To have breakfast for lunch? (hear me out)

[Mississippilessly]

33 weeks pregnant.
Iron levels a little low, I am getting them up without prescriptions by eating iron rich foods and getting rid of tea.

But this morning I seriously craved tea and toast - so i caved and had it. Usually I would have half a grapefruit, OJ and a bowl of iron-fortified cereal.

Would it be dreadful for me to have breakfast for lunch? It would leave me veg low...

Yes I am having a bad day, yes I need a bit of kid glove treatment...

I have no idea why this would be a problem sorry. Pregnancy aside you should eat what you want when you want anywau.!

It will be fine. One day low on veg isn't a big deal.

Who cares?

The joke for years was students eating cereal for dinner/tea.

No such thing as a bad meal, only a bad diet. You're sweating far too much over it. So long as your general diet is good and well balanced, one meal is not going to make a blind bit of difference.

Bluebug I feel like I missed this... I may have to go and buy Coco Pops...

Just eat what you want?

Not sure what the issue is. Sometimes I have leftover dinner for breakfast.

Have a carrot as a snack later.
Or don’t bother even. It sounds like you take your diet seriously. A few missteps is fine!

Kindly, eat whatever you want whenever you want. Food and meals are socially constructed, there’s no reason for certain foods to be relegated to certain times of the day. I quite like eating rice for breakfast.

Because I go to the gym in the evening (and follow a lowish carb, highish fat diet) I eat my meals pretty much backwards, much to the hilarity of my colleagues...
I start work between 7:30 and 8 (contracted from 9, so anything before 9 is unpaid). At around 8:30 I have breakfast, usually roast pork and veggies or chilli or something traditionally "dinner" like.
Lunch is homemade soup, (chicken and vegetables) or a salad.
Late afternoon (4:30ish) I have "morning tea" of no-carb muffins (scrambled eggs, bacon/sausage, spinach and mushrooms baked in a muffin pan), work till 6 (paid till 5...) then go to gym 7-9ish
When I get home, I have tea and toast or porridge/overnight oats and protein smoothie
Long story short.... Eat what you want, when you want.

Lusty - why are you doing souch unpaid work? And why is it relevant?

At 33 weeks I was basically existing on dairy milk and cheese...

@slippery I was wondering that too.
Is it to show that your every waking moment is working or gym? Is there nothing you enjoy in life other than working 2.5 hours for free? Reading? Meeting friends? Maybe I’m missing the point.

@slippery the unpaid work is cos there's too much to do. The relevance is the thread I read last night complaining about people eating at work!

I’m sure you’ll remember this thread with a wry smile when you’re eating cheese on toast or similar at 2am once the baby arrives

The hand wringing over one less than perfect days eating on MN is crazy.

Plenty of women go through an entire pregnancy only keeping down rich teas / eating mcdonalds / craving only ice cream and bonios.

A bowl of cereal at the "wrong" time of day will do you no harm.

If you are concerned eat some carrot sticks as well.

Do you have an eating disorder or history of one OP?

Caribbean no, none
Thanks all. prob is I could happily eat cereal and ice cream all day everyday...