What have you eaten today?

Porridge

Mueller rice pot

Sandwiches, crisps, pork pie, mini quiche, christmas cake, cup of tea at U3A Xmas party.
Few grapes.
Pub meal - beef casserole with dumplings, mashed potatoes and veg.
Oh dear! Might need gaviscon before I go to bed!

Porridge oats with milk, plain yoghurt, raspberries & apricots. Small glass of orange juice. 2cups of tea.
Latte.
2 scrambled eggs on multigrain toast. Banana. Cup of tea.
Fruit scone with butter. Cup of tea.
Braised beef with mashed potato, carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts.
Plum crumble & cream.
2 glasses of wine.
Just about to have a cup of ovaltine & go to bed.
Oh and about 4 glasses of water during the day.

Beans on toast

Cheese spread on bread

gilly?

Toast with goats cheese.
Tuna and bean salad.
Spaghetti matriciana.
Bowl of blueberries.
Several cups of coffee and tea.

I must cut down on alcohol .... people keep offering me drinks!
Yesterday was
Porridge, blueberries with Alpro yoghurt and a sprinkle of flaxseeds.
Jacket potato, salad and cheese
Piece Christmas cake! Couple of chocolates!
3 glasses red wine and a g and t!
Today ...... porridge with fruit and yoghurt
And definitely no booze today!

Coincidentally, we also had spaghetti matriciana yesterday.

Defrosting the fridge freezer today so breakfast was a banana, blueberries and Greek yoghurt. What we have to eat after that is anyone's guess.

I was reorganising my chest freezer yesterday and found a box of leftover birthday cake (leftover from nearly 18 months ago so I daren’t offer it to anyone else).

Guess what I’ve had for breakfast?

I am on a budget and have had to cut down a lot as I am on benefits, so on days when I go to my over 50's, I tend to eat their biscuits and that's my breakfast. On other days when I'm not attending any over 50's I admit I do go out and have some breakfast, but its only cheap really. I go to the local sainsburys which has a café as well and I have a scrambled egg on toast and a large latte. It used to be beigels (I always say Beigels not bagels. bagels is an americnaism. beigels is the original jewish word before it got bastardized by the yanks) but they don't do they anymore. It isn't v dear either. It only costs just over 4 quid for both of them. Sometimes I wish I could afford more, but when you are on benefits you have to budget a hwell of a lot - BIG COL

bigcol1 you could probably get a pack of bagels, a box of eggs and milk for milky coffee for £4 and have that for breakfast every morning.

but at least in Sainsbury's I suppose you can sit and read all the papers!

I was going to make a similar point jalima. I think my standard breakfast of oats, milk, yoghurt, prunes and a sprinkling of seeds with a glass of orange juice probably costs about 45p.
But perhaps Col likes the company in Sainsbury's.

For the price of one breakfast in a cafe you could probably buy a week's breakfasts at home. Going out for breakfast seems the height of extravagence. Even if I were a millionaire I wouldn't do it.

I can't get my head in gear until I've had my breakfast, which is almost always two mugs of tea, skimmed milk, no sugar, made in a teapot with leaf tea, plus one and a half slices of toast made with Lidl's wholemeal seedy farmhouse loaf, butter and half a banana. DH has the same but has margarine on his toast. Now and then I have a boiled egg instead of the banana.

Like Bigcol my breakfast is expensive but's it's my favourite meal so £4 seems OK to me!

At home I have various combinations of eggs, smoked salmon, avocados, tomatoes, anchovies, coffee, etc. Can't be doing with cereals & fruit.

If breakfasting out I indulge in things like Omelette Arnold Bennett

Today
Shreddies with skimmed milk
Corned beef and salad sandwich
Cheese and tuna toasted panini
Fruit and yoghurt

today ;

Slimfast banana flavour shake

2 cups of tea
a Slimfast bar

a cup of "Options"

a Slimfast bar.

3 Oatibix with full fat milk
No lunch because I went straight to the dentist
Dinner was breaded haddock with homefries. 3 cups of tea and a handful of dried fruit as I was preparing Christmas cake fruit to soak.
Eagerly awaiting g and t later

I'm on the 5:2 and today is a 400 calories day.

2 cups of coffee.

Small bowl of revolting (homemade) carrott and brocolli soup.

Tuna salad.

I'm fed up. No wine and nothing that I really like.

Must stop eating chocolate!
Breakfast porridge oats, blueberries, flaxseeds, soya yoghurt.
Lunch, vegetables, oatcakes 2

Snack small bar chocolate

Supper, pita bread filled with egg and tomato, satsuma
No alcohol!

In no particular order:
A tuna melt panini.
Shepherd’s pie with carrots and sprouts.
4 plums, 2 apples, 1 pear.
Two slices of cake, one mince pie (well, it is nearly Christmas ).
I’m off to get a g & t now, as tomorrow’s a fast day.

Why just 400 calories, Framilode? I find 500 hard enough.

Porridge oats with milk, yoghurt, raspberries & apricots. Tea. Orange juice.
Coffee
Homemade onion soup, bread & cheese. Apple. Tea x2
Grilled salmon, rice with sweet corn & pecans, green salad.
2 pancakes with cream & Cointreau
G&T
Glass of wine

Glass of water?
Coffee & biscuit?
Huge Chinese meal?
2 x glasses of wine?
Lime & soda?
Cup of tea x 2?
Mince pie?

Porridge and blueberries. Two mugs of tea.
Coffee
Mushroom omelette. Coffee
Grilled salmon, colcannon, courgettes, red onion and peppers in white wine sauce.
G&T
Two glasses of dry white wine.....could be three

Just a small mushroom risotto, 2 teensy apples and a pomegranate. A tiny taste of the Christmas cake mix that I always prefer to the finished cake.

Fast days, pah!