AIBU to ask for your typical meal plan for the week?

[7Pip]

Particularly if you live alone. I'm going to be alone for 2 weeks shortly, and am not sure what to cook for one without wasting food, repeating dishes daily or ending up not cooking anything healthy at all!

Maybe you could play freezer bingo and see what you get?

Em, I am quite slim (size 8) and not malnourished. Truth be told, I usually skip breakfast, just a piece of fruit about 10/11am, a sandwich for lunch when at work, and then a small portion of dinner.
I don't have a huge appetite at all and dislike feeling stuffed. I tend to pick at stuff throughout the day outside of meals though and am a fiend for wine/cheese/chocolate in the evenings.

I had to keep a food diary for my gym last year and my personal trainer was less than impressed with the amount of lattes, croissants, wine and chocolate I consumed... 'Have a plum in the evening' he said. 'I shall try that' I said.

Probably not going to win healthy food diet of the year. But ham/egg/beef/pork should be enough protein. I know I'm being a bit useless on the fruit side. I'm not mad on peeling chopping veg and again didn't want to buy lettuce and only use it for once meal (fresh lettuce dressed being my favourite accompaniment).

Buy try bake veg. Asda
Do a few varieties.

Slow cooker?

Stuffed mushrooms.
With Philadelphia? Served with a chicken breast.

Mix the Philadelphia with some peppers maybe.

Mushrooms bloat me, though they are my occasional indulgence. Have philadephia here. Don't have a slow cooker unfortunately.

Tinkly, your dd's methods of eating would be very like mine when I used to live alone. Just out of the habit now!

You’re probably having the wine, cheese and chocolate cos you’re miserable from not eating enough! Seriously, I am slim but that is just not enough food listed on some of the days.

Depends on your budget but In your situation for evening main meals I would batch cook 2 nice things from scratch eg a curry and chilli and freeze into individual portions. So that’s probably 6 meals sorted from 14 days (with some Portions still frozen in the freezer).

On the other days I would swap between stuffed pasta and ready made sauce, baked potato and cheese plus salad or baked potatoe and baked beans. Omelette and salad. Ready made pizza. Ham, egg and oven chips (I know this isn’t at all healthy but anyways it’s nice!). Salmon fillet (probably one that’s pre-cooked if I really couldn’t be arsed) new potatoes and broccoli.

Curly, there's nothing there terribly different to what I've down on my meal plan?

Maybe log everything on my
Fitness pal? Shows
You where your deficits
Are

I'm not terribly keen on purely carb meals (empty calories really). Because I work out a lot, PT told me to up my protein intake a bit. I snack on things like nuts/soups/yoghurts/bananas/sandwiches/cheese/chocolate!
I like my chocolate in the evenings unfortunately! Not too much, maybe 4 squares of dark chocolate or sometimes an Oat bar or something.

Op are
You eating enough?

If you entered what you eat o line in an app is it enough?

Look at day 3,5 and 6. It’s just not terribly balanced (and believe me my diet isn’t perfect compared to some nutrition conscious people on here!)

Maybe you’re just a lots of small meals type of person. Whereas I don’t snack. Just 3 square meals a day. If I was only eating small amounts at main meal times I would be tempted to eat crap snacks in between with no nutritional value like a chocolate biscuit or bag of crisps or a cake. So I prefer just to eat a proper amount of foood at meal times. Always been slim (until this year when bloody peri-menopause seems to be kicking in and I can feel a muffin top developing)m
But everyone’s different. I guess lots of small meals can work if they’re healthy. Just not when it’s wine, choc and croissants!

That’s not enough food for someone who works out a lot.

I do worry about a lot of these food diary posts.

You eat less than my 3 year old!

Yes I agree that it’s worrying. I wouldn’t view a sandwich as a “snack” either. A sandwich is a lunch. Or with a big bowl of soup it could be dinner.

I think most people need a balanced meal protein, carbs and veg at main evening meals. I don’t believe in “low carb diets”. Doesnt fill you up. Just everything in moderation.

I see some of the young people at work on their faddy diets. Low carb. Fasting. They are obsessed. I gawp at some of them opening a packet of spicy cooked chicken and eating the whole lot on their own but not eating ANYTHING else. Just wrong.

I'll ring GP tomorrow I think to see what my latest bloodwork was like (was in hospital recently where they took my bloods, so she should have that).

I don't snack during the day on unhealthy stuff like crisps/cake/chocolate. That fiend only comes out at night. If I'm hungry during the day I'll have an extra sandwich or pop to the shop for mini sausages/sausage rolls/soup/roll.
I'm never hungry in the mornings until I've been up about 4 hours. I eat a lot between lunch/dinner. Then I tend to snack.
I thought I was being good trying to put breakfast on the menu!

Curly, I eat a lot more than the main meals I've described. I was just wondering what you eat when cooking for one and trying to have variety.

This week is
Sausage and mash
Pie mash and veg
Pasta Bolognese
Lasagna
Tuna pasta
Fish and chips

Fruit is one thing that doesn't satisfy me at all. I've IBS, so I can't tolerate apples/mushrooms/oranges/kiwis.
Bananas, grapes, strawberries, satsumas I can.
When cooking for the family, we use a lot of veg. But dH does most all of the prepping. I also would usually have green leaf salad at every dinner, unless it's a stew with a lot of root veg in it already.

The kids and DH would eat lasagne alright, I'd be more likely to have salmon fillet and salad.

I just don't have much room in my stomach for big meals, and if I fill up on carbs, I won't be getting enough protein.

If I had just myself to feed for the week it would be

Bowl of cornflakes
Bowl of coco pops
Cheese tostie
Takeaway
Pasta with sauce and cheese

I would just rotate that for the two weeks

I am FED UP of cooking so this would be a dream come true for me