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.

My normal is something along the lines of a Covent Garden Lentil & Bacon soup with some cracker type things. Tonight I am having sausage, mash, peas and gravy. I don't eat breakfast, I won't be having any snacks (I rarely eat snacks). A few coffees and a cup of tea. Some sparkling water and a Diet Coke later. Not saintly but not piggy either.

How has a sandwich suddenly included crisps, sausage rolls, squash and chocolate pudding?
who said they were included? The point was that this "menu" was the norm for some families. It doesn't mean is astonishing if it's not the norm for all of us.

I'm judging you for your superior attitude because you have a healthy diet as if that gives you the right to jump on people who don't give as much of a toss about having a bag of crisps for lunch.

again, you started the thread...

Porridge for breakfast, beans on toast for lunch and a Kitkat and yoghurt as snacks, don’t even know what I can be arsed to do for tea yet, I’m in a can’t be arsed kinda mood.

I like to eat nutritious food- but I also eat chocoalte and crisps.

I will have a bacon buttie on a Sunday morning but I wouldn't eat a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast every day.

I eat museli or granola for breakfast- with a handful of berries on top.
I buy wholemeal rather than white bread, if I have a sandwich I'll have cheese but make sure I have some salad on it too.
It doesn't take any effort to make some changes.

I was a bit peckish half an hour ago and was tempted to have a bag of crisps but I ate a banana instead.
I'm not overweight, I just like to get nutrients into my body where I can.

And you are demonstrating my point fantastically!

DonCorleon you'd be a shit parent if you gave your child a sandwich every day? Give over 😂

Have you ever been in a children's canteen and seen what the majority of children bring? Heres a clue, 90% of those parents must be shit!

Never have I read such nonsense on here.

A packed lunch with a wholemeal turkey salad sandwhiches, chopped cucumber carrot and tomatos,grapes and a yogurt is a perfectly balanced lunch. Children need carbs!

This thread is a real insight to the food judgement going on out there.

Food is fun and the self flagellation is ugly and boring. Not everyone feels the same way about food and it's really ignorant to generalise about everyone who doesn't eat exactly like you let alone use it as an appropriate flag pole to hang a "shit parent" label on.

This is exactly the stupidity the OP was poking fun at!

My 17yo sister eats what I consider normally. She doesn't think about what she eats at all and isn't at all fussed by food.

When she's working she'll have 3 redbulls, 2 meal deals and maybe a whole pizza for tea, OR she will eat poached eggs, chicken salad, and lentil daal for dinner.

I think this is why she's a normal weight, she self regulates her food. Sometimes shell skip meals and sometimes shell have lots of food in one day.

I think I probably eat on the slightly unhealthy side of normal.

Sometimes for breakfast I'll have a Snickers or Bounty bar with my coffee, but most days it's muesli (if I've bothered to make any).

Lunch most days is toast with peanut butter, though sometimes I have an omelette.

Dinner tonight is a sausage casserole with homemade bread. Yesterday we had oven fish and chips.

I would be very shit parent if I was giving a sandwich to my kids every lunch of the week. That might be "normal" in some circles, with crisps, sausage rolls, squash for drink and chocolate for pudding, but it's still a poor and lazy lunch.

Yikes...that makes me a very shit parent then. There are worse things she could have. Feeling a bit judged now :( She won't eat anything sweet though so at least squash and chocolate are out.

I eat normal food!
B- weetabix or cornflakes
L- chicken/ tuna/ cheese sandwich/ roll
D- pasta/ meat and 2 veg/ curry etc
Sometimes a snack or sometimes not
Two buckets of tea
Half a bottle of wine

Don't worry Bentley the shit parents are the ones going off to Majorca for a fortnight and locking the home alone toddlers in so they don't escape!

Children need carbs!

Absolutely! And so do adults!

I think we should name this thread SANDWICHGATE and consider having it moved to Classics

I have toast for breakfast, if I’m feeling extravagant I’ll stick a fried egg on top. Cheese sandwich for lunch, apple and banana for snack (we get free fruit at work) and tea is usually cottage pie, pasta bake or fish and rice.

A family member regularly just eats potatoes, potatoes for breakfast, potatoes for lunch and potatoes for tea. Apparently it’s great for losing weight

I do think that it's wise to have a healthy diet and lifestyle but I'm not convinced that it's always those who don't that cost the NHS a fortune. A relative died very suddenly at the age of 58 from a heart attack. His lifestyle was far from healthy but he barely saw a Dr in his life and cost the NHS very little money.. Having worked in care those who tended to cost the most money re NHS and care were the people who had always been fit, active and healthy but who had lived long enough to develop the near inevitable issues that old age brings.

I am aware that there are many people who are living with complications from strokes, heart disease and diabetes which require a lot of care and medication, but the fact that we are all living longer is causing a huge strain on the public purse too, and it allows time for other conditions e.g dementia to develop instead.

You know there is carbs in everything right? Organic Chem 101.

I've always been a size 6/8 (excluding two pregnancies) and I eat normal/shit all the time. The crazy nutritional food threads baffle me. I have jam or chocolate spread on toast every morning, a pain au chocolat or ham sandwich for lunch and pasta, chicken dippers, rice or meat and chips for dinner. I snack on a pack of Maryland cookies or a big chocolate bar. I eat about two portions of fruit a day and 0-1 portions of veg. Internally in probably dying, but I like eating crap and I don't look outwardly unhealthy so I guess I'll continue.

except water obvs, and yes I will head off the pedants - by everything i mean every food

I had a go at cooking vegan last year and everyone else was making an aubergine red Thai curry while I was doing Quorn nuggets for the kids.
So I try not to compare what we eat! Even though it is usually healthy in that it has a lot of veg (not in that we completely exclude one food group).
Tonight will probably be fish fingers for the kids, fish fillets for us, and wedges and peas. Or possibly leeks.

I was just told on another thread I should try cutting out dairy to help my DD's learning delays. needless to say I told the poster to sod right off.

If I ate what I wanted I'd be fat and the truth is I don't like being fat. I work FT in a sedentary job and so the only real way to make a significant difference to calories in/out is to restrict my eating.

It is boring I don't enjoy it but that's the trade off.

well you clearly don't cook for kids. As a parent, someone need to feed them properly, and do the thinking for them, making sure they eat the right food without even thinking about it.
You didn't read my posts. The one where I mentioned ds, miso soup with greens, and the fact that I'm a FUCKING CHEF!😂
You're on the wind up.

Wunder
Your list clearly demonstrates what I often say; you can put anything on toast.
My dear son picked me up a star bar on his way home from school God love him.
I didn't even have to get off my fat arse.

What, precisely, is wrong with a sandwich?
Bread is not evil.
Carbs are not evil.
Gluten and wheat are not evil.
Eating bread once a day - with some protein and veg - constitutes a balanced diet.

Errgh today is a bad day....
Breakfast......nothing
Snack.....nothing
2 whatever eating time that’s named small bite of bread
5 small bowl of mushroom bisque from a carton and bread and hummus.
I’ve only just managed to get pfb to sleep as she is teething badly and keeping me busy.