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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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WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 13:19

Amen to that Grin

aintnothinbutagstring · 26/01/2019 13:47

It think food culture in the UK is not great, we love our treats and snacks, processed food (myself included). I've made a real conscious effort to improve my diet since the new year (more fish less meat, increased fruit and veg) because I just see so many people reach middle age with awful health problems and looking old before their time, I don't want to be one of them. I'm not bothered about being thin, I just want to look and feel healthy.

KissingInTheRain · 26/01/2019 14:04

Talking of the Bible (by which I mean the Bible, not a book by Deliciously Ella) didn’t Christ feed thousands with loaves and fishes? I don’t recall him saying, ”Eat this, but remember that bread makes for a very poor diet, so if there are enough takers I’ll conjure up some tofu. Anyone?”

And as for the Last Supper, that’s usually depicted with SALT on the table. SALT!

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 26/01/2019 14:11

Last couple of days food:
B: meusli and milk, buttered toast and Marmite, grapefruit, tea.
L: packaged salad of couscous, rocket, tomato, cucumber, cheese; satsuma
D: frozen readymeal beef stroganoff with homecooked plain rice and green veg; pear.
Snacks: grapes, chocolate biscuits. Lots of tea.

B: meusli and milk, buttered toast and Marmite, grapefruit, tea.
L: tinned sardines, bread (but not a dangerwich! I didn't put any slices of bread on top of each other! I had a safewich), lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red pepper
D: frozen fish in breadcrumbs, with potatoes green beans and carrot; apple.
Snacks: chocolate biscuits, finished the grapes. Lots of tea.

This is normal for me, maybe a bit better than I usually manage. Yes, I always eat the same breakfast, maybe that's not normal. But it's probably normal to have a few weirdnesses.

WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 16:26

Dangerwich emoji requested!

Hi there WunderBlah,

Ooh, interesting request...do you have any particular filling in mind? Cheese and pickle would be my choice!

Anyway, we'll flag this up for you at MNHQ and let you know if there are any updates.

Best wishes,

Lou
MNHQ

Peanutss · 26/01/2019 17:09

Yes, I'm so excited!!

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LisaSimpsonsbff · 26/01/2019 17:30

People who refer to meat, fish, beans, etc (but they nearly always just mean meat or fish) as 'protein', as in 'I have salad and a protein for lunch' freak me right out

KlutzyDraconequus · 26/01/2019 17:43

On the question of sandwiches...

Two slices of buttered bread, with a filling in between, makes a sandwich.
But...
If you cut that sandwich in half, how many sandwiches have you got?

LouMumsnet · 26/01/2019 17:45

You know, I'm also partial to peanut butter (on white bread - always) but my ABSOLUTE fave is a fish finger sarnie with loads and loads of ketchup.

In fact, that's what I'm having for tea tonight.

Anyway, in the meantime, I've flagged up your excellent suggestion of a butty emoticon here at MNHQ so keep everything crossed, folks.

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WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 18:04

Star Gold Star for LouMumsnet!

WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 18:15

People who refer to meat, fish, beans, etc (but they nearly always just mean meat or fish) as 'protein', as in 'I have salad and a protein for lunch' freak me right out

I have never heard this and would probably have to back away slowly if I did, blimey. Hmm

As for the two slice definition of a sandwich, says who? What about the open sandwich? Or the clubhouse? Or a wrap? Or pitta? Also if you have a single slice and put stuff on and fold it then that is still a sandwich so really I think it has to include all food on bread. The oracle wiki agrees with me Grin

The modern concept of a sandwich using slices of bread as found within the West can arguably be traced to 18th-century Europe. However, the use of some kind of bread or bread-like substance to lie under (or under and over) some other food, or used to scoop up and enclose or wrap some other type of food, long predates the eighteenth century, and is found in numerous much older cultures worldwide.

The ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs in a soft matzah—flat, unleavened bread—during Passover in the manner of a modern wrap made with flatbread.[9] Flat breads of only slightly varying kinds have long been used to scoop or wrap small amounts of food en route from platter to mouth throughout Western Asia and northern Africa. From Morocco to Ethiopia to India, bread is baked in flat rounds, contrasting with the European loaf tradition.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, thick slabs of coarse and usually stale bread, called "trenchers", were used as plates.[10] After a meal, the food-soaked trencher was fed to a dog or to beggars at the tables of the wealthy, and eaten by diners in more modest circumstances. The immediate culinary precursor with a direct connection to the English sandwich was to be found in the Netherlands of the seventeenth century, where the naturalist John Ray observed[11][12] that in the taverns beef hung from the rafters "which they cut into thin slices and eat with bread and butter laying the slices upon the butter"— explanatory specifications that reveal the Dutch belegde broodje, open-faced sandwich, was as yet unfamiliar in England.

KissingInTheRain · 26/01/2019 18:31

The ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs in a soft matzah—flat, unleavened bread—during Passover in the manner of a modern wrap made with flatbread.

Good God! He was taking his life in his hands with that bread-and-red meat abomination.

But then according to Wiki he lived to 120. Stick that up your quinoa, fusspot eaters.

Fatasfook · 26/01/2019 18:35

If by normal you mean, eating everything and anything, eating all of the time, followed by mild guilt and an increase in anxiety which leads to a new diet started every Monday morning to be ditched by Monday lunchtime then yes, totally normal.

KlutzyDraconequus · 26/01/2019 18:50

WunderBlah

Jeez there's some weapons grade food stuffs being talked about now.

Best be careful, we'll have the Plod knocking our doors...

"We hear you've been discussing weapons of diet destruction..."

WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 19:14

WDDwich!

WH1SPERS · 26/01/2019 22:23

Luckily I am Scottish so the xenophobic comment directed to all the English women is not applicable. I have to consider the fact that if, as suggested, two thirds are not thin then surely a thread describing a lack of food denial as "normal" is entirely correct

Yes of course, stating facts you don’t like is now xenophobic. Here’s the good old NHS joining in with my xenophobia. Universities and academics publish facts too - why don’t you call them names and see if they will stop ?

www.nhs.uk/conditions/obesity/

digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/clinical-indicators/compendium-of-population-health-indicators/compendium-public-health/current/obesity-nutrition

digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-obesity-physical-activity-and-diet/statistics-on-obesity-physical-activity-and-diet-england-2018

KlutzyDraconequus · 26/01/2019 22:30

Jeez WH1SPERS did someone swap your greasy pizza for the rabbits salad?

Get yersen oop maccy ds n av yersen a few big Macks me duck.

KissingInTheRain · 26/01/2019 22:43

I don’t understand the point of WH1SPERS post.

To lose weight you need to take in fewer calories than you expend. What’s that got to do with normal, unpretentious eating?

WunderBlah · 26/01/2019 22:52

Well nothing it's just one preachy grump spoiling for a fight with people who ain't interested!

It's amazing how rankled people get about other people's food. You can see how there is big money in this stuff.

I just had another piece of cake because it only keeps for about three days really. Dinner was spag bol which was delicious. I also had some chocolate digestives this afternoon and did not count them.

OnceUponAThread · 27/01/2019 14:33

I think I am your tribe.

Breakfast either scrambled eggs on toast, or a bowl of cereal, or a bacon sandwich on the weekends, or sometimes a H&C croissant from Nero

Lunch: usually a sandwich (either M&S, Eat or homemade) although if I've cooked extra for supper sometimes I'll heat up leftovers.

Dinner: whatever me and OH fancy. Pie, Stir Fry, Pasta, Risotto, Fajitas, curry etc etc. I usually cook, but we still sometimes dine on kiev or fish fingers or jacket potatoes.

Take out usually once a week.

Sometimes I'll do a Sunday roast.

Snacks - crisps (wotsits or quavers normally). Sometimes the odd bit of fruit if the mood takes me.

We're not really a pudding family, but we do consumer outrageous amounts of ice cream.

Sometimes (rare) I bake.

squeekums · 27/01/2019 14:53

I’ve never been someone who eats breakfast.
I’m just not hungry until mid morning and by that time it seems pointless as it’s nearly dinner time by then anyway.
I’ve always thought the ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ thing is utter crap. Everyone is different. Some people need breakfast, some don’t.

Completely agree
Coffee is all i can stomach till lunch, sometimes later.
I actually remember on a school camp as a kid i was told eat breakfast or sit out the days activities. So i ate.........
And threw it up 10 min later as it just left me feeling so off eating that early.
The didnt ask me to eat breakfast the next day.

Kikipost · 27/01/2019 17:46

No judgement, I promise
Genuinely curious

These who don’t ever have fruit or veg or just have the odd token apple or tangerine, and consume sharing packs of chocolate (on their own) etc etc how do your children eat?

CallMeVito · 27/01/2019 17:59

Kikipost
as someone famously said on tv, "there's salad in a McDonald burger" Grin

KissingInTheRain · 27/01/2019 17:59

These who don’t ever have fruit or veg or just have the odd token apple or tangerine, and consume sharing packs of chocolate (on their own) etc etc how do your children eat?

I appreciate this is not your question, but someone who never has fruit or veg does not eat a normal diet. And I don’t recall anyone on this thread saying they never, or even only very occasionally, eat fruit and veg.

But as a sort of mirror question, to those who are constantly preoccupied, anxious and fussy about their diet, do you micro-manage your children’s diets too?

CallMeVito · 27/01/2019 18:01

by that I mean that of course the children have the most amazing and balanced diet allowing them to eat whatever they want and avoiding food intolerance/ eating disorder and being the fittest, healthiest child of the block