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?

The majority appear to have a similar diet, no roast dinner or bacon sarni

And? Occasionally I’ll have a roast or bacon butty, I mean only like once a month or so. Just not that fussed.

3 meals a day. No snacks. Only water and coffee.

Breakfast: porridge with fresh fruit and nuts. Croissant or cheese twist at weekends. Coffee with milk.

Lunch: open sandwich of some kind. Or meat and veg/salad. Dessert will be a chocolate bar or slice of cake.

Supper: pasta with veg, or chilli, or stir fry, or an omelette or cold leftover roast chicken with veg and garlic bread etc. Dessert will be fruit with vanilla yoghurt or a bit of dark chocolate.

I don't get hungry between meals but do eat at pretty regimented times: 8am, 12pm, 6pm.

I normally have just brunch and dinner, ideally no snacks in-between but I find that hard!

Brunch - Eggs/beans on toast, sandwich and fruit, omelette, leftovers
Dinner - Could be anything from roast dinner to pasta bake, hunters chicken, stir fry etc.

Sometimes I'll have pudding after either meal, normally this is something I've baked. Snacks tend to be the unhealthy kind so I'm trying to stop this! I only drink water or herbal tea.

Weird that 'aristocrats' would call lunch dinner... or drink so much tea with every meal, or eat so many sweets.

Sounds more like northern mining town habits done to excess

I have toast and marmite for breakfast pretty much every day, and usually drink about 3 cups of coffee in a row because my children wake up early and I hate mornings.

Lunch is eaten around 12 and is almost always hummus on toast and a piece of fruit because I'm a vegan and haven't figured out any different sandwich fillings yet (and I'm too lazy to cook or prepare salad or anything fancier than sandwiches). I might have soup if it's premade but wouldn't be making any specially.

Dinner is our big evening meal, usually eaten around 6, and is just normal food like pasta, stir fry, curry etc. Sometimes have fruit or yoghurt for pudding, but not every night.

Sometimes have biscuits in the evening with some tea when the kids are in bed, but not every night.

I don't tend to snack between meals but my portions at meal time can be quite large and I often end up feeling stuffed and wishing I'd eaten less. I know that I eat waaaay too much bread.

I've definitely gained weight since lockdown but in general I don't have any concerns about my weight.

we have breakfast (cereal or toast)
lunch (sandwich/soup type thing)
dinner (cooked meal, with yoghurt type thing for pudding)

In between we will often have snack mid morning and mid afternoon.

When kids were small morning snack was fruit and milk. Afternoon snack is biscuit/cake.

If you are my teenage son, then breakfast is cereal at 4pm, then dinner at 6-7, then mid night food at 2 am 4 am, or whenever he is hungry

I don't do breakfast, just can't eat first thing. So I have tea in the morning and then nothing until lunch. Occasionally I'm hungry at around 11am and will have brunch then like mushrooms and bacon with toast but lunch is usually a sandwich, few crisps, piece of cake/fruit. Then dinner at 6pmish - curry, spaghetti bol, shepherds pie etc Roast on a Sunday. I quite often make a pudding or there is yoghurt and fruit.
No eating in the evening as I don't like going to bed on an empty stomach. I will snaffle biscuits if we have them in the house, but if not then I don't snack.

I also drink a lot of tea throughout the day, with 2 sugars. Am the top end of a healthy weight range.

Three meals a day and rarely snack. I used to skip breakfast but it definitely made me massively overeat at lunchtime

Usually

Breakfast: toast/potato cakes/ a bagel
Lunch: almost always leftovers from the day before
Supper: I’m vegan so it’s usually veg heavy, Indian or Thai food, sometimes risottos or paella’s, the odd home made soup or salad.
I love cooking and trying new things also.

It’s often served with a lot of carbs but I am a semi decent club runner and usually hit some pretty high mileage and stay slim/skinny

Breakfast is about 8.30 now I’m wfh, usually Greek yoghurt with granola and fruit. Lunch is somewhere between 1pm and 3pm, usually leftovers from the night before or pasta/pesto, a wrap or a bagel. We don’t eat dinner until around 9pm - I am trying to make this earlier but with finishing work at 7/chores/exercise it is tricky - and is usually cooked from scratch, something like risotto or fajitas, veggie burgers and sweet potato, frittata. Always with salad. I am overweight currently and know why - I drink a lot of wine and I am awful for snacking, usually around 5/6pm. I don’t eat pudding but in that period I do gravitate towards crisps/dip, cake if we have it, pick and mix.

One meal a day usually and heaps of coffee. Usually just have some dinner and that’s it. My dc however, have three meals a day and snacks.

One, two or three! I'm a big snacker though. I like to graze throughout the day so may have less meals because I've snacked.

Yesterday I had three meals (and snacks )

Breakfast- cereal bar
Dinner - I was being lazy so just had supernoodles
Tea - beef chilli and rice

During the week, I generally don't have an evening meal. I like to do some exercise. I don't want much before then it's too late for tea after.

No food until 11am just a cup of coffee around 9am

11am: either eggs with avocado toast/beans and bacon or a fruit and veg smoothie with seeds and protein powder

2pm: snack of maybe an apple and nuts or 1 pitta bread with hummus cup of tea

5:30pm: dinner - could be anything meat or fish with some sort of veg and starch (curries, casseroles, roasts, stir-fry etc)

8pm: kids in bed and cup of tea in hand. Usually try not to have anything but tea but some days have a couple of biscuits/slice of cake. On either a Friday or Saturday night the tea is replaced with wine and chocolate/salted peanuts.

Breakfast - a banana or a bowl of shreddies

Lunch - something like poached eggs on toast, or jacket potato with tuna. Piece of fruit.

Snack - something like a granola bar or carrot sticks and hummus or rough oatcakes.

Dinner - something like vegetable curry and rice, pasta, lasagne etc. Piece of fruit or a yoghurt.

@PurpleThistles84

Why? That doesn’t sound pleasant. Vast quantities of coffee and one meal a day is not the ingredients for good health. Plus - not great example for your children.

Weekdays: 2/3 meals a day
Breakfast - skip it or have a bowl of cereal depending on how hungry I am and how rushed my morning is
Lunch - usually a sandwich or a salad, sometimes with crisps
Dinner - hot meal, generally with a protein, carb and veg - so tomato and prawn pasta with a side of broccoli, roasted chicken and vegetables with some crusty bread, salmon noodles and stir fry etc
Drinks: Cups of tea at 7am (if I’m organised), 11am, 3pm. Diet Coke with my lunch. Water the rest of the time. One glass of wine with dinner maybe 2/5 weeknights when I’m not pregnant!
Snacks: Don’t tend to snack but might have some chocolate or a biscuit with my 3pm tea if I’m peckish.

Weekends: 2 meals a day
Brunch - usually some combination of eggs/mushroom/tomato/avocado/bread, so poached eggs on sourdough, avocado toast, mushroom omlette etc. Very occasionally bacon but I don’t really fancy meat outside of dinner time strangely.
Dinner - same as during the week but usually something that takes a bit longer to do, so a roast or homemade pizzas. Once a fortnight we’ll have a takeaway on a Saturday.
Drinks: same as during the week although I’ll tend to share a bottle of wine with DH on both Friday and Saturday (again when not pregnant). Generally a bit more relaxed about ‘naughty’ things eg an extra Diet Coke or similar.

@Sodamncold simple answer, because I am not hungry.

Breakfast: A boiled egg and a banana, with a small glass of orange juice.

Elevenses: Cup of coffee and 2 biscuits.

Lunch: Toast or sandwiches, piece of fruit, 4 or 5 squares of chocolate.

Generally nothing in the mid-afternoon, but occasionally have another cup of coffee or a bag of crisps if I really fancy something.

Dinner: Usually some sort of meat item, a carb and some veg. For pudding a yoghurt or chocolate mousse.

Supper: Maybe a bowl of ice-cream or some cereal. Not every day though.

Oh and for drinks, there's the OJ in the morning, 1 or 2 coffees, and then a glass of weak squash as and when I want it. I don't tend to have drinks with my meal, strangely. Always did as a child, but got out the habit as a grown up.

I have to say that I like the idea of Elevenses and Afternoon tea!

I have:

Breakfast: Porridge with fruit juice
Lunch: Soup (every day because it's filling and 1/5 a day veg) with a sandwich
Dinner: Pasta or stir-fry or homemade curry or tortillas
Dessert: Blackberries, apples and custard

I completely forgot about this thread :/ anyway, I'm foreign so that's why some things are probably a bit strange. I appreciated everyone's answers!!

Does noone else call it Fours??

Breakfast
Elevens (cake, crisis, apple, toast, crackers and cheese etc)
Lunch
Fours (same as 11s)
Dinner
Supper (as 11s and 4s)

@00100001
Do you have time or anything else other than prepare food, eat food, tidy away (squeeze in a food shop!)?!

LOL

Eating a biscuit or an apple or whatever takes zero prep.

Pick up pear from bowl. Eat. Discard the core.

Depends whether my gastric band is tight that day or not, sometimes I can't get anything down it.

Breakfast; Two tablespoons of the best quality cereal I can afford with oat milk.

Lunch: It takes me an hour to eat any solid food without being sick so I don't have time to eat lunch so I'll have an exante, slimfast or lighterlife shake.

Dinner: I'm vegetarian so I'mm make something like homemade soup with lots of different vegetables in it and I'll make something like shepherds pie with quorn and eat a bit of that.

Because I can't eat much (I've lost 10 stone) i make sure I vary all of my food everyday but soup with "everything in it" is my go to food. i can't eat bread so I tend to put homemade croutons on the soup.

I'll can't eat fruit as it makes me sick so I try and fit a small smoothie in somewhere in the day with different fruits in.

I have to take prescription vitamins too because I just cannot eat enough.

Its a compromise really - I could not continue being that fat so I had to do something drastic.

I am the ONLY person in my family who was fat, all of my family are lean and fit. I suddenly packed on stones during the menopause, I was never ever been fat before then. The bariatric surgeon said I'd never have lost weight on my own, I needed a matabolic reset.