What is MNs ideal, perfectly nutritional and balanced meal?

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MN is a bit harsh about people's meals choices.
Just say someone said, we had lasagne and garlic bread. People jump on and say things like "double carbs?? Shocking!!"

Or if you say you had a smoothie and some toast for breakfast, a fair amount would go "a smoothie? You may as well just eat a tablespoon of sugar and wash it down with syrup"

You get the gist.

So what's a "perfect" meal?

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Fresh air and water. Perhaps I could lose that stone if that was all I consumed.
Anything else is sneered upon by the sugar police.

I remember seeing John Waters on Graham Norton once telling an anecdote about some Hollywood waif ordering a salad with a 'suggestion' of fish and feeling sorry for the poor waiter who had to take that in order in to the chef. Perhaps she's on mumsnet.

A massive salad

This has reminded me of the weird competitiveness that is...
I never go to McDonald's.
I've never had a takeaway.
I don't ever eat out.

An enormous plate of steamed vegetables. I actually remember someone on here saying that this was their perfect meal.
Or, yes, a massive salad.
Maybe a small handful of nuts.

@mamaduckbone

An enormous plate of steamed vegetables. I actually remember someone on here saying that this was their perfect meal. Or, yes, a massive salad. Maybe a small handful of nuts.

Perfect meal

I love vegetables. I eat a lot of them. But bloody hell, if I was on death row a plate of steamed vegetables wouldn't even be in my top 100 choice of meals.

And nuts are too fatty for Mumsnet.

I fed my children veggie sausages and mashed potato and peas and green beans and gravy this evening. So I’m most likely evil incarnate.

@wellthatsunusual

And nuts are too fatty for Mumsnet.

No, fat is good now. 😄

An organic free range roast chicken that feeds 52 people and leaves enough leftovers for the next day, all washed down with lashings of filtered tap water and a salad

Balanced meal? Glass of wine in each hand! @ParkheadParadise not a macaroni pie? G'gow classic!

A HUGE salad.
Also eggs. So many eggs.

@MichelleScarn
No, my wean is known to have a Greggs sausage roll on a regular basis 🤣🤣

Good choice! Am now reminiscing (due to.your username, the time of night, my wine and shitty lockdown!) of the days of the early 00s and getting a takeaway at a Chinese restaurant opposite the Garage in Sauchiehall Street and is driving me mad as can't remember its name! Any ideas?... apologies for total randomness of this!

A huge salad with a hint of chicken roasted five days ago and eaten in varies guises ever since, crusty bread with lashings of proper butter.

@MichelleScarn
Was it the Canton Express??

@ParkheadParadise yes!! Thats been eluding me for ages, god I miss those days!

Some sort of shit that budgies eat mixed in with a HUGE salad.
Tap water (filtered natch).
Dust for pudding/desert/afters.
Colonic irrigation if you've had too much dust. Not envy.

Salads are always huge.
Slices of cake are always small.
Anything wet is always served as a ‘dollop’.

Smaller portions than their husband on every occasion as women simply don’t need as much food.

Nothing that’s been eaten as a combination for years like pasta with bread because there are now laws against the serving of more than one type of carbohydrate, even though the side salad with your lasagne is also full of carbs.

@MichelleScarn
I just miss going out. Can't remember the last time I had a night out in Glasgow City Centre.

Half a boiled egg

What's Mumsnet chicken? I need to know.

@ParkheadParadise I remember the days of The Shed, Clatty Pats and doing the Sub Crawl... proper harking back now! i doubt I'd last these days, its rare I'm up this late...

Definitely not cereal, because cereal 'isn't food' especially Rice Krispies.
You can have smashed avocado on sourdough with a glass of oat milk (cows milk is for baby cows)

Are you all kidding?