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).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEreQ4ACoA

Well on slimming world it's 15 1/2 syns but honestly I think you should tell your colleague to keep her nose out!

She’d have had a heart attack if she’d mine…prawn mayo sarnie, bag of crisps, tin of iced coffee and a Crunchie…from the petrol station on the way into work.

Last Friday I overslept and was rushed off my feet so I ordered a Philly Cheesesteak sub to be delivered to the office!

I did have homemade dhal with spinach and green beans yesterday though.

Your colleague needs to get a grip and a bit of balance in her life.

And there's been a lot of times I've been eating my lunch brought from home and some guys are eating from the local takeaway. Your colleague would have a fit 😂

Nothing wrong with it, Miles better than mine.. a M&S ham and coleslaw sandwich, a chicken samosa and a cream scone.

I hope you informed her of the potential food poisoning risks from leftover rice. And then told her to keep her beak out as it is none of her business.

The poster said that that was what she would eat in a day at work, not in a day.

Your lunch sounds fine. I don't think chilli and left over rice is particularly healthy.

Imagine feeling like you have the right to comment on how healthy someone's food is. So fucking rude!

Your lunch was fine!

Your colleague was likely proud to have made a home cooked lunch, possibly

1. she is on a healthy “programme” where a consultant is paid to tell clients that all convenience foods are the devils work. You must must buy/sign up to our recipes and food plans. Or,
2. she is skint
3. She is on an nhs funded programme where a consultant is advising that home prepped food is the only way to avoid death, hell and poverty)

Your lunch sounds fine. Either way she is ill-informed and bad mannered.

this has made me proper laugh out loud 😂

And I hope that the rice was whole grain, ethically sourced (has she seen rice paddies and the children and elderly that farm them?) and hope that the ground mince was actually a meat substitute or at very least locally sourced organic , methane neutral. I do hope the chilli sauce was not from a jar full of preservatives and other chemicals and that she used a slow cooker.
Your shop bought version will have Rishi Sunak cheering…pret and others are financially struggling, and people needs jobs! There is right in every wrong

Salad, pear and coffee are healthy. Pop corn not (processed) but not a huge crime.

love this
My husband has a limited menu (chilli, bolognaise, fajitas, tacos. Usually with a packet or jar mix with some added extras. You get the picture). His menu has expanded after DCs commented that if Dad was cooking, it was always sausages “with something”. He sometimes gets too confident and last week we had bolognaise with added dark chocolate. Sad because before we had DC, he would spend the whole day buying ingredients and using every utensil in the kitchen to cook a fab menu from scratch.

I love chilli, but I think she's jealous.
Delicious pret salad and fruit with popcorn...or leftovers. I know what I'd choose.

Exactly its none of her business if you had a feast of cotton candy full fat coke and cookies. Your lunch is fine. Lord I hate lunch police.

What a cunty colleague.

I’d reply back,
oh, your chilli…hope all that red meat doesn’t give you cancer and are I can’t believe you reheat rice, won’t you think of those bacteria?

even if you were having donuts and coke for lunch, she should shut her trap.

Lol I had an off brand pot noodle* and a can of diet coke for my lunch at work the other day she would have actually shit if she saw that. 😅

*I sometimes keep pot noodles in my desk drawer in case I don't have time to get a proper lunch or been organised enough to bring in leftovers.

Is she your mum to be telling you what to eat, nosey bosh

I literally had to google Orthoexia-adjacent. Thank you for adding to my never ending vocab... And yes this exactly!

Also unless your colleague is a picture of health inside and out (as we all know some one who is a TOFI) they need to STFU @NameChange278

Did you ask for their opinion on your lunch? People giving unsolicited advise are insufferable

Your meal was perfectly healthy. Colleague is deluded if she thinks her lunch was better. And it's not a fucking competition, you can eat what you want, so rather weird behaviour.

Why would anyone want unsolicited opinions on the healthiness of their lunch, especially from somebody who's too ignorant to realise that there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all healthy diet?

What's healthy for one person isn't healthy for another. I've been advised (by real doctors — you know, proper qualified people, not randoms waving an all-purpose rulebook full of syns or points or some other bollocks) to eat a diet with a consistently high salt level. A healthy diet for me is one with plenty of salt, every day. And I don't particularly feel like explaining that, or the reasoning behind it, to some dipwad who likes to opine about healthy diets without even knowing that different people need different things, let alone anything about my specific nutritional needs.

It is not that unusual to be criticised, for eating too much, too much carb (unhealthy) to too much non carb (greedy and selfish). It is annoying, but one of those things and is about people having a hard time.

“That's probably what I'd eat across a whole day at work rather than in one sitting but who really cares”

You care clearly to have said that to the OP. Eating that little is not something to be proud of at all.

Oh left over chilli can be delicious. Gives the flavours more time to blend. Nowt wrong with OP’s lunch though.