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).

Not sure why people are dissing either lunch here when the only issue is the rude colleague! Imagine bothering to comment negatively on anyone else's lunch! I would be inclined next time to simply tell her that her comments are rude.

I think the appropriate response to office food commentators is "oh do bore off Maureen".

YABU as you made me get my hopes up that Pret had brought back the crayfish and rocket sandwich.

Both lunches mentioned in the OP sound a lot better than mine, which was a BLT baguette slathered in mayo and a portion of fries.

In my defence, they are the absolute best fries: crisp and perfectly seasoned. Je ne regrette rien!

Omg how rude! You have no idea what people's weights are!

Sorry, the lady was rude to the OP. But she is giving voice to her innner-insecurities. I have had this back when I was very thin and needed to eat loads, it used to annoy me. But people do feel bad about their relationship with food and take it out on people like this. It is a shame, but let's not have her burned.

I work in a hospital and most people’s lunch of choice is chips and beans.

I mean, sure. If you’d gone out and caught your own crayfish, grown your own pesticide-free avocados and pears, roasted your own coffee beans, milked your own cow, collected eggs from your garden chooks, and assembled it all yourself, and brought it all to work in a handy little Tupperware (that she probably saved from her last Chinese takeaway…) it would have been less processed. But who wants to be that c**t?

“Get your head out of my lunchbox, Susan. Can’t you feel virtuous just from your own apparently healthy leftovers? Why do you have to put me down, too?”

I used to work with someone like this. The workplace had a really good canteen that had sandwiches made on the premises and loads of different options. They had a salad bar. I had a small bowl of healthy salad and a wholemeal bread roll and she told me the roll made it unhealthy. I’m tall and slim, in those days very slim.

People should keep their noses out.

Looking back to my colleague, I wish I’d been more confident. I should have had bacon sarnie the next day and flaunted it 😂

Lucky you're not vegan or vegetarian OP, or you'd have to endure the equivalent of an office Select Committee interrogation every lunchtime.

That’s a perfectly good lunch. TBF she’s probably a bit jealous that you can afford to buy lunch when she has to bring in homemade leftovers.

I’d rather eat what you had any day.

I LOVE the avocado and crayfish pret salad!!!

It’s just rude when people comment on what you eat full stop.

Why is what you eat any of her business? You could be gnawing on a block of lard after snorting a fat line of granulated sugar. No need to comment on anyone else’s food choices (or their body for that matter)

Unfortunately, I’m like your co-worker, with people that I care about. I drive them crazy with “ that’s too much salt, that’s too much sugar, you shouldn’t drink soda, and you need to exercise.” I do, however, practice what I preach. I don’t want their health to fail them as they age and I try to help them make better choices. But it’s not my business; I butt in anyway.

You’re so cute. Yes, actually, I have.

So what do you want, absolution? You're intrusive and you know you are.

I care! I want my friends and family to enjoy good health. Can’t see how that is so wrong. I do shut up after I’ve ‘warned’ them about the long term effects. It’s still painful to watch them eat food like substance instead of actual food.

People are fucking weird

Healthiest lunch ever

You care but you don't respect.

Your lunch sounds delicious. She sounds like she has other issues going on and is projecting on you. Just my opinion.

Wow, I'm glad I'm not your friend.

Did you miss the part about my shutting up!