What do you eat in a day typically?

devinnn0728

I am looking for ideas! Please share what you like to eat in a day

bbell1985

A couple of protein bars, coffee with cream and sugar once and black if I have another, about 2 heads of lettuce, a cucumber, tomato, a lean meat (deli turkey, ground turkey, shrimp), halo top ice cream, and something snacky and carby like pretzels because they're at work and I have no self control. Salad for both lunch and dinner at the moment.

__TMac__

You can learn a lot by reading people's diaries. When you see someone comment who seems to have a good handle on things, look to see if their diary is open.

hannat5017

I have 1700 calories so breakfast is usually granola with half cup of skim milk or a smoothie. First snack is almonds lunch is a 90 calorie flatbread with deli meat usually ham or turkey I'll sometimes add lettuce, 100 calorie Greek yogurt, 100 calorie snack pack, and 45 calorie pack of gummies dinner it varies as a I like to try new things but it's usually soup or something with chicken and maybe pasta with salad I have boring salads though bacon bits and reduced fat feta cheese. And usually some kind of snack usually a 100 calorie snack pack or a yasso bar with a single cookie. I buy different flavors of granola to keep breakfast somewhat different and sometimes I'll have eggs on the weekends with a slice of toast and peanut butter

zyxst

My diary is open if you want to snoop.

estherdragonbat

I'm currently on 1630 calories. My diary is open, if you'd like a look. But generally, 6 days a week, my breakfast is red seedless grapes, Greek yogurt, and a granola bar.

For lunch, I often take 1/2 cup of corn, slice a veggie dog, add various raw salad veggies, like grape tomatoes, cucumber, and onion with pickles, and pickled hot pepper and stir it up with salsa, 1 tbsp vegan sour cream, and 1 tbsp sweet pickle relish.

Supper... I'm working my way through the 1,000 Vegan Recipes cookbook, one recipe at a time, in sequence. I'm on my final pasta recipe this week. Starting chilis next. Typically, each recipe gives me 4 servings. When I'm done with it, I eat frozen vegetarian options like fake chicken fingers, nuggets, burgers, etc. until Friday. I've also found a number of low-calorie salad/dip/spread options for snacking and light meals.

I snack on string cheese, veggie dogs, skinny-pop popcorn, fruits, and lower-calorie desserts. My ice cream maker has been churning out various sorbets, lately.

djwar9858

Fruit, yogurt and tea for breakfast, soup for lunch, meat, veggie, salad for dinner. Dark salted chocolate, chocolate covered bananas, popcorn, fruit and fat free cool whip for treats.

cwolfman13

Food...a pretty wide variety of food.

I eat a lot of things like oats, lentils, beans, potatoes and other root vegetables...fish, mostly salmon and cod...chicken, lean cuts of beef and pork...eggs...dairy...loads of vegetables...a couple servings of fruit.

kommodevaran

Breakfast is typically 2 Wasa rye crispbread/crackers or 1 slice of pumpernickel w/fish, meat or cheese spread, and milk, or porridge w/butter, and a piece of fruit and raw vegetable.
I typically pick lunch from the breakfast menu, but not the same things as I had for breakfast, or sometimes salad, leftovers, noodles, smoothie, hot cocoa or boiled egg.
Dinner is typically either soup/casserole or meat/fish+starch+veg. Saturdays is typically cheese on toast or pancakes with added vegetables, sometimes pizza.
If I eat an evening meal, it can be something from the lunch list, or dessert cheese, or breakfast cereals, or nuts/nut butter+fruit.
If I want something extra, I typically mix peanuts and sesame seeds with honey.

(I like typically. I usually do the same kinds of stuff, but I also like to mix things up, and be flexible )

Gallowmere1984

Chicken, salmon, brocolli, cauliflower, green beans, black/pinto/kidney beans, protein powders and bars, olive oil, tilapia, potatoes (sweet and redskin), shredded wheat, and oats.

I throw in other things for variety from time to time, but those are my primaries.

ChristianaU92

I'm a veggie but I do try to mix things up. I cook most of my meals from scratch cause its cheaper for me as a student. I do cheat a good bit on some weeks more than others. Diary is open.

BREAKFAST
Usually homemade granola/porridge.

LUNCH
A soup/stew with a salad

DINNER
Brown rice pasta with a load a veggies
Fish greens and sweet potato
A curry or stir-fry with noodles/potatoes/or rice
(ONE OF THESE OPTIONS)

SNACKS
Usually have hummus and some carrots or oatcakes.
A load of fruit handy
Banana bread
Protein bars or a smoothie
Yogurt with some fruit.

ONE/TWO OF THESE OPTIONS A DAY

serafinelaveaux

We eat paleo mostly so I cook _everything_. There's no processed food in our house. My calorie count generally comes in around 1350-1500.

Yesterday, breakfast was a 3 egg omelet with chopped asparagus, red bell pepper, and baby spinach, with 2 pieces of bacon on the side. Lunch was a half an avocado, a handful of grapes, and some baby carrots. Dinner was 2 chicken sausages (kinda like brats) over mashed parsnips with a side of Bavarian style sauerkraut. This morning, breakfast was a half avocado, 2 pieces thin sliced ham, a handful of grapes, some kalamata olives, baby carrots, and coffee. Dinner is going to be smoked, grilled chicken with coleslaw (apples, onion, carrots, cabbage, homemade mayo), and then I'll make chicken salad (chicken, grapes, blueberries, baby spinach, almonds, little chili powder to spice it up) with an almond dressing (almond butter, olive oil, little OJ, garlic, dijon, salt/pepper) for tomorrow's lunches so the Mr isn't eating out of the vending machines at work. Dinner tomorrow night is sloppy joes with romaine lettuce instead of buns, and baked sweet potato fries.

Snacks are generally half a handful of almonds, jerky (not Slim Jims, lol), an apple or some strawberries, or avocado with a little sea salt. The Mr never has time for breakfast so he does almond milk/banana/ground flax smoothies in the morning. I tend to skip breakfast in favor of coffee but if I eat it, it's usually bacon and eggs with some kind of veg. If I'm craving sweets, a piece of dark chocolate, or else I make these bars that are chopped dates, almonds, unsweetened coconut, flax seed, a little coconut oil, and honey that are crazy sweet and a little piece of those does the trick.

We eat _a lot_ of food.

My diary isn't open coz I'm not generally a sharey kinda gal.

serafinelaveaux

serafinelaveaux wrote: »

There's no processed food in our house.

I'm calling BS on myself (before someone else does, and since I am apparently too stupid to figure out how to edit my own post). I do have SOME processed stuff, but it's like, canned olives or ghee or nitrate free bacon. I just don't have frozen dinners or bagged snackies like chips or crackers, microwave popcorn, or breakfast bars, anything like that.

Moving on.

MelanieCN77

Breakfast is usually either cottage cheese or yoghurt and fruit, or a sandwich slim with egg and turkey bacon lately. The rest of my diet is pretty varied. Like lunches this week were a subway sandwich, chicken burger on toasted bread, shakshuka (eggs cooked in stewed tomatoes), ham pita sandwich, Cliff bar. Dinners were spaghetti and turkey bolognese sauce, baked acorn squash and grilled chicken, thai soup with mushrooms and tofu, canned soup and toast... I think my diary is open. I enjoy cooking and like to make fresh as much as I can.

staticsplit

I change it up a lot, but a pretty typical day:

Oatmeal/baked oatmeal for breakfast, or a protein smoothie. Usually with banana and/or frozen berries.

Lunch is usually a salad with a veggie patty, spinach, carrot, other veggies, with hummus like a dressing

Afternoon snack is one or two of the following: peanut butter pretzels, a biscuit, a piece of fruit, maybe some sun chips or something. Toast with peanut butter.

Dinner switches up the most, but either another salad, soup, a curry, etc. For the next few days it'll be a yellow lentil dhal I made tonight.

I usually have a dessert-type snack in the evening, usually another biscuit or a piece of fruit. Or Skyr, this icelandic yogurty thing my husband bought, with granola and honey.

Throughout the day I have plenty of tea and coffee with milk. I drink a lot of flavoured bubbly water as I find normal water boring unless I'm exercising.

Usually end up at 1500-1800 calories, give or take. My diary is open to friends.

FoxyMars25

My breakfast is pretty much the same all weekdays which is two hard boiled eggs, but only one yolk with dijon mustard and half a cup of plain greek yogurt with a scoop of protein powder (PEScience Select Protein-Snickerdoodle flavor is awesome). For breakfast on weekends, I will usually do scrambled egg whites with spinach/tomato/avocado or "pancakes" made with one banana and two eggs only (they are SOOO good). I like to top them with natural peanut or almond butter and plain greek yogurt. Then for lunch and dinner I eat food that I cooked over the weekend. I usually spend a good amount of time on Sundays prepping food that I can eat throughout the week. For this week, I made crockpot Mexican chicken and cauliflower lime cilantro rice and parm turkey cutlets with balsamic brussel sprouts with shallots. I portion it out for my meals during the week-most of these recipes are from skinnytaste.com. Another good quick dinner to have (if I don't want what I made for the week) is sauteed spinach and mushrooms with scrambled egg whites and goat cheese. For snacks, I have nuts, turkey jerky, carrots/celery (that I also cut up on weekends so they are ready to go for the week) w/hummus, tuna (such as the 80 calorie pouches), or skinny pop popcorn (the dark chocolate dusted is my fav).

jemhh

Breakfast - fruit or vegetable, milk, coffee, eggs, and either toast or oats
Lunch - raw vegetables, cottage cheese or yogurt
Dinner - raw vegetables, grilled or roasted meat, salad dressing
Evening snack - bread, peanut butter

laur357

Today:

Breakfast - black coffee. then black tea.

Lunch - apple, string cheese, and a lean cuisine

Dinner - a sizeable amount of butter chicken with jasmine rice (peas, spinach, and shredded carrots steamed and mixed with the chicken and sauce). probably 2 Oreo cookies.

1300 calories

jennamae102

I'm at 1370 daily target right now, and don't do a ton of exercise.

Breakfast: typically greek yogurt (Right now I like the Fage 2% wtih fruit, has about 12 g of protein!) + coffee

Lunch: usually prep a meal on the weekend and portion it out for lunches...I use skinnytaste.com meals a lot, this week is just some marinated chicken breast & a frozen veggie mix

Dinner: bigger variety here...last night was pesto shrimp pasta, tonight will probably be veggie burgers & veggies, maybe salmon and veggies

Snacks: usually carrots and a string cheese, some berries, or a granola bar

Dessert: a portion of Halo top, a Yasso frozen greek yogurt bar, maybe a small Noosa yogurt

Lounmoun

I eat the same foods I always did just in appropriate portion sizes for my goal. My diary is open.

Breakfast- things like Greek yogurt, granola bars, cereal with milk, sandwich, dinner leftovers, fruit, cottage cheese (about 200-300 calories)
Lunch- things like sandwich, salad, or dinner leftovers (about 300-500 calories)
Dinner- something different every night of the month. (about 500-600 calories) I have soup once a week usually.
Snacks- things like fruit, chips, popcorn, pretzels, chocolate, cookies, granola bar, carrots, celery, broccoli, trail mix, deviled eggs, pickles, cottage cheese (about 100-300 calories)

goblue8426

I eat a lot of the same foods for breakfast and lunch, then vary dinner based on whatever we're making. Breakfast is either ThinkThin bar or bites with a glass of milk, OR peanut butter toast with a glass of milk. Snacks are usually a hard-boiled egg, cottage cheese, veggies and dip, pistachios, or string cheese. Lunches are often salads (stuck on beet salads at the moment but quinoa salads, chicken salad, and regular lettuce salads usually make an appearance too). I tend to eat my lunch in phases throughout the day because I work long days sometimes and need to keep myself energized. Dinner varies but during the week, one night is usually Mexican, one night is usually soup/chili/stew, one night roasted chicken and veg, etc. Dessert is Annie's fruit snacks, a cookie, or ice cream. If I don't have enough calories left for dessert, I'll drink kombucha!

gravylover

MFP allows me for 1400 calories. My breakfasts are pretty much the same 30g of gluten free cornflakes, 2 tablespoons of alpro plain yogurt, 100ml semi skim milk and berries. Snacks,bananas, rice cakes or a handful of mixed nuts. Lunch,boiled egg and either gluten free bagel,thins or bread with dairy free spread. Dinner lean meat or fish, veg and either rice, potatoes (sweet or normal) or gluten free pasta. Drinks, water or decaff tea. Treats 3 squares of chocolate. I need a fairly low fibre diet.

vikinglander

OP: Feel free to peruse my diaries for the past year.

I have evolved somewhat in that time. My GF and I have been heavily influenced by Michael Pollan's work, as well as the Whole30 protocol, so we try our best to create meals that are 2 to 5 servings of veggies, a palm-sized protein serving, and one or two servings of healthy fats.

My breakfasts are typically eggs, maybe some bacon, and either veggies in the eggs, or on the side, or a serving or two of fruit.

Lunch is usually a large salad of raw greens and assorted veggies, homemade dressings, and a serving of meat.

Dinner could be a similar meal to lunch, or at this time of year we tend to eat more winter vegetables, which we roast in a little oil and herbs - sweet potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, carrots, squash, Brussel sprouts, etc. - with a serving of meat and some healthy fats.

Snacks range from unsalted nuts (roasted or raw), Larabars (in MODERATION), fruit, mostly berries, once in a while a half-ounce of dark chocolate, olives, Epic meat bars...

Drinks are limited to morning black coffee, filtered water (home and office), herbal teas, and an occasional La Croix sparkling water. I have been known to indulge in a glass of good Merlot or Cabernet once in a while, at parties.

Supplements:
Garden Of Life Men's Formula
Nordic Naturals Fish Oil (2000 mg)
Jarrow vitamin D (2500 IU)
Natural Factors 12/12 probiotic
Rainbow Light Calcium/Magnesium (600/300 mg)
GNC vitamin C (1000 mg)
GNC Turmeric (750 mg)

Anyone wants to be friends and discuss WOEs and recipes, etc., feel free to add me.

devinnn0728

Wow! So many wonderful meal ideas and tips. Thank you all so much. I truly appreciate it. Feel free to add me.

pdxwine

Typical day for me:

Breakfast:

Chobani Greek yogurt
-or-
Shredded Wheat with milk

AM Snack:

8 unsalted almonds

Lunch:

Tuna wrap made with lavash as the wrap
Fruit (a banana, apple or orange)
Mini chocolate bar

PM Snack:

Hummus and vegetables

Dinner:

Meat or fish
Sometimes a bit of potato or rice
Vegetables
Salad with a variety of vegetables (I usually do green leaf lettuce, arugula, grated carrots, grated beets, sliced mushrooms, zucchini and a home made Balsamic with a sprinkling of either Parmesan or Bleu Cheese)
Two glasses of wine
Some type of dessert (a few pieces of dark chocolate; yogurt; a homemade cookie; etc.)

All of that fits in the my daily goal and usually comes in under my goal.

Here are a couple of dinners. A lavash pizza...the other is scallops.

tarothelp

I added u as a friend so u can see my diary. Few free to browse around!!