What have you eaten today?

Willow there are usually leeks in our local Tesco - I made some leek and potato soup last week.
DH likes his blended, I like leek and potato soup chunky.

My breakfast was similar to Gabriella's. Need a bit of fuel for some outdoor jobs and dog walking.

Lunch will be braised chicken breast with root vegetables and cabbage, one roast potato and a No pudding but I might have a yoghurt at teatime.

GF crumpets with marmite for supper and a couple more glasses of wine while watching telly.

It was overly lush GabriellaG - hence my walk of shame. And mabon1 you are probably right - compared to most posters on here it seems I am a greedy guts.
A much more measured (and alcohol free) day today.
Still, I did have a great day yesterday enjoying it all ... ?

Scrambled eggs (2) made with no butter. No lunch, double g & t at rugby to keep warm! Burger with pastrami, swiss cheese, mustard, tomato and lettuce. Small carrot salad and chips. Accompanied by one third bottle of red wine. Coffee. You can probably guess I was eating out after match. Then late evening, small bag of crisps with sour cream and chive dip, half can of diet soda drink. Not my usual fare but did enjoy it all.

Thank you Jalima - I was beginning to think they must be a seasonal thing!

I think leeks are more of a winter vegetable but should be available now. I'm not sure if they are available all year round as I don't tend to buy them in the summer anyway.

Just about to toast crumpets sadly not toasting by the fire.
In the toaster nice hotbutter dripping off them.
Pork chops for Sunday roast today and apple and mincemeat crumble for pud.
Had egg bacon and tomatoes for breakfast.

Ooh Sheilasue any chance of a place at your table later? Sounds yummy!

Yesterday I had 1 orange and 2 tangerines for breakfast, with a cup of tea. Lunch was a big bowl of home-made veggie soup (with leek in it) and a slice of toast. I went to a ‘murder mystery’ event in the evening, where they served a hot-pot supper with a slice of baguette. Very tasty.
After eating late, last night, I didn’t feel like breakfast, so just had a cup of tea this morning. Had a coffee and a couple of biscuits after Church, while they drew the 200 Club winners (no luck!) Another coffee this afternoon, then I am going to my daughter’s for a nice roast beef dinner.
I’m managing to take off some weight, to help with the osteo-arthritis I’ve just been diagnosed with. Trying to avoid cakes and sweets. Once I start, I get carried away and eat the lot, so I have stopped buying them. Weight-watching is much harder in the winter!

I’ve put the wheelbarrow back in the shed then, Willow, if you prefer supermarket veg. Saves cleaning them, I suppose.

My gardener (DH) tells me you can grow leeks all year round. We’re never short of leek and potato soup round here.

Reading about all this lovely food makes my mouth water. Almost two years ago, following a very heavy cold and ear infection, I woke up one morning to discover that my sense of taste had completely altered. Nothing I tried tasted as it should and most things tasted disgusting. After 18 months of scans, x-rays, blood tests, visits to a stroke specialist, neurologist and nutritionist, with no answers, it has been decided I must have a damaged nerve in my face. Nothing to be done about it.

I lost two stone initially because I just didn't know what to eat. I've since realised that anything containing salt or sugar seems to be the problem. And the majority of foods contain one or the other - or both! So my diet consists of a breakfast smoothie containing soya milk, oats, whey protein, chia seeds, flaxseed and a banana. Looks pretty disgusting but tastes of nothing. Lunch is a bread roll from Waitrose - the only one I can find that isn't salty - topped with a drizzle of olive oil and black pepper. Dinner, home made soup with lots of chilli flakes to disguise the taste, fish and chips (no salt and vinegar) or pasta with olive oil and black pepper. The only sweet I can tolerate is low fat vanilla icecream topped with soya cream. The only flavour I really enjoy is coffee, so I buy dark chocolate coffee creams, coffee Bailey's and of course I drink coffee.

I've learned to cope with it and it's second nature now, but it's no pleasure eating out. Especially at this time of year when the various clubs I belong to have their Christmas dinners. Trying to explain to people why you are sitting with a bowl of chips whilst they are enjoying a three course dinner is a nightmare. The doctors don't know what it is, but everyone else is an expert! I've been told I need hypnotherapy, it's all in my mind etc. etc. The worst of it is food smells exactly as it should and my mouth waters when I catch a whiff of my old favourites - Mac and cheese, veggie lasagne etc. So there will be no satsumas, Christmas pudding, mince pies or chocolates for me this year. But at least I've dropped two dress sizes and had to get a whole new wardrobe, so it's not all bad! Enjoy your food ladies!

two cups of coffee and one mince pie that needed eating
bowl of homemade soup.
Waiting for the streak and kidney pie and apple crumble to cook.

Oh Willow10 I really feel for you as I had a similar (but much shorter episode) early this year following a viral infection. It was really weird. And horrid. Apparently our sense of taste comes from smell. It was awful while I had it. No enjoyment of food - in fact it made me a bit low for a while. My food didn’t taste of anything and I couldn’t smell, for instance, a roasting chicken in the oven. I was lucky as my sense of taste & smell came back after about 3 months.

Barmeyoldhat The Streak and Kidney Pie sounds like fun - but not in this chilly weather!

Have to say this is making me feel decidedly virtuous and all because of eating tips I found on this site in the first place. Henetha, I don't think your list is particularly boring but, if you do, you should consider changing it to something you enjoy more. I genuinely believe we should all eat exactly what we fancy but just in fairly reduced quantities. Sure worked for me. A repeated and heartfelt thanks yet again to those who helped by contributing practical advice here on this theme. I haven't put any of my loss back on and it's been awhile now.

Ive had 2 small slices of toast and jam. Coffee with 2 mini jaffa caked then lunch of half a bagel with scrambled egg. Then a guilty packet of crisps so im disgusted as im on a diet

Sorry! BarmeyoldBat. Slip of the mind! Willow10. Not being able to enjoy your food must be very tedious. I must admit to not being terribly interested in food, and mainly eat anything that's quick, easy and fairly healthy, but having everything tasting odd must be horrible for you. Not much chance of improvement after two years, I suppose, but fingers crossed that it happens for you.

slipped off the sw wagon today good and proper
vegi breakfast consisting of glamorgan sausages baked beans mushrooms hash browns and 3 pieces toast
mars bar

probably have porridge for my supper but that will be it

I'm eating like a horse too, but my excuse is that I have started the pre-Christmas house-cleaning. Thirteen windows cleaned this week, two with detachable double glazing, the rest thankfully thermo-glass. Bathroom net curtains washed and re-hung, glass in front door, and above it cleaned. All kitchen cupboards cleaned, shopping list for baking and Christmas food written, various mirrors polished too, when doing windows. Washed one floor and polished writing desk and leather sofa, plus tackled the top of a tall cupboard in kitchen.

Three windows, seven floors, one stair to go, plus various rugs and carpets to vacuum thoroughly and the loose covers from sofa and two armchairs to wash. (Coming week's work).

Not trying to give you the heebie-jeebies, but I love housework, now I have the time for it.

Porridge and blueberries
Huge Sunday lunch at local pub
Sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce and ice cream
May not eat again today

Alpen, banana, milk, Redbush tea.
Homemade SW red pepper soup

Need more, soon, maybe make some SW chips.

Guess I should confess to what I had when I got in at 12:30am:
Hot chocolate, 2 small slices of toast with peanut butter and jam.
I slept well ...

Urmstongran, thank you - it's nice to know that someone understands. I must admit to getting very low about it sometimes, after all food is one of the great pleasures in life! But I'm used to it now and there are a lot worse things in life. I just keep hoping that one day my taste will come back as mysteriously as it went. Then I can stuff myself with cheese and onion on toast like I used to! Drool!

Hi this is my first post. I'm a grandmother of 41 and a great-grandmother of 30. I'm 70 years old and live in Israel. Today I ate the following so far: Breakfast: 3 crispbreads with lite cheese, Branston Pickle, and some salad. Tea (no milk no sugar,) with sweetener, lemon slice and fresh ginger; that's the only way I drink tea. Lunch: I cooked up some yellow courgettes, and ate them with some instant mashed potato. More tea, some mini chocolate marzipans. Supper will be Sabbath leftovers: chicken soup, chicken, some kind of potato (I've run out so I'll have to make some) and salad.

I should add that I did some exercise in my home gym, and that we have our own lemon tree. My husband dumps piles of lemons in our kitchen almost every morning; along with the mud he trails in from picking them off the rainy ground. I have given tons of lemons away to friends and neighbours and still have tons left. I plan to make lemon meringue pies at some point this week using Swerve, an American sugar substitute that really acts like sugar in baking.

Yoghurt, berries, apple - breakfast
Veg rissole, lots of veg, melon
Prawns, two Ryvita, apple
Lots of cups of tea.