Do you think you eat well ?

My goodness, everyone seems to be so good at healthy eating!
My dh eats very well, has a selection of home made(by me) soups,muesli,fresh fruits and yogurt, and a carb counter main meal.
I don’t like eating proper food, only eat it because I have to.main meal only most days,and then chocolate.

Floradora9, everyone has their own version of what eating 'well' means. For some, it's light meals, small quantities, for others, overindulging.

Surprisingly often, it's sticking to the same old limited favourite things, year in, year out. I worked with a chap who knew what was for dinner - by the day of the week. His wife liked routine. He'd say 'Oh no, it's Thursday, so chicken, mash and peas again!'

For me, eating well is vegan, organic, home grown, nutritious, additive free and very varied. Still, I have a sweet tooth and love indulging in all my favourite snacks too!

We used to eat very well. I had cancer of the tongue 3 years ago and radiation therapy killed my sense of taste completely so that I can not even distinguish salt from sugar. Mr. Quichette now has Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a somewhat rare blood cancer, and lost several stone. I feed him whatever he wants to eat now. Fortunately he likes vegetables and salads. I drink blenderized drinks I make from yogurt, fruits or vegetables, and fill in with nutrition drinks recommended by the hospital dieticians. I also encourage Mr. Quichette to use these to fill in as sometimes he has no appetite. I am eating a very healthy diet with no meat, salt or sugar. I use whole milk yogurt but am still eating a low fat diet.

Eating well is often misunderstood. One friend 'eats well' but
never vegetables , another opens a tin of soup ...... and a third
'tries' to keep her drinking within the limits but life's too short.

Yes. I'm a vegetarian, husband is an omnivore. We make our food from scratch. Like the OP I make a lot of soups, which we have at lunchtime. I've just made a large veg curry, which we'll have with the mushroom biryani husband has made. That will do us on Tuesday as well.

I have always had a reasonably healthy diet but having become ill last year with an infection, I now eat for my gut. A healthy gut simply means there are more good bacteria than harmful bacteria and plays a pivotal role in your overall health. I eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and whole grains for prebiotics (food for the bacteria) and fermented foods like yogurt and kefir for probiotics (good bacteria). Among the worst things for your gut are sugar, red meat and processed foods.

My diet is rather affected by my health. In general I cook from scratch, but when my back is very painful I cannot stand or sit for a long time and have to keep swapping jobs and sitting down as and when I can. I became diabetic a couple of years ago and so have to allow for that , but only take tablets for it and try and have a reasonable diet and try and exercise more, but now mostly swimming as walking is getting harder for me. So I can also go in patches, so breakfast for a very long time can be cereal say weetabix with a very little sweetener on it and that gets me my calcium / milk level , as I dont eat cheese or drink milk on its own. when the weather is bad I make porridge for a warming breakfast which now you can do it in the microwave is great and I am not put off by the hassle of a porridge pan to clean. Lunch is home made sandwich or soup , poached egg on wholemeal toast and at the moment am loving comice pears for dessert. Hate the skin so peel it but they are so lovely and juicy you need to eat them at home they are very messy. Main meal will depend. I make up casseroles where I start with the same base of meat with onions celery carrots diced but then divide them into either bolognaise with lots of tomatoes etc, or might make curry, or just add good stock for a decent stew. Love a jacket potato and have brown rice and wholemeal or granary bread. So that is when I am having a reasonably good day and quite creative. On a bad day, I can be in pain and have no idea what I want so it is a case of open freezer door and see what I have put in, that I can fancy eating now. sometimes I cant even fancy eating any of that and just want comfort food. so the other day I couldnt care less about my diabetic diet etc and I had two tea cakes which I toasted and put a lot of butter on and had that with a decent cup of very good fresh coffee. Probably a very bad choice food wise but oh how cheering on a rotten day and it revived my spirits no end! Jacket potatoes tend to be a more reasonable comfort food as always have tins of tuna and so forth in Used to cook for all sorts of situation and am quite a competent cook but now living alone I cant be bothered to faff about with loads of ingredients that you cant get in a normal shop but have to hunt for! dont usually look at any cooking programmes these days and if I see them concocting some elaborate set up I just feel lifes too short to faff about.! Must be getting old!!

Well I feel I’ve gone a bit haywire since lockdown. Got fed up of deciding what to have and it’s sort of run on. Eat
A good healthy breakfast muesli or fruit/yoghurt. Lunch tends to be a roll or sandwich or jacket…..too much cheese . Dinner meat or chicken with vegetables and potatoes. I do know it’s the veg we need to increase and have every intention but don’t always get there. Recent blood tests show low D which I know is nothing unusual during the winter but my cholesterol is a bit too high and sugars so I need to really make more effort. Started using a tracker and it sure is an eye opener!

Yes, I feel I do. Only two major meals a day. Breakfast - which varies between 7am to 11am, and my dinner - which varies between 2pm to 4pm. Later into the evening is fruit or nuts or a cheese snack.

I never go to bed on a full stomach. I eat and enjoy most everything and love to cook and bake. I consume everything with moderation - including moderation!
Cheers!
USA Gundy

I'm a nutritionist so yes, we have always eaten quite well. Sugar is a no-no is this house most of the time, and always has been, so few cakes or biscuits or sweets. In fact we're now very low carb, and only eat two good meals a day. Lots of coloured veg and a little fruit. Very little alcohol and no spirits at all. We both love our food so we make sure whatever we make is tasty and good quality.

Yes I eat well, plenty of fruit and veg lots of fish, white meat. But…… it’s the choc that gets me everytime 🙄 non smoker non drinker. Doesn’t seem to stop my health probs though, lots of walking ! Getting the weight off nicely so that’s a bonus

We both like cooking and enjoy food.

We eat well in the sense of healthily and within our food budget.

Most meals are entirely home-made, and I bake bread and the occasional cake myself.

We cannot afford extravagance of any kind, so we never eat beef which is the most expensive meat you can buy here, but pork, chicken and turkey cuts are more affordable.
Fish too is far too expensive, so we only eat it when frozen fish is on offer in a supermarket. Lamb only at Easter.

We eat a fair amoung of home-made soups and old standbys like rice pudding, porridge, every conceivable potato dish you could think of, and plenty of the different kinds of cabbage. A lot of Indian dishes, using lentils of different sorts as well.

Chocolates, cakes and biscuits are only for special occasions, and fruit, apart from the tinned kind, is assuredly not possible on our housekeeping money. Neither of us drinks alcohol, except on very rare occasions, mainly for health reasons, but the expense is a consideration too.

But we never go hungry. Nor do we over-eat.

I try making and eating well balanced meals a priority because I know it’s so closely linked to our health and our energy levels (we are both in our 80’s) .I make a green smoothie every morning (spinach, banana, yogurt, protein powder, walnuts and oat milk). Hubby has different cereals but always eats a fresh orange. Lunch is a sandwich, and sometimes soup (always home made, never out of a tin) and usually a biscuit with a cup of tea, and dinner in the evening is chicken, fish, pork, etc., with two or three fresh veggies potatoes, brocolli, carrots, beans etc or pasta with home made spaghetti sauce. I also make a salad too as hubby enjoys eating it while I’m preparing dinner. We may eat out once every other week but I’m not that keen on it ….. I really like to know how my food is prepared! I have an allotment so during the summer months I grow many of my own veg…..they taste so different to store bought! I’m not much of a baker - so we don’t eat many pies, puddings or cakes, but l have managed to perfect a really tasty oatmeal cookie - so one of those with a cup of tea goes down well after dinner. And we never eat anything after 7.30 at night.

My diet is good and bad. I eat fruit and veg, chicken and fish. Afternoon snack is always nuts but I eat too many KitKats.

Love cooking and eating. Don’t usually eat until twelve then kefir, matcha, banana and flaxseed. Salads or sweet potatoes for lunch and usually veggie, chicken or fish in the evening, usually tick off over 30 plant foods a week. My vices are an afternoon tea and cake and red wine!

I think I need to work on lunch as I eat a sandwich with a cup of soup and a packet of crisps, wolfed down as my work break is so short

I think I eat well, I have breakfast in the morning usually cerial with milk,porridge or toast sometimes poached eggs or scrambled eggs on toast,I visit my hubby who is in a nursing home every day so usually take a sandwich and fruit for my lunch,today I took some left over salad and cheese and an apple,then in the evening I cook a meal for me and my son,if there are any leftovers I freeze then in tubs for those days when I don't want to cook

For me having a retired chef who does all our cooking isn't good at all. I get virtually no choice on what to eat, or when and his portions are enormous. For years I tried to clear my plate as he took it hard if I didn't. I went from size 8-20. Then I was diagnosed with throat issues and can't eat the amount he puts out. I leave it and he eats it, so he is plump too. I have tried talking about portions and weightloss, but after a week or two he's 'bored' and stops trying again. Our Dr simply doesn't understand the difficulties. I try to lose weight, and eat much less but exercise is a trial as breathing becomes difficult. Oh to be allowed to cook in my own house!!

I eat clean, I am a veggie. I eat from scratch and never eat processed foods. I vary my diet as eating the same things daily isn’t healthy according to nutritionist. I also Fast two days a week to maintain blood sugars and weight I am a size 8 I don’t diet. I live alone am still working I am very active and healthy. I do have the odd treat now and then but I would much rather have fruit nuts and healthy stuff.

I think we eat quite well and mainly cook from scratch. DH does most of the cooking but is not a great cook so I take a turn every so often. We usually have lamb or beef, chicken, fish or eggs every week and cabbage broccoli green beans carrots for veg with some meals. Also orange juice for vitamin C.
We're not perfect and have a cooked breakfast occasionally or a takeaway.
Mum was a nursery nurse and then a nurse during the war so taught me all about balanced diets and nutrition when I was young.
I did end up pre diabetic a few years ago despite being under 8st in weight. Stopped eating chocolate and halved sugar intake which reversed it for now.
Type 2 can be hereditary and not always related to overweight.
DS works with a person aged 25 living alone, who can't cook anything and lives on meals out, ready meals and takeaways costing them hundreds of pounds each month. I think that is so sad.

I'm constantly trying to... and constantly failing!
Seriously, I eat alone most days and its nearly always chicken or fish with lots of vegetables. I've more or less given up potatoes except for sweet potato chips as a treat once a fortnight.
My failing comes from my love of chocolate.

I try, but sometimes fall off the fruit and veg waggon. It’s not that I don’t buy it; I just forget to eat it! Breakfast is usually porridge these days. A sandwich or cheese and biscuits (I have recently become addicted to Scottish super seeded oatcakes - wonderful with Lancashire cheese!) constitutes lunch, and a cooked evening meal. I batch cook for the freezer too - things like casseroles, shepherds pie and pasta sauce - but since DH died, I eat a lot of fish (he didn’t like it), so salmon, sea bass fillets, smoked haddock with new potatoes and veg, or hot smoked salmon with vegetable cous cous. Sometimes I don’t eat much at all because I simply don’t have the energy or the appetite but those times are few and far between. My natural gluttony usually puts me back on the right track eventually!

Its also very difficult as one of disabled adult sons has a very picky choice of foods, so many he dislikes and he wont touch a vegetable at all- he says he likes some fruits but when i buy them he then does'nt bother. Other son not as bad but wont eat sloppy foods or with sauces/gravies, or soups, eats everything dry.Only eats one type of rice.(the expensive uncle's one!) So more is spent on their food and my diet takes a back seat.

I’m average I think when it comes to eating, plenty of fruit and vegetables, some meat, fish frequently and too many Pringles!
DH won’t cook, his diet would be awful if left to his own devices, he has type 2 diabetes and ignores all advice.
I don’t enjoy cooking but try to cook from scratch much of the time. I never eat breakfast, unless it’s a brunch 😊

We eat very well,but i do love a bag of crisps,i treat myself to 2 bags a week.