To think my lunch was not bad?

[NameChange278]

Just chatting at lunch around food habits and failing to bring lunch from home - a colleague commented my lunch was unhealthy and too much salt and sugar as it was shop bought / ready made. I didn't think it was an unhealthy lunch:

• shop bought salad - (Pret - Avocado & Crayfish)
• a pear
• small pack of popcorn
• a coffee

For comparison she had brought a home made chilli and rice (leftovers).

I'm very short, have PCOS and life a fairly sedentary life. Coffee and fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch and afternoon snack is absolutely plenty. I then go home and have a decent dinner. Not undereating, just eating properly - it's not normal or good to be chubby everyone just pretends it is.

Until your last sentence I was agreeing with you but then you spoiled it by sounding incredibly judgemental and self-righteous!

Surely you would have said that then to give context?

It's not realistic to expect strangers on the internet to conceive the multitude of possibilities of people's lives.

I would say thats totally none of her business. And neither is it relevant how much anyone else on the thread wants to competitively under eat.
Your lunch sounds fine and hopefully tomorrow you can avoid sitting near her while you eat

Some people have some weird ideas about food.

That lunch is fine. Just ignore.

I wasn't expecting your random unsolicited judgement on my personal life!

"I sense a bit of competitive underating."
"It's not normal or good to live a sedentary life, everyone just pretends it."
"Fitness is important for PCOS, go for a walk."

How is mince healthier than a salad and a pear?!

I'd be in there tomorrow with a cheese and ham toastie, Wispa, and a can of Coke. Give her something to really chunter about.

Your comment 'it's not normal or good to be chubby everyone just pretends it is' apropos of nothing is 'a random unsolicited judgement', as the OP's post made no reference to anyone being chubby. Why are you exempt?

Wish I had some tea to snort 😂

@getofftheplane said in a day AT WORK

so many mumsnet users miss off key bits of a posters sentence so they can have a go at them.

Read the whole sentence before you post a bitchy reply @getofftheplane said in a day AT WORK!! Not all WHOLE day, stop making stuff up!

So tedious, thanks.

I’ve reported your post @OriginalUsername2, completely unkind, did you bully people in school??

I hope I would have been quick enough to say 'gosh, aren't you worried about the arsenic in rice? Twice in two days is a lot'

(If she was having brown rice, even better. The levels are higher in brown.)

Just fwiw I love rice. I'm not worried about the levels of arsenic. I would happily have rice every day. But I would take great pleasure in taking the wind out of her sails if I could.

@NameChange278 Your lunch is terrible
so unhealthy. forget too much sugar, it doesn't have enough! don't forget sugar is a type or vegetable (or comes from one). I am so healthy I don't even eat lunch, just a handful of chocolate cookies every few minutes through the day is enough for me. try it out.

Unless you asked her to critique your lunch nutritionally, she was rude. Your lunch was fine.

But I could tell you that your lunch was from Jupiter, and had clearly been delivered to you by intergalactic aliens.

Would that bother you? If not, where do you draw your 'bullshit' line?

How rude. How does a salad and pear and coffee have too much sugar and salt? I would avoid eating near her if possible. Or, if you want to play her at her own game, next time she says something like that look at hers and say, "Oh, I really hate eating last night's leftovers for lunch, so boring twice in a row, and I could never eat a heavy meal like that during the day I'd get really bloated". Obviously bitchy AF but she started it! Haha.

Tomorrow take in a greggs cheese and onion bake and a 4 pack of filled donuts 😉

Your lunch sounds OK to me.

Perfect answer!

Wow, I would never comment on a colleague's choice of lunch, except perhaps if it looks/smells particularly good. I would never tell them it's not healthy enough as it wouldn't be any of my business.

Your lunch sounds perfectly healthy although, even if it didn't, she is in the wrong for judging what you are eating.

Was the rice she had white rice? That's really nutritionally poor. Brown or red rice would be better but white rice is just carbs for carb's sake.

Or go the route of having my lunch from the 1990s when I was a student nurse. Pop into a WHSmiths and buy:

2 Double Deckers (you'd need 3 now 'coz of shrinkflation)
1 Twix
1 Tube of Fruit Gums.
Can of diet coke.*

And tell her to take her judgy-pants off.

I do eat better than that now. Lunch today was lots of Mediterranean-esque bits with salad. I bet the olives had too much salt for your colleague though.