to ask what you eat on a normal day and what you think about it?

[lastqueenofscotland]

following on from a few threads about healthy diets etc.

Interested to see what people eat and if they think their diet is 'healthy' I'm not hugely health conscious (i run a minimum of 30 miles a week up to 60 sometimes so I like to think that makes up for it somehow!) but i did make a concerted effort to cut fizzy drinks (cola etc) out as that's rubbish and if i wanted something fizzy and sweet a bit of elderflower cordial and sparkling water tends to do the trick!
I'm also a vegetarian

Breakfast - rarely have unless we have bagels in, in which case i'll have one with butter and marmite. Probably once a week? Once/twice a month i'll have crepe style pancakes with syrup.

Lunch - Either jacket potato with beans and cheese or left overs from the night before.

Dinners - i love cooking! currys are my favourite, either chickpea or paneer, w rice. Qesedillas with refried beans, cheese an courgettes another fixture, various gnocchi dishes, pasta and pesto, falafel i make a lot, home made bean burgers and wedges, not averse to the odd pizza, fajitas/enchiladas with veggies and beans, veggie chillies/paella/risotto/stirfrys with noodles etc etc.
I try to avoid too many quorn/cauldron/other meat replacement stuff as as much as i like it, it definitely has made me feel a bit sickly before.

snacks - if I'm running more than 10 miles in one day i will occasionally (always) fall foul to wanting a sugary pick me up - usually a galaxy bar! Sometimes a slice of bread and butter or ryvita cracker and marmite if dinner is taking a while to cook.

drink - litres of water and sugar free orange squash - no coffee/tea (dont like hot drinks). Lucozade sport before a long run or race, alcohol once a week maybe? sometimes more sometimes less with average out at that. occasional sparkling elderflower/cloudy lemonade.

Probably go to for a meal once a week, sometimes i'll have a salad or a soup, sometimes a whole cheese and tomato pizza with sides and alcohol!

Most of my food is carb-heavy (but i do run a lot!) but nearly all scratch made, plenty of variety, don't shy away from carbs/sugar/fat etc. I'm a healthy weight if not a bit above 'racing weight' at the moment, and i think it's all fairly healthy.

Interested to see what others eat and think?

On a good day:

Porridge for breakfast

A wrap or sandwich on weight watchers bread

Something homemade like chilli con carne
Cereal bar
Fruit
Yoghurt

I love eating. I mostly love cooking too but time often gets in the way. My big downfall is mindless eating, mainly crisps or other savoury junk food so I'm doing a three good meals a day with no snacking but I'm very relaxed about it.

A typical (good) day would be scrambled egg on wholemeal toast for breakfast, homemade vegetable soup for lunch with cottage cheese and a banana, then something like turkey chilli for tea with rice, natural yoghurt, salad and homemade guacamole. Maybe snacks of fruit (and probably some less healthy things too). I aim to eat well most of the time and not feel guilty when I eat less well than I'd like to. One or two alcoholic drinks a week.

I have a few extra pounds I'd rather not have but generally I think I do ok. My BMI is well within the recommended range and I'm in the gym about four times a week.

Breakfast: cereal (usually fruit&fibre) with semi skimmed milk. Some sort of fruit.

Lunch: some form of salad, with low fat dressing or balsamic vinegar. Occasionally I may have an omlette or jacket potato.

Dinner: 9 times out of 10 homemade. Things like chicken curry, spag Bol, chilli, casserole, roast chicken. Home made burgers. If I cook it's all very low fat, low calorie. If dh (a chef) cooks then I dread to think of the calorie content!!!

Snacks: fruit, veg sticks, low fat yogurt, rice cakes.

Drinks: no sugar squash, water and occasional diet coke.

I don't get enough exercise though, and that's why I am obese!

I'm currently losing 11stone,

My food intake was terrible.

I would become obsessed with a certain food, and eat it constantly until I was fed up with it.

Halloumi I would eat a block a day easily in wraps.

I would have it for my lunch & dinner.

I'm doing the Cambridge diet.. And I am terrified when I get to my goal weight I will be the same. I don't know how to eat normally. I need to start making breakfasts and decent lunches!

I'm on a high dose of prednisolone (corticosteroid) at the moment so I eat whatever I can find, all of the time! It's awful! If I don't eat I get really buzzy and terrible rages. It's like I'm the Hulk or something. At least when I am taking it though, I can load up on the fruit and veg that I can't usually tolerate.

When I'm not on pred, I don't eat that well because of my IBD that is currently still not in remission. I can't eat many vegetables at all, few fruits, and no nuts, seeds or pulses. I don't have much of an appetite usually either so my weight goes up and down by about a stone whilst I'm yo-yo-ing off and on the steroids. I'm due to start a trial drug soon though so I'm hoping to get into remission and get back on track with a relatively healthy diet!

Eat whatever goes in at the moment (pregnant).
Today was:
Half a dozen peanut M&Ms
Pasta in a pot
3 potato waffles
Celery and humus
Large bag of kettle chips

I don't think I'm very very healthy but not very unhealthy either. Somewhere in the middle. I don't live in the Uk so my diet varies to a lot of people and to what it used to be like.

Breakfast is normally black coffee mostly with sugar (but it's cut from a block of raw cane sugar and not as sweet as refined sugar) not trying to be hippyish, it's just how it is here. If I'm hungry I have a wedge of papaya or a banana, if I'm super hungry I have french bread roll with butter and a banana or an egg but this is usually at weekends.

Lunch is the main meal, always rice, brazilian style beans, a little chicken roast or cooked in a homemade sauce or beef fried or made in a stew with casava or potatoes, a vegetable dish (usually root vegetables or ocra) and a big salad with lettuce, raw cabbage, tomatoes, cucumber, star fruit and sometimes palm hearts and olives. At weekends we sometimes have Brazilian black bean stew or barbeque steak, rice and salad.

I have afternoon coffee mostly with fruit (orange, apple or banana) and sometimes a slice of homemade cake, cheesebread or a homemade scone.

Dinner is light, corn on the cob, boiled eggs, chicken or vegetable soup, açaí with granola and occasionally we go out for a burger or pizza. That's usually on the weekends.

I drink a beer or a glass of red wine in the evenings with my husband, again, usually on the weekends. My rule is, weekends are for eating
5ft 8 and 10 stone

Weekday at work
Innocent apple juice and special k oats and honey w/semi skimmed milk
Wholewheat pasta salad with tuna, peppers and sweetcorn or a jar salad plus a yoghurt
Grapes
E.g. fajitas or casserole or homemade burgers
3 litres of water and 1 can diet coke with lunch

Weekend breakfast is turkey bacon, baked beans, fried egg (one egg wonder pan and fry light) and a wholewheat sandwich thin

I do this 80% of the time as I am losing weight (50 odd lbs gone, just under a stone to go) and exercise 4 to 6 times a week. But then every so oftenit goes wrong and I eat total shite for a few days then get back on with being a bit better.

Far too much wine, the odd takeaway and eat whatever I like when out for dinner maybe twice a month.

Trying to lose weight at the moment.

Breakfast - muesli and fruit
Lunch - salad sandwich made with brown bread, fruit, babybels, raisins..stuff I can pick on
Dinner - things like jacket potato and beans, quorn fillet and veg, pasta. Trying to make my portions smaller
Dessert - fruit or low fat jelly

I drink flavoured water. I'm trying to cut down on tea so going from 4 cups a day to 2.

B....
Fruit, yoghurt, eggs, bacon, cereal (always a bran based one)

L....soups, salads, sushi

D....chicken curry & rice
Nacho Feast
Spag Bol
Chilli
I often swap carbs for veggies eg courgetti instead of spaghetti or cauliflower rice instead of rice.

Lots of fruit.

Breakfast: Roll and jam
Lunch: Prawn curry
Dinner: Ham gratin
Snacks: Copious amounts of white chocolate cookies

Probably not very healthy, but I don't give a shit.

I am happy with my weight (10/12) five foot ten, ten stone (or bit under depending). I am trying to follow Stone Age diet for health reasons (post viral fatigue) which is basically, meat, fish, nuts, veg, some fruit and eggs. Find it pretty tough to follow it, though I do feel a lot better when I do it. Am having bit of a break from it at the moment (holidays! ) and seem to be eating a lot of fish and chips, cake and drinking quite a lot of gin. I notice I lose lots of weight when I'm on the special diet but am pretty normal weight if I eat what I want, when I want. Have had eating problems in the past but am now fully recovered. This is the only diet I've ever been able to follow and it's because it's to do me good rather than the psychology of dieting which always had me self hating and self sabotaging.

Bathsheba Ham gratin sounds great! How do you make it?

I eat a really healthy diet. problem is I also eat crap as well... if only I was not addicted to pringles and sugar.

Happy it's basically a potato gratin with ham and green beans layered under the potatoes. I put mature Cheddar and breadcrumbs on top. It's delicious, but I wish I'd made a bigger one!

Mines okayish...

Breakfast - melon & yoghurt
Lunch - sandwich (Philadelphia or tuna with salad) & yoghurt
Tea - either things like homemade burgers & veg or mixed meals consisting of mince, beans & veg.

Don't tend to snack that much tbh - usually on popcorn when I do (maybe 3 x times a week) & occasionally get a take away on a Friday (not every week)

B - all bran w soya milk, or scrambled eggs with ham
L - chicken salad
D - curry/casserole/risotto etc made from scratch with lots of lean chicken or fish
Sn - Nak'd bars, fruit (but only berries etc). I'll probably eat 500g of blueberries/raspberries etc a day
Dr - 3l of water at least

I can't drink alcohol or caffeine due to medication, and stopped having fizzy pop a year ago. I only drink water now - minimum 3l a day, plus whatever I have when I'm training.

I love this thread,

Sometimes I eat like pine and totally binge on chocolate other days I eat absolutely nothing.

A normal day breakfast is a yoghurt and a healthy smoothie/milkshake

Dinner is a chicken wrap or nothing

Tea is usually something carb laden

I try to snack in fruit & vegetables and low fat Dunkers,

I exercise 3 times a week and am trying to loose a lot if weight!

A standard day for me is:

Breakfast - coffee
Lunch - leftovers, e.g. today it's (homemade) gnocchi with mushroom and pea cream sauce
Dinner - vegetarian curry with chappati. Usually have a couple of pieces of fruit after dinner as well.

Snacks - aim for none, sometimes I give in to a piece of chocolate in the office..

I have a couple of alcoholic drinks 3-4 times a week.

I am trying to lose weight at the moment - lost a couple of stone successfully over a couple of months but have plateaued recently. I suspect that, if I could ditch the office treats and cut down on booze, that would get me off the plateau.

ohmyword, I am AWFUL compared to pretty much everyone here.

I eat whatever I feel like during the day - crisps, snacks, CHEESE (bloody love cheese) carbs. If I want it, I eat it.

Then I just skip supper to lower the level of calories I consume during the day.

Apart from Friday Saturday and Sunday where I eat whatever I want, all day.

Good points - don't have many fizzy drinks, not a fan. Don't binge on chocolate, am more of a savoury snack person. Don't drink much booze, only a bit at weekends and sometimes not then.

I flicker around 9'12 - 10stone, within my healthy BMI. I've got 3 horses (all of which I ride regularly) and 1 dog, so I'm also very active, without specifically exercising / going to the gym.

I'd happily lose about 7lbs, but can't seem to find the effort to change my willpower. I expect I am consuming way too much salt as well in my diet. I will have to change at some point!!

A typical day is:
breakfast: cereal or toast/bagel with spread/jam, cup of tea
lunch: ham/tuna & rocket sandwich (or soup in the winter), yoghurt, piece of fruit, fruit juice
tea: spag bol/chilli/curry/veg sausage & chips/chicken fajitas/pizza/jacket potato & tuna & broccoli/roast at the weekend
snacks: biscuit/crisps/fruit/sometimes cake at work
When I'm at work, I drink far too many cups of tea during the day. I am trying not to!

When I'm at work I drink a green smoothie; kale, spinach, chard and add chia seeds and spirulina powder then lunch will be a salad, either plain or with a grain of some sort and nuts.

Tea will be something vegetarian based as me and dh are cutting down on meat.

When I'm off work I eat crumpets and bread for breakfast and lunch.

I drink 1.5 litres of water a day and have 2/3 gin and tonics most nights.

Tea and coffee with breakfast and then a tea at night.

I don't eat breakfast, I just can't. Salad for
lunch then either fish and salad or steak and salad for dinner. Oh and coffee, far too much coffee. I'm on the 5:2 so despite it not being so healthy I am losing weight.

breakfast - 3 days of week have granola with yogurt, other 2 have pain au chocolat or toast, weekend toast with peanut butter/marmite.

lunch - depends - can be salads (normally with pasta, feta cheese or rice) or home made egg/cress sandwich/cheese and pickle sandwich etc. naughty lunches, potato salad with scotch egg/pork pie

dinner - roast chicken once a week use left overs for Turkish pilau (with aubergine/raisins/parsley/greek yogurt) or other chicken dishes.

also minced quorn with tomatoes and kale and baked potato or fish or pasta bake etc...

I do snack on biscuits/crisps etc but have an orange a night. and apple when I remember

add in tea a few times a day but camomile tea at night and water throughout the day