Do you eat ‘well’?

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I’ve been reading the various guidelines about eating well and want to see how MN measures up.

5 a day - definitely every day. Nearer to 9 or 10.
Processed meat limited to x2 a week - less good on this. We often will have bacon/sausage/pate/ham/salami/breaded chicken/fishfingers 3-4 in a week.
14 units alcohol a week - I don’t drink alcohol but DH definitely exceeds this
Fish x2 a week incl x1 oily - only once really and I’m trying to stop eating so much salmon as it’s so awfully farmed
Dairy x3 a day - probably 1 portion of milk in hot drinks and maybe some cheese
6-8 glasses of water - I’m bad at this but I do drink a lot of herbal tea and I think that counts
Red meat 350g week - always have more than this and there’s bowel cancer in my family so I will work on this.

How are the rest of you doing? Any aims to improve?

Ewww! Where's the fun in that?!

I like HIP chocolate and it tastes better than dairy imo. No need to be rude, we all have different tastes and preferences.

I couldn’t find any UK specific advice on carbs or sugar. The whole idea behind ‘treatwise’ and the traffic light scheme seems to be to make consumers aware, but without easy to follow limits like ‘twice a week’ or ‘once a day’.

I think it’s tricky with carbs - NHS still says 260g + carbs a day but lots of studies show that prioritising protein, chilling out a bit about fats, eating enough fibre and accepting the carbs that come with it is better. I don’t know.

No one realistically is going to be able to work out if they’ve had more or less than 30g sugar across all foods in a day.

I try to only eat something with added sugar (cake, dessert, biscuit, choc, sweets etc) once or twice a week but I do have fruit or dried fruit most days.

Oh sorry
I didn't mean it for rudeness, I was just teasing

I have had 29.5g of free sugars today, including that in a piece of chocolate and some sugar I added to my hot drinks.

Good work!

Shame there's nothing nutritious in gin... I'd do better!