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.

Toast for breakfast
Cheese sandwich for lunch
Dinner will be roast chicken breast with vegetables and potatoes and gravy.

NO snacks!
This is pretty much normal for me.

I don't eat healthily at all. I know I will pay for it one day but i'm quite petite and a healthy weight at the moment.

Breakfast - Cup of tea and 4 chocolate digestives
Lunch - Greggs Sausage roll and a apple cream danish
Dinner - Will be fish fingers, chips and beans
Snacks - pack of crisps mid-morning.
Drinks - lots more cups of tea and a diet coke.

I think I eat pretty normally , though I do like a bit of fruit and salad. I still eat things like beans on toast, cheese sarnies, crisps, the odd bar of chocolate, etc. I think there's a middle line between obsessing over every bit of pseudoscience about food, and eating absolute crap.

Virtually all my colleagues eat this way. (I don’t because reasons , but I know I’m not the norm.) The mind boggles because I rarely meet anyone (who isn’t very athletic and in training) who eats much differently to you.

People make stuff up on the internet. They boast. It’s the same as kids’ lunchboxes, reading MN you’d think every primary school dining hall in the land was swimming in organic hummus, pesto pasta, fresh berries and vegetable crudités. My friends who teach in even the most middle class of primary schools confirm that 90% of lunchboxes contain a ham, cheese or tuna roll; a yoghurt; an apple or banana; some kind of biscuit or flapjack; and maybe a hunk of cheddar or a cheese string.

I do have some kale and quinoa based days, but I can never keep it up.
Today I have had:
Cup of tea
Porridge with a chopped up peach and pecan nuts and a coffee for breakfast
Cup of tea
Small packet of Kettle Chips (I am poorly, in my defence)
Cup of tea
Heinz Tomato soup and cheese on toast for lunch (see above re poorlyness)
Cup of tea
Will try to incorporate some fresh veg into supper...

I eat normally. I sometimes have breakfast, which would be yog and fruit, or Shreddies and almond milk. Lunch is sandwiches, quiche and salad, soup, crackers and cheese, fruit, Soreen. Tea is whatever I want; pasta, shepherd's pie, Mexican, stir fry, stew, beans, baked potato, risotto, meat and veg etc. I eat fruit but mostly only apples. I eat choc if the opportunity presents itself.

Only thing I don't buy are crisps. Too salty.

haha I know the feeling - I've had someone at work telling me how dreadful my pepsi max is today - .umm yeah I know. Then proceeded to tell me all about her healthy diet and homemade snacks for the kids, and, that they had cauliflower cheese (on its own as a bake with broccoli) for dinner last night.

I had leftover curry for lunch and will prob chuck some fishcakes and peas on for dinner tonight.

Oh so this is where my tribe are!

Tbh I don't really put much thought into eating. I just kind of eat what I want when I want. Dinner is different times every day, sometimes I don't have lunch, sometimes I have breakfast late so it's brunch. I just don't really get worked up about it. Sometimes I eat crisps, sometimes I eat chocolate, sometimes I go out and get an ice cream from the van. I do eat a lot of fruit but that's because I enjoy it.

I certainly don't eat tiny portions or fret about food, but I've never really had a bad or difficult relationship with food in the first place. I'm quite thankful to my mum for that as I wasn't brought up in a household where I was either forced to eat/finish meals or had food withheld and wasn't allowed snacks between meals, etc. It seems like a lot of people on here have issues that stem from childhood, whenever threads about food come up, and there are some odd attitudes that filter down onto your children.

Oh I also drink about ten cuppas each day

If I eat "normally" I put on weight. Since having my daughter I've eaten "normally" - slice of toast or cereal for breakfast, sandwich or salad for lunch, biscuit and a cup of tea mid afternoon, normal dinner like pasta and salad, roast chicken, stir fry etc and I've piled on the weight. I maintain at 1200 cals a day, and have to eat less than 1000 to see a loss.

People argue that metabolism doesn't make a difference but honestly, if I ate the way some people on this thread do (which in my eyes is totally normal!) I'd be the size of a house. I wish it wasn't so, but it is.

Me!
Breakfast, Muesli with chopped banana and full fat milk. Three cups of tea.
Mid morning, birthday cake from party at the weekend (parent tax for spending 4 hours in Tamworth waiting for dd to finish at the bloody snow dome)
Lunch, chicken cheese and coleslaw wrap, more tea
Dinner will be homemade curry and a naan.

Delicious and the calories can frankly fuck right off. I care not.

Okay so 'normal' is of course different for various people. I'd say cereal and a sandwich for lunch is pretty standard but again it may be different for other people.

But the way people go on, it makes me feel as though eating bread or carbs of any sort is seen as some sort of cardinal sin and you must be ridiculously unhealthy if you dare eat anything other than a poached egg for breakfast.

I've always found I've lost more weight by just cutting down portion sizes of what I normally eat than any of these fad diets, shakes etc...

Me!! I love food, really love it! Today I had porridge with a blob of jam for breakfast (we're all trying to be a bit healthier, my preferred breakfast is crumpets with butter, mmm!) Leftover wedges with some cheese on for lunch and for tea we'll have sausage casserole with new potatoes, yum! I would definitely say I eat 'normally,' to me that is homecooked food most days and an 'easy tea' at least once a week. Last night that was a nice Lidl pizza and wedges and salad. My favourite food in the world is chips and I could eat them everyday!

OP your diet might be normal to you but it's not healthy imo. Different strokes for different folks.

Very hard question to answer unless you explain what's "normal"?

Porridge
Soup and a couple of slices of fruit loaf
Dinner probably a pasta dish
Will quite likely have some fruit and/or chocolate in between now and dinner.

Many mugs of tea and one of coffee.
No two days will be the same though. Except for the tea and coffee.

Breakfast: porridge with sultanas, cup of tea
Lunch: Ham and tomato sandwich, bag of crisps, strawberry yogurt, apple and an orange Club biscuit
Dinner: Don't know yet, most likely freezer surprise so possibly chicken nuggets, chips and beans

Few cups of tea throughout the day and will probably have a jaffa cake (or 7) as a treat tonight once I've walked the dog. I've still got biscuits/chocolates left over from Christmas and I live on my own so I'm trying not to wolf huge amounts every evening. I've lost 3 stone over the last few years so do track everything on my fitbit but don't beat myself up if I go over my calorie "allowance" for the day now and again.

I'm just normal too. Today so far I've had..

20,000 cups of tea
Breakfast- scramble eggs and 2 packets of French fry crisps
Lunch- jam on toast (with butter) and about 6 cherry brandy chocolate liquors
Tea tonight- homemade lasagne with chips
Then I'll probably camp down on the sofa tonight with more chocolates and crisps while I'm watching power with dh.

I can't put weight on no matter what I eat, so no need to eat like a rabbit here 🐰

I'm enjoying a StarBar as i type.... yum

tonight will have sausage mash and peas.

i eat like a 4 year old.

I think I eat pretty normally, leaning towards healthy - we spend a lot on food.

Breakfast: Spelt sourdough toast (don't judge - it's the one I started eating from Waitrose when we were doing low FODMAP and I like its weird taste now) with fancy (and low salt) crunchy peanut butter & blueberry jam. Cup of tea.

Snack: Some almonds and maybe chocolate, black coffee

Lunch (very early - around 12): small portion of leftover dinner from last night - today it was some shepherd's pie and a bit of salad. Or something I might have picked up in the expired section of the supermarket - yesterday it was a salmon fishcake. Might be just scrambled eggs on toast if I haven't managed to get something nice. I work from home.

Snack: Chocolate biscuit, cup of tea

Maybe a snack again if I'm tired: piece of toast with butter & marmalade

Maybe a snack AGAIN: pick out the nice bits from whatever the kids didn't eat at dinner esp. if it was chicken kiev. There won't be much - a couple of mouthfuls.

9pm: dinner with DH - might be saag paneer with rice & paratha, maybe something Italian and vegetarian, once a week we have salmon. I probably serve myself less pasta than I might otherwise as I am dimly aware of the snacks earlier.

Glass of wine & bit of chocolate.

I'm very slim, but could probably lose half a stone if I put myself to it. 5'6", size 8, very occasionally 10. I've put on a stone in the last 10 years.

I'm certainly not saying it's healthy. I don't really put much thought into it. Certainly not as much as some do here.

It’s the same as kids’ lunchboxes, reading MN you’d think every primary school dining hall in the land was swimming in organic hummus, pesto pasta, fresh berries and vegetable crudités

Yes, noticed this a lot!

Jenny17 what's so bad about her diet? (not asking aggressively - sadly have to point this out these days on MN!)

Define NORMAL

I think i eat normally in that I don't have any restrictions and I eat pretty much what I like, while being a little bit mindful of sugar I guess.
I know what you mean about eating threads on here though. "Today I had one egg, no toast, for lunch mung beans and tofu then some lean protein and salad for dinner"...I think some people just have no taste buds tbh.
I think the same about people who live on ready meals -they just don't like food all that much.
Today I had cheese on toast late morning,
I'm having a grapefruit in a bit and for tea I'm going to heat up last night's chilli and do tacos with salad. The day will be interspersed with tea and biscuits. Sometimes I have weird stuff for breakfast like ramen noodles or Brazil nuts..I don't like "breakfast" foods much. So maybe not normal!

I don't believe 80% of the posters on those 'What have you eaten today?' threads, there is the competitive over and under exaggeration and the ubiquitous MN HUGE salad served with absolutely everything, it is never just a salad it is always a HUGE salad.

should add am 1/2 stone overweight (for me)
Have also realised that i am only thin when i eat fuck all.
and that's not a realistic option so....