Do you think you eat well ?

We eat very healthy meals but it's what we eat in between that is so bad - crisps, cakes, biscuits, chocolate. We both have a sweet tooth. If there's a bar of chocolate in the fridge I can't rest till I've eaten the lot. I have no willpower whatsoever.

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Used to try eat a lot better but with soaring prices its harder to do so- all fresh food is going sky high- even in Aldi! And other supermarkets cost much more..find we're not eating healthy hardly at all these days as it costs too much, and i'm lactose free and the cost of those is high so i just but the lactose free milk now and take a chance on the rest.😐🫤

Davida1968

Yes we do eat well. A veggie box is delivered every week & DH cooks with this. Not much meat and lots of beans! Porridge for most breakfasts, too. (We do drink wine, though...)

Ahem.... We like a glass with a meal and a bottle lasts all week.sometimes we share a nice bottled beer with meal,it's classed as food isn't it?..........

We can't fit in more than one proper meal a day now! I skip breakfast until maybe 10.30+ if at all cake/biscuit and a brew for lunch.tea/dinner around 5-6 ish usually home made something or other Italian/ Chinese stir-fry/ German orive become quite the pie maker! Discovered an idiot proof recipe for non soggy pastry for savoury or sweet pies and there's no stopping me! I can turn 800g cheese 2onions some milk and couple eggs into srix double servings of lush cheese and onion pie! I freeze it. Same with chicken and leek/beef and much room etc we try to have a large proportion of veg with all meals. We don't spend lots on food as I'm old school and can make great meals from nothing!(well not quite but ya know what I mean)

No. My appetite has gone - chocolate and cakes rarely tempt me, it’s that serious! I think it has to do with medication. In the morning I have three or four dried apricots depending on size, and handful of medications with a little milk. When the cat tells OH it is time to get up he makes a cup of tea (OH, not the cat) which we have in bed with no more than two biscuits. I make coffee for him, I have hot milk with a little sugar. Recently we’ve added a pot of greek yoghourt with fruit compote (I dilute Fage strained yoghourt and add in organic fruit compote to make enough jars for the coming week). Then I don’t think about food, until OH says he’s hungry about two hours later - I skip or have one or two bites from a one-slice sandwich. Dinner is what OH wants, cooked from scratch, I can eat about half of what ever is on an 8” plate. Alternate evenings I have half a tin of tomato soup and half a slice of bread, he has a full tin and bread. On soup nights I have a small apple and satsuma or we both have tinned fruit. I have two cups of milk during the evening and before bed, to add to my protein intake.

Juicylucy

I fast until 6pm usually then try hard to eat healthy I live on my own but always cook a proper meal. Some of my single friends hardly ever cook a meal they live on beans on toast and cereal.

I hardly ever eat baked beans, toast or cereal because they all have too many carbs for me. However, in summer I rarely "cook" a proper meal either. I don't do that much "cooking" in winter either because I batch cook and use the microwave.

I think its a fallacy that people need a hot, cooked "proper" meal every day. I eat protein, healthy fats and a limited amount of carbs, usually in the form of an uncooked salad. I hardly ever eat pasta, potatoes, pastry, rice, biscuits, cakes, bread or chocolate. I snack on nuts, carrots, celery and limited amounts of fruit.

I'm a healthy weight, which hasn't changed for at least 20 years and my blood test results are usually good.

Yes we do eat well. A veggie box is delivered every week & DH cooks with this. Not much meat and lots of beans! Porridge for most breakfasts, too. (We do drink wine, though...)

I fast until 6pm usually then try hard to eat healthy I live on my own but always cook a proper meal. Some of my single friends hardly ever cook a meal they live on beans on toast and cereal.

Yes. I avoid processed foods, am a vegetarian and eat as much cake as I like. BMI of 20.

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I am one of the lucky ones now as my husband really loves cooking, something he only discovered fairly late in life I do the menu planning for our main meal and shopping plus all the housework so he is quite happy about that too. I think as you get older you both end up doing the jobs you are best at and enjoy. He is a great cook and we eat very healthily. When our children were younger I did all the cooking and we definitely didnt eat so well, I hated it. Now our main meals are cooked from scratch, varied and contain plenty of fresh fruit and veggies. For our other meals breakfast/lunch we tend to help ourselves. I usually have Porridge/yoghurt/fruit for breakfast and a salad for lunxh.

I used to, have slipped dreadfully. We like very different food, I often cook something for Mr C I dislike and have a sandwich myself, his his diet is far better than mine. Summer is easier as I love salads. In the winter months I do make and consume a lot of vegetable based soup but a ‘proper’ meal with knife and fork is only two or three times a week.

I know I don’t 🫣

I have porridge nearly every breakfast with 3 rice cakes topped with banana for lunch every day although this is usually eaten around 2pm. I never eat bacon, sausages, pies and only occasionally a little red meat. Main meals are usually chickpea curry, lentils with veggies, chicken, lots of fish and soups or salads. I usually manage to eat a couple of apples each day too....the small lunchbox size. My biggest naughty is gingernuts I can demolish half a pack with a mug of tea!!!!

I try to follow a rainbow diet and stick with simple, plain unprocessed food.

Keto/LCHF. 16:8 hour eating window. Two meals a day. Lots of home-grown, organic fruit and veg. Our own free-range eggs. Locally-produced stuff- olive and avo oil, avocados, cheese made by the local German artisan, fish straight from the sea. A nice sauv blanc (one small glass) each day. Trying to avoid anything that requires long distance delivery/importation.

So why am I still ...ermm...Junoesque??

I know we eat well for two health related reasons. As a child, and probably still, I had/have a bowel condition that had me in and out of hospital. When I was 13 a new paediatrician talked to me about it, and not just my mother and I began to understand the problem and when I could, I began to take control of it and I discovered that a diet high in fibre, with plenty of hydration and regular exercise kept it under control.So that is diet I have eaten ever since. Fortunately I love vegetables, although I am an omnivore.

More recently DH had a heart attack and as part of his rehab I filled in a form about our eating habits. We scored 9/12. I lost one point for insisting I would not swap locally grown and processed rapeoil for imported olive oil, rapeseed oil comes second to olive oil and we do not use much, and we did not eat enough nuts, I do not think the nurse told me what we lost the last point for, possibly being a bit to good to be true.

Despite DH's heart problems we are both in good health and I think our diet plays a major part in that.

Probably not but I take multivitamins, am a size 12, very active and consider myself healthy.

Not bad, but I wouldnt win any prizes.
I do eat raw veg.
I do get a bit of fruit in me but maybe not ideal
I do eat a little bit of what you fancy does you good.
I do eat more milk than I really like, eggs for nails, raw leafy green veg for all sorts.
If I have a minor health issue, I eat what foods should help to stop or improve it.
Hate taking pills unless I have no choice.

We eat really well I think... just way too much of it.
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I think that we eat really well - loads of low-fat veg-based meals - and really badly - too many biscuits, crisps, etc.

Yes, generally. Mostly cooked from scratch (evening meal, we get our own breakfasts and lunches), a lot more no-meat meals than we used to have, and lots of veggies - local and in season as far as poss.

I hate cooking. I've also gone off a lot of the foods that I used to enjoy, which is difficult because now I don't know how to cook things I might enjoy instead!

Forgot to say, a huge fruit bowl on the kitchen table and lots of vegetables.