Typical Day's Food Anyone? Be Honest!

Typical Day's Food Anyone? Be Honest!

While I'm posting about food (and trying not to go to the chocolate cupboard we have here at work) I thought it might be fun to see what we eat in a typical day. So pick a day this week, and list what you ate - HONESTLY!

I'll start - here's what I ate yesterday in order of eating/ drinking:

Pint of water

Glass of fruit juice

Cup of tea (white, no sugar)

2 satsumas

2 slices wholemeal toast with Clover spread, cup of tea (white, no sugar)

2 chocolate biscuits

Beans on toast with cheese, pint of water

4 chocolate biscuits, milky coffee

2 chapattis with carrot, potato and peas sabzee (curry), pint of water

Packet of crisps

Mug of hot semi-skimmed milk (no sugar), Galaxy bar

How about everyone else? I do try to be healthy, I start my day with all good intentions but it falls apart mid morning - I blame this chocolate cupboard at work!

Would also be interesting to see what the Goodtoknow staff have too

 Nx

Don't sweat the small stuff. It will make you stinky.

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I'm not sure I want to reveal my dirty secrets in public but it might help me realise where I'm going wrong with my 'diet'... So here's what I ate yesterday... It sounds a bit like what Big Brother contestants eat when they've failed a task.

Breakfast - 1 hard boiled egg, 1 pot of yoghurt, 3 smallish bits of broccoli

Lunch - chips and peas (Money diet! At the canteen I'm skipping the meat in the meat and 2 veg so I only pay £1.40)

Dinner - 2 snickers bars, 3 glasses white wine

Well Nina, you did say to be honest

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Thanks Mooksy I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who foregoes dinner in favour of junk food, just don't tell my daughters that! Where do you work, by the way?

Don't sweat the small stuff. It will make you stinky.

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Ok this was yesterday...

1 bagel with marmite and butter
1 cup of tea
1 glass of water
Spring roll and some microwave rice for lunch
piece of chocolate cake
pizza express pizza and half a garlic breadd - (you've got to love those half price vouchers!)
1 glass of wine
1 lemonade

THe end. Goodness that doesnt sound very healthy does it! Nina, I think this was a very bad idea. Now I feel terrible! Lol!

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Ok this was yesterday...

1 bagel with marmite and butter
1 cup of tea
1 glass of water
Spring roll and some microwave rice for lunch
piece of chocolate cake
pizza express pizza and half a garlic breadd - (you've got to love those half price vouchers!)
1 glass of wine
1 lemonade

THe end. Goodness that doesnt sound very healthy does it! Nina, I think this was a very bad idea. Now I feel terrible! Lol!

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 Wow - I feel so much better after just eating a huge piece of cake!! Here's what I had yesterday...

 breakfast - porridge, blueberries and a smoothie

lunch - sweet potato and carrot soup, banana, orange

here's where my 3pm sweet tooth kicks in...

3pm - big slice of chocolate cake!!!

 dinner - chickpea curry, rice and peppers

here's where the 9pm sweet tooth kicks in...

9pm - hot chocolate with marshmallows, icecream with melted cadbury's caramel (so so nice!! put 3 squares in the microwave with a little bit of milk for 10 seconds, stir and then icecream on top)

 so im quite good most of the time until my sweet cravings. i wish i could stop those!!! maybe i dont eat enough at other times??

also a bit of cake every day is good for the soul i think!!!

everyone needs a monkey cake!

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Did you make that monkey cake yourself? It's super-cute! I think everyone probably does need a monkey cake. Fancy making one so big it gets in the world records so we can all have a bit?

I've got a sweet tooth too, so at the moment I'm allowing myself sugar and tea and coffee (cuz it's controllable and makes me less likely to reach for a Bounty), but I'm keeping almonds and bananas on my desk.

When munchie-time comes, a banana fills me up, and so do almonds (plus almonds are meant to help burn off belly fat).

Oh Nina, sorry, I didn't see the end bit of your post there! I work in East London in a small design company, which means hefty travel times once I move to South London / Surrey

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Well, this HAS been a successful posting!

You know when they say "instead of reaching for the chocolate, have a banana or slices of cucumber"? Has anyone ever CRAVED a banana, or salad for that matter? I know they're better for you, but I'd rather have nothing than substitute cake for fruit *lol* Again, do NOT tell my children this! I've managed to convince them from an early age that eating grapes is like eating sweets *lol*

Oh my god, I have to try that melting caramel chocolate thing!

This is not good, I didn't start this post so we could compare ways to eat badly *lol* Women, huh?

While we're on eating badly, my favourite snack is garlic bread (sometimes I just heat it in the microwave if I'm being lazy - not as nice, but it's OK) dipped in garlic mayonnaise. My girls usually pinch some off me so I don't have the whole baguette - I'd probably be the size of a house without them around!

Oooh, garlic bread with curry - delicious! You may have guessed, I like garlic!

Don't sweat the small stuff. It will make you stinky.

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 Oh I love garlic too! Theres nothing tastier than something with loadsa garlic in.

I know what you mean, who craves bananas? Oh but sometimes if I don't drink enough water, I do get a real craving for fruit, like grapes and juicy things.

I really crave things like pies on a week day at around 7pm, just before dinner - I have dinner really late which is so bad, but its hard when you're working.

Anyway here's what I had yesterday:

 Hot water

Breakky: Marmite and toast (love marmite) and tea

Lunch: Pie, boiled potatoes and beans, apple juice

Snacks: Nuts (salty ones) and cherry tomatoes - I know that's abit weird

Hot water (I love hot water)

Herbal tea with choccy biscuits

Dinner: Homemade soup with loadsa cheese on top.

Never say never and never say always

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Well done Jenno, that sounds like a great diet - really healthy without taking things too far!

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone with a love of hot water though. Most of us at least stick a bit of ribena in it, or at least a bit of honey and a slice of lemon if we're feeling posh

I love the Polish way of drinking tea - no milk, but a fat squeeze of lemon and sugar. It's really refreshing and astringent. Apart from the sugar and the tannin it's really good for you.

Also, I love home-made garlic toast! Toast your bread on one side under a grill. Then spoon olive oil on the other side and smear crushed garlic and a bit of salt on it. Then toast that...

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Mmm Mooksy that garlic toast is making me hungry. I think this writing down stuff is a really good idea. Its so easy to forget that odd biscuit or choccy but when you write it down you cant forget. Theres an online diet like that but who needs it when we can do it here!

This is my yesterday (sorry I know you probs dont care but its helpful to write it down!)

Breakfast: 2 slices of toast with marmite
Lunch: Jacket potato with cottage cheese
Snack 1 ginger biscuit
DInner: 2 poached eggs, spinach and a bagel
Snacks 1 pack of chocolate buttons, 3 poppadums with lime pickle

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Hello everyone!

Don't sweat the small stuff. It will make you stinky.