What would you REALLY like to eat? Light-hearted

Breakfast : Good quality brown-bread buttered toast with marmalade or raspberry jam: fresh coffee.

Lunch: crusty buttered baguette with cheddar cheese , red onions, a little caramelised onion pickle; bottle strong belgian lager.

Evening meal : Aperitif : Glass good champagne (attempt to restrict to one glass) :
Starter Avocado Prawns
Main Penne alla Arrabiata or Carbonara : accompanied by a large glass of good Bordeaux.
Dessert : good quality fruit tartelette(raspberry/ gooseberry or rhubarb) with plenty thick double cream.
Another glass champagne (because I can).
Fresh Coffee
Grand Marnier Liqueur
LIE DOWN

Good quality muesli with sliced banana, sugar and full fat milk, followed by very thick sliced toast with lurpak and shredless marmalade. Loads of strong milky coffee.
Homemade chicken and ham pie with chips for lunch.
Toad in the hole for dinner with plenty of rough cider. 🤪
My jeans feel tight already!!

Breakfast- pancakes, blueberries and Greek yogurt
Lunch- sliced pear, crackers and a bit of cheese
Dinner- smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Nibbles? Ginger nuts with a cup of tea and a twig with a cup of coffee

Poached eggs on brown toast with bacon, mushrooms and black pudding and lots of tea for breakfast. Lunch would be a fresh crab or lobster roll with a glass of sauvignon blanc. For dinner something light like a piece of halibut with asparagus and tomatoes, more wine , blackcurrant pie with cream and then strong black coffee with a florentine or two to finish.
As for real life; shredded wheat for b'fast, won't bother with lunch and salad with leftovers for dinner.

The wistful dreams of a late-converted vegetarian:
Breakfast: fried eggs, black pudding, sausages (all from high welfare sources) served in a garden with comfortable garden chairs.
Mid morning: shortbread and coffee
Lunch: caesar salad
Before supper: olives and champagne
Supper: shepherds pie with tenderstem broccoli, followed by an old-fashioned trifle and then stilton with miller’s damsel crackers.
I could replicate all this in a veggie way, except for the eggs and Stilton. Either way I’d have terrible indigestion by bedtime!

I would live on chocolate, ice cream, clotted cream, biscuits, cakes, malted seeded loaves and fish. However, I have to eat wholemeal bread along with a low fat and low sugar diet to control my diabetes.

Breakfast would be crispy streaky bacon and over easy fried egg which I could dip the bacon in, with thick white toast buttered so I could see my teeth marks. Lunch would be a Macdonald chicken burger, yes I know it’s rubbish and I have about one a year. Dinner would be unlimited lobster and large prawns with a handsome young man at my shoulder to do the shelling, served with thrice fried chips and a mixed salad. Sticky toffee pudding with thick cream to follow if I could possibly manage it, but don’t think I could. No calories there at all.

Right now: chocolate pudding!

Breakfast -
A grill to include bacon , black pudding , Cumberland sausage , mushrooms preferably cep and vine tomatoes . Wholemeal toast and butter .
Served with tea .
I occasionally have the above and did yesterday .
Mid morning -
An apricot pastry or a hazelnut gateau and coffee .
Lunch - lobster thermidor , asparagus and salad plus champagne and a triple brandy .
Followed by any of the many rich puddings , which I love maybe a homemade vanilla or pistachio ice cream with strawberries and or raspberries prepared the Italian way .
Afternoon tea -
Tea with thinly cut cucumber , smoked salmon and watercress sandwiches then , freshly baked plain scones with clotted cream and apricot jam .
Dinner -
A huge baked potato with sour cream , butter and chives and a very lean rare steak with an Italian style salad with lots of raw mushrooms .
A steamed pudding or crumble with custard .
More champagne and a triple brandy .

Evening snack - a good Stilton , Carrs water biscuits and port or a great French red wine .
.
Chocolates , of course .Those ones which encase a Brazil nut .
Either lunch or dinner could be replaced with a full roast preferably lamb.
In reality - coffee is like a laxative to me .
And as I age - so is dairy .
Just recently, my IBS is worse than ever and has prevented my going out .
Gone are the days when I ate six roast potatoes and three puddings at one sitting and weighed about 7st 9lbs and thought I was fat !
As for brandy : I can easily sink a triple !
Bring it on !

Pain au Chocolat and croissant for breakfast. Salmon salad for lunch. Roast dinner with crumble and custard.

Cornish cream tea
champagne and lobster
foie gras
lasagne
salmon tartare

Oooh me to @

Foie gras? Never.

I have just had air fried chicken, new potatoes, carrots, mashed swede, cabbage, broccoli, cheese sauce and gravy. ( some of these were leftovers). Apart from preferring roast potatoes, I loved this meal.
I wish I had a chocolate pudding in the fridge, but I will make do with two squares of dark chocolate filled with hazel nuts.

I always want to eat whatever it is I cant have at the moment.

Way back in the 1980s before all the fussy eaters came out of the woodwork I was on a course in London. There were a couple of veggies and everything was done to cater for them. All the food and even the salad tasted kind of funny. A group of us orderd food in from the nearest McDonalds at lunch time and you should have seen their faces. They didnt even want to sit in the same room as people eating meat.

All this food is so scrummy but I can't read anymore of this thread. I started weight watchers 4 weeks ago and this could lead me into temptation ( not that I need any help)!

Esmay

Breakfast -
A grill to include bacon , black pudding , Cumberland sausage , mushrooms preferably cep and vine tomatoes . Wholemeal toast and butter .
Served with tea .
I occasionally have the above and did yesterday .
Mid morning -
An apricot pastry or a hazelnut gateau and coffee .
Lunch - lobster thermidor , asparagus and salad plus champagne and a triple brandy .
Followed by any of the many rich puddings , which I love maybe a homemade vanilla or pistachio ice cream with strawberries and or raspberries prepared the Italian way .
Afternoon tea -
Tea with thinly cut cucumber , smoked salmon and watercress sandwiches then , freshly baked plain scones with clotted cream and apricot jam .
Dinner -
A huge baked potato with sour cream , butter and chives and a very lean rare steak with an Italian style salad with lots of raw mushrooms .
A steamed pudding or crumble with custard .
More champagne and a triple brandy .

Evening snack - a good Stilton , Carrs water biscuits and port or a great French red wine .
.
Chocolates , of course .Those ones which encase a Brazil nut .
Either lunch or dinner could be replaced with a full roast preferably lamb.
In reality - coffee is like a laxative to me .
And as I age - so is dairy .
Just recently, my IBS is worse than ever and has prevented my going out .
Gone are the days when I ate six roast potatoes and three puddings at one sitting and weighed about 7st 9lbs and thought I was fat !
As for brandy : I can easily sink a triple !
Bring it on !

I love your choice, minus the brandy... but it would probably take me 3 days to eat that much...

Oooooh what can I say my appetite is not what it use to be and my taste buds are still in flux after chemo last year BUT it doesn't stop me trying.
Breakfast would be a cooked breakfast sausage, bacon, poached egg and black pudding and two cups of tea.
Lunch would be homemade soup of vegetables, leftover chicken and beans.
Dinner would be and here I'm conflicted Indian takeaway or Mexican 🤔 Mexican I think nachos covered in spiced minced beef, cheese, salsa, sour cream and avocado maybe ice-cream to follow. Tea, coffee and water during the day.

Those nachos sound delicious!

I would start the day with eggs Benedict, and coffee. Lunch would start with a Campari, then 2 oz Beluga Caviar, a large crab salad (dark crab only), French bread with butter, Zabaglione and Floating Islands desserts. Dinner would be oysters followed by Lobster Thermador, asparagus, petit pois, new potatoes slathered in butter, followed by Eton Mess with wild strawberries and champagne. Great thread this!

MissAdventure they sure are I dry fry the mince in spices then I layer it on a baking sheet with the nachos and grated cheese combination of mozzarella and cheddar already grated from tesco and mild salsa pop it in the oven for 10/20 minutes 180° or until cheese has melted then add sour cream in dollops and smashed avocado and a bit more salsa soooo good to share sometimes I put olives on it depends on what you like. We have ours on a Saturday night as a sharing plate tasty.

Oh thank you for sharing.
I'm not at all adventurous with food, so I never even know where to start with making those kinds of things.

I'll give them a go, I think.

Your self control over chocolate biscuits is impressive. I cannot stop at 1 (or 2)!

Kate1949, sounds perfect

It does flo. I've never had a day like that. I'd never live with the guilt!