Those of you who consider yourselves to have a healthy diet, tell me what you eat

[IllegallyBrunette]

If you could just give me a couple of examples of your daily diet that would be great.

Thanks to all who posted. You all have way better diets than me although I was expecting that.

My diet is awful and I have treid several times to change it but I always fall off the wagon mainly because I either get bored of what I eat or I get too hungry .

I think the reason my crap diet has happened is because my kids are on free school lunches at the moment and so they tend to have a either a cold dinner or a quick hot snack or a mini meal and then I can't be arsed to cook different stuff for different people and so I end up having egg on toast or similar.

I eat way way way too much bread and have never sucesfully managed to cut it down let alone cut it out.

Kids are back to packed lunches soon so I am hoping this will help me get back to regular meal planning and a healthier diet.

nowt wrong with egg on toast or snacky food
steer clear of ready processed food and too many crisps and sweets
Eat lots of fruit and veg

That's all there is to eat.

No but I have it alot. I also hardley eat any fruit or veg which is daft as I do like most of them.

I have just become very very lazy wrt food and thb very greedy, my portion sizes are way too big.

today:

brekky oats soaked in oj, raisins and pumpkin seeds

lunch made veg soup, 1 piece of brown bread

dinner meatballs & pasta

a couple of coffees and water

I do wish I liked porridge as I am sure that would help alot but I can't stand it.

I like ready break but i suppose that isn't the same really is it.

I'm trying.
I eat well but not always the healthiset options.

Today I had:

1 slice brown toast
Graniola & probiotic yoghurt
cup of tea
cup of coffee

sushi

carrot sticks with low fat homous dip

cup of coffee

Going for Tapas tonight.

other brekky i like is smoked haddock & poached egg.

thick smoothie? (homemade)

I do like smoothies yep and have been promising the kids I will buy a blender so we can make some.

Have never thought of having a youghurt at breakfast time either so thats another good idea.

Ready Brek is just rolled oats and oat flour, so although it's not quite as good as whole oats it's far better than many other breakfast cereals. My dd has it with mashed or sliced banana.

I don't eat healthily but I only eat small amounts of red meat, rarely eat cakes, sweets, puddings etc . The rest of my diet is crap though

If you are investing in a blender then soup is another good, cheap and filling meal (not all soups need to be blended though).

In the summer I make ice lollies from fruit juice for the kids (Ikea do cheap ice lolly moulds)

Ready brek is fine.
I don't think you have to feel that you must eat a wide range of stuff. A limtied selection is fine. In tesco today, gazing at row upon row of virtually identical breads/cereals/yoghurts I wonder if all this choice is a good thing.

I have porridge/Staffordshire oatcakes or home made muesli and yoghurt for brekkie, s/wich and fruit for lunch and fried rice/stir fry.chilly/stew/curry for dinner

I couldn't be arsed to make smoothies and I am a very keen cook.

Agree with you re too much choice.

I get rather flummoxed in supermarkets these days!

We've all got too much utterly pointless choice.It does not add to quality of our lives one bit to know about 70 different kinds of bloody yoghurt.

I usually have to remember to eat something as i always seem to be on the go!
For breakfast i'll have a piece of fruit and a yoghurt, mueseli or porridge.
Don't usualy have a mid morning snack, but may have a cup of tea.
Lunch is usually salad with tuna/ham or cheese. Sometimes i'll have xpress rice with canned tuna or maybe smoked mackerel strips with salad and oven baked chips.
Evening meal is casserole, oven baked fish and chips or roast dinner.
But i do like a can of cider in the evening and maybe a glass or two of wine on other nights (especially weekend).
I just basically try to have as much fruit and veg as possible, avoid too many potatoes and i could eat fish everyday if DH would let me.

We gave up taking the dc to the supermarket with us ages ago. Too stressful (for them as well as us)

But will happily take them to the corner shop or small, local shops.

We eat pretty healthily I think.

DD1 has allergies so most things are cooked from scratch. Also we live in France where people tend to cook and there are lots of nice and cheap farm shops.

I think the thing is to have a stock of dishes you do that are healthy but not too long to prepare. I like cooking a lot but I go through phases where I'm bored or can't be bothered. I find it is at these times that we veer off from being healthy.

Things like pulses are good and don't need much doing to them. Just about anything can be chopped up and made into a salad. Roast veg with some brown rice or quinoa is an easy one that you don't have to stand over. Jacket potatoes with veggie type fillings feature a lot in our diet. Soup is good for you too.

Tonight we are having roast chicken, I did the chicken in a big dish and puts loads of veg round about it (carrot, fennel, turnip, tomato and courgette). This way the whole thing cooks together and you make sure you get some veggies.

We probably eat too much chocolate though.

Breakfast: No-sugar muesli, spoon or two of natural yoghurt, tsp of honey, semi-skimmed milk. 2 cups of tea with ss milk.

Mid-morning: banana and milky coffee or a piece or two of brown toast with a scraping of butter and sometimes a bit of honey.

Lunch: Lean meat, 2 veg and a Muller Lite yoghurt. More fruit if still hungry. Alternative lunch - soup and a sandwich. Water to drink, occasionally diet coke (say once a week).

Mid-afternoon: Cup or two of tea, possibly an apple and/or 2 squares dark chocolate.

Supper: Cheese or ham sandwich with a bit of salad. Fruit, yoghurt or a couple of times a week a bit of flan, cake or apple pie (palm sized portion). Water to drink.

Snack of choice: Microwave air popped popcorn with a bit of sunflower oil, cinammon and fructose sugar.

Breakfast - Friut with plain Yoghurt or special K (or alternative) with skimmed milk.

Lunch - Ham/salad sandwick or hommous and carrot pitta or if i have time a baked potato with cottage cheese and salad.

Dinner - Meat or fish 9usually with some sort of spices, a few potatos and lots of either steamed veg or salad.

Snacks - grapes/ mini babybell light.

Drink water, tea with skimmed milk and no sugar and ocassionally diet coke.

Today I've had a healthy (ish) day

Breakfast: Porridge and a banana

Lunch: Sandwich (wholemeal) with tuna,salad,
Bio yoghurt with apple, blueberries and mixed seeds

Dinner: Chicken breast (grilled) with sugar snap peas, baby corn, carrots and mash (made with proper butter and milk)

Drinks: Water, peppermint tea, coffee (2 cups ) and a glass or two of red wine

Snacks: 2x satsumas and a granola bar

Porridge is nicer if you make it with milk. A bit of brown sugar, honey or maple syrup on the top makes it taste like a pudding. I am a big porridge fan.

Like lollipop, given the choice, I don't like food that has been messed about with, so tend to avoid convenience foods and spreads most of the time. I think they give you a misleading idea of what you are eating, whereas if you have something simple or something you have cooked yourself you know what you are eating. Plus it actually tastes like proper food then as well.

That having been said, I am happy to eat crap if I am in a situation where that's all there is, or where I have to do it to be polite - I'm not precious at all about food.

I must add though my diet is really quite healthy and i excersise a fair amount but i am still 2 stone overwieght for my 5'2 hieght.

I am about 2.5 stone overweight, plus baby at the moment. But I seem to have fewer health and digestive problems than many of my friends, and great skin, and can normally lift things like a man and happily run for buses and so on, so I think that might be the weight I am just meant to be. I do have a thyroid problem, though, which has meant being quite disciplined about appetite though - I would eat silly amounts of food if I let myself. Even if it's healthy food, that's always a bad idea.

I have quite a hardcore diet at the moment because I am trying to be healthy.

Breakfast: egg white omlette with peppers onions and tomatoes, 1/4 bagel. Redbush tea.

Lunch: tin of tuna with large mixed salad and teaspoon hemp oil.

Snack: apple, 3 walnuts , slice of chicken

Dinner: haddock with lemon granita, broccoli, green beans and peas.

Snack: low fat plain yoghurt, honey and oats.

The food is healthy but it is a bit challenging. It is also quite expensive eating so much high quality protein. On the upside I never feel hungry. I do go on a carbs binge about once a week though and chomp my way through six pieces of marmite toast with butter.

I could never eat just a quarter of a bagel !