To wonder what 'normal' people eat...?

[HouseHell]

Just that really.

I have problems with food...it's very much feast or famine and nothing much in between. So if you're 'normal', what does a days food look like?

Tia

Today not a normal day for me but usually...
Weekday:
•cereal
•coffee/latte
• lots of cups of tea
•ryvita with Philli and salad
•biscuit bar/ceral bar
•veggie pasta and massive salad or roasted veg
•chocolate bar twirl or flake (I eat choc every day!)

Meant to add weekend also which might be a sandwich or Sunday lunch and a 'proper pudding' and crisps at weekend too

portion sizes are absolutely critical though

there was a thread with a lady who ate 6 meals a day
but once pushed it turned out that the portion sizes she was using were TEENY
and all 6 meals added up to around 1500 calories

No breakfast
Sandwich or salad. Sometimes I have 2 sandwiches.
Normal dinner, usually an Asian fishy meal, jacket potato, curry, pizza, whatever.
Snack sometimes, only when sweet stuff that's turned up at work.

I'm like you, it's all or nothing, If I stick to the above I'm ok.

Breakfast - either a banana or Nutribullet smoothie
Lunch - Jacobs multigrain crackers, low fat cheese spread. Small bag of popcorn & a yoghurt
Dinner - roast chicken, potatoes & veg. Strawberry cheesecake.
Snacks - fruit or chocolate depending on my mood....mostly chocolate!

Usually shredded wheat for breakfast or buttered toast at the weekend. Lunch is either a sandwich or left overs from previous night's tea plus a piece of fruit and a yoghurt. Dinner is usually homemade pasta, curry, casserole, stir fry etc.
Snack would be a banana, a piece of cake or a hot cross bun and if I'm hungry in the evening I might have a piece of cheese with an apple and /or some raisins.

on a normal week day
Breakfast = pint of tea with milk, no sugar
Lunch = single slice of bread, mayo, 2 slices ham, banana, pint of tea
Supper = Spag bol or other good sized meal, followed by fruit.
No snacks, ever
Lots of tea.
No booze on week days

Today was
2 weetabix
Cheese and lettuce sandwich
2 biscuits
Roast lamb and veg and roast potatoes
White chocolate cheesecake
Half an easter egg

With some other bits of chocolate in between but that's not usual it is easter day after all!

I usually have a piece of fruit with lunch too

Breakfast
2 cups black coffee
1 slice toast & butter
OJ
2 of my DD's mini eggs ( well it's Easter)
Lunch
Portion of chips and
Half a lager in local pub after a 5 mile walk.
Pinched 2 of DH's onion rings.
Dinner
Poached Salmon
Mixed salad
Half a jacket potato with butter
2 glasses of wine.

Snack....slice of apple pie and cream

Several large glasses of water

Normal day:

Breakfast: fruit scone with lots of butter and a cup of tea
Mid-morning: cup of tea and a cookie
Lunch: main meal e.g. spag bol with veg and fruit crumble with cream
Mid-afternoon: piece of flapjack or a cookie and a cup of tea
Evening: packet of crisps and some chocolate

Not very healthy! But I've been 8.5 stone and a size 8 for the last 30 years so I may as well carry on!

Today:

Breakfast: wholemeal toast with jam, cup of tea
Lunch: roast lamb, 4 small roast potatoes, broccoli, peas, carrots. Crumble for pud
Tea: Easter cake
Supper: sandwich
Drinks: skinny latte, glass red wine, coconut water

Usual work day is:

Breakfast: muesli
Lunch: sushi or salad or some kind of pret sandwich, fruit
Dinner: pasta with lentils and either chicken, meatballs or sausages

I usually snack on biscuits in the afternoon!

Typical workday pre pregnancy. I am currently a food hoover

Breakfast would be 40g of porridge with something like a banana and cinnamon in it, or some chopped dates and sour cherries.

Morning snacks: apple, yogurt. Maybe another piece of fruit if there was something nice looking at the supermarket recently.

Lunch: tin of soup.

Afternoon snacks: banana. "Healthier" crisps like sunbites or velvet crunch. Something like a kiwi or nectarine.

Dinner: homemade chili with brown rice. Chili made with 500g of 5% fat mince and a metric tonne of veg (a carrot, 2 sticks of celery, an onion, mushrooms, some olives, lime juice, tinned tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, garlic, sundried tomatoes, tomato puree I may have a tomato problem, kidney beans or butter beans, oxo cube, various herbs and spices). 80g of rice per person, dry weight. Chili makes 4 portions.

Evening snack of mango, grapes, strawberries, crisps or good quality milk chocolate.

I weigh out things like cereals, rice and pasta as I am pants at estimating.

I eat a large volume as I get hungry a lot, but I try to stick to reasonable choices.

Now I am pregnant, you would not believe the amount I am putting away!

Breakfast - muesli
Lunch - varies each day
-ham or cheese sandwich
- soup

Eve. Meal - chop, potato, veg
Roast dinner
Pasta and bologna se
Cornish Pastie, potato and veg

Snacks - Apple, satsumas

Generally:

Breakfast - two slices of brown toast with butter, hot chocolate with a little milk, water and no sugar

Lunch - meat with salad

Dinner - meat with small portion of carbs, salad or veg

Dessert - one scoop of ice cream/slice of cake

Snacks - apple, pear, raisins, crackers, muesli bar

Juice diluted heavily with water or squash
Handful of crisps only at weekends
One or two squares of chocolate now and then

Scrambled egg or peanut butter on toast or yogurt/ fruit for breakfast.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese salad on homemade seeded bread)

Dinner: monkfish & saffron mash / pasta with meatballs / roast chicken with salad / stir fry etc.

Snacks: apple or banana. nakd bar and sometimes a few biscuits.

A packet of salt and vinegar crisps

Two bowls of Honey Puffs

Homemade Chilli corne carne

I'm pregnant and have a cold, therefore eating like a student is in order.

Either porridge or eggs and bacon

Lunch. Protein plus salad

Tea. Chicken/fish. Veg and cauli mash or courgette noodles

Snacks are black olives and small amount of nuts.

Very good but then i blow it by bingeing on chocolate! No bread, spuds, rice or pasta and no alcohol.

I am sort of normal. BMI hardwired on 22.5

Breakfast: 2 slices oftoast, 2 soft boiled eggs, juice and tea

Lunch: wrap with ham and salad and mayo

Snack: snickers bar (forgit to buy easter egg for self) and 3 ginger nuts

More tea

Dinner: 1 plate (medium size, about 100 gram pasta) with spinach mushroom creamy sauce

1 apple and a cup of tea

2 small glasses of red wine

I never seem to gain or lose weight

Allofaflumble - how long since you stopped eating carbs?

I may have to follow suit as my weight has slightly increased. Will probably do every other day though to start.

Not sure what "normal" is - but I am assuming it is someone who is not constantly dieting and has a good relationship with food.

Yesterday:

Breakfast (5am): homemade sourdough bagel with butter and marmite, one poached egg, white coffee

Pick me up (9am): white coffee, one speculoos biscuit

Lunch (between 12-1): greek yoghurt, sprinkle of seeds and nuts, blueberries, granola

Dinner: pan fried sea trout, sautéed monks beard and leek, quinoa, roasted baby plum tomato

Snack: tea and a handful of toasted coconut chips

Today was probably more than usual, but it is Easter Sunday after all .
Breakfast: 2 croissants, 1 with roule cheese and 1 with spread and honey and 2 café au laits (half coffee and half hot milk, with a sugar in each).

Lunch: 2 slices of crusty white bread with roule cheese.

Dinner: 4 slices of roast Quorn, 3 roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, broccoli, a Yorkshire, a spoon of redcurrant jelly and gravy, with a small glass of juice.

Evening: cup of tea with milk and 1 sugar, half an Easter egg and 2 glasses of white wine.
Sandwich made with 2 slices of crusty white bread, 2 small slices of roast Quorn and a spoon of redcurrant jelly.

@openup41

Since last September or so. I'm not completely religious about it. For eg. If I had to eat at someone's house and that was on offer I would eat a small amount.

At home i avoid those items as it is easy to do so.

Do you still care? I have i my had a chance to update now

I am 5ft 2 and currently feeling uncomfy at 9st 3

Normal workong day
Breakfast: 1 slice toast with buttery stuff
Lunch: homemade soup and maybe crisps or oatcake and fruit
Dinner: spag Bob
Extra: half bottle wine

The extra calories is obviously the wine but cut that out and it is probably reasonable. I probably have an apple or satsuma during the day as well

Working day
Breakfast : weetabix or porridge, juice, tea.

Lunch : sandwich, 2x fruit.

Mid-afternoon : biscuit

Home from work : toast & marmite, tea & biscuit. (I really need to cut out this unnecessary snack)

Dinner : Usually meat & veg, pasta, supermarket curry. Anything quick & tasty. Try to avoid puds & alcohol during the week.

Weekend
Brunch : bacon or sausage sandwiches, juice, coffee.

Dinner : 3 or 4 courses, eg G&T with olives, seafood starter, roast or steak main with veg, cheeseboard, pudding. Wine or beer. Possibly both.

This thread had made me weep. I was about 3 and half stone overweight, now 2 years later and thanks to a gastro disease I am a stone underweight. I don't know how to eat. I am scared to put the weight back on because everyone tells me how great I look, but the only way I know how to keep it off is to starve myself all week so I end up eating 5 bars of chocolate and feelng embarrassed about my greed and dp teases what a pig I am, so now I feel worse.