What sort of diet do you have? Do you eat your veggies?

Estrellita

Estrellita wrote: »

It what I thought you meant, I just wanted to be sure of your tone. Surprisingly catty for you Persepoly.

So much judging going on around these parts lately. If it's not food it's childcare. It baffles me a bit is all.

I'm sorry I took my annoyance out on you Estrellita. You're right, it's not like me.

OldMrBrennan83

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Porter Itchy Graphology wrote: »

I probably have a very bad diet. I eat red meat in the form of steak or minced beef three days a week at least, pork sausages, bacon, eggs, a pork fillet on Sundays. Never chicken. Never fish. Vegetables are on the plate perhaps 3 times a week but I don't enjoy them. Can't do without my spuds. Plenty of chocolates, and biscuits. Fruit is a rarity. But, so far, I'm healthy and at 73 I'm not changing my diet now. I'm a fussy eater and always had difficulty eating on my work trips, or holidays, aboard over the years. I can't abide pasta, tomatoes, cheese, garlic, curry, or rice.

Well it hasn't killed you yet, and you'll be dead long enough so eat what you enjoy. You remind me of my dad though, he didn't like veg either but when he got sick I used to try hide veg under his potatoes

Naos

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Our forebears survived for ever on spuds and milk and nothing else.

This five a day stuff is marketing.

[QUOTE=Spanish Eyes;102529512
When I was a kid I don't really remember much veg or fruit on the plate apart from peas and carrotts.[/QUOTE]

What do you think potatoes, peas and carrots are?

Five a day was never meant to mean five different types of veg, it was five portions. Our forebears you mentioned ate way more than their five a day by way of potato consumption.

silverharp

Monday to Friday I just eat 2 meals a day lunch and dinner and try to stay low carb , lots of soups and oven bakes. Try to avoid bread and cereals thankfully don't have a sweet tooth. Cooking gets complicated because my wife is off dairy and red meat and Im avoiding high carb food.

quickbeam

Naos wrote: »

What do you think potatoes, peas and carrots are?

Five a day was never meant to mean five different types of veg, it was five portions. Our forebears you mentioned ate way more than their five a day by way of potato consumption.

You're not meant to count potatoes among the "five a day" (alas, or I'd be flying!)

wakka12

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Well it hasn't killed you yet, and you'll be dead long enough so eat what you enjoy. You remind me of my dad though, he didn't like veg either but when he got sick I used to try hide veg under his potatoes

Id say healthy eating is a bit overrated anyway. I doubt there'd be a huge difference in life expectancy between somebody with a very good diet and somebody with a not so great but reasonably varied diet like the poster you quoted had... things like potatos bread and pasta arent necessarily bad foods for instance yet we think of them as not very healthily, nothing wrong with them..as in there is nothing damaging to your health contained within them. You just sjouldnt eat too many as youll gain weight if you eat too much and don't exercise it off

KingBrian2

Good diet. Plenty of fruit. Meat and Veg at dinner. Porridge for breakfast or tea. Fan of Bread and French Bread. I've curtailed drinking tea more of a bottled water person.

Spanish Eyes

I read somewhere that it's ten portions a day now.

So why is the majority of the population still alive ie my parents generation? And the rest of us too.

Spuds and milk, a bit of wholemeal bread, real butter and lovely cheese, and you're grand. LOL.

Would you turn that down for anything else!

Grandeeod

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I read somewhere that it's ten portions a day now.

So why is the majority of the population still alive ie my parents generation? And the rest of us too.

Spuds and milk, a bit of wholemeal bread, real butter and lovely cheese, and you're grand. LOL.

Would you turn that down for anything else!

I like you.:D

Graces7

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I read somewhere that it's ten portions a day now.

So why is the majority of the population still alive ie my parents generation? And the rest of us too.

Spuds and milk, a bit of wholemeal bread, real butter and lovely cheese, and you're grand. LOL.

Would you turn that down for anything else!

Maybe a lot of it is about control? Inducing guilt! A one size fits all approach? I know there is a lot of obesity around so maybe they think that if they leave us to it we will all become obese?

As you say, not true

Badly Drunk Boy

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

I eat most meals at the alcohol rehabilitation centre where I volunteer.

Yeah, I volunteer at one of those alcohol places, but only my first name. "Hello, my name is Badly..."

I'm trying to eat more vegetables but like to disguise them in a curry or disguise them by cutting them up very small like you would for a kid. (I'll be 44 years of age next week. :eek: )

I also got a juicer/masticator thing before Christmas that can really squeeze the juices out of fruit and vegetables but I've only used it a few times. If it would self-wash, I'd use it more (and washing it isn't even that hard!).

JackieChang

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I also got a juicer/masticator thing before Christmas that can really squeeze the juices out of fruit and vegetables but I've only used it a few times. If it would self-wash, I'd use it more (and washing it isn't even that hard!).

You should throw out that juicer and get a blender instead. Fruit juice is just sugar water. You should be eating the whole thing. Eat the whole veggie too.

The only vegatabls I eat often would be brocolli, cauliflower, peas .. sometimes cabbage, green beans, spinach. Spinach is my favourite but because I usually eat frozen vegetables I dont eat it much. And no, can't stand onions!

Graces7

JackieChang wrote: »

You should throw out that juicer and get a blender instead. Fruit juice is just sugar water. You should be eating the whole thing. Eat the whole veggie too.

Not from a good juicer. Lovely thick stuff...

Graces7

Tired of eating. Think I will give it up... :rolleyes:

Grayson

Because mine is sh1t. I've just ate a load of bakewell tarts for dinner.

Now, admittedly, it's not normally that bad. I cook most days but I hate veg. I really hate veg. I prefer most veg raw to cooked but the problem is that even then it's a lot of effort to eat. So between breakfast/lunch/dinner there's an average of one portion of veg spread throughout the week (not counting quorn).

I like fruit but it's full of sugar. So I really should snack more on veg. Anyone got any healthy hints? Things like store bought dips for veg and other little things they do do sneak in move veg?

Apparently we're supposed to be eating 10 portions of fruit/veg a day. Although you can take a lot of dietary information with a pinch of salt (or not depending on sodium levels) it's generally good advice to eat more veg.

So how bad is your diet and any hints besides just accepting that I'll die of a stroke/heart disease/ chronic constipation.

snowflaker

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cantdecide

Hmmm I'll have to check back on instagram

Dr Crayfish

This is going to be as bad as a "What countries have you visited?" thread.
So come on, foodies, tell us about your wonderful chia seed and avocado diets?

gossamer

May the humble bragging commence!

Can't wait.

Korat

Not dieting is my diet

Keeping away from the diet monkeys is a diet for me.

osarusan

Very healthy until 9pm.

Lots of veg, lots of water, not much carbs or sugar.

Then, as soon as the kids are in bed, I go searching for any junk at all to nibble on for the next couple of hours.

Hulk Hands

Great when im not drinking or hungover

Boom_Bap

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Graces7

How long is a piece of string. .....

JupiterKid

It's Ok - could be better. Bit I'm not going to be guilted into surviving on broccoli smoothies every day by some know all food/health fascist.

The older generations who were brought up on meat and 2 veg with lots of spuds and dairy (if they were lucky) are making it into their 90s. Explain that.

There's too much preaching and moralising on what we should be eating. Sure if you eat fast food every day it's not good but most of us eat a reasonably varied diet and that's fine.

I think obesity is more linked to lack of exercise and physical work than diet. People are living very sedentary lifestyles these days. My granparents' generation got a lot more exercise in their day to day life. And portions were smaller back then.

purple hands

You don't win friends with salad

dartboardio

I'm kind of half and half..could eat well half the week then once the weekend comes i completely forget, and its pizza, eating out all around.. roll for breakfast etc.


but during the week i TRY to stick to porridge for breakfast, coffee or berocca boost, lunch maybe half a low fat sub or soup and sandwich, dinner then anything i want to cook, pasta, spaghetti, meat/veg/mash, a curry, i am trying lately to eat full meals instead of small then snacks.. trying as of today to cut out bread often until my holiday next week. basically my meals are fine and keep me full until the next one. its the night time i have a problem with sitting around, then end up seeing if there's anything to snack on..

I have a big problem with food!:O for instance.. today i had those 3 meals, aswell as a full strawberry yoghurt (the big ones) banana pancake, couple of bite chocolate things, bag of popcorn, bowl of weetabix and an orange. yeah sure my diet is doing great......then again, if i had a big bowl of guacamole, sweetcorn and green pepper i'd be happy to chomp away for the night, its when theres crisps/ choc in the house i go mad. such a pity cause i love most vegetables and fruit!

Graces7

purple hands wrote: »

You don't win friends with salad

You do if they are overweight and lacking in will power..

DanielODonnell

I live on tea and the buns post concert. I'm cutting out on the sugar though as i'm getting a wee bit of a belly.

Beanntraigheach

I really hate the taste and texture of vegetables and even struggle with fruit so I bought myself one of those Nutribullets.
I shove some vegetables and fruit together (you can add seeds & nuts too) with a bit of water and zap it into a thick liquid.
The taste is unobjectionable.
I gulp one down most days, hopefully in the long-run my health will benefit from it.

Cupcake_Crisis

I've no problem eating my veggies when they're given to me. Like if I'm home and mammy cooks a dinner, or the roommate cooks them. But I feckin hate cooking them myself.

Not big on fruit either, I don't like sweet stuff.

KungPao

Fairly decent. Especially since I gave up processed meats.

Eat a fair few veggies, don't boil them to death either.

dartboardio

Processed meats would be?

Genuinely wondering, best types of meat to give up?

meeeeh

dartboardio wrote: »

Processed meats would be?

Genuinely wondering, best types of meat to give up?

Sausages, ham, rashers.. Also different prepared foods like chicken nuggets, burgers, lazanias and similar stuff.

dartboardio

I eat sausages, don't eat much packet ham at all maybe twice a year, if i eat rashers i take the fat off (which probably makes no difference?)

i used to eat alot of oven crap breaded chicken etc but wouldn't dare eat it now simply cause i hate the taste, if i was eating a burger i'd probably make it from scratch though i do like an odd mcdonalds..

Wanderer2010

Try to eat vegetables in some form each day and I get fish/fruit/seeds and nuts in as regular as I can. My absolute weakness? Lucozade. I am addicted to it. As in, genuinely addicted to it. At least 2 bottles a day. And disturbingly when I haven't had a bottle in a while, and I take my first sip, I can almost feel my brain light up with the sensation and I have to clench my fists with the rush. That's awful isn't it??

Atoms for Peace

I'm on the temple of doom diet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgyRO3c870