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.

it's a heavily massed produced item made from the leftovers of another product

My DH claims that Marmite is found in the "industrial effluent" section of the supermarket. (He doesn't like it )

I don't consider Couscous normal, it .ay be to people's in different cultures and countries, but it's not something I encountered until recently.

It's becoming normal. I remember when most kinds of pasta weren't normal. And the old folks at my Dad's lunch club are potatoes with everything - rice or pasta wont do, never mind couscous.

I don’t think that’s what the OP meant by ‘people eating normally’.

cous cous is completely 'normal' to me. Me and DD eat it at least once a week. What on earth is odd about it? It's pasta but with no cooking!

What on earth is odd about it?

I wouldn't say "odd" I'd say it's just never came into my consciousness until recently.
I don't remember trekking to town on the bus with me mum and heading to Safeway or kwiksave for packs of CousCous and quinoa. I doubt the people of 50s, 60s or 70s Britain had any inkling of those products and yet they were slimmer back then.

Sonthrr you go, proof of there was none that couscous causes obesity. Step away from the excesses of pasta.

I hate CousCous, I find the texture to be like sand! I also hate hummous as I hate chickpeas. I don't make a good "healthy" person.

Cous cous is not healthy! It's basically just pasta!

Cous cous is not healthy

And this is why I just rely on my body to tell me what I need! If I eat junk for several days I feel like crap! If I need more vegetables, my body lets me know by craving them. Same with the whole "water" thing. I drink when I'm thirsty. If I feel dehydrated I usually have some extra fruit with a high water content. I don't need to be told how much water I should be drinking. People don't listen to their bodies anymore. Your head will tell you all sorts of things, some good some bad. But if you listen to your body it will let you know!

I had cereal this morning, coffee and now shepherd's pie which is nice.

Yesterday was cake and coffee then spicy bean burger/chips/veg and mango with yoghurt and then some more choc digestives.

It was the tesco spicy bean burgers which are awright if anyone is remotely interested!

Cous cous is not healthy! It's basically just pasta!

And there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with either in moderation.

Exactly, I'm just saying cous cous is not some wonder food I am proud of eating weekly! It's just food.

Weekly... Crikey, I've had it 4 times in 40 years. Best up my couscous game.

I've never had quinoa or hummus.

Yeah, cheap as chips and you just pour boiling water on it and whatever roasted veg you like.

So simple and quick. Much quicker than pasta.

Never had quinoa either. Make hummus all the time though, again, cheap and quick.

And there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with either in moderation.

Agreed. And there’s nothing wrong with any food in moderation.

I have been on this site since 2007 and only posted once before, but have never read such a fasinating thread.

...and couldn't even spell properly!

Porridge and frozen blueberries, toast and bovril for breakfast, veg and hummus for lunch and pumpkin seeds apples and satsumas, chicken stir fry for dinner. Plus biscuits, nuts, Pringles and coffee++++ currently training for 1/2 marathon so start of well and lose it by mid morning when my secretary brings me coffee and biscuits 😆

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

Better than me lol but i also dont stress too much about her food, some days she will have nuggets and fries for dinner, ice cream middle of day as a snack or she asks for a chocolate, i rarely say no, unless we 5 min out from dinner.

Dd loves tinned tuna and crackers as a snack or lunch, she prefers the spag bog i make when i grate up carrot fine and its in the sauce.
While she dont eat a huge range of veg but she will happily scoff down potato, cauliflower or broccoli. The kid eats bloody whole pickles, im 30 and still pick them off my burger.
She eats fruit at school, they have a bowl in class and she grabs if she wants. If we buy it at home, she wont touch it
They bake cheese and spinach pastry puffs, pumpkin and sultana muffins and she loves them, brings home recipe for them.

Today, I are been mostly eatin
b- nowt, with a coffee.
L- 3 slices of cheese on toast and bag of crisps.
T- tin of sausage and beans with 4 slices of bread and butter.

That is all.

Breakfast today
Coffee x3 and a hot cross bun

So where do hot cross buns sit in terms of a good breakfast? I mean fruit and spices yeah?

Just dont ask how much butter is on it...........

Nearly 1000 posts.

Before the shutters come down I do want to say thank you to the fussy, preachy eaters for trespassing onto this thread and entertaining all of us with your quite amazingly unappetising diets - which have more or less no benefit above a normal diet in any event.

I’m most grateful.

I’m either really good or really bad
I eat normally on the weekends as in just have whatever I fancy.
The weekdays I am a bit more planned out I be delighted with myself for taking lunch to work.
Today I wasn’t it was chipper in the middle of the day but It was amazing I might do the same 2mo haha

wtf2015 you have Bovril on toast? I thought I was the only one! Everyone else thinks it’s meant to be a drink and prefers that bitter yeasty alternative Marmite. Don’t know what they're missing

It's been a good thread, entertaining and interesting.
I've genuinely learned a lot, and I mean that most very sincerely... No really...