Is this a lot of food for an adult in one day

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Adult female:

Breakfast - bowl of cereal with milk, apple juice
Lunch - chicken toastie with side salad and a few crisps, water
Snack (lunch was early) - beans on toast, 2 biscuits
Dinner - homemade chicken curry and rice with peas, water

Is this too much?

It could be too much food depending on activity levels and portion size.

Is it your typical day? If so are you overweight or healthy weight? That will tell you

It’s fine unless you’re fat in which case cut it down to 3 meals and lose the biscuits - if you’re a healthy weight then the food choices are basically good and you’re obviously using the calories.

it’s been on the news today that two thirds of UK adults are now overweight and over 5 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes.
Assuming that this forum represents our typical adult population, statistically majority of posters might not be well informed about healthy eating and portion sizes.

I agree with previous posters that this example is 4 meals and should be cut to three a day although it does depend on portion sizes etc.

There’s a lot of carbs in there.

And how can beans on toast be a ‘snack’? That’s a meal!

4 meals a day. But no green veg or fruit? Fewer carbs and more of the good stuff.

(I’m also peri.)

That’s two lunches, not lunch and a snack. Yes, four meals a day is too much unless you’re extremely active.

Have you never tried chewing water? It’s a game changer and you’ll never notice the difference between that and food. I had a bottle of Volvic for breakfast and I can’t even think about eating again. Had to undo the button on my size 4 jeans. So bloated.

That is not very healthy at all. Where are the vegetables for a start!

You had two lunches so yes.

It’s a similar amount to what I eat and I’m a healthy weight. Only difference is I snack on salty or sugary snacks (terrible habit) whilst I think your beans on toast snack is actually more nutritious.

Mate, water is scarily high in calories. I chew low calorie air only.

Amount looks fine (presuming reasonable portion size and activity levels). Too few vegetables for me.

Personally, I'd swap the juice for a whole apple and the chicken toastie for a chicken and avocado salad. Curry would also contain some vegetables.

Otherwise, would maintain at that level (normal BMI range and menopausal)

FFS with all this 'beans on toast is a meal' stuff.

Many many people would supplement the toastie at lunch with a full bag of crisps and an apple, and later have a bar of chocolate, and / or a yogurt after dinner and a glass of wine. Which would add up to more calories than the beans on toast, depending on portion size etc etc.

And many of these people will be of healthy BMI and not overweight.

I started a thread kind of like this yesterday. The competitive under-eating and vilifying of carbs/fats/sugars in healthy foods was frightening.

I'm not great at deciphering what a good meal plan looks like, but I would say that beans on toast is more of a meal than a snack. Otherwise, it sounds normal to me and delicious.

Depends.

If you’re doing over 10k steps daily, the snack is 1 slice of sliced bread and half tin beans and the toasty is not the kind with the bread buttered on both sides and cheese inside then that could be fine.

if (like me!) you’re more sedentary and it was a cheesy toastie and more if a 4th meal, yeah I’d gain eating that daily

That's what I've been doing wrong 😂

2 biscuits is a snack - beans on toast (1 slice bread, 3 tablespoons beans) is lunch / light meal

That's very carb heavy and zero veg

That is a weirdly specific amount of food. Do you have issues around eating?

😂😂😂

That's hardly anything.

Unless the OP comes back and fills in the relevant details about their height, weight, activity levels and whether they are maintaining, gaining or losing... its really all just guesswork.

That days food for ME would have BG levels through the roof and mean I had to take a fuck ton of insulin to get it down again.

But the OP may be underweight and spend all day running up mountains so it may not be enough for her!

Why do you ask OP? Are you trying to lose weight?

Today, which was a typical day for me I've had:

breakfast: 3 x coffees with skimmed milk
lunch: nothing
dinner: Chicken marinated in Nando's seasoning, jacket potato and a "massive" salad. Low fat yoghurt and fruit salad for dessert.
lots and lots of water

this is around 1000 calories which is very low but I'm in my 40's and currently trying to lose half a stone after having lost almost two stone since mid-January. It's really hard to lose weight when you hit your 40's. Eating like you have today I would probably be gaining weight. Unfortunately if you want to be slim in your 40's+ (I want to get back in my size 10 jeans) you have to practically starve yourself!! 😡

I'd think one of those a day would be enough, plus a huge salad. All those carbs! And cut the cereal (which is basically crushed up cookies) and the apple juice (you might as well drink pure molten sugar). 🤔

I was thinking exactly this 😂

It would be too much for me, but not too much for teen ds..