What do you eat nowadays?

Since DH died I really lost interest in food so I don’t cook very often.

I don’t eat meat at all but do eat fish.

I don’t have set meal times, just eat if I’m hungry which isn’t very often, usually one meal a day either lunch or dinner but not both, and no breakfast.

Yesterday’s dinner was toast with tuna dip, avocado, shrimps and a tomato, followed by Greek yoghurt with honey and a bit of strawberry jelly.

I'm currently sitting in The Crown & Cushion, in their small backroom restaurant, stuffing my face with their lovely Full English Breakfast with a huge glass of strawberry milkshake with cream. I'm in here early morning twice monthly!

Tonight for dinner, I'll just have some cherries.

absent

Very little as I (75) have a small appetite these days. I pretty much always eat something for breakfast and often have some sort of lunch – maybe a sandwich or something slightly more substantial. As a general rule, I do not eat dinner in the evening unless invited out. Even then, I can only manage something fairly lightweight. Having spent a large part of my life writing cookbooks and testing recipes, I have lost interest in cooking and, to my surprise, eating.

I am the same, at 82 I have no interest in food and stick to simple, plain food that is easy and quick to prepare. I have an omelette a few times a week, cheese or ham or both, with grilled tomatoes and a slice of whole meal bread and butter. I only have two meals a day now and have my evening meal early, 5pm at the latest or it interferes with my sleep.

No breakfast dui g the week as I fast 16-8. Weekends we have brunch, croissants, porridge, fruit and yogurt etc. Lunch is usually homemade soup or something eggy.
In the evening we have a variety of things, meat, veg, sausages, bolognese, cawl, lots of fish… but we limit carbs.

Porridge and flaxseeds topped with blueberries and a chopped pear, cinnamon and a splash of maple syrup. Or muesli topped with blueberries and a banana. Organic whole milk.

Lunch egg on toast, mushrooms and tomatoes, sometimes bacon too. Or cheddar cheese, apple and tomatoes with Ryvita.

Supper yesterday (and today) slow-cooker lamb casserole with mashed potato, broccoli and french beans. I’ll make salmon fish cakes tomorrow to have with chips and peas.

I have not been well with this cold virus so no appetite currently.
Mu normal breakfast is one Weetabix with either raisins, prunes or dried apricots and a large tbs of mixed sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Lunch is 4 small crackers with butter and cheese and a piece of fruit although recently that has been replaced by a mince pie.
Evening meal this week has been one night a bowl of cereal, that is all I wanted, a mushroom omelette and last night a very small chicken casserole from the freezer.
The days of a full meal with meat or fish and 2/3 vegetables has long gone.
As someone upthread mentioned dumplings, I made stew and dumplings last week and when I told a friend, she like me is 80+ and a Northerner, she told me she had never had dumplings, I was amazed, I thought it was a staple.

My diet is vegetable and dairy based.

Typical meals are mushroom lasagne, lentil bake, savoury nuts and rice, macaroni cheese, cheese and tomatoes on toast. spinach and cream cheese pancakes, vegetable korma and root vegetable stew.

I eat a lot of salad made with nuts, apples, cabbage, carrot and onion. I also eat green salad, tomatoes, cooked vegetables and fresh fruit.

I like honey with Greek yogurt and chocolate puddings. In the winter I make bread and butter pudding with raisins and in the summer I make summer pudding with raspberries and red currants.

Granny Ivy

a fairy traditional diet sounds intriguing, sort of light and delicate.

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kittylester

Following on from the American and British food threads, I wondered what people eat today.

This week, we have had

Roast pork
Roast pork and bubble and squeak
Ready made pies with gruyere potatoes
Chicken gyros with salad

The rest of the week is likely to be

Home made sausagemeat pasta
Swiss cheese bake
Spicy chicken wings
Lamb chops and baked potatoes

All with the appropriate vegetables etc.

Breakfast is usually cereal or toast and lunch a bit hit and miss.
A real hotch potch of meals really.

What about you?

Yum, I’d love to eat here, utterly scrumptious 😋

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 make my own yoghurt, kombucha and bread (OH eats most of the bread though). Fruit, yoghurt, oats, seeds and nuts for breakfast. Lunch is a mix of homemade soups with salads or egg dish. Supper is a protein with lots of vegetables and some carbs, we eat lots of fish and chicken, red meats are often mixed with beans or lentils so a little goes a long way. I snack on fruit and eat dark nut chocolate every day. I had my bloods done yesterday and the HDL/LDL ratio was 2.1, so pretty good.

karmalady

Not a lot these days, especially since I have my last food by 4pm. I do eat my main meal at lunchtime and any dark chocolate will follow that

I have a fruit plate about 10 am, breakfast at around 6.30 am

I have eaten wholefoods forever and organic as much as I could. I am plant based but never vegan, I use milk to make kefir plus a lactobacillus hm ferment. I love cheese and have a bit of meat now and then. Two eggs a day, several times a week

I am very fussy about what goes into my mouth and don`t buy anything processed

Yours is the nearest to my way.

Way back when - ie 50 years ago when I first moved out on my own I had to teach myself to cook and eat the cheapest food I could possibly manage (ie things like faggots, bacon scraps, etc figured).

I've moved forward over the years to vegetarian (back in my 30's - ie 10 years after I'd first encountered some vegetarians) and heavily influenced by Cranks.

At the moment I've added in a bit of fish - because there's various health issues I'm in the process of getting rid of. I'm certainly never going to eat meat again though and that much has held since my 30's.

Finally...finally...finally I don't have to economise any more after all those decades of doing so. So I have exactly what I decide to have (though, unfortunately, restricted by what a small town will provide - ie come back Waitrose all is forgiven) and so it's everything I can find that way is organic, the bread is artisan, I have quite a bit of fresh fruit and vegetables (some of which I grow myself - organic of course). Must have a go at making my own sourdough bread and kefir etc when I'm more up square with various tasks I'm having to push myself into doing.

Deliberately working on having a lot of protein.

Breakfast at the moment is organic porridge oats made with organic milk or plant milk, with fruit and seeds. Then artisan bread, butter (organic if I can get it), real coffee. The rest of the day is more "pick and mix" - and I think "As long as everything is healthy and I try to have plenty of fruit and vegetables".

Right now I'm conscious of still being 3 sizes too big (should be 1970's size 14) and I have loads of clothes - but can't wear vast majority of them as they're too small. So I am taking a leaf out of the "fat jab" users (NO chance whatsoever of me using that stuff! - I'm way too health conscious and aware of what health problems they're landing themselves with from taking that stuff) - but I figure I can "take a leaf out of their books" by literally asking myself with every single mouthful if I'm sure I'm still actually hungry for it and will stop mid-meal if I decide I'm eating something just because it's there and I don't want to waste the money.

Had dinner cooked for me yesterday for instance - it was a community cooked meal and very tasty it was too - but I stopped after having the vegetable lasagne - because my hunger had virtually stopped and so, rather than having the fruit crumble (though I'm sure that would have been tasty too) settled for half a slice of leftover toast back at home to fill that tiny little "hunger gap" that was left.

Yep....getting myself out of the habit of "Must eat just because it's mealtime and Society says so" and telling myself "If Buddhist monks only have one meal a day then I could do that even - it's enough (as long as it's a main meal)".

Breakfast is usually porridge with fruit or an egg boiled or poached

Lunch varies - yester day home made chicken soup - made from left over chicken carcass and bits of chicken. Today fried onion and red pepper on toast and grilled with a spoonful of cheese - tomorrow a sort of ploughman’s with cheese, home made chutney and pickled onion, nuts, chopped apple and celery.

Dinner - yesterday was a previously frozen Italian beef stew with pasta and sprouts. Today is Brill in a lemon sauce with runner beans and peas. Tomorrow is lamb curry.

We snack on fruit and cultured fat free yogurt.
All our veg and meat is organic, and we eat whole meal.

My diet has completely changed over the last few years, I have even gone off chocolate. Yesterday I met friends for breakfast, they all had a full English so I gave it a try,, never again, I prefer my home made muesli and avocado on toast, I felt quite sickly all day. I eat sourdough wholemeal now, cannot abide the white thick sliced I used to have. I started eating this way because of acid indigestion and relux and did not want to be on Lanzaprole for ever and its worked. I like the way I eat, low fat and no sugar. It wasRosemary Connely to thank for doing it,

In the past 5 days our evening meals have been roast chicken & veg,
leftover chicken made into stew with root veg & dumplings,
pork sausages & bubble+squeak,
steak+ale pie & veg,
king prawns, salad & tiny boiled potatoes.

Fairly tradition here, few takeaways.

Not a lot these days, especially since I have my last food by 4pm. I do eat my main meal at lunchtime and any dark chocolate will follow that

I have a fruit plate about 10 am, breakfast at around 6.30 am

I have eaten wholefoods forever and organic as much as I could. I am plant based but never vegan, I use milk to make kefir plus a lactobacillus hm ferment. I love cheese and have a bit of meat now and then. Two eggs a day, several times a week

I am very fussy about what goes into my mouth and don`t buy anything processed

Breakfast is usually toast or home made gf muesli with blueberries and Greek yoghurt.
Lunch is often home made soup in the winter and salad in the summer.
Dinner alternates between vegetarian and meat or fish. I also vary the carbs. I eat a lot of vegetables and cook everything from scratch as much as possible.

I usually have a tangerine, banana and grapes for breakfast, a sandwich or roll at lunch time with varying fillings or soup and tonight have chicken in the slow cooker with new potatoes and vegetables. Normally a roast on Sunday with cold meat and jacket potatoes and salad Monday. Other nights various meat or fish dishes. We eat a fairy traditional diet. I don’t like pasta or rice. Sometimes a convenience meal from Waitrose or M & S or a Cooks ready meal if we are busy.

So far this week I’ve had

Sausages with carrots, broccoli potatoes and onions
Pork loin chop with veg and grilled tomatoes
Burger and chips
Jacket with beans or chilli

Lunch is usually
Soup with a roll or toast
Cheese and crackers

Breakfast
Bran flakes
Weetabix
With Raspberries

In Summer a lot of salad

Very little as I (75) have a small appetite these days. I pretty much always eat something for breakfast and often have some sort of lunch – maybe a sandwich or something slightly more substantial. As a general rule, I do not eat dinner in the evening unless invited out. Even then, I can only manage something fairly lightweight. Having spent a large part of my life writing cookbooks and testing recipes, I have lost interest in cooking and, to my surprise, eating.

Breakfasts: muesli and yoghurt; egg and bacon on Sundays.
Lunches: Rolls with simple fillings, cheese or mushrooms on toast, lots of fruit.
Dinners this week:
Sunday Pot roast veal, Italian style.
Monday cold veal with salad and lyonnaise potatoes
Tuesday Creamy sausage pasta.
Wednesday. Salmon with spinach and hollandaise sauce.
Thursday. Moussaka
Friday Oxtail stew
Saturday Whatever the fish market inspires!
(DH chef for 4 nights, me for 3). 🥂

Breakfast: cereal, fruit, Orange juce or sometimes toast and OJ.

Lunch, haphazard, but get in protein ,carbs, fruit, or leftovers from night before

Evening mostly salmon, tuna, eggs, feta, with mixed shopped raw salad stuff, or green veg: toast, or rice.

since going on a "lots of raw stuff" I've had a happy tum. I just lie, for example, raw carrots and green beans more than them cooked. I go for the more expensive tease the difference veg options, for example ordinary carrots often dont have much taste, posh radishes....chop some fennel in and a good dressing.

Breakfast is natural yoghurt with chia seeds, berries and a sprinkle of granola.

Lunch homemade soup, homemade sourdough or wholemeal bread often with a bit of cheese or pate.

Tonight is a chicken stir fry, tomorrow is fish cakes and Saturday is steak night, we are at friends for lunch on Sunday but have guests on Monday so I am cooking a leg of lamb.

I meal plan to avoid any waste and to make sure my husband doesn’t go off the rails, If I died tomorrow his diet would consist of Fray Bentos and the Chinese takeaway😱.