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).

Hmmm.... a peanut butter/ nutella combo.

I'm thinking Starbucks would probably patent it as a frappe flavour.

I couldn't find it on the website, but I looked on Uber eats, where it says it's a whopping... 322 calories.

Look her dead in the eyes while you stir in 2 spoons of sugar to your coffee and 20 turns of the salt grinder over your salad tomorrow.

I hate to think what she would say about my 2 crumpets with peanut butter and chocolate spread.

It's none of her business!!! People who feel the need to comment on what others eat - especially in regards to how "healthy" it is - are amongst the most boring people on earth. Also extremely rude.

Who cares - as long as you enjoyed it, that is all that matters.

I think giving unsolicited advice about people’s food is extremely rude

Who actually gives a shit? The day I start checking the nutritional content of everything I eat you might as well put me out of my misery.

Why can't people eat whatever makes them happy?

I would point out that her rice will be giving her a big glucose spike and she will need to do 30 min exercise post to mitigate it.

I love this response so much it deserves to be embroidered and hung on the wall in shared work eating areas.

Sounds like a delicious lunch. I only eat once too as it’s a school I can’t eat in class. I bring a salad with some protein plus an apple most days, sometimes with added bulgur wheat or rice or leftover pasta/ potato. Because yours was shop bought doesn’t make it bad.

She might get a dose of f.p. from eating that reheated day-old rice. Karma, OP.

Just eating fruit and veg is definitely not eating ‘properly’ 😆
Your lunch was fine and none of her business. If you want a critique your lunch would be more balanced if you added a decent portion of carbs.

She the food police?

Competitive under eating is a well known MN sport.

But you might get faaaaat, horrors!

Thinking try peanut butter and chocolate spread tomorrow

Peanut butter and nutella is the best. Tastes like a Snickers .

YABU if you sit next to/near this bore again for lunch and if you don’t take a Mars bar tomorrow. Preferably a double one.

I mean I had a doughnut for lunch today then a lion bar for a snack. I am not chubby, am able to walk and am a Capricorn

Bring in a pork pie, bag of salt and vinegar crisps, a jam doughnut and a mars bar tomorrow.

Yes do what @UnctuousUnicorns says! 😂

Your colleague is an idiot. Bet her chilli is one of those awful tasteless ones that's like a shit bolognese with kidney beans in, too.

Your colleague sounds like a character from Smack The Pony.

Does she also lecture you about your carbon footprint? I think she may be a friend of mine!!

I try to take my lunch into work with me but only because I resent paying pret prices and I’m struggling a bit financially at the moment! But I wouldn’t dream of commenting on someone else’s lunch (unless it’s to say that looks/smells delicious). Your lunch sounds perfectly fine to me.