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?

Tried a new one today - toasted sourdough with cottage cheese, pesto and sun dried tomatoes

Yum!

My daughters friend just turned 18, the child of two doctors.
Her diet has been plain pasta or roast potatoes 5/7 a week for years.
She likes buttered toast.
No veg whatsoever.
Chicken goujons too in recent years.
Her parents aren't the type to cook so they have fed her this.
I have cooked pasta when she was here and my children had sauce, she always had it plain.

She has it sometimes with ketchup.
Unbelievable, but true.
I have never heard of such a diet.
Her 2 older brothers, both doing medicine eat normally, but have been reared on a lot of take out.

The OP's diet sounds great.

I had similar to this for lunch, but a flatbread instead of sourdough, and goats cheese instead of cottage cheese. It was lovely!

You cook your own food with gousto. It’s not ready meals it just saves going to the supermarket every week

What are you cooking every day ? It’s not ready can’t be anything of substance if it takes less than 40 mins.

Yes but thats too sensible.

I think the right thing is to build the 'fibre score count' into any discussion about how fantastic your diet is, how rounded, how varied and how much better you are as a person if you have 30g of fibre per day, or even more, lets say 60 because you're so fabulous. .

Carbs and protein talk is so last year.

You're being a parody arent you?

I don't cook everyday as I have so many more things I'd rather be doing.

If you genuinely think you need to spend at least 40 minutes cooking to produce "anything of substance" then I think you need to take a look at what you're doing, quite frankly.

My dinner is only going to take 39 minutes this evening. Its going to be a pile of shite and nutritionally devoid.

If I only had picked a different recipe that perhaps took 42 minutes, it would be a culinary masterpiece, worthy of Michelin.

Monday. 2 carbs, no veg, wouldn't serve cheese as a mai protein.
Tuesday. No veg, no protein, just unhealthy bridge carbs
Wednesday. This is a lunch, not a dinner. Again veg??
Rest is fine.

Why are you putting working?
It's not an excuse to just shove a jar of sauce into a bowl of pasta.

Why are you putting working? It's not an excuse to just shove a jar of sauce into a bowl of pasta

I often do that even when I'm not working - I must be some kind of heathen 😂

Isn’t shoving a jar of sauce into a bowl of pasta how most of us got through university? That and instant noodles.

Quite! No excuse at all, she should be whipped. I'm surprised she has the strength to open the jar of sauce with the lack of protein in her diet from that evil pesto pasta once a week! She's probably a type 3 diabetic from all those double carb Mondays.

Read them again, ffs

I think all of your dinners sound delicious @Sowhatbigdeal - are you near Yorkshire and if so can I come round for my tea?!

Am I the only person on here that thinks salad with potatoes and rice sounds like a bloody bizarre concoction!?

I’m a bit confused about what an onion salad is, don’t most salads contain some form of onion thus just making it a salad with feta or is this some sort of mixed heavily oniony salad!?

Pesto pasta I’d probably add some meat or something or do something with it.

Salad with egg on toast also sounds a bit of an odd mix to me, and an omelette on its own as a main meal sounds a bit lacklustre, I’d probably do something to go with it.

Personally I’d do veg with the salmon over salad but each to their own.

Everything else sounds fine.

@Sowhatbigdeal what do you want from this thread?

You have asked if they are rubbish dinners - the majority have said yes but you are just arguing back at them that they are not??

Who has said that they are unhealthy? If you and your family are happy with them then just carry on as you are?!

Not the worst and I wouldn’t mind any one of these maybe once a week if there is stuff in but none of them very inspiring or comforting - to be fair your weekend meals found totally fine but your weekend meals feel quite studenty. I would be looking to bring the lasagne energy to the rest of the week

I'd add in some veg in with pasta. Stir fry onions, peppers, mushrooms, carrots and herbs and use passata for sauce. The pesto will probably be UPF.

And wine 🍷 🥳

Exactly this really.

I don’t think the Mon-Weds dinners are great for a child tbh.

Will there be others out there who eat worse? Definitely.

But then maybe don’t put up a post with your week’s menu expecting compliments ….and get arsey when people say it’s not ideal nutrition for a growing child.

It all just sounds uninspired and rather dull. I don’t think the Monday to Wednesday dinners are appropriate for a child, no. Maybe a lunch on the run but not dinner. And rice and potatoes with a salad is just bizarre.

Sorry, I have. What am I missing?

Maybe we could all discuss how healthy our bowel movements are based on our fibre intake. A four on the Bristol Stool Chart is the aim lol