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

Breakfast: bacon, lettuce, tomato avocado sandwich
Lunch- lamb salad wrap
Dinner- chicken Caesar salad
3 strong coffees, 3 glasses of wine
Snack- 4 crackers with peanut butter

So far this morning I've had:-

Slice of sweet potato and goats cheese bread with flora pro active for breakfast.

Lunch:
Fryup fried egg, beans, bacon and tomatoes with more of sweet potato and goats cheese bread.

Dinner will be: small quiche broccoli and Stilton I think with potatoes and salad (leaves and tomatoes maybe mushroom and pepper).

Have countless cups of tea with skimmed milk and had a few squares dark chocolate as snack mid morning.

At work it's different:-

Breakfast is granola with yogurt. Or soya and something else (Vogel bread).

Lunch is normally either soup and toast with yogurt and lately small bag crisps

Dinner whatever I fancy quorn stir fry or mince with potatoes broccoli etc.

eat an Orange a day

Also snack on and off.

Lately I've noticed I'm craving more biscuits and crisps besides my normal intake and also starburst.

Today I've had so far..

Cup of tea, two slices of toast and butter and a chocolate slim fast shake
Glass of water
Pasta, tuna, courgette and peppers, water

This afternoon I will probably have some peppermint tea and some plain biscuits and dinner will likely be lasagne or possibly toast again (depending how I'm feeling as have some stomach issues lately)

I often snack a lot in the evening so will have a banana or yogurt then and occasionally chocolate too

Breakfast: milky tea (no sugar), slice of homemade plain sponge (but I'll have eggs at the weekend).

Mid-morning: on a work day, espresso with one sugar.

Lunch: either bowl of soup with a slice of bread or half a sandwich, or pasta with a veggie based sauce, plus a piece of fruit.

Mid-afternoon: large mug of milky tea (no sugar) with either biscuits or yogurt with banana and honey (if I haven't had much for lunch).

Dinner is either soup, or fish like salmon or haddock with boiled potatoes or in tomato and olive sauce, or (very rarely, a homemade burger or some roast chicken or other small portion of meat with veg, plus a piece of fruit.

I eat out about 4/5 times a month. I try to keep in check the amount of biscuits I consume in the afternoon, although I'll have the occasional piece of chocolate, say, 2/3 times a week.

Today
B - few slices ham, handful grated cheese, 3 scrambled eggs
Protein shake as snack
T - mixed grains, sun dried toms, cucumber, feta, balsamic, and whatever else is in the fridge!
Possibly a choc bar later

Breakfast - 30g Bran Flakes w/skim milk, fresh orange juice, tea w/skim milk.
Lunch - wholegrain pitta with 1 slice ham & 30g Phili light. M&S lentil curls. Water.
Dinner - chicken breast with roasted veg. WW brownie dessert.
Snack - 3 x Mikado sticks. Tea w/skim milk.

I'm trying to lose weight over the next few weeks, so it comes to under 1,200 cal.

Porridge with almond milk, Greek yogurt, nuts and seeds.
Almond butter on rice cakes x 2
Avocado on toast
Chicken and vegetable bake (inc potatoes)
Strawberries maybe banana too
Decaf te and coffee, fruit teas loads of water.

Breakfast: Warm croissant with half a teaspoonfull of home-made marmalade.

Elevenses/lunch: Two medium lattes - with a dog walk in between each.

Teatime Snack: Small piece of home-made banana cake.

Tonight: The remaining quarter of yesterday's quiche (ham, peppers, spring onion, herbs, cheese) with baby new potatoes and salad.

The remaining quarter of yesterday's chocolate brownie pudding.

All this washed down, across the day with sugarless tea.

To me, this is all a Very Big Day of Eating. However I am conscious that I have a rather mixed relationship with food and left to my own devices would under-eat to unhealthy proportions.

Breakfast: Milky coffee, cheesy scrambled egg and marmite toast

Pint of water.

Lunch: chargrilled squid and antipasto (thanks M&S), some salt and vinegar chip stix, smoothie and 2 satsumas.

Dinner will be a Sainsbos deli curry meal. Chicken Jalfrezi, chicken Balti, sag rice, Bombay aloo, papadoms and naan. With a bottle off Pinot.

During the week it would normally be:

Breakfast: 2 slices of toast with beans or peanut butter & jam and a cup of tea

Midmorning: cup of tea, Belvita (sp?) biscuit and a satsuma

Lunch: Pasta pesto with salad, beetroot and goats cheese or a sarnie. Packet of crisps. 2 satsumas or carrot sticks

Mid afternoon: Maybe a cup of tea and something sweet, like a biscuit

Dinner: something homemade - chilli / meatballs / cottage pie / casserole / toad in the hole.

Fried eggs on toast for breakfast.
Lentil & carrot soup (homemade) for lunch.
Roast chicken supreme, with roast carrots and peppers, dauphinoise potatoes for dinner.

A couple of glasses of juice, cups of tea etc during the day.

I don't always have breakfast though. Usually just at the weekend with DH.

Ooh, and an apple and a clementine for supper.

Yesterday:

B: Pain au chocolate
L: Lentil bolognese sauce over rice and a raw carrot salad. Rice krispies cakes.
D: Salmon with pea risotto. Cornetto.

Today:
B: Croissant with nutella. Bit of baguette. OJ.
L: Half a cheese and celery sandwich, small bit of cake.
D: going to a restaurant where I will eat a HUGE shellfish platter, hence small lunch!

Breakfast: Leek, cherry tomato and cheese omelette ,green tea
Lunch: leftover sausage casserole with lentils , strawberries and 2 small nectarines.
Dinner: homemade prawn curry with spinach and tomato, rice.
Glass of wine, chocolate mousse.

I don't snack and drink lots of green tea throughout the day.
OP why do you think you need to deny your body food??
We need good nutrition to function.

Breakfast slice of toast
Snack of a tomato or apple
Lunch hummus and veg to dip, tiniest sandwich in the world (from school
Canteen sandwich is designed for small children) and fruit or jacket and cottage cheese and fruit
Dinner chicken and veg, chicken stir fry, cottage pie, chilli and rice.
I drink liquorice tea all day.

I firmly believe in eat what you like but pay close attention to portion sizes

Breakfast: 1 slice toast, 2 rashers bacon, 1 fried egg
Mid morning: pineapple and melon slices
Late lunch: small portion lasagne
Supper: 1 slice bread, smoked salmon, salad on top
Snack: 1 magnum
Drinks: 2 glasses Prosecco

Not my best day!

itsraining resurrected this thread.

THe point is that to stay healthy weight (between BMI 18 and 23) involves routinely saying "no" to food

its simple, but involves more self control than many posters are willing to accept.

Ah but it's a bit like work.

DH and I live to work. Sadly, we live to eat too. We are only a little bit over our BMIs.

Today

Breakfast: Porridge made with water and almond milk, and a boiled egg

Lunch: Two slices of wholegrain toast spread with garlic pate, followed by two apricots

Dinner: Salmon, new potatoes, peas and mayonnaise. Home made blueberry muffin. Dark chocolate (about 4 squares).

breakfast - bowl of cereal and a cup of tea
lunch - sandwich, bag of crisps, a few pieces of salad veg , an apple.
tea - yesterday I had chicken, salad and chips, day before it was sausage and mash and veg. tomorrow it will be a sunday roast and on monday I expect to make pizza.

An average day would be:

Either 2 eggs, hard boiled and dipped in pepper... or Greek yoghurt with fruit and honey.

A salad of leaves, lentils, avocado, tomato etc.

Chicken with whole grain rice, or sweet potato, with lots of veg.

Plus at least a half bottle of wine...

Today was
Breakfast- two slices of wholemeal toast with full - fat Philadelphia and a cup of Earl Grey, with 1 teaspoon of Demerara and semi - skimmed milk.
Lunch- goats cheese and beetroot panini and small caramel latte from Costa. Two soft mints.
Dinner- Sainsburys Lebanese salad, with a hardboiled egg and a Sainsburys apple, pear and kale smoothie, followed by a banana and a berry yogurt with bircher muesli.
Cup of Earl Grey, as detailed above and an Oreo cookie.