How many meals do you eat a day? And what do you eat for them?

[roniather0bbersdaughter]

I was raised by my grandma and she was an aristocrat, but poor by the time I was born. Each meal was a grand affair. I’ve carried it on out of habit but it’s a half-hearted copy of what she did and it only just really came to me that I seem to eat many more meals than other people (which explains why I’m fat). It’s always been:

Breakfast: Usually a mug of cereal, or a piece of bread with butter. Eaten right when I wake up and washed down with a cup of tea (never any milk or sugar.

Elevenses: Usually some sort of sweet bun, or bread with honey. Again with tea.

Dinner: Always two courses. First being some soup with a bit of baguette, second being the proper dinner. We always drank buttermilk, but I rarely buy that now and generally have water.

Tea: As in, afternoon tea at about 4:00-4:30. Cakes and biscuits and that sort of thing, w/ a drink of tea of course.

Supper: Basically sandwiches, nothing hot unless there’s any soup leftover from dinner. Of course this also included drinking the final cup of tea of the day.

What do you all eat? If you eat only 3 meals a day do you snack? Do you usually eat your main hot meal in the evening?

@DonnaDarko it's all about the snacks

Two meals a day here, brunch, why can’t tends to be an omelette, somethingorother on toast, etc. If I’m working out of the house, I go right through to lunch. I may have a snack in the afternoon if I’m starving, then we have dinner at 6-7pm

Today, I had a veggie sausage and fried egg brunch/lunch and I’ve just had veggie pad thai for dinner. I had a mini kinder bar earlier this afternoon, as I fancied something sweet and while i was prepping dinner, I had a small slice of baguette with butter

I drink about three million cups of caffeine free Earl grey during the day

Breakfast - a cup of tea when I get up then an hour or so later I eat -usually egg and beans on toast, a small hash with an egg on top or leftovers.

Lunch - a jacket potato, omelette, hot sandwich (roast meat/sausages etc) or something like a spicy rice with veg and a little chicken or with an egg if I didn't have egg for breakfast

Dinner - any main meal type thing really - pasta, meat/potatoes/veg/gravy, chilli or curry and rice etc.

Snacks depend on when we eat. At the mo my little one gets us up early and we often eat dinner after she goes to bed so breakfast is 6.30-7am, lunch around 12.30 and dinner around 7.30-8pm so a small snack mid-morning and/or mid-afternoon are common - usually something like cheese and crackers, a little bit of leftovers, a weetabix.

I don't really like cold food and don't find bread filling anyway so I generally cook "proper" food for all our meals.

Three meals a day plus snacks. I do Keto so it’s an interesting mix of foods... today was a very typical day:

Breakfast: 3 eggs scrambled with double cream and coconut oil, with leftover broccoli and a healthy sprinkle of mozzarella. 2 cups of coffee with double cream.

Lunch: salmon fillet, large green salad, half a tbsp of coconut oil and a whole avocado. I will often have a large serving of cauliflower or broccoli rice instead of salad.

Snacks: packet of iseeweed thins, handful of mixed nuts

Supper: meatballs in homemade tomato sauce (main source carbs for the day and rare actually to have tomatoes - DP is cooking) with barenaked spaghetti (carbless spaghetti) and green salad. Alternatives would be rib eye steak, Keto fried chicken or similar with green veg.

I drink very little alcohol and when I do it’s gin or cava brut. Honestly it’s not for everyone and I haven’t had a proper carb in years - but it works for me. Your daily menu looked very carb heavy to me OP but I’m at the other end of a long spectrum. It does seem like a lot of sitting down to eat, which must be very time consuming and from a fuelling then body perspective, overkill. I like to feel full and have a proper plate of food though so totally get that.

Tend to have something along the lines of:

Breakfast - low sugar cereal (replaced with breakfast biscuits if in the office), cup of coffee

Mid morning snack - piece of fruit, another coffee

Lunch - small pasta salad/sandwich with a cereal bar and piece of fruit

Mid afternoon - another coffee and a couple of biscuits, if I'm hungry

Dinner - always a home cooked meal (stir fry, curry, meat and veg)

Evening - weekends only a bar of chocolate/glass of wine, otherwise just a milky tea

Yogurt and raspberries for breakfast

Smoked Salmon and poached egg on toast or similar for lunch. Side salad

Curry or stir fry or meat/fish with veg for evening meal.

3 meals a day. Breakfast is always something quick like a bagel, toast or muesli. I never cook anything. Lunch will again be something simple - sandwiches, soup, or a 'bitty' lunch like baguette/pitta with houmous, olives, cheese etc. Dinner is always a cooked meal.

The kids will get pudding but I dont usually.

I will then have a snack in the evening as we have dinner quite early. But I dont usually snack in the day.

Are you Jane Austen?

Two meals per day for me.

Brunch or lunch (12 - 1.30pm)

Dinner, around 8ish or just before.

Snacks almost never.

Oooh sounds nice 😁

Mine is way less exciting. About 3 coffees in the morning (I have a two year old)
Never eat breakfast usually just wait until lunch and it's usually something like a soup and sandwich or sausage butty
Few snacks during the day and then I have dinner which is usually something done in the slow cooker like stew/curry/casserole etc

Three meals a day and snacks if I want them.

Usually a breakfast burrito, then lunch is salad and dinner is something hot like pasta or Mexican/Asian food

Breakfast- Eggs and avocado on buttered sourdough, with mushrooms, spinach and tomato. Glass of whole milk. Or porridge, soaked overnight with frozen berries and seeds, banana on top.
Smoothie- Kefir, banana and almonds.
Dinner- curry, chilli, salmon with vegetables, etc.
Snack- grapefruit, dark chocolate, Greek yogurt etc.

3 meals a day no snacks just drinks in between
Breakfast is usually fruit or fruit and yoghurt - porridge in winter
Lunch is soup, salad, jacket potato type meal with piece of fruit
Evening meal fish, meat or poultry with vegetables - sometimes a dessert maybe 2-3 times a week

Breakfast porridge.

Lunch toasted cheese sandwich

Dinner grilled chicken and a veg.

Snack on fruit.

Not overweight

I hate feeling full. The most MN phrase ever

There are also alot of small things here...small bread roll, small potato. Apart from the salads or portions of vegetables which are of course generous.

For me at the moment I eat one meal a day but that is because we're skint! The children have plenty to eat so that's enough for me.

I'm fascinated by the "big" meal being earlie/lunchtime. Was your grandmother slim? I suspect if I ate like that I would be slimmer than I am currently, when I have to make a family dinner each night. The one time I was able to eat like that I was very slim indeed

Breakfast - usually cup of tea, toast, with maybe egg, or marmite or peanut butter.

lunch - sometimes (about 3 times a week) the main meal of the day, other times something like sandwich, or soup, or cheese on toast with salad or crudités. Roast dinner on Sundays followed by proper pudding - apple pie or crumble or similar.

supper - main meal about 4 days a week. Followed by small pudding eg biscuit, or piece of fruit, or chocolate, or yoghurt.

Cups of tea throughout the day but not usually other snacks.

3 meals a day, rarely snack. When I do, it's fruit, olives or nuts.

Breakfast is usually one of the following:
Granola or muesli with lots of nuts in (I make my own) plus fruit (usually banana and berries)
Full fat Greek yogurt with banana, berries + nuts.
Two slices of toast with peanut or almond butter
Scrambled eggs on toast
Plus tea/coffee

Lunch, depending on weather is:
Soup with bread or toastie
Wrap or roll (usually cheese) with a big, colourful side salad
Quiche with salad
Cous cous, roasted vegetables and feta or halloumi
Always followed with fruit/yogurt, occasionally cake or biscuit

Dinner is a family meal:
Spaghetti Bolognese
Curry and rice
Pasta and sauce
Cottage pie
Fajitas
And so on, always with lots of vegetables or salad.

I have dinner at 5pm with the kids so in the evening, I usually have some dark chocolate, cheese & crackers, or hot chocolate.

BMI is 19-something. Eat well, don't deny myself some cake or chocolate if I fancy it but has be to something lovely and rich, eat whatever I want at mealtimes but enjoy fruit, salad, vegetables so always included. Always full fat, real butter and olive oil. Bloody addicted to cheese!

Breakfast - Dust

Dinner (lunch if you're posh) - Dust

Tea (Dinner, see above) - Lettuce and dust.

Is that MN suitable?

I despair at the food threads on here. Christ, you're here ONCE, just fucking eat!

Breakfast is usually porridge

Mid morning piece of fruit

Lunch: sandwich (salad, quorn ham etc) or crackers and cheese or tuna salad etc followed by yoghurt

Dinner: jacket spud with roasted veg or a veggie burger with salad or a mushroom omelette etc Fruit and yoghurt for pudding

Evening snack might be a bag of popcorn or a couple of biscuits

That’s a lot of bread and cake. You just eat stodge all day.

I tend to have cereal for breakfast, usually bran flakes with some fruit on top.

Lunch varies, depends on if I’m at work. Can be a salad or sandwich.

Try to snack on fruit but with lockdown I keep snacking on crisps. Must stop!

Dinner is something hot. Tonight was chicken and cous cous with veg. I’d made a cake earlier so we had that after.

Never eaten supper in my life. I drink normal tea and peppermint tea throughout the day.

Unfortunately, I have to work quite hard to maintain a healthy weight, so normal working days (remember them?) look something like this :

Breakfast : juice diluted with fizzy water, bowl of non-sugary cereal, eg weetabix or porridge, mug of very strong tea. Then nothing until....

Lunch : chicken drumstick or similar chunk of lean protein with lots of salad. No carbs.

Mid afternoon: Apple or pear.

Dinner : pasta, meat or fish & veg etc. No pudding or alcohol.

Evening : mug of tea & biscuit.

At weekends, I eat whatever I want including 🍷 🍺 🍰 🧀.

3 meals a day

Usually

Breakfast - porridge or toast or overnight oats, if I'm off work then sometimes pancakes/French toast

Lunch - usually leftovers from last night's dinner, sometimes a sandwich/toastie

Dinner - very varied. Mainly vegetarian with some meat/fish on some days.

Usually I'll have 1 or 2 snacks through the day, depends what I have on hand.. if it's chocolate I'll have chocolate 🙈 if not, fruit

Lots of tea.
Lunch and supper.
Lunch varies maybe soup, maybe a sandwich, maybe a salad.
Supper is our main meal.

Why do you eat cereal out of a mug instead of a bowl? I've never heard of that!