to think this is a ^ridiculous^ list of meals

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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 . . . ?

I've never heard of tilapia but I mostly buy fish in frozen cubes, I don't go near a fish counter.

Some of it looks pretty nice actually, but it's the same handful of ingredients all week.

It's not though winchester - it looks like far less (which is confusing!)

I've just put in Friday's meals and it's coming to 1,034 calories?

I think that looks really nice! Except the salmon, vom.

Like other posters I can't believe this is 2000 calories a day, and it looks meagre and rather unappetising to me. I eat nicer food than that and more of it, and I'm losing weight.

They're using low fat crap which is stuffed with sugars and sweeteners - 0% total for instance

I saw this, my first thought was that doesn't look like 2000 cals to me. It does look nice though, if a bit fancy. I like to eat like that, but then spoil it by having curry takeaway at the weekend

Love the comments questioning the suspicious syrupy substance on Tuesday's porridge.

I admire anyone who slices up their Brazil nuts at breakfast.

I cook food like that often but to be able to do it every day suggests to me it's aimed at the money&time rich.

Yeah fine if it was a weight loss healthy diet, but it's actually specifically supposed to be 'what 2000 calories looks like'.

0% total doesn't have any sugar or sweetners- it's naturally fat free. It's the perfect health food (just finished a bowl )

Yes I think it looks like good food. I aspire to eat like that :o
But not 2000 call - unless they're expecting people to add drinks and snacks so have allowed for that?

I would collapse from hunger on that diet (I'm not fat : 5'7" size 12).

JUST dhal? No rice?

I can't see any low fat / high sugar rubbish: the 0% yoga is natural
No sugar, surely ? (Though I hate low or non fat yogurt).

To paraphrase:

Life is too short to slice a fucking Brazil nut.

That's not 2000 calories. I'm eating more than that and am doing 1200 calories on MFP. In fact I've just tracked two "bad" days and only just cracked 2000 calories.

I don't think Wednesday's eggs and smoked salmon are on soya and linseed toast, either. Looks like crusty white to me.

So Saturday and Sunday is spent eating cake and drinking wine / gin right??

They lost me as they as mentioned pesto. That stuff should be banned!

*as soon as

Yep - it's the reverse 5:2 diet

They did this in the original article

"2000 calories is a breakfast of toast or cereal, a lunch of a sandwich and zero calorie drink and a dinner of protein, vegetables and a carbohydrate such as boiled potatos"

Why are they claiming diabetes is rife because nobody knows what 2000 calories looks like then consistantly getting it wrong themselves?

Looks like a lovely menu. I also object to the quantities, especially for breakfast. Also there is no red meat which I know is good to keep to a min but no harm to have 1 red meat meal a week.

Yeah I noticed that in the original too. Unless it's a giant sandwich and a pasta bowl of cereal

A lot of it seemed rather unappetising tbh.

Oh god, - i thought fat free stuff got thecflavour by adding stuff. Every day's a school day.
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