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?

:)

A MN chicken could easily cater to levels akin to Jesus and his two fish.

Surely the perfect Mumsnet meal is a 'picky tea'?

@CupboardOfJoy

Half a boiled egg

I think you meant to say half a boiler organic egg between 2 people"

@LudoTrouble

What's Mumsnet chicken? I need to know.

It’s a chicken you roast on Sunday for your family of four. You use the leftovers for at least three main meals for all of you through the week. Obviously if you can’t manage this you are greedy and feckless.

Definitely no carbs. It would probably invole eggs, avocado, some goji berries, almond milk, linseed, a vitamin D capsule and some Retinol face serum.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Definitely no carbs. It would probably invole eggs, avocado, some goji berries, almond milk, linseed, a vitamin D capsule and some Retinol face serum.

😂

I remember being advised to bulk it out with lentils when the DC were little.
I didn't

Based on the "essential shopping" bunfights in March and April: water....erm that's about it. I seem to remember that milk, bread, cheese, eggs and pretty much everything else was declared non-essential and you shouldn't go out to buy it.
I think things have calmed down a little and you may be allowed to confess to eating grilled spinach once every two days and to sip green tea (or whatever variation it is this year).

In Manet world you just think about food
Even sniffing a lettuce leaf once a week makes you a greedy overweight food obsessive
Unless your a male teenager
In which case it's a badge of honour that they eat everything in your house including the furniture
Mumsnet is a weird 1950's homage in so many ways

@grassisjeweled

Are you all kidding?

They're all deadly serious.

@LudoTrouble

What's Mumsnet chicken? I need to know.

Ah, yes the magical chicken that can feed a hungry family of four easily over 3-4 meals, and then obviously there s lunch in the last day, as you've booked then carcass to make soup,with the left over veggies from these meals.

I remember someone calling the mumsnet chicken the homeopathic chicken as if it really was included in as many meals as mumsnetters claimed it could stretch to it would be akin to being the memory of that chicken being stirred into the meal
It amused me

Surely it's lasagna with a side salad. The lasagna has to be half beef and half lentils to count. Of course no one will know it's lentils and not beef dontcha know

@bonfireheart

5:2 diet, intermittent fasting 16:8, low carb, no sugar diet.

So much this. I asked for advice given I need to share my evening meal with my slightly fussy underweight DS and T1 diabetic DH. I was told I shouldn't eat breakfast, carbs, or on some days at all. Eat meals? That's just greedy. And MN posters know better than DH consultant on how to manage diabetes. And bread? Poison! The entire population of Europe has died off in the last 2000 years due to eating bread I think.

Surely the perfect meal is what you fancy eating or should eat?

So if you’re a healthy weight and are not dieting and eat healthy the rest of the time and fancy steak, chips, mushrooms, followed by a chocolate brownie then it’s your perfect meal

If you’re dieting then a grilled steak, salad, mushrooms, and some vegetables would be the perfect meal

If you’re vegetarian, then it would be something vegetarian that you fancy.

If your Hindu then it would be something plant based likely

And so on.

Come on now @Bluntness100 you didn't mean to sound normal did you?

What's Mumsnet chicken
It's not actually mumsnet, it's what people used to do before mumsnet existed, ie use all the meat on a chicken. It's just that some people think that mumsnet invented everything.
See also the 'mumsnet haircut'.

The Mumsnet variation of the chicken was that if you take all of the meat off of the bones, it will last for weeks.

@drspouse

Come on now *@Bluntness100* you didn't mean to sound normal did you?

It’s a once a year thing,,,😃

I'm confused by crusty bread, it seems to be essential, but also evil carbs. Can I have it with my massive salad or not

Only if it's your birthday.

@Bluntness100

Surely the perfect meal is what you fancy eating or should eat?

So if you’re a healthy weight and are not dieting and eat healthy the rest of the time and fancy steak, chips, mushrooms, followed by a chocolate brownie then it’s your perfect meal

If you’re dieting then a grilled steak, salad, mushrooms, and some vegetables would be the perfect meal

If you’re vegetarian, then it would be something vegetarian that you fancy.

If your Hindu then it would be something plant based likely

And so on.

While agreeing with this, I should point out that despite being vegan in my twenties, a friend’s elderly Jain grandmother was visibly horrified by the fact that I still ate potatoes. I ate saag aloo and felt like a baby killer.

I’m mildly taken aback by the idea of garlic bread with lasagne, I’ll admit, and taken aback it seems to be considered a normal pairing on Mn. I like contrasts so the normal pairing would be something crunchy, sharp and cold.

I'll go with

jacket potato (carbs)
baked beans (protein)
grated cheese (dairy)
a mixed salad on the side (vitamins from the tomatoes and cucumbers etc)

Plus DC would actually eat it!

Definitely a low carb meal eaten between 8.30-9.00 pm. Because I eat healthy fats and proteins only I'm NEVER hungry. I'm too busy exercising or earning £700,000 pa to eat the rest of the time 🙏