What do you eat nowadays?

I’m with Twinnytwin, make no apologies for grudging time spent in the kitchen these days.
We’re in our mid 80s. For our main meal at lunchtime we have ready meals from Cook, Charlie Bingham or Waitrose 3-4 times a week, sometimes with extra vegetables. When I do cook it might well be kedgearee, or a chicken or sausage casserole. We neither of us like pasta. Pudding is fruit.
For breakfast DH eats too much toast and marmalade, he’s worse than Paddington. I have yoghurt and blueberries, sometimes a bagel.
Supper is usu bread and cheese and fruit, sometimes a piece of fruit cake.
Our health seems to be as good as anyone else’s and we are not overweight. I refuse to fret about ‘healthy options’, a mantra I much dislike.

Less than a few years ago. If we go out to a restaurant, a starter or a dessert is a struggle.

We usually have cereal for b'fast, rolls or a sandwich for lunch, maybe a banana to fill a gap?

Evenings, generally sensible, chicken, fish a couple of times a week (a fishmonger comes to the weekly market), sausages and mash perhaps, or maybe once a fortnight I get the makings of a Chinese (but from M&S or Sainsbury). WE have chips maybe twice a week, if that, and a risotto makes a nice change (uses up any chicken ham or bacon).

M0nica

Breakfast: baby bels and an orange, cheese on toast on Sunday
This week we have had;
Duck Ragu (i always doing something special on Sundays)
Tuna pasta Bake
Steak & kidney pudding
Lamb chop & courgette casserole
Mushroom & chestnut casserole.
All meals accompanied by vegetables and followed by fruit

Our light meal has been home made soup, home made vegetable curry and naan bread, small pizza with salad

Like others, I prepare a weekly plan and start each week's plan by seeing what is in the fridge that needs eating.

I do a weekly plan too, find it very useful for remembering things that are in the freezer and also for making sure we have a veggie meal and a fish meal at least once a week.
My maions are similar to others on here. I only tend to repeat something once a month if that although salmon features quite often. This week - sausagemeat ragu, chicken & tarragon pasta, homemade pizza with bacon & mushroom, roast cauli massala with new potatoes & salad for mains.
I wish I enjoyed cooking more - at least I'm not hosting for Christmas this year, I enjoy hosting but nice to have a year off!

I have coffee with FF milk . I add cocoa, vanilla extract and a teaspoon of sugar. I also add mushroom powder, creatine and collagen. That’s around ten am.
A few hours later I have sourdough toast with avocado and baked garlic on top as well as egg whites with seasoned tomato sauce on top. Some days I’ll do oatmeal with maple syrup, walnuts, baked apples.
Dinner at 5:30 is homemade soup usually as I’ll make a pot and eat it all week til I’m sick of it , then I’ll go buy a steak or something naughty and eat it that night.
I’ll grab a handful of nuts during the evening for a snack.

I’m 75 and suffered with Gut problems for years until 15 yrs ago I stopped eating meat and virtually no dairy. Having read all the posts I realise I eat a large amount in comparison but I don’t have any gut issues now and my weight is only 8lbs heavier than when I married.
Breakfast is kale/onion/tomatoes/ sautéd in olive oil sprinkle of turmeric/ginger. That’s the base then I add either avocado/egg or soya or tuna chunks (pre marinated) I drizzle some oil or sweet chilli sauce and sprinkle of sesame seeds.
Another day for breakfast is oats soaked in oatmilk/chia/pumpkin/sunflower/flaxseeds
coconut flakes/sprinkle of ginger/turmeric and topped with blueberries.
Any meal with vegetables and gravy I serve my nut roast or nut wellington pie or
If I am having a savoury tart I’ll add a salad or flavoured rice or quinoa or lentils and small portion of peas/broccoli and carrot.
I flavour jackfruit (which is similar in texture to pulled pork) with a barbecue sauce and eat with a jacket potato.
I enjoy cooking (and eating!) I follow recipes and these days I use an air fryer/slow cooker
or microwave so it’s not such a long process, but I still batch cook a lot. If I have a pudding of fruit I usually drizzle some (plant based) cream over it or custard.
I only eat sourdough bread and add ferments to a lot of my meals. I also sprout seeds and have a portion with some meals.
This diet regime is working for me as I no longer have meds for my IBS or arthritis.
I enjoy chocolate especially if it’s melted and I dip some fruit in the sauce yum!
I still have time for a social life and I have a car so able to drive about.
Husband is……. not like me 😆 he has lots of packet things which are processed- he says he doesn’t like strong flavours.
When I cook a roast he has chicken breast.

Breakfast - toast, yoghurt, fruit, seeds. (Either, or). Tea.

Lunch most days - cheese, apples (or other fruit), crackers.

Dinner this week from Monday:
- Chicken Arrabiata (DH special).
- Sausage, Mash and Beans.
- Pasta with anchovies and capers made into a sauce (quick because I'd been out).
- Chicken thighs tray bake with butternut, red peppers, shalottes, potatoes. Peas.
- Friday night pizza.
- Beef stew with dumplings (DH special).

Red grapes every night after dinner, just a few.

Warm milk, honey and nutmeg most nights.

Breakfast: Porridge made with soya milk, blueberries and a handful of nuts and a cup of tea.
Lunch: Salad with beans or tuna, slice of bread and fruit. One square of dark chocolate.
Dinner this week: Salmon, Spanish omelette, sardine pasta, shakshuka, jacket with tuna. Served with green veg and pasta or rice. Fruit and yoghurt for dessert.
Roast dinner on Sunday. Beef, pork, lamb or chicken.
I am amazed how many people eat soup regularly. I absolutely detest soup and feel totally cheated if it is the main element of a meal.
I am not overweight, but I love my food and am always ready for the next meal.

Breakfast for me is weighed 40g cereal with grapes and a bit of other fruit ,(pineapple, pear or apple,) with skimmed milk.
Lunch might be homemade veg soup or toast, marmite, cottage cheese and tomatoes. Or, yet again, scrambled egg on toast.
T’other half does his own thing for both these meals.
In the evening we share a freshly cooked meal with plenty of veg and wine!
Lately, we have enjoyed a pork crackling joint on day one, cold pork with fried (leftover) veg and potatoes the following day, Then a pork curry on day three.
Very good value.

No breakfast. I’m not hungry in the morning.
I usually eat something around 1pm, maybe toast with peanut butter, or an omelette or a hot cross bun.
Main meal is at 8 pm, nearly always fish and salads, sometimes turkey steak, sometimes omelette, maybe with some chips, but only about 7, sometimes I make soup. Since becoming a widow, I’ve lost all interest in cooking, I just want quick, flash fry food. I try to stick to high protein, low carb diet.

Breakfast: Egg whites
Mid-morning snack: Protein bar
Lunch: Egg fritter with kale salad, dark chocolate for dessert
Mid-afternoon snack: crackers, cheese or popcorn
Dinner: Chicken with carrots
Evening snack: 2 cookies

I pretty much eat the same everyday.

Today: Breakfast; hot porridge with a drop of maple syrup and oat milk.
Lunch: broccoli and Stilton soup, sourdough bread.
Dinner: fish and chips.

I've had too much caffeine with coffee and tea so can't sleep. Silly me.

Apart from breakfast no 2 days are the same. I haven't eaten meat for 40 years but I am partial to occasional fish. Bon appetit!

Sadly the original poster’s diet means hell for animals.
I say this with humility because I’m not vegan. It really is tge best way.
Tonight I had a vegan main but dairy pud.
I love the taste and variety of fish but I’m sad when I read of salmon farming 😢

I had to grin when I came across a video yesterday of what they were describing as "hippie food" that came along in the 1960s.....

...grinning because there they were talking about tofu, apple cider vinegar, goats cheese, vegetable soups, stirfries, artisan bread, real yogurt, etc...and I just thought "I could take them out in the kitchen and say 'welcome to my larder'' and haul out most of the foods in question". Never could get a taste for tempeh though....but yep....I've about got the lot...

Having been brought up by a mother who was a bad cook and limited range of foods (even by 1950s standards) = I started experimenting/teaching myself to cook the first chance I got - as I knew I nothing about food. Errrm...now about that 8 shelves worth of cookbooks I've got now (as I taught myself over the decades).....#cough.....

Thinks....must get my act together to have another go all these years later at the Tassajara Bread Book (done by a Buddhist monk in an American monastery). The nicest bread I ever had came from that - and, if I recall aright, it took me about 8 hours to make it!!!

I'm vegetarian so- always porridge made with soy milk for breakfast
lunch homemade soup or jacket potato, tea is salad with red apple and hallumi or cheats quich.

Today

Boiled egg
Slice ham, tiny piece of cheese, chopped apple, celery, chutney and nuts
Plaice with leek sauce and broccoli.

the days when i could eat big hearty meals are long gone, even going out can usually just manage a small main meal or maybe 2 starters, very rarely manage a dessert. Breakfast is always toast, lunch is something like hummus and crackers with an apple and grapes or cheese and crackers with the fruit, evening meal is chicken or fish with loads of vegetables, sometimes rice or baby potatoes. Nothing exciting nowadays, once a week a shared chinese takeaway with my sister

CariadAgain I am vegetarian also and don’t have easy access to organic food locally. So I now rely on a wonderful company called Riverford - they deliver weekly in the UK and have the best (mostly locally grown) organic fruit and veg I have tasted.

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CariadAgain I am vegetarian also and don’t have easy access to organic food locally. So I now rely on a wonderful company called Riverford - they deliver weekly in the UK and have the best (mostly locally grown) organic fruit and veg I have tasted.

Sighs - at the thought of Riverford - but they don't deliver in this part of the country. I ask at intervals if they've started doing so yet - but still not....and I'm not getting my hopes up too much.

I did give a try to one local scheme here - but the produce was low quality and I didnt do so again - which feels awkward...given that it's run by a friend. There are one or two other schemes locally - but they're not organic.

I'm keeping an eye out though - as various food type things are popping up around here and it's a bit easier than it was when I first moved here to find "my" sort of food - this communal foodgrowing, that communal foodgrowing,and a bit better food-buying opportunities etc than there was when I moved here. I do grow a bit of stuff myself (that was part of my reasoning for moving here - and having the garden I'd been waiting for for literally decades).

From the food pov as to where to live and hands down it would be Totnes for sure for me - Riverford based near there, good choice in the shops of my sort of food to buy, reasonable selection of my sort of place to eat out in #sighs and food-shopping and eating out can be quite sociable there - ending up having coffee with one complete stranger, a meal with another complete stranger, etc (which certainly never happened in my home city and is less likely to happen where I am now - though it's a chatty area).

We always did eat plenty of them, but we now certainly eat a lot more vegetables - especially green vegetables - than we ever used to. A helping of ‘greens’ will typically take up almost half the plate.
The other day it was Cavolo Nero for the first time, grown in the U.K. We’ll be having that again, but in winter it’s very often sprouts, since we both like them.

Today we had toast and marmalade for breakfast

Sunday dinner was roast chicken, roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding, stuffing, and sprouts. washed down with a glass of red wine

An apple

Might have some cheese and crackers later on as I didn't check the sell by date for the blue cheese I bought for Christmas

Only seen two mentions of curry . We have a home made curry often and a home made Chinese with egg fried rice. I like to have one day of meat two of fish and one vegetarian taking pot luck on the other days .
Lunch is always bread and cold meat and lots of fruit .
We eat nothing after 5.30 pm

Breakfast is usually a tostada with Extra virgin olive oil and salt with fresh grated tomato and of course café ..

Lunch varies, depending on whether we lunch out or we lunch at home.

Norm is fresh grilled fish and a salad or a veggie ..

Sometimes entrecôte grilled and a baked potato.

Sometimes Paella Marinada or a classic Italian Pasta or a French classic stew ..

If eating out we enjoy Shanghai Chinese or Thai or Japanese or sometimes Italian or Greek classics or Turkish or Moroccan ..

Not too sure what it is tonight……….took a batch cooked meal out of the freezer……..and the label had come off ……..so it’s a bit of a lucky dip. Looks ok though 🤭🤣🤷‍♀️

Breakfast - porridge and stewed apple

Beans on toast

Rack of lamb with onion, thinly sliced potato and mushroom roasted, broccoli.