What do you eat nowadays?

Cereal or toast and hummus for breakfast plus coffee. Today I had a vegeburger, chips and leeks for lunch. Husband had a scotch egg insead of a burger and he had a yogurt. This evening I will have an egg sandwich and fruit. Husband will have cheese and onion rolls. I don't eat meat.

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Nutribullit mixer consisting of
Handful,of spinach or watercress.
Half an avocado.
Banana.
Blueberries and raspberries.
A slash of coconut water.
All,blended up together makes a lovely thick shake that fills me up until lunchtime.
Occasionally I have porridge as well.

Lunch, maybe some French bread if I’ve shopped.
Cheese or ham fillings and tomato or cucumber.

Evening meal.

Monday. Salad with a quiche or eggs and new potatoes.
Tuesday. Baked salmon with broccoli and green beans.
Wednesday
. Maybe a ready meal with various vegetables.
Thursday. Usually jacket potatoes. With baked beans.
Friday. Ready made prawn curry.
Saturday. Egg and chips.
Sunday. Roast dinner.

I don’t cook very much from scratch, but I eat quite healthily.
As it’s only myself to cook for that is the reason.

You are a bit meaty for me! I have been a vegetarian since 1969 - no meat, fish, seafood or stock - and it suits me fine. Breakfast is nectarine and blueberries, nuts and seeds, tablespoon of granola, dessert spon of protein poweder, some FAGE yohurt and milk, plus black decaff coffee. Lunch is frequently home-made soup, followed by biscuit and cheese, or we might have samosas and salad. Evening meals are planned in advance. Pasta once a fortnight, curries and rice ditto, Chinese ditto, Middle Eastern ditto, roast dinner ditto. Then there are kedgerees, risottos, etc. etc.

Not breakfast during the week, usually a cup of mint tea to start the day. Toast at the weekend.

Bread and soup (homemade) for lunch, and we share an apple and a pear.

Tea varies - anything from jacket potato with beans to a pork chop, no pudding. I tend to cook quick simple things during the week and more complicated meals at the weekend.

We rarely have a roast but when we do that will keep us going in various guises for most of the following week.

I enjoy baking but rarely do that these days apart from bread.

HILL910 delicious steak dinner!
Haven't had a decent steak for yonks as
DH doesn't like to chew!
B greek yogurt with muesli, seasonal fruits. Wholemeal ciabattin with half peanut butter/half marmalade.
L Potluck - seeded sourdough with cold meat, toms, or edam cheese.
Tin soup with ryvita or oatcakes and cheese. Tuna mayo on toast.
Activia yogurt to finish.
D chicken with stir fry veg/rice noodles.
Venison meatballs with pasta.
Pork chop with sweetcorn cob, green beans or broccoli, baby or sweet potatoes.
Macaroni cheese, shop bought.
Haddock and salad. DH has chips.
Salmon fillet with stir fry veg or salad with avocado.
Occasional curry meal (Tesco)with pakoras and nan bread.
We're in mid 70s, DH eats mostly gf.
I also have Diet Chef meals instead, to help battle of the bulge.

Porridge made with almond milk with chia seeds and fruit, chopped nuts on top for breakfast. Lunch butternut squash and red lentil soup with toast. Dinner something like a cashew nut and chick pea curry or dal with rice or a pasta dish, jacket potatoes or a homemade beanburger with homemade chips. My DH is the chef and he often cooks different meals for himself. We are less adventurous with cooking these days- our DC have take that over though..

I eat breakfast at breakfast time dinner at dinner time, and tea at teatime just as I did when I was a child When at work I have a snack at dinner time and cooked meal about 5
I eat whatever is at hand, toast for breakfast time with marmite and jam ( together) and a cup of coffee
Dinner time most often a veggie stirfry or macaroni cheese or jacket potato on days I work a snacky thing like some noodles or salad roll
Tea time nothing special beans ontoast or egg on toast or something snacky on workdays a stirfry or whatever I can find needs eating, cous cous full of stuff or rice or noodles with ‘stuff’
Very unEnglish diet
If I go out for a lunchtime meal with friends I ll have a vegi breakfast or a curry
If I go out at night it ll be the vegi dish from whatever place we go Indian Chinese Caribbean Turkish being my favourites

I have to force myself to eat breakfast and it is often a banana, but when I make an effort, one egg scrambled, with a small piece of toast.

If I have anything in for a sandwich, that will be lunch - otherwise skip lunch except on Thursdays, when DD makes me a lunch of rice and quinoa with tomatoes, celery, olives, cottage cheese and hot smoked salmon, after which I am stuffed so no evening meal that day. Cheese and an apple fill the gap.

Evening meals are usually something I have batch cooked for the freezer - tonight it will be chilli with rice - or fresh fish with some veg or other. I eat a lot of fish. Last night jacket potato with tuna and sweetcorn, Wednesday was home made ham hock soup with crusty bread. Monday and Tuesday escape me, as so much does these days but it couldn’t have been memorable😂!

I don’t eat ready meals apart from having a liking for Aldi’s single portion fish pie - the best I’ve tasted apart from my own. At the weekend, if I’m not feeding the family, I will treat myself to a decent steak or cook a small chicken.

Nicolenet

If you want to be very fat you will eat that! Up to you really I guess?

I think it depends on how active you are and how fast your metabolism works. I find that 45 minutes of decent exercise keeps my system working well though it technically only burns enough energy to absorb my breakfast calories.

If you want to be very fat you will eat that! Up to you really I guess?

I rarely have breakfast during the week , just tea and maybe a banana . At weekends it’s whole meal toast and marmite or scrambled eggs.
Lunch is soup either homemade or the fresh ones or a sandwich in the winter and salad or a sandwich in summer .
Dinner is variations of chicken and fish with salad or veg . Or something with pasta or rice . I often have homemade sauces in the freezer . On Saturdays, if we’re in , we have steak and salad with homemade chips . And occasionally a roast on Sundays. We’re trying to cut back on red meat and have been using venison instead of beef as it’s leaner . But our meat, poultry and eggs come from a local farm shop which is on the farm premises .

Gosh, reading all of those puts me to shame I struggled to gain weight and I always need to. It seems. Like one post I don’t have much of an appetite at all I have a smoothie in the morning of Half avocado banana peanut butter protein supplement milk and sometimes spinach, blueberries and strawberries as well.

Lunch comes and goes dinner I’m trying to eat protein eat pasta. I have meatballs although I should not be having meat but gosh I have to have something anyway everybody’s doing really well. It sounds like and I am trying.

I have Greek yogurt fruit and honey for breakfast and a small black decaf coffee with a slice of toast and marmite mid morning. For lunch usually a sandwich, fillings might be cheese, salad, ham, coleslaw, peanut butter or chicken….Dinner this week was roast chicken etc, homemade chilli and rice, fish and chips (with peas) , prawn stir fry (with veg), homemade cottage pie, with peas and carrots, bought chicken Kiev with new pots and salad. We have a pudding at the weekend, bought or sometimes homemade if a crumble or tart.
It’s interesting to see what people eat and on the whole, the meals sound fairly balanced don’t they ….but then I guess if they’re not, people are unlikely to post!

Just woofed done some left over marzipan from making a stollen. Being proved atm.

twinnytwin

Oooh you are all so good with your home made meals. I must admit that after over 50 years cooking from scratch I'm absolutely fed up with being in the kitchen!
Typically each week we'll probably have three or four ready meals (Charlie Bighams/Sainsburys Finest/M&S) with frozen veg, a couple of large salads with smoked salmon or fish or chicken cooked in the air fryer and maybe I'll do something simple such as a chicken stir fry with a large bag of stir fry veg from Sainsburys and a chinese sauce.
My breakfast is two Weetabix with a mix of fresh fruit, lunch is a CuppaSoup followed by a small sandwich.
My son cooks a great Sunday roast with the trimmings and he'll be cooking our Christmas dinner.
There you go, DH and I are both very healthy, perfect weights for our heights and I spend time sewing and knitting instead of prepping meals.

I love ready meals too, but am still hampered by mother's frugal nature which means I don't want to spend more on food than necessary!
In fact, for many people, eating ready meals could mean that you waste less - and by no means all of them are Ultra Processed Foods with too many additives. The M&S soup that I mentioned above has no unnatural additives at all and is half tomatoes, the rest beans, veg and seasoning with a little cornflour to thicken it,

Oooh you are all so good with your home made meals. I must admit that after over 50 years cooking from scratch I'm absolutely fed up with being in the kitchen!
Typically each week we'll probably have three or four ready meals (Charlie Bighams/Sainsburys Finest/M&S) with frozen veg, a couple of large salads with smoked salmon or fish or chicken cooked in the air fryer and maybe I'll do something simple such as a chicken stir fry with a large bag of stir fry veg from Sainsburys and a chinese sauce.
My breakfast is two Weetabix with a mix of fresh fruit, lunch is a CuppaSoup followed by a small sandwich.
My son cooks a great Sunday roast with the trimmings and he'll be cooking our Christmas dinner.
There you go, DH and I are both very healthy, perfect weights for our heights and I spend time sewing and knitting instead of prepping meals.

Pot Noodle. Chips. Big Mac.

I forgot the sausages with puy lentils and the pork chops which are my husbands favourites.

We always have some kind of eggs for breakfast, usually poached but often spanish omelette or something more elaborate at weekends.
Lunch is soup or sandwiches if we have some cold meat on the go, or houmous with bread and salad veg.
Supper can be anything, we have beef sauce in variety with pasta or jackets, chicken roasted or traybaked with tikka, harissa or roast veg, lamb, gammon joint or baked fish. Curries if I can be bothered to get everything together to make them.
One meal a week we clear out what is left in the fridge, often making risotto of some kind depending on whether we have leftover meat or shellfish and stock.
I'm gluten intolerant but this doesn't really limit what we can eat at home.
My favourite day is Friday when we always eat out at lunchtime and don't usually feel hungry in the evening.

I have been so busy for the last fortnight that right now I cannot remember what I actually have eaten!

Breakfast is always coffee and a slice or two of my homemade white bread, lunch just a snack, usually either bread and cheese or bread and salami.

Dinner - eaten fairly late is usually potatoes, boiled, mashed of boiled and fried with meat balls, mince, or some vegetables.

I cook from scratch and only rarely use anything from a tin - baked beans perhaps once every other month.

Currently enjoying a pub lunch with friends at Jolly Drovers Consett and me and my friend are enjoying Rump Steak, Grilled Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Onion Rings, & Mash followed by Cheesecake and Ice Cream. Our other halves are gorging on Cod and Chips.
Having lost 77lbs each with Slimming World me and my husband tend to stick with porridge and fat free Greek Yogurt for breakfast, homemade soup and yogurt at dinner time and usually steamed vegetables with a meat protein for tea followed by fresh fruit for afters. Occasionally we’ll have a homemade stir fry. We eat a lot of green salads in the summer months. My husband’s the chef at home and makes all of our meals from scratch and I have to admit to not being very adventurous these days with food.

A lower carb vegetarian diet, but less overall than I used to.

My go to breakfast is Greek Yogurt with fruit, grapes, banana, apples, sometimes prunes whatever I have available with a few seeds on top. I don't eat before 11ish, sometimes later, O/H has porridge earlier between 8 and 9, we're out of sync at this stage of the day. If he's golfing he'll do scrambled eggs on toast which he tells me keeps him going until he's finished his round.

I've made vegetable soup, which is usually enough for 3 days , so that's lunch, with maybe a sandwich. Yesterday I made us Welsh Rarebit and grilled tomatoes. For dinner we had smoked haddock, parsley mash and spinach. The day before a caramelised onion quiche and jacket potatoes. Tonight, I'll do a chicken tray bake with baby potatoes, peppers, carrots and I've got some celery left from the soup making so I'll shove that on the tray as well in the hope it will turn out ok. Tomorrow, dinner out at Cote, so could be anything. Saturday, I usually do something spicy with rice. Sunday we're going away for a few days so will probably partake of the English breakfast, not something I eat at home. Sundays at home, I'll do a Sunday roast if the grandchildren and other members of the family are here, otherwise we're prone to get M&S Chicken Kyiv if it's just the two of us and have that with roast potatoes and the accompanying vegetables I would do with a roast dinner.

Breakfast is either Weetabix with fruit, walnuts, flax and chia seeds or crumpet, toast or a boiled egg.

Lunch is usually a small sandwich (bread made by DH) with salad or soup and bread. Sometimes lunch out.

Tea is usually salmon or other fish, mash and veg, pie and chips sometimes for DH, homemade curries - he makes them from scratch, grinds his own spices etc, chicken salad. Occasionally burgers. Maybe baked potatoes with sausages or something. Spag. bol. sometimes.

My eating is a bit haphazard these days. I tend to eat little and often more than big meals. The only day I cook properly is Sunday's when my son comes to dinner.
All I have had this morning is one crumpet. I might eat some porridge later possibly. I did buy some nice ham yesterday so might have that later with pasta and cheese sauce.