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?

Lol, weird is weird to different people I guess!

I had today...

Plain toasted bagel, orange juice and a yoghurt (breakfast)
Lunch - ran out of time and when I got a chance it was already 4pm and I wasn't hungry. So, nothing.
Dinner - tortellini w pesto, salad with cucumber and olives and cherry tomato bits. Grapes and strawberries not eaten by DC (about 4, the bruised ones).

Personally I think that's not at all weird and depressingly dull 😃 But someone else might find it Very Odd Indeed.

Not even slightly! I think that's normal and healthy. Far less than I eat in a day 😂

Not diarrhoea inducing bland food and butter on rice cakes 🤮

That’s not weird but how on Earth are you not starving?!

D'you mean generally, or between the breakfast and the dinner?

I mean right now 🤣 I’d be raising the Easter cupboard if I just had some pasta and fruit!

So...what do you eat?

Only had the pasta at about 8.30 so I'm not hungry. And it was quite stodgy tortellini 😃 If I'd had it earlier I'd probably have eaten something later in the evening.

Same. Does no one read anymore?

Food does not need to be ‘burnt off’.

I am honestly in shock how little some people eat. How do you function?? Any other big eaters here??

I am. But I lift weights and box 4 times per week.

Mid 40s and peri.

My TDEE is only 1,800 calories and I'm trying to lose weight at the moment so 4 meals would be far too much for me.

I've currently got back issues so can't exercise really at all. I'd love to be able to eat more but more weight will mean more pressure on my back.

Being hungry sometimes isn't the worst thing, in fact I think it's a normal experience. I think modern lifestyles and constant snacking has really screwed people up.

I don’t think it’s too much. I eat far more than that a day. I’m trying to gain weight though, hopefully 2 stone. Im consistently trying eat more than the average 2000 calories a day.

I don't know where these mythical undereaters are, all I see are people making fun of the idea that people watch what they eat so they don't contribute to the almost 50% obesity in this country. Op's day is fine apart from not enough greens or protein and the "snack", but the pride people take in overeating is weird. It's not anorexic to not want to be a size 12+, that's overweight.

Fhe answer depends on your age, sex and activity level.

… and your current weight!

Too much for what?
If those are regular portion sizes then that would be fine for me today.
Desk job, ran 6 miles, low weight, 52 years old.

Today I've had:
Yoghurt with small amount of granola.
Soup with bread/butter.
Some easter egg.
Sort of a 1/2 dinner - cooked for me and DS2, but I was going running so I ate a sausage. Then I'm not really hungry when I get back, but had another sausage and some veg.
Apple and orange.
Emmental slice.

Oh that looks a bit poor actually.

I have a toast-based lunch most days of the week and to me that looks like two lunches, but it depends how much you had I suppose? If you were hungry and you feel healthy and you have a reasonably active lifestyle, who cares?

I had a bowl of cereal, a ham and cheese toastie, a few bits of salami at tea time and fried rice with pork and various vegetables. So I am not winning any healthy eating prizes (oh the processed foods, oh the lack of fruit!). Some days I do better, some days worse. I also did a moderate amount of exercise and am ever-so-slightly underweight according to BMI (but I know I am a healthy weight as I am not emaciated, have always been the same, have regular periods, and I never ever starve myself).

Almost everyone could be healthier in their diet or lifestyle if they tried, but if you're happy with where you are, meh.

I mean, it depends on what you’re looking for really. If I ate that in a day I’d not be either pleased not angry with myself. It’s a very normal, average British diet from what I’ve seen on Mumsnet. I wouldn’t eat like this daily, as personally I feel there are some bad choices if you’re especially trying to be healthy. But I wouldn’t feel bad if I ate like this sometimes!

The parts I’d be less happy about are cereal and juice which are full of sugar, two helpings of bread is way too much for me personally - I’d be so bloated - and I would replace crisps and biscuits with a healthier alternative like nuts and fruit. In terms of amount I’m sure it’s normalish - except that the snack is meal sized! But I think there are some poor choices that mean you’re eating more calories for less food.

Replace cereal for eggs, juice for coffee, tea, or water, a chicken toastie for a chicken salad, crisps and biscuits for nuts and fruit, and so on, and you can eat more for fewer calories and be healthier too.

How is it not enough protein if you have chicken twice a day and also beans?

But also a size 12 isn't necessarily overweight
Some of us are tall!

Depends on your sex, weight, activity level etc. would be fine for me my maintenance calories are 2400 (active job, tall female, lift weights 3xweek)

I wonder about this too. I think there are some incredibly sedentary people also.

To answer the OP - if you were hungry and felt satisfied and had plenty of energy then it’s a good amount of food. If you felt stuffed or sluggish, it’s too much. Presumably your intake fluctuates over the course of the week and some days you eat more and some less.

Nailed it.