To think this isn’t the right foods to live on?

[KaleBeans]

DD is fairly young still (but old enough to choose what she’s eating since I’m not always seeing her all the time).

A typical day would be:

Breakfast: A banana, whole orange and mini cathedral city cheese.

Lunch: Jacket potato with butter and cheese. Or a tomato soup with slice of bread and butter. Or a ham sandwich with a pack of snapping Jacks and Kit Kat. On a Friday a portion of small chips.

Fruit: Whole pocket of pineapple fingers, sometimes x2. Watermelon. Half a cucumber. Celery stick with cream cheese. Smoothie.

Dinner: Often nothing. Sometimes pesto pasta with cheese.

Drinks at least 2 litres of ‘lemon infused’ water a day

This isn’t enough protein, is it?!

@randomer

When I read the inital post, I thought it was for a child.

No it's not enough, it sounds like somebody with problems around food. How is it OK to go from lunch time to 8 am ( guess) with nothing?

Waits to be attacked now.......

because... if you're not hungry for dinner, are a healthy weight, full of energy etc. then it's fine

@CatsOutOfTheBag

It's not like the OPs DD is rubbing lemons on her teeth all day and using Orange Juice as a mouthwash...

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I'm having carrot and celery sticks as part of my lunch, do the carrots at least count as vegetables? Or do they only count if they are part of the famous hot dinner?

Carrots are quite carby Stealth. Perhaps you should swap them for cucumber?

I do hope that you are having those vegetables with some nice home made hummus, using extra virgin olive oil, for some good fats and protein .

@KaleBeans

She’s a nurse and also breastfeeding so I didn’t think it to be enough at all. She’s still like a little girl in my eyes so I worry sometimes didn’t want to say her she at the start of thread as I know loads of people would tell me to keep out entirely etc

I assumed she was a teenager from your initial post...not because of her diet but because of your concern.

Her diet sounds pretty average...plenty of people live off worse.

You are coming across as quite interfering to be honest. She's a grown woman. Do you normally involve yourself in the minutiae of her daily life?

@StealthPolarBear

I'm having carrot and celery sticks as part of my lunch, do the carrots at least count as vegetables? Or do they only count if they are part of the famous hot dinner?

Carrots? CARROTS?? May as well stick 5 sugar cubes together and suck on that.

I did have hand made houmous actually. Well hand made by some human or machine somewhere before it got to tesco.

And too late for the warning about carrots, I've already stuffed my face and am now lying here in a stuffed stupor.

@StealthPolarBear

And too late for the warning about carrots, I've already stuffed my face and am now lying here in a stuffed stupor.

A&E ...now!

OK, I'll update you when I'm back.

Erm, you aren't going to live list from a&E so we can give you a hand hold???

I don't think you're even taking this seriously.

I'm logging this with 101.

If she is breastfeeding, working as a nurse and taking care of a baby maybe she doesn’t have time to cook or sit and eat a meal so chooses quick, no cook options she can eat on the go.
Maybe if you are concerned ask her if she would like you to batch cook some easily reheatable nutritious dinners?
But if she is a healthy weight and happy as she is then let her make her own choices.

You may laugh. Carrot poisoning actually happens.,
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22431270/

Its not fine to eat nothing between 1pm and 8 am and then eat 2 pieces of fruit and a piece of cheese. Then to work as a nurse and breastfeed.

Its not fine, its also possibly made up garbage. Hey ho.

Yes it can but you’d have go eat an absolute shitload.

You can also really screw up your body with drinking too much water but again it would have to be a huge amount.

As with everything else, it’s all about moderation.

With that said, I’m off to have a cuppa and some homemade cinnamon biscuits. 😋😋

I know it’s not a race to the bottom OP but that’s worlds better than what my diet was like at 22.

Yes it could be better but couldn’t most of us? As long as she’s a healthy weight sounds like she’s doing just fine.

Our taste buds change as we age and she’s still a young adult.

@CatsOutOfTheBag how on earth is a slice of lemon in water bad for your teeth she’s not sitting chomping on lemons all day

I don't think there's enough iron in that diet because most of the fat/proteins are dairy based and there's not much in the way of green veg or pulses either. It also may not be enough calories - is she trying to lose weight?

I used to have lemon in my water and the dentist told me off as it's a big cause of tooth decay. Cucumber is meant to be better for your teeth. There's a lot of fruit/sugar as well. I personally limit my toddler to two portions of fruit and one small biscuit like a malted milk/digestive. I notice if he has more than that he goes completely bananas on the sugar.

Hang on, just read she's 22. She's an adult so leave her be.

I've just put it through Nutracheck, with the baked potato option and it comes out as just under 1000 calories, 33 grams of fat, 133grams carbohydrate and just 29 grams protein and 14 units of '5 a day'

Does she need to be eating a restricted calorie diet?

This from the British Nutrition Foundation:

The Reference Nutrient Intake (RNI) is set at 0.75g of protein per kilogram bodyweight per day in adults. This equates to approximately 56g/day and 45g/day for men and women aged 19-50 years respectively. There is an extra requirement for growth in infants and children and for pregnant and breast feeding women.

Does she need to be eating a restricted calorie diet?

Firstly, we don't know the exact portion sizes so it's at best a guesstimate and secondly, these are only calories OP knows about. I sincerely doubt she is told about every bite of something

The real issues here aren't what she eats and how much of.
They are
1.whether this change in her diet is affecting her.. so weight loss,less energy,change in mood etc
2.whether it's a real choice ,or something driven by her husband.

I don't care if my kid was 2,12,22 or 52.

If the answer was yes to either or both of those I would be worried.

I think vegans eat dinner don't they?

The mini cheese thing sounds down right odd.