How bad is my diet?

[NickettyNacketty]

Food can very confusing. Half the time I have no idea if something is currently considered healthy or not. Nuts- healthy or high in fat? Should I be drinking litres of water a day or is that a myth?
I don't trust sweeteners so I prefer to use sugar or buy products that are not 'light'. I would rather eat butter as a natural product and much better tasting than a spread.
So today I ate:
One slice of toasted Warburtons wholemeal bread with jam
One tesco finest fruit scone, buttered
One cup of tea

Two slices of toast with butter and marmalade
One cup of tea

Two thirds of a tub of houmous and some crisps
One cup of tea

One glass of white wine
6 caramel shortbread 'bites'

A Sainsburys burger with onion, tomato and a cheese slice
About 5 fat oven chips
Ketchup
A vanilla yoghurt
An Aero dessert pot
A cup of tea

Am I in trouble?

I eat some veg sometimes but not much fruit at all and I don't drink anything else which I know must be bad.
I like nuts and dried fruit are they ok?

Waaaaaaaay too many processed, refined carbs.

Ditch the scone, jam, marmalade, caramel bites and aero thing. Too much refined shit to be anything but unhealthy, despite what the ad campaign might want you to believe - they just want your dosh.

Two pieces of toast for breakfast is fine - strong flavours fill you up, so put marmite or anchovy paste on. Peanut butter (no butter) is ok in the morning because you'll burn it off during the day. Yoghurt would be better eatennow for the same reason.

Houmous is fine, crisps are just oily shit. Dunk carrot sticks, cucumber batons and toasted pitta to get some vitamins in you

Swap salad for chips (Not coleslaw/potato salad, all the mayo counteracts any nutritional goodness) and dump the cheese from the burger. In fact, a meatfree burger will taste the same with less than quarter of the saturated fat - teaspoon of olive oil for cooking and your away. Turn your tomato and onion into homemade salsa and you can do without the ketchup (sugar, vinegar and food colouring) easily!

Snack on fruit and seeds, have two cups of tea per day and the rest fruit/herbal tea or water.

Basically, the more ingredients it says on the packet, the less it wants to go in your mouth :o

I would say it is very processed - lack a lot of fresh fruit and veg - nuts are OK in small amounts due to fat but dried fruit very high in sugar..

What are you trying to achieve - weight loss - more vitamins? I would suggest upping protein and lowering the white carbs and trying to add in some fruit and veg .. how about more pulses if you like chickpeas?

I just reckon my diet is unhealthy but am not sure how much to worry.
Salad gives me terrible indigestion so I avoid it. I don't eat chips often.
My mind goes blank trying to think what the hell to eat that is enjoyable and healthy. I love cakes, biscuits and pastry and the idea of cold fresh fruit is not the same.

Dump the cheese? What is wrong cheese? It's a good source of calcium and protien.

Other than that I agree with Pidjin.

I've been healthy eating lately, die to having a god awful diet and having left myself really quite ill. I'm on day three. T'is quite easy and nice, actually.

Typical day has been:

Smoothie for breakfast. Either avocado, banana, orange juice, yoghurt and ground flax seed or strawberry, banana, apple juice and ground flax.

Lunch: Salad with some sort of protien (sometimes feta mainly tinned fish occasionally chicken) Or omlette if I am not having omlette for dinner/supper.

Dinner: If I am working I don't get chance for any but I take either a Nakd pecan bar or grapes or chashews to work with me. I have omlette for my supper either mushroom omlette with a baby leaf side salad or feta and spinach. I had baked sweet potato and cottage cheese for a change last night. That was nice.

If I am not working I cook something. I aim for veg and protien and easy on the 'white carbs' so tonight was salmon side with purple sprouting broccoli, corn cobs, green beans and a small hand ful of new potatos. Tomorrow will be tomato 'pasta' with courgette ribbons instead of pasta and ham, mushrooms and steamed spinach.

Drinks: Water and green tea, although I am still partial to a pepsi max I am trying to knock that on head.

Snacks: berries, nuts and nakd bars.

We could do a healthy eating thread if you like, to help with ideas?

Stewed fruit would be better than none at all, and you can eat it warm.

Your diet is woefully short of vegetables. Like you I am not a fruit fan, but I adore vegetables. You don't have to eat salad, but why aren't you having any veg with your burger and why aren't you having carrot/cucumber/pepper batons with your humous?

Pidjin is jam or marmalade really that terrible? It's not like I put loads on. Otherwise I can see just from writing the list that there are too many processed carbs.
Doin Your list is very helpful and a healthy eating thread might be good. It's not about losing weight, I'm slim, but the health aspect.

In this scenario its just uneccesary, dooin. And a bit late at night to give full benefit.

What do you think of when you hear the word "salad" op? My mum loves grated carrot with poppy seeds and raisins. I will eat pretty much any type of lettuce as long as it's got balsamic vinegar on. Greek salad - diced tomato, cucumber and feta with a splosh of olive oil - is lush. Iceberg is vile; cos, baby spinach, pea shoots, etc are gorgeous. I grow my own in an old takeaway tub on the kitchen window sill, cut and come again and ready to eat in 3 weeks.

Tinned fruit is great - tinned peaches, Greek yoghurt and honey for breakfast? Sweet enough to replace any mars bar

Dried fruit and fruit juice/smoothies only count as one portion each no matter how many you have. A portion of dried fruit is a small handful (about 40 raisins, I used to work with fussy teens with Aspergers syndrome) :)

Mmmmm stewed fruit. Yes!
Carrot, cucumber and pepper batons hmmmmm not interesting. Not satisfying. Just healthy.

Not terrible, just not adding anything nutritious to your day. Which is why I suggested alternatives which give you a few bits :)

Tinned mackerel fillets in tomato sauce, mashed and spread on toast, gives you a piss easy oily fish portion for lunch btw!

Bits? Ffs Vits!!

Try peeling the cucumber and ditching any onions in your salad to get rid of the indigestion.

Salad makes me think cold and wet. Also time consuming. And indigestion.
Did you mean it's too late at night for benefit of marmalade

Don't think of it as giving up something good. Think of it as doing something kind to yourself.

I'm not overly fussed on 'regular' fruit and destest bananas unless they are mushed up in a smoothie and over powered by other fruits.

Fruit juice only counts for one, smoothies are different because they use the whole fruit so you get all the fibre and vitamins. However you won't normally fit more than two portions in a smoothies, even if you do use more than two fruits.

I love exotic fruits. I find it much cheaper to buy these from markets or fruit shops than supermarkets and I look out of things that are reduced to use in smoothies.

I like dressing fruit up into a proper 'dessert' so I'll peeled sliced apple, strawberries, blueberries and a bit of banana (like I said earlier I don't much like them) with some creme fraiche or bio yoghurt and mixed chopped nuts on top. I

My salads are huge. I luffs salad. I use iceberg lettuce, sliced peppers, fresh beetroot, sweetcorn, grated carrot, cucumber, cherry tomatos, a few green olives and some balasamic dressing. If I feel I need something warm to eat I add a poached egg. And ground flax seeds sprinkled over the top. I have a 'thing' about flax lately. I suspect I am wheat intolerent so I am using flax to top up my dietry fibre, which is somehow different to regular fibre. not sure how, but that is what the flaxseed packet tells me

Love lentil soup. Also peas but will enjoy asparagus, corn on the cob/sweetcorn, spinach, cabbage and mushrooms. Have seriously gone off broccoli.

It won't be all salad that gives you indigestion. You really should cut down on the sugary/processed food and try to eat more naturally occurring food eg vegetables, raw fruit, lean meat, milk, nuts, seeds etc. Avoid eating things like cakes and biscuits, which are high in sugar and white flour. I would suggest taking a look at the Slimming World diet, as this seems to be quite a healthy way of eating, even if you don't want to be slimmer.

You're too ingrained to soggy iceberg and curled up cucumber in that case :o

You don't burn calories when you sleep, or not significant amounts. So, the later you eat the more you store. Eating early means more opportunity to use up what goes in.

I can't stand grated carrot, but some people love it

Rice cakes are a nice empty carb; I like sliced chicken, peanut butter with dried fruit, and houmus with cheese. However I'm also 11+5 so my tastebuds aren't necessarily reliable

Now fibre there's one that is confusing. Too much is bad, not enough is bad. Some is soluble. Aaargh.
Lots of good ideas here though. I must make a list.
Is porridge good or boiled eggs?

Rice cakes are hideous.

Porridge is fab and you can get some fruit and honey interest (prunes, stewed apple/rhubarb, blueberries?), eggs good but only a couple of times a week. Poached with tinned tomatoes is yummy especially with marmite toast

1/2 a tin of baked beans is a portion, although not great on sugar/salt

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