3 square meals vs 5-6 small ones

pollypenny

Two meals a day for us - breakfast type food around 1pm and evening meal around 6.30pm.

Maybe some fruit in between and just coffee in the morning.

PasturesNew

VfM4meplse wrote: »

All of it was "beige", and none of it particularly filling! Where's the f&v?

:think: perhaps I'm getting a bit fibre-obsessed in middle age. Slinks off to find a carrot

I happen to love beige food

F&V ... two bananas!

F&V is problematical really, have to find/buy it in small quantities, or put up with it cluttering up the freezer for months - and you have to fancy it. It often goes off before you fancy it.

Right now ... F&V in my house is: tomatoes, for sandwiches - and frozen peas... and lots of tins of baked beans.

maman

PasturesNew wrote: »

I happen to love beige food

Unfortunately, most of us would eat it given the chance:o. I adore spring rolls and crisps but I try to only have them as occasional treats.


I really believe that ( unless you're very disciplined or not interested in food) grazing and snacking is largely responsible for the obesity crisis.


I don't have a problem if I'm at home. I can have 3 meals (one course only) and no snacks. It's when I go out that problems arise. If you need something eat it's all bread and pastry or deep fried stuff or crisps or chocolate. Even some 'healthy' salads are drenched in mayo. I think it's getting worse as restaurants pad out the meals with carbs to keep the protein costs down.


I tend to go for a Subway salad bowl or Pret salad where you add your own dressing.

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The subway chicken salad bowl is lovely I had quite a bit of that when I was in NYC on holiday, often I wasn't too sure what the salad veg was, but it tasted jolly nice and their helpings are huge

JIL

I don't really enjoy breakfast, I like to be up for a couple of hours before I eat something. If I eat when I get up I feel sluggish and lethargic. So I do what suits me.
I tend to go to work about 9.30, then around 10:45 I start eating. I take food into work which could be yogurt, muesli and fruit, individual cheese portions, nuts, bananas, crisps, soup, crackers, sandwiches, wraps, fruit cake, hard boiled egg, scones, hummus, carrot. I then tend to snack on this at intervals. It's usually gone by 2pm. Then I have my dinner at home between 6 and 7.

At weekends I tend to have a coffee mid morning, no food and a dinner at the usual time.

tori.k

How do people find the time to eat 5/6 meals in a day.
I've never been one for breakfast and I work a very physical job with only a 30min break and find food sits to heavy for me so I eat a meal when I get home and copious amounts of coffee, I have a food window of about 1.5hrs or it becomes to late to eat. I love food but do struggle to fit it in at times.

LameWolf

As I don't actually enjoy eating, the prospect of having to do it 5 or 6 times a day would distress me greatly. Three times is asking a lot of me. I do try and have a bit of breakfast ( a small handful of bran flakes, half a banana and a splosh of semi-skimmed milk - but I can't always face it, I have to admit) and then usually just have a small helping of dinner at about 17:30 - 18:00.
I don't snack because I don't enjoy it.