What do you eat in a typical day?

I watched that programme Floradora and couldn’t get my head around so many things.

The fact that he was a teacher, so intelligent.

That neither parent computed the £300 pw spent on takeaways would be £45000 over the three years they’d lived at his mother’s.

That all the ultra processed food was having a detrimental effect on their health.

Astonishing lack of awareness.

We just watched Michael Mosley's programme about helping people with their diets and health and could not believe the latest couple who spent £300 on take away food after having their normal meals . They had them about 10 pm at night. They wondered why they had not managed to save for a deposit for a house. How can anyone be so stupid ?

Some retired women might be sitting in a care home all day, others might be going on 10 mile hikes with the Ramblers, climbing Kilimanjaro or looking after infant grandchildren.
Their dietary needs will be different.

How long is a piece of string?

Witzend

Germanshepherdsmum

No, just answering someone in good faith. Assuming the OP is retired, how have they reached that stage of life without knowing what food is and is not healthy?

Just what I was thinking.

Perhaps because the goalposts keep changing or new faddy diets are publicised as the right way to stay healthy/lose weight/gain weight/blood type eating/avoid arthritis etc and scares about foodstuffs which sometimes hit the headlines.

Asking others on a forum what they eat is not the best way towork out what is best for an individual.

Thank you for all your replies. It would seem I am on track, lots of veg, salad and fruit.

Well there were the chips …

Spuddy

It certainly can be very confusing! I'd be useless as a dietician or nutritionist!

Five days a week I live on nothing but yoghurts with fruit or nuts/seeds thrown in. I'll have 1/4 of a 450g tub for breakfast then another 1/4 for dinner about 6ish. Batchelors and Heinz Cupa-A-Soups in the winters during a work break.

The other two days I don't have the yoghurts but scoff delicious things like Clayton Park Large Sausage Rolls, a ham and pineapple pizza, or fish and chips!

No spuds, Spuddy?
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Oh dear …

It certainly can be very confusing! I'd be useless as a dietician or nutritionist!

Five days a week I live on nothing but yoghurts with fruit or nuts/seeds thrown in. I'll have 1/4 of a 450g tub for breakfast then another 1/4 for dinner about 6ish. Batchelors and Heinz Cupa-A-Soups in the winters during a work break.

The other two days I don't have the yoghurts but scoff delicious things like Clayton Park Large Sausage Rolls, a ham and pineapple pizza, or fish and chips!

Happygirl79

Breakfast is normally eggs, full fat yoghurt fresh fruit and berries or full English breakfast [but not fried] or porridge
Lunch is a home made soup and small sandwich
Main meal will be vegetables with protein of some kind. Fish or meat.
Snacks will be 85% dark chocolate squares or nuts

Forgot to say that I do not eat ready meals and avoid UPF at all costs.
I enjoy cooking and make my own bread too.
Yesterday I made butter too.

Breakfast is normally eggs, full fat yoghurt fresh fruit and berries or full English breakfast [but not fried] or porridge
Lunch is a home made soup and small sandwich
Main meal will be vegetables with protein of some kind. Fish or meat.
Snacks will be 85% dark chocolate squares or nuts

Witzend

Germanshepherdsmum

No, just answering someone in good faith. Assuming the OP is retired, how have they reached that stage of life without knowing what food is and is not healthy?

Just what I was thinking.

Exactly what I thought too. 🤔

Germanshepherdsmum

No, just answering someone in good faith. Assuming the OP is retired, how have they reached that stage of life without knowing what food is and is not healthy?

Just what I was thinking.

What an interesting question

I've discovered that unless a food actually make me ill (as wheat does) then there's no such thing as unhealthy food.
I am wheat free, sugar free and mostly carb free.

I don't eat red meat but I love fish and seafood in all its forms (except Kina - yuk). So combined with vegetables and gluten-free bread, I think I have a good diet.

I make my own soups but occasionally, especially if I'm working, I'll have a cuppa-soup for lunch for speed .

When Sue Dengate discovered her children's behavioural problems were due to fruits and other foods containing salicylates, it shocked me. Who would have thought broccoli or pears even organic spray-free ones could do that? So what is healthy to me, may not be to a salicylate-sensitive youngster.

www.fedup.com.au/

whatever i want to.. 5'9 54.5kg my whole life fight with doctors about it everytime i get new one
2 bigmeals 3-5 snacks bananas avos raspberrys etc
fruit veggies pastas cheese totillas toast .i eat ice cream 3-4 times a week just to keep my weigh up. parasite caused 2 strokes and lung cancer surgery biopsys.walk 1 mile day strokes ruined my legs
energy drink or protien one mostly water because i cant taste alot of foods .thats the actual problem i have force myself to eat this much daily and coffee every day

Typical day's meals are two slices of toast with goat's cheese, no butter for breakfast.
Lunch is usually a ham or cheese and salad sandwich.
Dinner is whatever I fancy that day, meat, fish or vegetarian option with several vegetables.
I have several snacks throughout the day, often a biscuit or chocolate but try to eat fruit too. I have cherries, grapes and golden kiwis but all have to be in moderation because my gut can't cope with raw fruit.

I eat quite low fat , very rarely fried food. Apart from that a pretty average diet. I do find I'm eating less these days, rarely feel hungry.

I eat a varied diet, some good food, some junk food. I am tempted to have a laugh and say I live on maccas, chocolate and beer but that isn’t quite the truth. I do have all of those things from time to time.

There's a lunch thread and a dinner thread if you're looking for ideas.

I have an early start and don't have breakfast, only 2 cups of tea, then usually eat a cheese and salad sandwich at work around 11.30am. If I have time, I'll have some Cotton Candy grapes around 4pm (I'm addicted to these, they're lovely) or if I'm really peckish I'll have a slice of thickly buttered toast.

In the evening, if I'm not working, I have something like pitta bread with hummus and olives. Afterwards I will have something sweet such as a few biscuits or squares of chocolate.

When my husband was live (and if I wasn't working) I'd cook things like chilli, curry or a pasta dish in the evenings. On Saturday we used to have a takeaway and on Sunday a roast or in the summer a bbq.

So here goes, hoping it was a genuine question. I am working on losing half a stone before Easter...
weekdays
Breakfast: porridge oats with water, half a banana and blueberries
lunch: 2 slices of homemade bread, a slice of cheese, half an apple and half a pear. Sometimes home made soup if it's cold or we are under the weather.
tea; something with protein and veggies, no carbohydrate.
If I snack it'll be a couple of almonds or a satsuma.

Weekends are more relaxed, especially if visitors are around.

What is 'healthy' is so different for each person. We try to limit salt and fats and very rarely have ready meals as my OH's family has a dire record of high blood pressure and heart disease. On my side we just look at a KitKat and have instantly put on at least 2 pounds!
It's just as important to do weight-bearing and cardio exercises.

Porridge and blueberries for breakfast, veg soup and oatcakes for lunch (trying to avoid wheat, as it bloats me), Greek salad and Airfried sweet potato wedges + plain yogurt and fruit for supper.

No, just answering someone in good faith. Assuming the OP is retired, how have they reached that stage of life without knowing what food is and is not healthy?

NotAGran55

CynthiaDennison this is the second thread you have started asking ‘retirees’ about their eating habits without contributing anything yourself? Very odd imho.

Ohhhhhh... there I am, dim again....

CynthiaDennison this is the second thread you have started asking ‘retirees’ about their eating habits without contributing anything yourself? Very odd imho.