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

Maybe breakfast depending on what time I get up/what I ate the previous day - I have one larger meal per day so if that was eaten late the night before I'm not usually hungry again by morning. 2 slices of toast or bowl of cereal.

Small meal is usually lunch - normally sandwiches or soup and toast. Maybe fruit, maybe crisps with it, usually some chocolate (eg: a handful of after eights or a couple of fun size choc bars). Might be a yoghurt or something once in a blue moon.

Snacks - some sort of snacks mid-afternoon/work hometime, as our evening meal is between 8.30-10pm. Toast or fruit or yoghurt or cheese or unsalted nuts if feeling healthyish, crisps or bakery products/biscuits if not. Prolly averages out to a banana and a few biscuits per day. This food is effectively the 'breakfast' meal, really.

Large meal is usually in the evening - pasta, stir fry, vegetable curry, vegetable tart, pie, quiche or flan, fajita kit, vegetarian roast, veggie burger etc etc. Curry/fajita/stir fry are complete meals already containing veg. (curry comes with rice too) but for the others there is usually some sort of potato and a few sorts of veg alongside the main.

Many mugs of tea/coffee/hot choc throughout the day (all decaff for the last year due to pregnancy and breastfeeding). Sometimes juice or fizzy drinks but not everyday.

Ahem. Not a normal person here. But then again I am BFing trying to find an excuse.
Anyway, I just realised that my foods are mostly Russian anyway, so no use for you - borsht, dumplings, chicken kievs, olivier salad. Meat at mine is usually baked with sliced peppers and cheese. Yummy. Also, pilaf is quite common. My DP calls it porkrice. Ooh, Philly-bacon pasta as well.
My diet is really unhealthy, I know. But I enjoy my food. I don't gain weight though. It just stays the same.

Gosh this thread is depressing! I am 18 stone and dont eat anywhere near the amounts mentioned in this thread. 2 meals a day at most. Yesterday I had 2 pieces of toast with marg at 12pm and then a large portion of pasta (80g dried weight) with one chicken breast and a ready made creamy sauce and half a garlic baguette at about 5pm. I may also have a chocolate bar about 3 times a week and 2 bottles of wine over the weekend.

I guess to be a normal weight I would need to cut down to one meal a day.

Ioa, I'm no diet expert, but cutting down to one meal a day is the worst thing you can do. I hate breakfast, but it's true what they say - it is important to eat a good one. Light eating during the day as well. As for dinner, pasta and half a garlic bread is lovely, but carb overload! Two bottles of wine in two days is a lot of calories as well. I'm not lecturing, believe me I don't eat anything like what's been mentioned on this thread (I've only just learned how to say quinoa!), but I have had problems with food (over and under eating). It's more than 'chocolate is bad, salad is good', and more about balance, eating regularly and not eating too much of one 'group'.

I'm currently eating a pepperami and a Cadbury crunch bar for my breakfast.

Normally though, breakfast is eggy bread with marmite, lunch is anything I can get my hands on in the house, a banana, ready meal, plate of chips, bag of chocolate or a pie (Going on last week's lunches.)

For tea its whatever my dp cooks, usually chicken/sausages with rice or pasta with veg.

I'm overweight, just, losing my pregnancy weight and have 4 kilos left to lose.

Yesterday I had a bowl of porridge for breakfast, a bowl of Shreddies for lunch. Dinner was baked potato with beans, cheese and salad. Pudding was 3, ok maybe 4 scoops of ice cream. The cereal for lunch is a result of me needing to go shopping, desperately need to buy some fruit and veg!

'Normal' for me is something like croissants or a bacon sandwich for breakfast.

Lunch might be a toasted sandwich or soup and roll.

Snacks could be crisps/hot cross bun/chocolate/pork pie

Evening meal - something like chilli and rice or spag bol (with garlic bread!) or roast dinner.

I drink at least 2-3 large glasses of wine most days.

My portions are far too big and needless to say I am over weight .

If I am trying to be healthy -

Breakfast - greek yogurt with fruit
Lunch - homemade soup and small roll
Dinner - chilli and rice, but cooked in a low fat way and a smaller portion.
Snack - fruit
One small glass of wine.

Perfectly do-able - so why can't I stick to that?

Normal day for me:

Breakfast: toast or a bowl of cereal (recently a toasted hot cross bun)

Lunch: a sandwich or salad, usually Ham, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pepper with salad cream or mayo.

Dinner: Chili, curry, pasta bake, casserole, stir fry, with lots of veg ie something homemade and easy to stick in the slow cooker or Chuck together when DH finishes work (usually late!)

Snacks: Apple, a few biscuits, a packet of crisps. depending on how hungry I am and what I've been doing.

Some days I skip breakfast or lunch as I'm just not hungry but I drink tea and water all day so tend to fill up on liquids. I don't think I ever have an empty cup or glass for more than half an hour!

DH is generally quite picky with his dinner accompliments so he will usually have chips and I'll have jacket potato or similar as I hate oven chips with a vengeance!

Portion size is an issue though as it is for most. What you class as a normal meal may be a snack for some or a feast for others. I use standard sized dinner plates for an evening meal with a pattern around the edge and make sure my dinner is always only in the non patterned section of my plate so I can control my portion sizes as I'm more likely to over eat in the evenings.

Weekday
Coffee and fruit 1st thing.(6:15)
If I won't get lunch then I have yoghurt and muesli with honey at 8:30
Otherwise lunch around 12:15 soup/salad with protien/wrap/beans on toast 2 pieces of fruit (usually an apple and a clementine sometimes grapes or a plum)
Dinner at 7ish, will be chilli/stir fry/pasta/soup once a week/stew/pizza.

No deserts during the week. My BMI is 22.

cauliflower pizza?

I've just eaten some strawberries with ketchup. Never tried that before. I was idly pondering what, if anything, to put on them. Surprisingly nice for dipping.

Oh. Just normal day. I haven't eaten except for strawberries yet but yesterday I had:

No breakfast, except supplements and Actimel (everyday)
Lunch: sausage sandwich
Dinner: chicken kiev, new potatoes and green beans
Snack: M&S hot cross MUFFIN. If you haven't tried these, don't, not unless you want to be addicted. I just had one but could have eaten two or three.

I have a small (crème egg size) Thornton's Alpini egg that my youngest gave me, she does not understand that I really don't like chocolate. I've opened it and nibbled the top with appropriate Mmmm noises and when she went off to the delights of Peppa Pig, wrapped it back up again.

If she'd brought me Co-op sausages or those muffins, they'd be gone in a flash.

Saturday: Satsuma and an apple in the morning. Packet of walkers baked stars crisps.
Ham sandwich on 2 slices of white, thin scraping of mayo (prefer this to butter or spread)
Coffee whilst out in town during the afternoon
Soup (new Covent garden chicken soup, shared carton with DS) and half a slice of buttered white toast for tea.
Drinks, tea, water, 3 cans Budweiser.
And a fuckload of chocolate which wouldn't normally happen, obviously

Sunday:
3 rashers bacon, half tin chopped tomatoes.
Couple of rice cakes.

Tea, coffee, water.

Sticky Ribs Pot Noodle.
Roast beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, gravy, carrots, cauli, broccoli, bread sauce, parsnips.

Another ton of chocolate

although i am 2 stone overweight my weight has been stable for the last 2 and a half years since I had DD2, not varying by more than 1-2kg either side. I'll lose it again when I can be bothered to try hard and definitely before I get to 40! (I will do this by smaller portions of the same foods pretty much, hardly any alcohol, exercise)

Can I recommend eating your meals from a side plate? Once the plate has been lined with food, you stop serving. No piling - each food item must sit on the plate. At first it felt weird eating a child's portion but now it is the norm.

I find this worked for me more than denying myself particular foods.

I no longer eat sweets or put sugar in my hot drinks. Big thing for me as I have a sweet tooth!

Breakfast: banana before gym, then ham and cheese panini and vat of milky coffee at work at 9am.

Lunch: big mixed salad with hard boiled egg/ cheese and miso soup or maybe some hard shell tacos with prawns and salad or pasta dish.

Mid afternoon: another coffee, quite often eat a big bag of sweets ( haribo etc)

Dinner: chili, curry, Spag Bol etc. couple of servings of veg or a salad.

Evening: Couple of bits of fruit, at least 1 glass wine.

The sweets are a terrible habit but I run 50 miles a week so I side step the associated morbid obesity.

Shit- I mean 50k. 50 miles would be going some.

loa321

Gosh this thread is depressing! I am 18 stone and dont eat anywhere near the amounts mentioned in this thread. 2 meals a day at most. Yesterday I had 2 pieces of toast with marg at 12pm and then a large portion of pasta (80g dried weight) with one chicken breast and a ready made creamy sauce and half a garlic baguette at about 5pm. I may also have a chocolate bar about 3 times a week and 2 bottles of wine over the weekend.

I guess to be a normal weight I would need to cut down to one meal a day.

No! Don't cut down to one meal! But what you're eating is nowhere near 'normal' - however one might define that. It's not about quantities of food so much as the quality of the food that you're eating. Where is your veg? Your salad? Your fruit?

You're existing on a diet made up almost entirely of refined carbs.

If you want to lose weight, you should be looking to eat three meals a day, with a focus on far, far fewer refined carbs, and instead getting your carbs from vegetables and salad. More protein and also good quality fat.

So you'd be better off having something like:

Breakfast - scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast (use butter not marg)
Lunch - some kind of meat/fish with a good salad (using an oily dressing)
Dinner - some kind of meat/fish with 2-3 different vegetables on the side.

aoife24

Yes, cauliflower pizza! I'm a long-term low carber, so normal pizza is out for me. I make the base from a cauliflower that's been blitzed in the food processor, cooked, had the moisture squeezed out of it, then mixed with mozzarella, Parmesan and an egg. Baked, to dry it out, then topped with whatever you want on your pizza. Not quite the same as 'real' pizza, but it comes pretty close.

Most days my breakfast is either eggs of some description with wholemeal toast, or Greek yoghurt (full fat organic) with fruit.

Lunch is either soup or leftovers when I'm working. Today it was tomato, mozzarella, avocado and chorizo salad with basil and olive oil.

In the evening we have something hot, usually with meat or fish and lots of veg.

I do drink far too much wine though.

Yes I eat far too many carbs, especially bread. I always say if I could stop eating bread and drinking wine the pounds would melt away! I am ashamed to say I probably struggle to eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a week. I dont like fruit, but I do like salad and veg and a lot of it is just laziness. I miss meals a lot and on takeaway night I starve myself all day so I can have a big takeaway.

The thread has made me see that maybe I can eat more often and lose weight too.

Loa, try to cut out white pasta and bread. Wholemeal spaghetti is nicer (IMO) than wholemeal pasta tubes/twists etc, and a good starting point. Avoid ready made sauces as they're salt and fat heavy. Also, include more veg... much more veg.

Exercise is important too. If you're active, you will crave the salty, sugary foods less, and you'll want to drink more water. This is my experience anyway!

Sorry, I cross posted with you!

We seem to fluctuate with the amount of bread we eat. If it's a bread I really love (Warbuton's Honeywheat or Yorkshire Farmhouse), I make a point of eating it. Otherwise, we have a fair bit thrown out. Sometimes they're toast fiends and other times not.

I don't like fruit either, loa, I buy it sometimes and don't want to chuck it out, hence the strawberries, but I find it's a waste of calories really, I prefer vegetables but really prefer sausages.

On a workday. Muesli and coffee for breakfast. Sandwich (hummus or pbj!) or sometimes an omelette from canteen for lunch. Cups of tea throughout day and often a banana/some apples/a cereal bar in the afternoon. Dinner - varies wildly but a cooked meal about 50% of time meat or fish, 50% of time veggie. Usually a glass of wine or a martini in the evening - this is the worst aspect of my diet as I should prob not have a drink every day. Occasionally supplemented by chocolate.