Is there anyone who just eats normally?

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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.

Lobster, what is the name of your feline overlord adorable kitty and what has she had to eat today?

Breakfast - porridge & raspberry jam
Lunch - veg curry & extra veg / scone
Tea - halloumi salad 3 crackers
Yogurt
Snacks graze flapjack / French Fries(crisps)

Today I ate ham and cheese bap and chips

Then a mcchicken sandwich and 2 packs of cheese melts 😂

@MissConductUS how adorable! She is Cordelia. I don't think over fed but this year doesn't want to go out. Only dry food and water. Any advice?

@MissConductUS love Mingus!

i eat 'normally' but have to think about it (if that makes any sense)
Yesterday I had a late breakfast / brunch of brown toast with butter, a bit of grated cheese and some baked beans. I had 2 satsumas and an apple. For dinner we had some dry fried sucuk, a wrap, some halloumi, some hummus, olives, salad and a few chips (probably about 15/20)

Today I've had a full fat rhubarb yoghurt, a tuna mayo jacket for lunch with salad, a mini dairy milk, 2 satsumas. For dinner we had toad in the hole (two sausages) green beans, peas, carrots, gravy.

i've had probably 4 or five teas or coffees, maybe 4 glasses of water a day too.

I enjoy food. I don't really care if I live a few years less because I don't eat mung beans for lunch
Couldnt agree more
Id rather enjoy what i eat over only eating something cos its healthy and i may live a lil longer. I may also get hit by a car

Today ive had 3 coffees, its mid summer here, hitting a heatwave so we have lost appetite for food unless its ice cream.

Can't believe people are slagging off sandwiches.

Another one who doesnt think the OP's "normal" sounds appealing. But i do think about what I eat, enjoy having a BMI less than 22 and doing 5K in less than 30 minutes. At my age (43) that takes will power. Also i prefer salads and soups to sandwiches.
Yesterday I had:
breakfast black coffee 2x satsumas
snack 1/2 pack of doritos, apple
lunch hm tomato and lentil soup, small roll another apple
dinner pasta with mushrooms, cherry toms, pesto on a bed of rocket, sprinkled with cheese.
tiny piece of hm brownie and another apple

Cheap, quick and healthy(ish) what's not to like ?

The 'normal' on this thread does seem to be boring food with hardly any vegetables.

Just satsumas and coffee for breakfast?

I guess it's guaranteed to make you need the loo!

breakfast black coffee 2x satsumas
snack 1/2 pack of doritos, apple
lunch hm tomato and lentil soup, small roll another apple
dinner pasta with mushrooms, cherry toms, pesto on a bed of rocket, sprinkled with cheese.
tiny piece of hm brownie and another apple

Cheap, quick and healthy(ish) what's not to like ?

That sounds neither cheap, nor quick, nor healthy and there's very little to like.

Citric acid in the satsumas will be hell for your teeth.
I'm assuming Hm means home made? Nice if you have time and money. 25p for a box of 4 cup soup from Tesco.. just saying
Dinner sounds empty and small and would be filling for all of two minutes.
Doesn't sound appealing to me at all.

B: Cinnamon and raisin bagel with butter

L: some form of microwave ready meals wolfed down at my desk

D: home cooked. Tonight is salmon veg and new potatoes but we have spag Bol, cottage pies etc, just normal meals.

S: a snack pack of nuts in the afternoon and maybe some fruit if I get hungry. Occasional pastries or Starbucks coffees if required but very rarely (maybe once a month?)

I’m extremely fat. BMI over 40 fat. I haven’t always eaten like this and got into a lot of binge, diet, binge cycles and was put on my first diet at 7 years old. This year I’m NOT BLOODY DIETING.

I’m done with it, so I’m trying very hard to ‘eat normally’

If I get fatter, so bloody be it.

elladownthelane 10 - 15 miles walking A DAY? 3 hours of walking A DAY? How do you fit that in?

OP's diet sounds like me, in the 90's! It's a bit 'old fashioned' IMO. And no, I don't give my DD (10) anything like the packed lunch I had then!

To feel well over 40, you really have to try and be healthy. It's not like being a student. It's not about vanity. It's health and feeling well. You do have to be mindful of carbs, unless you want to look 5 months pregnant with shit skin and hair and energy

Crisps and chocolate and 'buckets of caffeine' would make me feel sick.

But I probably have too much wine a cardinal sin on MN.

I eat normally. That doesn’t include eating processed foods, which are really not normal foods.

Fish finger & cheese ? 🤢

That doesn’t include eating processed foods, which are really not normal foods.
What are processed foods?
Ready meals?
Bread, cheese, butter that you didn't make at home?
Muesli?
Prepared fruit salad?

I love this thread. The other day someone started a thread asking what size/weight people were, and I had to stop reading it after a couple of pages as everyone was claiming to be a size 8/10 and weighing less than nine stone. I’m a size 12/14, I exercise and eat what I like, although I do try to have some healthy meals, and I just found it really depressing that everyone else seemed to be existing on fresh air!

Yesterday:

Ate the kids leftover breakfast - Ready Brek with a banana.

Can of coke and a nakd bar.

Lunch - leftover vegetable curry and a naan bread.

Another banana.

Tea - Linda McCartney mozzarella burger in a cheese topped roll, oven chips and a salad.

A piece of shortbread and a glass of milk.

I'm going all out this morning and having a belvita breakfast biscuit pretty naff.

I don't see how people have the time to make things from scratch everyday. I guess if you enjoy cooking you make the time but I don't, I've given it a try before but I find it boring. That's not to say I eat microwave ready meals every night, but I do buy what you would call 'easy' meals probably, not chicken nuggets but not home made lentil soup either.

I do quite like baking and do that from time to time but I can never get motivated to cook.

I love cooking and baking but we still don't have huge quinoa salads every day.
I made bread yesterday and DD will have a cheese spread sandwich for her tea, the rest of us have to go out.
The DC and DH had cereal for breakfast and I had the pikelets.

CarrieBlu oo I fancy some coke now, going to have to get some at lunch.

I've not had any for months though so no one shoot me.

Cooking from scratch doesn’t really take long at all. We manage to cook everything from scratch everyday, maintain full time jobs and 2 kids! Add maybe an extra 5 minutes on to the cooking time?

Fussing about what we eat is just another way of pretending that what we do in everyday life matters. People like the delusion of thinking that they’re making some sort of difference to themselves and others, mostly children, whose diets they control. It’s mostly just filling time or an attempt at creating a persona or showing off or some combination of these.

Food is not medicinal, by definition. There is no such thing as good and bad food. Only good and bad - long term - diets.

In the extreme cases, like veganism, diet is really just a substitute for religion.

Apart from discussion about the enjoyment of food and the skill of cooking, virtually everything written about food choices on MN is bollocks. People should just eat a (roughly) balanced diet and stop banging on about their pointless food obsessions.

I eat normally. I love food and often post on these threads but I have noticed you get a huge proportion of disordered eating posts from people who seem to think they are boasting. If you look at their posting history you see they are often quite unhappy.

Yesterday I had:
Yoghurt and muesli for breakfast, flat white, apple
Leon lentil curry for lunch, three choc biscuits, handful of Percy Pigs
Out to dinner - I had endive and roquefort salad to start, then chicken, chips and petits pois.

Today I've had sultana bran, tea and coffee for breakfast. Quite tempted by a glass of wine at lunch. Prob will have beans on toast for supper, followed by chocolate and preceded by a handful or two of cashews.