless tea and water
Pie, new potatoes and 3 steamed veg.

Plus I eat crisps and chocolate regularly!

Breakfast an instant Nescafé decaffeinated cappuccino, porridge made with water, with a spoon of yoghurt and a banana. That's it so far. We are taking the fog for a walk and going to the pub this afternoon, where I will have a glass of Prosecco and a bag of Quavers. Steamed sea bass and veg later. Maybe a hot cross buns as it's good Friday.

My weight has crwpt up significantly and tracking on ww has made me realise just how much of the wrong stuff I was packing away.

The lady upthread though who was 8.5st and 5'10" is seriously underweight. Just run it through the bmi calculator.

OhTheRoses, that's me, I think. You can see from my post what I tend to eat; it's plenty of calories and (generally speaking) quite good nutrition-wise. People often comment on my portion sizes being large, although I find them normal and tend to think other people don't eat enough.

I do several gym classes a week and yoga most days and walk a fair bit (sedentary job with long hours notwithstanding) as I live in a city and don't drive. I have plenty of energy, good skin etc and I don't have that telltale gaunt face that too-thin/undernourished people sometimes have, or look skinny; rather I'm just long-limbed and lanky and always have been. I've also always had a good appetite; my mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I must have hollow legs. BMI is a pretty blunt instrument IMO and by no means gives the full picture.

Breakfast

Fruit and fibre bran flakes w/ skimmed milk OR natural yogurt and fruit.

Dinner;

I don’t often have dinner as I work nights and sleep during the day but if I do, it’s normally a sandwich - mostly tuna or ham.

Tea;

Anything, steak, casserole, stew, curry, chicken, spag Bol, pasta, chilli, stir fry, pizza.

Snacks - normally a babybel or cake.

I drink water as much as I can during the day (before I go to bed and when I wake up) and often wine in the evenings if I’m off shift.

Today
Breakfast- An orange. 2 wholemeal toast and Marg.
Snack- Fruit yoyo
Lunch- Jacket & tuna with lettuce
Snack- 1/2 Easter egg
Dinner will be Pizza and salad
Before bed I'll have cereal ( & maybe more Easter egg)

Good Friday so fasting...
Had small bowl of yogurt with a spoonful of granola on top as a late breakfast at about 9am.
Just had a pear and a hot cross bun after Mass.
Will be puy lentil and leek gratin for dinner with olive bread and salad but that’s because we have guests, would have been soup or a salad otherwise.

Here we go

Breakfast: yoghurt with berries
Lunch: egg salad,
Snacks: fruit
Drinks: tea, coffee
I don't eat Dinner or cakes, bread, biscuits ,pastry, sweets or meat.

I've had all the food today!

a slice of buttered toast with coffee,

a slice of buttered toast with scrambled eggs

a pizza

Baked salmon with "corgettie" chilli flakes and soy sauce

some chocolate easter bunny and two large glasses of milk.

(I think I'm hungover and compensating!)

Im a fatty. And i certainly know why!

Toast for breakfast maybe.

Mid morn could easily scoff half a box of Pringles and an Ice cream.

Probably don't have lunch. Possibly a sandwich and more pringles.

Another ice cream.

Whatever ive cooked the kids.. lentil spag bowl and veggies with shit tonnes of cheese.

Whatever i can find in cupboards after they're in bed.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

How do you drink more water? Any tips gratefully received.

You could try a soda stream? You can fizz it up as little or as much as you like, and it's better for the environment than bottled.

Try adding a teeny splash of juice or some real fruit pieces - might work well with raspberries if they're your thing.

Ice cubes make it more interesting.

A reusable straw somehow makes it easier to get more down more quickly.

Set a timer to go off every hour. Challenge yourself to 5 swallows of water whenever it goes off.

Get some quick exercise in, to make you instantly thirsty, and then drink quickly to satisfy yourself and gain more than you've lost - skipping rope 100 times is good for this, or run up and down stairs 5 times, or dance wildly to a couple of songs.

Drink half a glass of water when you feel you need to pee and half after you've been.

Buy a reusable drinking bottle with measurements up the side and challenge yourself to drink x amount in y time.

Snack on high water foods like cucumber sticks.

If you fancy something salty, crisps etc, don't not have them but make yourself drink a glass of water first.

Good old fashioned sticker chart! It can probably be virtual, unless you really need the visual motivation! X number of glasses of water a day/week equals y for a treat, etc.

Good Friday so fasting...
Had small bowl of yogurt with a spoonful of granola on top as a late breakfast at about 9am.
Just had a pear and a hot cross bun after Mass.
Will be puy lentil and leek gratin for dinner with olive bread and salad but that’s because we have guests, would have been soup or a salad otherwise.

That’s an interesting definition of fasting!!!!

I would be beyond hangry if I only ate some of the things on here.

Some do make me You know, the "I just lick a carrot every second day" ones.

Seriously, I overeat and have a terrible diet, but some of these sound like eating disorders.

Tbh my average day probably seems like not much food. I'm following ww though and pretty strict so I eat an awful lot of veg and salads.

If I wasn't dieting my average diet would look a little different!