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Is there anyone who just eats normally?

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Peanutss · 22/01/2019 13:46

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.

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KissingInTheRain · 24/01/2019 21:33

Your choc digestives have refined sugar in them. Sugar is the Devil’s dandruff.

You’re in bad trouble now.

WunderBlah · 24/01/2019 21:48

Nae worries, come sunday this sinner will REPENT!!!

Peanutss · 24/01/2019 22:07

Come and see.' and I saw, and he held a white medium sliced loaf

Howling Grin

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JamieFrasersSassenach · 24/01/2019 22:17

Ha! Today I had:

Apple and banana for breakfast

4 slices thick white bread with spread for lunch

4 slices thick white bread with spread and some cheddar plus a mini magnum for dinner

Eleventy billion cups of tea

Not one of my most nutritious days, a real can't be arsed day!!

NotACompleterFinis · 24/01/2019 22:36

You jest about bread, but on some people flour effects the brain like heroin and sugar like cocaine. I Googled it 👍

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 24/01/2019 22:38

I really like WunderBlah's post about 'the egg'. Sums up the insecurities and pretensions of an awful lot of posters here.

I also wanted to post to IfNotNotThenWhy's post about unicorn spellt bread to say that Asda do a lovely one, thick sliced and doesn't seem to go off (I'm the only one who likes 'weird arsed bread' in this house). Grin

I also really adore plain toast slathered with English Mustard (Colmans). Blush

I think so many posters here have very odd relationships with food and are obsessed with telling others how well they themselves eat - and how poorly everybody else eats. Why do that? If you're happy with how you regulate/manage your food intake, why the need to demean anybody else's choices. They absolutely don't affect you and it's so arrogant.

ShiteRunner, I feel so sad reading your struggles. Food addiction is a dreadfully debilitating illness and I wish that there was as much help in the UK for this as there is in the US. I've been watching 'My 600lb Life' and it struck me that every one of those people was a 'normal' weight once until whatever it was tipped them out of balance and control.

We need to stop seeing food as 'good' and 'bad', it's neither, it's just comprised of varying levels of nutrients and achieving a balance suitable for your own body is the way to go, in my opinion. I would feel quite shit if I indulged my Wotsits craving because I'd chomp quite happily through a 12 pack and smile at my cheesy-dust covered teeth in the mirror. I have no control so I don't eat a single one.

I have a bad cold at the moment so today I ate:
B: Hot cross bun
L/D: 2 pieces of Asda Spellt bread with 3 scrambled eggs
and several large Lemsips.

Tomorrow will be a bit better, have run out of buns so:
B: 2 toast with 3 scrambled eggs
D: Yorkshire Provender Roast Chicken Soup (I just can't make it the way they do).
Hopefully fewer Lemsips.

Really interesting thread, Peanutss :)

Siameasy · 24/01/2019 22:41

You jest about bread, but on some people flour effects the brain like heroin and sugar like cocaine. I Googled it 👍

Yep that is me so I can no longer have them
Potatoes too
And corn

MotherOfTheNoise · 24/01/2019 22:51

My husbands a chef so we eat all sorts, I am his guinea pig for new dishes going on the menu, so I do eat some serious weird shit sometimes (kale porridge...I'm look at you Hmm)

But we also have 3 kids and I have always loved food. Toast, cereal (usually kiddy based because I am still not adult enough to buy adult cereal), eggs, bacon, crumpets...whatever's we've got in basically!

Lunch is soup, sarnie, toasty, leftovers.

And I always eat dinner with the kids so it's a carb, meat and veg every night (Bolognese, shepherd pie, fish, risotto, chicken dinner, stir fry). But, we're really lucky that the kids will literally eat anything, they even eaten pigs heart and trotters before!! So that makes it easy to not get repetitive with dinners.

MotherOfTheNoise · 24/01/2019 22:52

Oh and always a vat of tea. Decaf at the moment as I'm breastfeeding but usually fully caffeinated! (With lots of chocolate hob nobs or a slice of cake)

Peanutss · 25/01/2019 08:08

they even eaten pigs heart and trotters before

Just imagining the war zone in our house if we attempted to get them to eat something like this...!

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 25/01/2019 12:07

"And I looked and I saw a beige horse, and the man that sat on it was bread and hell followed with him."

Klutzy

LOL!!!!

visitorfromgermany · 25/01/2019 16:14

That was an interesting read! I’m sick at home and it kept me entertained for hours!
I found a lot of inspiration here, there’s just one thing I have to ask- is it „normal“ in the UK to pair a carby meal like lasagna or pizza or pie with even more carbs like chips or garlic bread? That really baffled me a bit, I never heard of that before... I would always serve a salad or maybe vegetables with it.

Second thing-recipe for sausage casserole please?

To not just read but also contribute:

B 2 slices of wholemeal bread with not fancy pb and dried cherries and bananas
L half a wrap with chicken breast and heaps of sprouts (had to be used)
Snack was very MN inspired because I suddenly remembered that my husband brought an aero chocolate mint bar from a trip to England, accompanied by a chai latte
Supper will be tinned chicken soup

I had two coffee too... did you know that about 6 cups are probably protective against Alzheimer’s disease and good for your liver too?

On a normal work day I have
B overnight oats with fruit OR an omelette with avocado or sautéed spinach OR quark with fruit and nuts and honey OR a slice or two of substantial bread with cheese or cold cuts
Big Café latte in my thermos mug on my way to work
Late Lunch, mostly leftovers from the freezer or homemade sandwich (always with lettuce or arugula and tomatoes or peppers) or a salad (in summer) or tinned soup
Snack nuts/almonds/roasted peas and some cheese
Supper sometimes german „Abendbrot“ (Bread or rolls, cold cuts, cheese, tomatoes, crudités, pickles), sometimes a definitely big, if not huge salad (but with a proper dressing and always with Jamie Olivers maxim in mind: salty, sweet, crunchy, soft, it’s al about the mixture) or quesadillas or a stew/ thick soup or fish and veggies with potatoes (my preference) or rice (my husbands)
We don’t always eat together due to very different schedules, but we try to cook as a family (only one child, boy, 11) on the weekends. It’s mostly a very late and lush breakfast then and a big meal with real cooking around 4pm and maybe a little array of nibbles quite late (cheese, italian salami, nuts, satsumas or apples, olives...for my husband and ne)
I wouldn’t eat much sweet stuff, if it weren’t available. But if it is (like at work), I grab some. I grab the more, the harder the day was and the longer I had to wait for my lunch break (usually around 1:30 pm, sometimes an hour later, breakfast is around 7:00 am).

PeridotCricket · 25/01/2019 16:25

visitorfromgermany

It sounds like you eat a balanced diet with a lot of veg, nuts, fruit and fibre - and probably without thinking about it too much.

I like the always having a salad or a piece of fruit or veg.

'Double carbing' - I do love pizza and chips, or pasta and garlic bread. My husband is aghast at this! I think its my Scottish heritage where deep fried pizza is a genuine thing.

Sausage casserole. Get some good herby sausages - cut into chunks and fry - I like chunks so the ends go a little crispy - till brown all over. They don't need to be cooked through just browned.

Take out, fry onions, garlic, chilli - add red wine to deglaze - bubble away - - put in some celeary, peppers, any other veg really, put in tin of tomatoes or two - bubble and reduce a bit. Lots of pepper, bay leaf, splash of vinegar maybe or some sugar if it needs it. Rosemary or thyme. Add back in sausages and cook through. Green lentils are a good addition.

KlutzyDraconequus · 25/01/2019 16:27

lasagna or pizza or pie with even more carbs like chips or garlic bread?

Garlic Bread?
Takes me back a few years..

But yes, it is usual to have a garlic bread with pizza, Bolognese etc.
Normal to have chips with pie, pizza and lasagne too.

MawkishTwaddle · 25/01/2019 16:30

A tin of chicken soup for dinner would leave me troughing through the pantry all night.

I have the appetite of a small army.

AllSuits · 25/01/2019 16:33

I don't think people look 'down' on others with a less nutritious diet than theirs.

I see food as vital fuel for energy and well-being, and want to ward off disease and I'll health as best I can by being as healthy as possible.

Other people have different priorities, and don't feel responsible for their own health because they have the NHS to fall back on.

But...if you're obese, eat half a loaf of processed bread every day and only snack on Mars bars, you can't be surprised when you get diabetic. Y'know.

Trouble is with a really unhealthy diet without nutrients, it can catch up with you.

visitorfromgermany · 25/01/2019 17:01

@Peridot (don’t know how to reply really): thank you very much, that sounds delicious!

visitorfromgermany · 25/01/2019 17:02

@MawkishTwaddle I lay on the couch the entire day, and it’s a big can Grin

Bluntness100 · 25/01/2019 17:11

Normal to have chips with pie, pizza and lasagne too

It's weird what folks normal is, I don't think it's remotely normal to have chips with pizza or lasagne, I can trough when I want to, but that would be too much even for me.

However I come from an Italian family so as such chips would never be served with pizza or lasagne,

KlutzyDraconequus · 25/01/2019 17:22

Bluntness100

I would avoid most cafes and eateries in the UK then, pizza and chips as far as the eye can see.

Kikipost · 25/01/2019 17:39

Normal to have chips with pie, pizza and lasagne too

Hand on heart, I can’t remember last time I as chips, pie, pizza or lasagne

Peanutss · 25/01/2019 17:43

don't feel responsible for their own health because they have the NHS to fall back on

I would say this about someone who is severely overweight and still eats excessively and drinks 6 pints a day. I wouldn't think it about someone who eats like my OP personally.

I don't believe I eat/ live so unhealthily that I am going to end up hospitalised or needing medication. I think that's a massive leap, so no I don't live the way I do because I think I can fall back on the NHS. I am well within the healthy range BMI for my age/height.

And yes, people do look 'down', you can see it all over this thread.

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Peanutss · 25/01/2019 17:46

Bluntness100 I would say it's normal in British culture these days. Most places serving food like pie or pizza etc... will serve it with chips. Whether it's right or wrong, it certainly isn't uncommon.

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visitorfromgermany · 25/01/2019 18:06

Peanuts

I saw some documentary, I think, about school meals in the US and it seems they count potatoes (so also chips) as vegetables... although they don’t do that with rice or pasta. For me those are all some kind of starchy companions to meat/fish/other protein and veggies...
Depends on the definition, I think. It would just be too carby for my taste, I love a green, quite vinegary salad alongside my lasagna Smile

KissingInTheRain · 25/01/2019 18:08

I see food as vital fuel for energy and well-being, and want to ward off disease and I'll health as best I can by being as healthy as possible.

Other people have different priorities, and don't feel responsible for their own health because they have the NHS to fall back on.

Yet again...you cannot ward off disease or improve (physical) wellbeing by eating a certain diet. (Other than in extreme and irrelevant cases like 18th sailors and scurvy.). If by “energy” you mean that you can make yourself more energetic by eating particular food or following a particular diet, that’s completely untrue as well.

Those whose ill health can be attributed to their diet did not eat normally as per the OP.

And AllSuits, your own post contradicts your starting comment that people don’t look down on others for their diets. You go on to do exactly that.