INSIGHT : What I Ate Today – English Consumer

Actually, what I ate for 5 days…..

Gail, 26

Lives : West London

Size :  10

Monday 19^th Jan

Breakfast

4 Small handful of chipolatas  with ketchup 

1 Soya strawberry yoghurt pot (Alpro) with fresh blueberries and mixed seeds (Food Doctor)

2 Pints water

Vitamins – 1000mg VitC, Multigenics multivitamins, Vitamin E & Fish oils

Lunch

¾ carton Mediterranean vegetable soup (Tesco’s own brand) 

1 Handful cashew nuts 

1 Piece of smoked cheese

2 Pints water

Dinner

2 Leftover homemade lamb meatballs 

1 Small piece of cauliflower/green bean/broccoli gratin (homemade)

1 Salad – mixed leaves (rocket/watercress) with tomatoes and basil/olive oil and lemon juice

2 Pieces low-sugar chocolate

1 Gin and slimline tonic

About 6 pints water from company water cooler – no coffee – 1 green tea

Tuesday 20^th Jan

Breakfast

1  Soya Strawberry yoghurt pot (Alpro) with handful of blueberries and 1 chopped banana 

2 Pints water

Vitamins – 1000mg VitC, Multigenics multivitamins, Vitamin E & Fish oils

Mid morning

1 Cup of regular tea with Soy milk (Alpro)

Lunch

1 Grilled chicken breast with little bit of mozzarella

1 Beetroot salad

1 Handful of cashews

2-3 Caramel nut clusters (brought back from a colleague’s trip abroad)

1 Pint of water 

Dinner

1 Lentil Dahl

1 King prawns tomato and coriander sauce

2 Cups peppermint tea

5 Pints of water (from company water cooler)

Wednesday 21^st Jan

Breakfast

1 Soya mango yoghurt pot (Alpro) with fresh blueberries and one chopped banana

2 Pints water

Vitamins – 1000mg VitC, Multigenics multivitamins, Vitamin E & Fish oils

Lunch

1 Beetroot salad with tuna-mayo (with Aspall organic cider vinegar)

1 Tomatoes with fresh basil

1 Red apple

Mid afternoon snack

1 Small bag of cashew nuts

Dinner

1 Greek Salad with grilled pork sausage 

Thursday 22^nd Jan

Breakfast

1 Grande Soy Chai Latte (Starbucks)

1 Banana

Vitamins – 1000mg VitC, Multigenics multivitamins, Vitamin E & Fish oils

Lunch

1 Tuna and tomato salad with Food Doctor mixed seeds

Afternoon snack 

1 Small bag of peanut M&M’s

1 Satsuma

Dinner

1 Tomato beef ragu (homemade) with grilled mushrooms and grilled peppers

1 Green salad

Friday 23^rd Jan

Breakfast

1 Soya yoghurt pot (Alpro) with blueberries and mixed seeds.

1 Red apple

Vitamins – 1000mg VitC, Multigenics multivitamins, Vitamin E & Fish oils

Lunch

1 Egg and watercress salad, mixed seeds

1 Peanut butter with red apple wedges

Dinner (cooking dinner for my best friend at home)

1 Chicken breast with haggis stuffing (Burn’s weekend!)

1 Leeks 

1 Turnip and carrot mash

1 Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream

2 Glasses white wine

Is this typical of what you eat most days?

This has been a fairly typical week for me diet-wise, although I am quite broke as it’s the end of Jan so I am eating out less (I would normally go to Itsu or Wagamama’s at least once through the week with my colleagues) so I am doing more prepared salads myself at work.

Ultimate Comfort Food?

Sharing a big American-style sausage/veg pizza (like Domino’s) with my boyfriend

OR

Oven roasted jacket potato with cheese and beans

 

 

 

INSIGHT : What I Ate Today – English consumer

Carolyn, 60

Lives : London

Size 14

Breakfast 

1 Croissant (plain, Tesco’s bakery) 

1 Cappuccino (takeout from Paul, semi-skimmed milk)

1 Bowl of fruit and dollop of natural yoghurt (grapes, 1 pear, low-fat Yeo Valley yoghurt)

Mid-Morning

1 Instant coffee with milk (semi-skimmed)

Lunch

1 Humous and ham sandwich (homemade, using Sainsbury’s white bread, wafer thin ham and reduced fat humous plus thin layer of unsalted Lurpak butter)

Pre-Dinner

1 Glass of white wine (Hardys Crest Chardonnay)

Dinner (Fireworks event followed by dinner at a Thai restaurant)

1 1/2 Plastic cups mulled wine 

Few sips of Singha beer

2 Glasses of water

1 Tom Kha with prawns (Thai soup with coconut milk)

1 Weeping Tiger with beef (marinated meat Thai dish served sizzling)

Is this typical of what you eat most days?

More or less – I only drink mulled wine around Christmas time!

What did you eat today?