What's your diet like

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I'm keen to know how others eat. Give me an idea of what you eat in a day, and how often you have 'treats'

I do 16/8 for health benefits (not weight loss).

I have brunch between 10 and 11. Something substantial. I always have a couple of pieces of fruit to begin with then something like poached eggs on toast.

I'll have a mid afternoon snack. Maybe nuts, a biscuits or crisps.

I have a big dinner around 6pm. Always make it from scratch. Could be a pasta bake, vegetarian moussaka, curry, vegetarian chilli etc. I try and make very nutritious dinners with lots of vegetables.

I’m vegan and eat fairly healthily to make sure I get enough iron, protein, calcium etc. Things I’ve eaten this week which are typical days for me.

Breakfasts
Porridge, berries and seeds.
Scrambled tofu and spinach on toast.
Weetabix, banana and seeds.

Lunches
Lentil and vegetable soup with wholemeal bread.
Bean salad.
Falafel, hummus and salad wrap.

Dinners
Bean and vegetable chilli with whole grain rice.
Lentil and mushroom lasagne with salad.
Butterbean, tomato and spinach stew with mashed potatoes.

I mostly snack on things like fruit, veg with hummus, soy yogurts and nuts.

I eat some dark chocolate a few times a week, I’ll have biscuits or a slice of cake maybe once a week and have a takeaway once every month or two.

I drink mostly water but also green tea and tea with oat milk. I don’t drink any alcohol now as since peri menopause it makes me ill. 😢

Talking about just me, for breakfast I have either:

Yoghurt+kefir+fruit+flax
Eggs, smoked Salmon, edemame beans
Oats+flax+blueberries+banana+greek yog

Lunch:
Massive salad with protein
Traybaked roast veg with protein

Plus I eat lots of dark chocolate, apples and satsumas, decaf coffee and tea and about 4L of water.

I do have a couple of drinks and crisps at the weekend.

I don't bother with dinner, I find I'm too tired by about 6pm but I do cook for DH and DC and nibble bits of theirs while I'm cooking.

Not the best diet here, but probably not the worst.

I'm retired, and tend to have two meals a day - brunch and dinner. Brunch can be eggs and bacon (I cure and smoke my own bacon), or black and white pudding with grilled tomatoes (I make the puddings - I have a lot of time on my hands, and enjoy cooking), or porridge with chopped apple and cinnamon, or tarka dal (a favourite, usually make enough for two days in a row) with roti or idli, or a bowl of Tesco red berry fruit cereal and milk. Sometimes a couple of slices of toast and marmalade.

Dinner, is just DH (not yet retired) and me. I try to get vegetables into him, but he's stuck in an 'I'm 12' timewarp as far as eating them goes. So dinner could be shepherd's pie and baked beans, or twice-cooked potatoes with chilli, sour cream and cheese, or a risotto, or paella, or steak and kidney pie with mash and peas, or spag bol with hidden veg, or Singapore noodles, egg fried rice,sometimes steak, mushrooms and chips (with a salad!), or fish, chips and mushy peas. Many other meals, too many to list.

Other than that, I have one black coffee on waking, then plain water throughout the rest of the day. Now and then I'll have a 'proper' (as in grinding the beans etc.) coffee with milk and a couple of Lotus biscuits. Maybe twice a week? Now and then I'll have a cup of tea, but not every day.

I get through one pack of M&Ms a week, and a Tesco lemon yoghurt daily. That's about it!

Weekdays I do alright… weekends I fall off the wagon a bit.

weekdays…
bfast: porridge (winter), yoghurt and berries (summer)
lunch: supermarket soup-best quality I can find (winter), home made salad (summer)
tea: rotation of fish, pots, veg, home made chilli, curry, fajitas, chicken, veg, stirfry, pie, slow cooker meals.
snacks of chocolate/nuts daily.

weekends
Eat out for sat lunch, takeaway/or oven pizza in evening.
Sunday lunch from scratch, homemade pudding.

im 45… weight gradually increasing so know I need to change this.

I've been snacking way too much so trying to cut it back now

B - porridge with fruit and protein powder
L - soup and a piece of sourdough or a sandwich, piece of chocolate or a yoghurt
T - anything really. I don't eat chicken, lamb or steak so usually cheese, veg or mince based

I eat a mostly whole food diet but with occasional treat / upf food thrown in. Don't drink much alcohol. Lots of fruit and veg. Lots of water. Try to do 16:8 intermittent fasting most days. When I go out to eat (not often) I have what I like.

Shit.

Breakfast is usually a cereal bar and a coffee. At the weekend a bacon butty and coffee.

Lunch on work days is usually a sandwich or salad, crisps, an apple and then a coffee and small chocolate bar.

Evening meal varies but tends to be something like pasta and sauce, chicken and chips, chilli and rice...that sort of thing.

A tea and a choccie biscuit in the evening and sometimes a glass or two of wine or gin and tonic.

Not enough veg, not enough protein and not enough water. Too much booze, too many carbs and too many calories. No wonder I'm overweight.

Breakfast is two coffees with milk then either a piece of toast or bowl of cereal/porridge with a banana.

Lunch is a sandwich or soup or beans on toast.

Dinner is either a Planthood meal, or pasta, a ready meal once a week when I'm late home and a roast dinner on Sundays.

I always have a Bendicks bitter mint after dinner except on Sundays when we have proper pudding.

Thank you all for replying- you've given me a great insight as to what a more "normal" diet should be. I think I've lost my way a bit with having kids and convenience etc. I need to get better my my habits though as I'm not getting any younger and I want to shave some belly weight off.

It could be much better. I'm vegetarian and don't eat a lot of dairy so my diet is quite restricted. I eat way too much sugar.
Typical day is something like -
Breakfast - granola, protein yogurt, raspberries and blueberries
Snack - coffee and a biscuit/ crumpet/ piece of toast
Lunch - soup and bread
Snack - banana
Dinner - salmon, roast veg
Snack - chocolate bar

Pretty dreadful at the moment as cancer treatment is giving me gut issues. Today hasn't been too bad....

White toast and marmite and an actimel for breakfast
Two seeded toasted bagels with dairylea and fresh tomatoes and a cup of tea for lunch, followed by three lindor chocolates (I don't usually have chocolates, they were a birthday present).
A jacket potato with corned beef, lettuce, home-made coleslaw and tomatoes, followed by a little pot of (supermarket) chocolate mousse, for supper.
I'm just about to have a cup of instant horlicks.

yesterday I had toast for breakfast, a pasty for lunch, and beef curry and rice for supper.

I'm gluten free, not by choice.

Today I have had :
B: GF special K type cereal with raisins.
L: small GF roll with houmous, 2 good slices of ham. Some poached spiced plums and kefir yoghurt.
Snack: small packet pain crisps
D: pasta, peas, pesto, tin of mackerel. Small homemade GF fairy cake.

Drinks : 5 cups decaf tea and milk, pint squash, 2 cans decaf Pepsi max.

Sending 💐. One of my dearest friends is having cancer treatment, and her appetite is gone. I've been making her soups but even that isn't hitting the spot. Cooked her a full roast chicken the other day, a plate of cheese, a load of rolls and she said it was the best thing she's had in days!

When my dad had it his taste buds changed. He became obsessed with a mushroom and cream pasta. Is there anything you fancy that you reckon we can tempt you with?

I start every day with hot lemon water and then a raw vegetable protein shake. After that I always have porridge / Weetabix / shredded wheat / yoghurt and fruit / you get the idea.

Lunch - tofu scramble with avocado and mushroom / pasta / jacket potato / beans on toast. I love a hummus and vegetable sandwich with pickled gherkins and olives.

Afternoon snack nuts / fruit

Dinner - spaghetti bolognese/ stir fry / veggie pinwheels / chickpea curry / anything really. I eat a lot of different beans and vegetables. I love tempeh.

I only ever eat chocolate on Sunday or an occasion and haven't had a drop of alcohol in nearly 8 years. I'm a vegan. I fast twice a week 3pm - 7am for the health benefits. I drink lots of water. BMI 18.7 and I'm active every day.

My biggest vice is tea and coffee. I have young kids so coffee is crucial to my survival!

@GiddyRobin the problem isn't so much that I have lost my appetite, although I have a bit. It's that what I do eat goes straight through me! Yesterday I had way more veg than usual and I am hoping that I don't have a very uncomfortable day today. My evening was fairly uncomfortable but it has been a lot worse in the past so I am hoping that my gut is recovering a bit. My one and only cycle of chemo (it made me so ill I ended up in hospital so I had to stop) was 17 months ago. I'm now on another drug which causes gut problems until next August. After that I hope to go back to lots of fruit and veggies and seeded brown bread 😁.

It's porridge for breakfast today. I have to go to the hospital later for a blood test so we will probably have lunch there, otherwise it will be a ham sandwich. This evening is going to be a ham and cheese chicken Kiev with peas. All bland nursery food!