To think my lunch was not bad?

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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'd have said this is nothing. I'm having doughnuts for tea, washed down with a tub of chocolate ice cream and a nice cold glass of wine.

She had chili with RICE? 😱for a SECOND DAY ON THE TROT??? That's so unhealthy, Everybody knows that's going to spike her blood sugars and give her diabetes over time!!! And RED MEAT?? She's a walking heart attack waiting to happen!!!!

She’s an idiot, your lunch sounds really healthy to me. Hers sounds a lot “worse”!

it's not normal or good to be chubby everyone just pretends it is.

Looks like the colleague has turned up, get a life!

I'm also bemused as to why eating the salad/pear/popcorn and coffee at lunch time or spread out throughout the day makes any difference to a certain poster. I dont' often snack between meals, so that would be my lunch all in one go too.

Not the point of your post but I had a Pret salad today. The falafel one. I bloody love their salads.

Tbh, I wouldn't buy a shop bought salad esp if it had a dressing for many reasons.

Home made chilli is fine.

But, as everyone else has said, it's fuck all to do with her.

God, I love falafels. Never get enough of them, tasty little balls of flavour 😋
OP, your lunch sounds delicious (and healthy), wouldn't fancy hers though!

It's really none of her business, but given she started it, I would have been tempted to reply "But you're still eating red meat? Aren't you worried about your cholesterol levels?"

@getofftheplane you got exactly what you asked for. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.🤷🏻‍♀️

It's generally a really bad idea to make unsolicited comments about other people's food. If this were my co-worker I would just peg her as having no social skills and ignore whatever came out of her gob.

'When you're buying or proving my lunch you can comment. Until then it's none of your business, is it?

Your lunch sounds fine to me. Tell her to wind her neck in.

Of course your lunch was fine OP. As you are already aware .

Exactly this.

So rude to comment on someone else's food end of

Your salad was healthy, pret food normally is.

This is the sort of comment which would make me bring in a McDonald’s for lunch tomorrow, even if I didn’t fancy it. But I’m a bit of a knob sometimes 🤣

OP, your lunch sounds great. Colleague should keep her nose out.

However this from a PP:

Leftovers are seldom scrummy even though they are practical /money savers .

Is all kinds of wrong. Leftovers are delicious.

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

'Away and bile yer heid' is a whole sentence. ☺️

She'd have a field day with some of my colleagues 😬🤣

people who make unsolicited comments about others’ eating usually have lots of issues with their own food and weight. It is very tedious isn’t it.

Massive competitive under eating. I would hate a colleague to make any comment about what I am eating, it's really weird and not her business. Plus that's a really healthy lunch you had

Regardless of what your lunch is, it's absolutely none of your colleagues business!
If that was me I'd be tempted to sit down tomorrow with a jar of Nutella and a tablespoon, just to see her reaction!

This thread has really made me laugh because there must be one of these colleagues in every workplace!🤣 We also have one, she comments on everybody else’s lunch “oh I couldn’t eat that I’d be too full for dinner, oh that’s too big a meal for a lunchtime, oh that’s far too much pasta/rice/potato”, and yet she sits all day snacking mindlessly on share bags of sweets and crisps, biscuits, chocolates, scones, coffees… easily consuming probably 2 or 3 times the calories in everybody else’s “lunch” which she “couldn’t possibly eat”. And all of us are too polite to say anything back to her so every day we have the same saga😂