Are my dinners rubbish?

[Sowhatbigdeal]

Been told they are

Here’s an example of an average week, more or less:

Monday (I work at 6, so do something simple)

Feta & red onion salad with new potatoes & rice

Tuesday

Pasta with jar pesto (working today)

Wednesday

Dh to do omlette/eggs on toast with salad (working today)

Thursday

Salmon, salad, new potatoes

Friday

Homemade chilli with rice, nachos & dips

Saturday

Takeaway

Sunday

Roast dinner/homemade lasagne

Are they?

Yes exactly. Of course its right to have a wide variety of food stuffs and food types, that is the best way to get the most range of digestable and processable nutrients in you. But when the theory stipulates a number, 30 - well why not 32, why not 25, why not 55? It falls apart

And ascribing this or that to a point, half point, this point, that point, no point, view point, well of course its a nonsense from that perspective, that was my point!

And yes its great if you have the palate, its great if you have the money and accessibility to access this variety, its great if you have the time and inclination to access this variety. Not everyone does, not everyone wants to and so I find it tiresome that in response to a good enough food routine of example dinners, a poster is judged or berated for 'not eating 30 plants a week'.

Not on.

Anyway Im having a caramel wafer now, so whats that, wheat from the wafer = plant, chocolate = plant, caramel made from sugar = plant

Great stuff!

I like pizzoccheri...wholemeal pasta with potatoes, cabbage and cheese (can you tell I'm from the North of Italy?)

We had pesto pasta tonight...I do half pesto, half cream cheese to make it creamier and then chuck in what ever vegetables I fancy, green beans today.

Exactly. I wish more women would cut themselves some slack. Every year it’s something else designed to make us feel like failures. If it’s not UPFs it’s protein, if it’s not protein it’s carbs etc etc etc. It’s exhausting.

And as someone from the Mediterranean I’m really enjoying all the posters saying salad and pasta with pesto are not nutritionally dense foods.

And the audacity of serving rice AND potatoes?! I should tell my mother she has been poisoning us with her delicious stews (that - shock horror - contain potatoes) with rice on the side. I’m sure she will hang her head in shame.

Gin and tonic for me so one for the juniper berries and a bonus one for the cucumber I've put in it. We are smashing this!

Well I weight train and am built like a brick shithouse and some nights I will have three scrambled eggs with beans on toast. Very delicious, filling and decent macros. I’m sure a seven year old will be absolutely fine.

Of course they are!

Quinine in the tonic = plant. Come on, you have to be accurate about this!

How could I forget that! I think I've hit 30 today alone now. McDonalds for the rest of next week it is then.

Goodness me so rude. There is more than enough protein in the meals listed.

I think I’d add more protein to Mondays salad as it’s sounds bland and potatoes and rice is an odd combination too
again with the pesto it doesn’t take much to pan cook some salmon fillets to go with it

No, I just respond in the same tone people address me.

And what are your credentials to determine that these meals contain "more than enough protein"? Seriously? You think a couple of eggs and a measly piece of salmon consumed over a WEEK is enough protein?

Plus the chilli, roast, protein in other parts of the meals and also the unmentioned breakfast and lunch foods.

Apart from dire poverty or eating disorders there's probably no-one in the UK who doesn't get enough protein.

Well you say why you think it isnt. No need for the caps either

This isnt this child's whole diet.

A measly piece of salmon, lets say its as measly as 50g of raw salmon, has 10g of protein in it. Her requirements for her age are around 19g a day. So half just in that one item, on one plate, for one meal.

One is assuming OP doesnt just serve her daughter this alone per day.

Hit a nerve have I? And it’s always best not to assume things, such as your assumption that the OP will not be feeding protein-rich breakfasts or lunches.

How about not revelling in being so dismissive to the OP and, as I said, getting a grip?

Thank you. So many posters on Mumsnet seem to thoroughly enjoy tearing OPs down and assuming things with completely limited information.

Tim Spector and the guys from Zoe have stated that there's no scientific basis for 30, it's just a number they chose they felt would encourage people to eat a variety of foods.

@Nina1013 they have identified gut bacteria that solely feeds on coffee for example so there is at least some science there. Otherwise it's just about encouraging people to eat different plants, I agree it's gimmicky.

But she’s serving the chilli with rice AND nachos! She’s practically a murderer!

Yes exactly very comparable to the 10k steps.

Bonus points for anyone who can say why its 10k without looking it up....!

I’m not denying that they’re basic foods - I just don’t think most people buy the huge selection of stuff that you’re suggesting they do.

At the moment in our house we have carrots, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, grapes and lettuce, plus frozen sweetcorn and peas. Maybe two herbs in the cupboard, plus tea and coffee. That’s it.

We don’t buy anything like the huge variety of foods that people seem to buy on a regular basis on MN.

Exactly. Let’s stop berating other women for not subscribing to whatever current fad is currently taking over.

I have no desire to buy or cook 30 plants a week. It’s great that some people do but it doesn’t make them better people.

In our house we are old school. 5 different solid fruit and veg a day, and the world keeps turning!

Oh I forgot pomegranate

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