Is there anyone who just eats normally?

[Peanutss]

I can't believe the amount of threads where the OP claims to eat only a boiled spinach shake for breakfast, plain cous cous for dinner and a salmon fillet with veg for tea. With of course, only an apple as a snack in between.

Is there anyone like me who just has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, a meal deal for lunch and then whatever I can be arsed putting in the oven for tea? I'm beginning to wonder if I'm massively unhealthy in comparison to most or whether people are just making this up.

Decided to eat a bar of chocolate (dark of course) while reading this 😊

I imagine people who eat like us have no reason to talk about it

Today I've had a very boring;

Porridge with half a banana and berries ( half because I share with child)

Soup and a slice of bread and butter

For dinner we've got meat free Kiev's, new potatoes, peas and sweet corn

I've also had numerous cups of tea, two coffees and a small bag of chocolate buttons (I may have stolen these from child)

I eat what I consider to be normal but I am 2-3 stone over weight. An average day would be porridge for breakfast, a sandwich or soup for lunch, then a regular dinner, meat, potatoes and veg. Tonight it's baked cod, baked potatoes, green beans and carrots. I will have a Bailey's coffee and maybe a club milk later. Sometimes it will be a pasta or rice dish, or chips maybe once a week. I don't eat fruit as I don't like it. Seems 'normal' to me but maybe not?

What about a Fish finger dangerwich? I heard they’ve been know to kill on sight

I have this on my list because I live dangerously of course.

Bentley you can come round mine for dangercakewich anytime

We all eat normally in this house (me, DH and 3 teenage/adult DC). No foods/drinks are banned and no-one has ever been on a diet, because no-one is overweight.

We're all quite active though and tend not to drive anywhere, unless it's further than about a 30 minute walk in each direction.

Steamed spinach and eggwhite fried egg sandwich for breakfast

Smoked salmon with lemon and rocket salad fish and chips for lunch

Poached chicken breast, rice noodles and cherry tomatoes huge bowl of chicken pesto pasta for dinner

An apple a Snickers as a snack

Black coffee or herbal tea full fat cappuccino to drink and a bottle of red wine in the evening

*This thread is a real insight to the food judgement going on out there.

Food is fun and the self flagellation is ugly and boring. Not everyone feels the same way about food and it's really ignorant to generalise about everyone who doesn't eat exactly like you let alone use it as an appropriate flag pole to hang a "shit parent" label on.*

Well said! Flagellation of self and others for food choices is part of the reason I stopped going to work*. Sooo boring!

*I work at home now instead; I didn't just drop out.

I'm exactly the same peachgreen

I enjoy food. I don't really care if I live a few years less because I don't eat mung beans for lunch.

Ha.
6-Muesli with oat milk (would usually be whole dairy but we'd run out. Am useless without it)
11-Cheese and onion slice
Remains of DS toast
3-ate DS rejected: mango, crackers, meltypuffs, half a pitta with pb
Tea will probably be pasta (which I weigh due to an inability to estimate) and braised leeks.

Yep! Today I've had:

Bran flakes, banana and a coffee

An apple and a packet of crisps

Avocado, smoked salmon and houmous on toast for lunch. That's a real treat tbh. Normally I'd have a sandwich, soup an bread or the previous night's leftovers.

Some dairy free chocolate (daughter has CMPA. I'm not dairy free for fad reasons).

Dinner will be homemade prawn and veg curry with rice, naan and mango chutney.

Today's been healthier than usual but I miss the erratic eating habits of my youth. I worked funny hours and rarely had proper meals. I remember one week when I spent nearly all my time at work and existed upon digestives, raw carrots, olives and dried mango. Twas great.

I genuinely don't know what 'normal' is as I grew in a family where my parents and siblings all had various issues with food.

I follow the16:8 way of eating, and try to do so healthily during the week and allow some treats at the weekend. I've piled on 2 stone in the past 18 months due to perimenopause and thyroid issues so am trying to counteract that by not eating processed food where possible. There's also quite a lot of fruits, vegetables, grains, legume and soft cheeses I struggle to digest properly so avoid those with high FODMAPs.

Weekday lunch is usually alaskan smoked salmon, raw spinach, round lettuce, cucumber, toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds, a dollop of houmous and a good drizzle of olive oil, and maybe a small cup of homemade butternut squash, tumeric and chicken bone broth soup. Dinner is something like scrambled eggs, parmesan, more spinach and roasted red pepper, or a piece of chicken, turkey or sea bream , more spinach, and maybe a handful of brown rice and some kind of homemade sauce (if I can be bothered). Am trying not to snack at present but if I do it's dark chocolate, frozen strawberries or a piece of homemade cake (which is what I had today).

Weekends are slightly different. Bacon and eggs always features, more spinach too, or scrambled eggs and a sweet potato hash with more spinach and some toasted and buttered sourdough. (I really really like spinach, can you tell!) Dinner is along the line of what I have during the week or a steak with potatoes in some form. Dessert is always a scoop of chocolate ice cream, a big dollop of full fat Greek or natural yogurt, frozen raspberries and toasted seeds. However if I go out to eat, then I have whatever I fancy.

I also drink a hell of a lot of water (at least 3 litres). Always have and always will. Sadly tea doesn't agree with me and I hate hate coffee. The fancy hot chocolate at Carluccios is a real treat and something I'll be having this weekend!

Biscuits, most milk chocolate, crisps, cakes and pastries are all trigger food for me so I try to avoid as it's easier that way.

So I guess my way of eating normally is because of my inability to eat some foods 'normally'.

Sounds pretty normal to me dead. Think the real biggie here is how much more sedentary we all are nowadays-my DMil speaks wistfully of lardy cake and was positively nymph like. And it's not about 'exercise', it's all the little ways through the day that we move less.

The thing is, some people's normally would have me feeling lethargic all day and probably throwing up in the early wee hours of the morning from all the cheese and chocolate and I wouldn't sleep well anyhow from all the bloody cups of tea.

Today's a fairly average day for me. Muesli with soya milk, banana and coffee for breakfast, prepped into M&S this morning and picked up a yellow stickered Chinese chicken curry for lunch. Just tasted my latest batch of muffins - butternut squash. They would have been nicer with nut in but they're mostly for my autistic veg avoiding DS's packed lunches. Picked up a load of yellow stickered seabass which I'll have with roast Charlotte potatoes, broccoli and carrots and a ready made sauce, for dinner. Tonight will no doubt feature crusts and Jack and coke.

Has anyone thought maybe the problems with diabetes are that the shops selling so much crap. If it is wasnt available like yrs ago we wouldnt eat it. Pre 80,s never had mcdonalds where we live, my parents generation never had a ready meal. Its so easy to bash the consumer than the multimillion pound companies that actually pay tax. The gov cant have it all, they like the revenue these companies bring in but complain when its having an affect on their pocket. Yes we all have a choice what we consume or do we with highly addictive ingredients and constant advertising.

Apologies for all the words. It's interesting to see all that written down, something I don't usually do!

Crisps. Not tasty crusts for the taking

Also, plain cous cous. Urgh. Who the hell would voluntarily eat that? Mark from Peep Show is absolutely correct to call it 'dry misery sand'

Lifeisnotthatsimple Yes our environment is set up so that the easiest choices are unhealthy ones.
I thought I was a lazy kid, but actually I used to walk miles to school, friends and with my mum to the shops. And as a young adult I was very active by necessity.

I work away a lot and have just got to my hotel (I left work early due to the snow). I'm currently looking at the menu although I don't know why since I know the sodding thing off by heart and and debating between vege and 5 bean chilli with rice and torlilla, and a wild boar burger with chorizo and apple slaw - whichever I choose will definitely be followed by apple crumble and custard. Those are 'normal' for me while I'm away - it's not the same as 'normal' at home though... (my bmi is perfectly 'normal' too)

While we are on the subject of people being messed up about food. There’s another thing I’ve seen on the boards (and encountered in non-MN life), it’s mother’s who aka great pride in their young sons (not teenage boys, they are generally hollow legged)) eating large amount.

Generally found in threads where they feel the amount consumed makes the five-weatabix in a sitting toddler a source of pride. Such as in a thread about breakfasts that will keep a teenage satisfied till lunch, in response to “a banana on a toasted bagel with honey’ for a 13 year old, a poster who write my two year old who need bagels and he’d be hungry again an hour later.

I’m explaining it badly, but it’s definitely out there. Generally sounds excessive, and possibly in ‘feeder’ territory.

@ketteringtownfc that's so nice, re-learning how to feed your inner child I can see how it helped you feel better.

I know what you mean. I read threads and think that everyone must be severely constipated. So little fruit veg and fibre being consumed.

what a stupid way of looking at things.
If the majority of people were not putting suntan lotions on their children, and looking down at you for doing it, would you stop protecting your child because the "norm" is not to use these products?

So someone starting a thread feeling superior because they can't be arsed, and the norm being to feed your child quick, easy and unhealthy food should mean everybody should do the same or feel bad about it?

There are countless of threads about losing weight, clothes too small, quick diet fix but yes, it is wrong not to give in to the junk food movement Usual race to the bottom from some posters.