to think this is a ^ridiculous^ list of meals

[Takver]

Suggested guardian healthy week's menu.
I mean, evidently some of the suggestions are perfectly sensible (porridge with banana), and individually, there's nothing daft about any given recipe. But taken as a whole, could anyone design a more cliched guardian-reader-menu . . . Where do you even buy tilapia . . . ?

It's just white fish. So any supermarket

To be fair, you can buy tilapia from the morrisons fish counter so I'm sure it's not that hard to find elsewhere....

I've bought Tilapia in Asda before now. It's truly not worth it.

Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's. It's not exactly an unusual fish these days.

I stand educated To be fair I only ever buy fish from our local fish seller and that's what they catch - not many tilapia in the sea round here, I suspect!

I've seen it in fish counters at supermarkets.

It's a perfectly achievable menu

I'm having egg and chips for tea tonight. That menu is alien to me.

Actually OP you do have a point. I've just nabbed this of Twitter it was from the Guardian food section. I particularly like "even broccoli"

I've never heard of tilapia. Many of the items were a complete mystery to me and I've been a Guardian reader since before most of you were born.

Yup, perfectly achievable menu, quite similar to the dinners we eat actually. I have 2 objections to it though. No1 is that the ingredients are on the expensive side, not very useful suggestions for someone on a budget. No2 the breakfasts are really small, I'd be starving by 10.30 (I normally have breakfast at 7).

All of that just seems very unappetising. I know the diabetes epidemic is ticking time bomb but who eats like this?

I love lentil dal

lentil/sweet potato soups and curries.

mmmm

Yuck. I hate salmon but it seems to be served up over and over again!

IntheBox that is very funny.

Actually that's a really nice menu I think. We eat a lot of things like that.

I've printed it for some meal planning inspiration for next week

Tilapia's really common here (Canada)

It's fine menu wise but I'm surprised it's 2000 calories. I track my calories on my fitness pal and seem to have more food than that for 1600

Looks sensible to me, might even nick a few ideas.

That's actually fairly similar to what we eat here except we have more red meat

I don't think that's 2000 calories a day (leaving aside the fact that 2000 calories isn't accurate for many people). Looks like about 1200 calories to me at a quick glance.

Sounds fantastic but realistically who has time to have a cooked lunch like that? I know that I eat on the run, often just grabbing what I can. Even on the days when I'm organised enough to take lunch with me to work there's no time to actually eat it! Surely I'm not the only one....

x post Ilovecrap

No cheese?

You'd just have to have the tomato soup everyday ineed

I got as far as 2000 cals a day and stopped reading - not many women need anything like that many cals so I guess its written for a man, which I'm not.

According to various cal counting sites I need around 1400 cals a day (a bit more when I exercise).

Aside from the lunches (tend to just have a sandwich) it wouldn't be unusual for me to have any of that. I love lentils.