Is this a healthy meal plan?

[Ojlaurv]

I’ve just done an Asda food delivery and this is what I’ve planned for dinners the next few weeks. I’m planning to have natural bio yogurt with banana, berries, peanut butter, and mixed nuts in the afternoon, as I normally don’t really eat breakfast, just have a coffee in the morning with my iron vits then have something at about 1/2pm.

Looks fine to me. Lots of veggies. I’m sure someone will be able to pick apart some small parts of it, but I would say I’m genera that’s a fairly healthy diet and you’d be eating better than the majority of people.

only thing I would change of it were me is the tofu (don’t like it )and make sure my sauces were mostly made at home so I didn’t consume loads of u healthy crap through sauces (I do actually use bottles/jarred sauces occasionally but if I was aiming for as healthy as possible I’d cut them out).

Do you have a goal for your diet or is it just to eat as healthily as possible? I only ask because you might eat differently for different goals.

I think if you find what you have planned manageable and tasty and could maintain eating like that then it’s a good diet. Too many people make massive changes they can’t sustain and it all falls apart.

It's very hard to say without knowing how much of it is ultra processed/ how much you are making from scratch, your portion sizes of each thing, and what you are trying to achieve with your nutrition.

It certainly sounds delicious though!

Sounds good to me, but are you likely to get bored with so much broccoli and spinach? I aim to eat a rainbow so like to mix up my veg, adding in things like baby corn, mange tout, celeriac, beetroot, tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots, peas etc.

Presumably OP lives alone and the veg would go off by having bits of this and bits of that

It's all down to the portion sizes but looks good to me 👌

Yes, looks good and vastly more nutritious than how a lot of people eat.

I agree with just making sure that most of your sauces etc are home-made so you're limiting UPF. E.g. I make a stir fry sauce with honey, ginger, garlic and chilli. Your lunch sounds great too, Pip&Nut do an absolutely delicious peanut butter butter that is 100% nuts and no rubbish in it.

It's a range of veg, protein and carbs at every meal which is a good foundation for general health.

Depends entirely on the details - is your mashed potato full of butter? Is your southern fried chicken breast ultra- processed ? Are your wedges home made or ready frozen and deep fried? Is your chicken curry home made sauce or a jar full of salt, sugars and chemicals?Etc etc.
As a GENERAL rule: you'd be best off having more whole foods - home made not processed/ ready made, more veg on your plate than carbs or meat, and watch your portion sizes.

My god you're going to need a lot of room to store all that spinach!!! 1 giant bag only does 2 portions when wilted

That’s exactly what sauce I make for a stir fry! Thank you x

I was planning to get frozen veg for this reason

Everything homemade!

The only thing I would say, is, you put iron bits. Iron can be very hard on the gut, normally you are told to take it with a meal, not on an empty stomach, and for more effective absorbing, not with tea or coffee, but something high in vit C. Otherwise great 👍

Iron VITS, blasted phone!!

I think it's fine, although I would swap one meal for a pulse based one, as they're so good for you.

I would ditch the mayo, butter sauce, wedges and anything deep fried. Otherwise it looks very healthy. Make sure rice is brown and not white.