What do you eat on an average day?

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I love cooking, but often get too tired/busy/lazy, so am making an effort to cook more this year. So this is curiosity, combined with looking inspiration.

For me

Breakfast: I always skip. Have 2 cups of tea usually though.
Lunch: Omlette with mushrooms, avacado and cheese. Big portion of veg. If very lazy, 3 large boiled eggs. Doesn't really vary beyond that.
Dinner: chicken, wrapped in bacon with cheese, loads of veg. Chicken curry with cauliflower rice. Meatball bake (no pasta.) Or another Omlette. Steak and mushrooms if I'm feeling flush.

I am currently trying to lose 3+ stone and low carbing fwiw. I generally like my diet, but it's repetitive, so I'd like to spice it up a bit.

What do you eat on an average day? And do you eat differently at weekends?

Breakfast: slice of toast
Lunch: sandwich or soup or crumpet or picking at random stuff from the fridge or more toast
Dinner: mostly vegetarian, sometimes vegan e.g pasta, curry, stir fry, chilli type things, sometimes beige foods from the freezer. Today it's lentil shepherds pie (I now regret that decision because it is more effort that I can be bothered with)
Too much cake/ biscuits, as I am permanently exhausted and need the sugar.
I don't always achieve all 3 of these meals but I aim to.

B - cereal or porridge
S - raw veg & sometimes hummus or peanut butter
L - scrambled eggs on bagel, veg soup, salads, frittata, sometimes leftovers from the night before
S- Apple, a little something sweet
Banana and sometimes soya yogurt late afternoon if I’m going to the gym after work (which is most days!)
D - dishes made mostly from:, chicken, quorn, brown rice, pasta, potatoes, lots of veg, occasionally beans, get a gusto box about once a month for variety….I cook from scratch, rarely get takeaways, my “treat” is usually a supermarket pizza!

^^thats a standard week day, weekends I usually snack less as I’m out n about more but there’s often a breakfast roll or cake involved!

Breakfast: yoghurt with cereals or oats, fruit. Copious amounts of orange juice. If having it at work, it’s usually chocolate croissant and juice.

Lunch: main cooked meal. Anything from pasta, rice and veg, curries, noodles, potato gratin and eggs, jacket, pizza, dumplings with sauce and veg, burger, soup with bread… always try to have salad on the side.

Dinner: if I’ve been working all day, second cooked meal, similar food to what’s above. I try to make it more veg-based but there are weeks I am so tired by 10pm, which is when I get to eat, that I just get through a whole bag of nachos with salsa, crisps… tub of yoghurt with cornflakes. If I haven’t worked all day, a lighter version of a lunch.

Snacks tend to be fruit or sweet - aka cakes, biscuits, chocolate…

I don’t eat differently at the weekend but I work 6-7 evenings a week so it just doesn’t feel like a different day. On the rare occasion I have Sunday off (like today!) I’ll skip breakfast, have a big lunch and then something very light for dinner - yoghurt and mandarines tonight!

B: small bowl of cereal and a slice of toast
Snack: nuts/dried fruit or nkd bar
L: always eat vegetarian for lunch. Two slices of bread plus salad/veggie sticks and hummus/peanut butter/egg/cheese. Or veggie soup (half a can). Plus some fruit.
Snack: 2 biscuits or similar.
D: often veggie, pasta and rice or jacket with curry/tomato sauce/cheese/chilli etc. At the weekend often a roast/veg lasagne/beef stew or something like that. Usually have a pudding at the weekend too

I really like variety in what I eat so tend to have small portions but lots of different stuff and frequent snacks.

Are you going for a diet that is high in fat and protein (egg, cheese,bacon avocado)? I find I need at least small portions of carbs or I'm never full.

Sorry just seen you mentioned low carb, ignore my last comment.

Breakfast - porridge oats with dark chocolate and handful of raspberries

Lunch - Turkey & bacon salad on a wholemeal wrap / without the wrap

Snack - apple slices with peanut butter or a greek yoghurt with berries

Dinner - some kind of stir fry usually. Prawn / turkey / beef / chicken
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Weekends I tend to have 2 scrambled eggs with bacon for breakfast and lunch will depend on what we’re doing.
Either a salad or my usual breakfast porridge

We usually have a takeaway on a Saturday night and a roast on a Sunday.

Also dieting

B- if I don’t skip it- (usually if busy start, but do try to eat it) full fat Greek yogurt with 2-3 types of fruit. Teaspoon almond butter. Or scrambled eggs with avocados and cherry tomatoes.

L- if I eat breakfast & I’m busy, I might just have veggie crudités and hummus, or some fruit for lunch. Otherwise something like an omelette with lots of fresh herbs and cheese, or Greek salad or smaller portion of dinner leftovers.

D- always try to eat with DS. Might be something like a poke bowl with salmon, or a rice noodle stir fry. Chicken and roast potatoes, peppers, courgettes etc. Gluten free pasta with hidden veg sauce....

Snacks - usually only one or two- almond butter. Tortilla chips. Fruit. Piece of cheese or slices of ham.

Also don’t eat gluten (intolerant) or processed sugar (40 day detox but not missing it much so will probably continue).

Do have a small glass of red wine or a double whiskey 2-3 times per week.

Breakfast is almost always something on toast. Butter and marmite, houmous, cheese spread.

Lunch is usually leftovers or soup with bread, crackers, cheese type things. Sometimes batch cooked dal or chilli. Sometimes baked beans or scrambled egg on toast.

Dinners are more varied. Lots of pasta, curries, stir fries, chillis etc but I’m quite adventurous and like to cook. Usually one or two freezer meals which could be batch cooking or classic stuff like veggie fish fingers, beans and chips. Always fake away Friday/Saturday since lockdown.

Two 100 cal snacks per day (small choc bar, packet of rwiglets etc). Sometimes a pudding after dinner.

On the weekend we often have a bigger brunch (shakshuka, eggs on toast, avocado and eggs on toast, cinnamon buns, pancakes etc), light lunch and go out for pudding. Usually a take away for dinner.

Sunday lunch is normally something vaguely traditional like veggie sausage and mash with veg, lentil shepherds pie, veggie lasagne.

I’m not sure any of that is particular inspirational! I’d recommend the meal planning threads. They’re great for new ideas.

That should say take away for evening dinner. We have a take away about once a month because we’re rural and it’s a pain to get it.

B: smoothie with frozen blueberries, apple cider vinegar, kefir and fruit juice

L: usually a cheese sarnie and yoghurt if wfh

S: spag bol, tenderstem, carrots, then ice cream

That is a typical day for me. I swap the cheese sarnie for something a bit more fun at weekends - yesterday I had chicken pie, mash and green veg.

Also dieting…

B - lots of black coffee
L - chicken salad/south western quinoa salad/homemade vegetable soup and crudités with cottage cheese or homemade Moroccan Hummas (no oil) - all lunches batch cooked at start of week

D - batch cook chilli, curry, spag Bol and then portion up chicken & pork in the freezer so either one of the batch cooked with brown rice/ courgetti or stir fry with the chicken or pork (decorated overnight, marinated in the day)

Snacks are small handful of frazzles, fat free yogurt or hard boiled egg (I cook 4 at a time)