Whats your average daily diet consist of?

Doylerawmeat
Doylerawmeat Posts: 21 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere. Im just interested in what your average daily diet is, that has worked for you?
I know there are diet diaries, but unless were 'friends', a lot of them I cant see.
I tried lots of diets (not fad diets) to see what would work for me. Some worked, some not so much.
At the moment, my average day is:

Breakfast: Bran flakes, Protein powder, skimmed milk, cinnamon, flax seed
Lunch: Tin of tuna, extra light mayo, red onion, crab sticks
Dinner: Bacon medallions, eggs (poached or scrambled)
Snacks: Fruit smoothie (with protein powder, 5 fruits and flax seed), crab sticks
Post workout: Protein shake with oats and natural peanut butter.

So come on, share your secrets.
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  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I normally eat 6 times a day. I'm not under any illusion that it effects weight loss but it works for me because I like to eat regularly and prefer smaller meals.

    Meal 1- one egg and two whites omelette with veggies and cheese. A slice of wheat bread with natural peanut butter and banana. Coffee.
    Meal 2- homemade protein cookies or Greek yoghurt
    Meal 3- Chicken or kangaroo with veggies, some form of sauce, sometimes an egg
    Meal 4- rice cakes with peanut butter and banana, occasionally cereal or beef jerky of I'm out and about
    Meal 5- varies could be home made curry, pitta pizzas, turkey burgers, seafood etc
    Meal 6- a curly wurly, and ice cream bar or other dessert item
  • tarynchatfield
    tarynchatfield Posts: 43 Member
    BREAKFAST
    Greek yogurt with chocolate whey protein and blueberries
    Strawberry Banana smoothie with whey protein and almond milk
    High fiber oatmeal with whey protein and cinnamon
    Ezekiel bread with almond butter and strawberry slices & 2 scrambled eggs

    LUNCH
    Turkey avocado wrap with sprouts and hummus
    Hamburger (lean meat) with Dijon mustard on Ezekiel bread
    Salmon with asparagus/broccoli/bell peppers

    DINNER
    Same as lunch

    SNACKS
    Gala apple with almond butter (or dark chocolate almond butter, mmmm)
    Chocolate dipped strawberries
    Ezekiel bread with almond butter and strawberry slices/blueberries
    Bell pepper with hummus
    Oat pita with hummus
    Black grapes
    Blueberries with dark chocolate chips
    Almonds

    POST WORKOUT
    Greek yogurt with chocolate whey protein and blueberries
    Strawberry Banana smoothie with whey protein and almond milk

    If I'm completely out of energy or don't have the time to cook, I go to Sweet Tomatoes or Panera. I absolutely adore them, especially Panera's salads, and they have very reasonable calories.

    EDIT: I recently bought chia seeds for the first time and add those to my oatmeal/yogurt/smoothies and helps fill me up :)
  • runningjen74
    runningjen74 Posts: 312 Member
    Breakfast: turkey + mince chili, pumpkin seeds + raisins
    Lunch: smoked salmon/advocado/red pepper/celery/vinagrette
    Dinner: ratatouille + cod
    Snack: apple/nuts
  • irishblonde2011
    irishblonde2011 Posts: 618 Member
    Breakfast - cereal or eggs
    Snack - greek yogurt
    Lunch - salad with quorn fillets(vegetarian)
    Snack - peanut butter and apple
    Dinner - a lot of stir frys,noodels,loads of veggies. I always measure my carbs.
    Protein powder.
    2L of water.

    Always find room for dark chocolate or anything else I would like.

    Good luck. :smile:
  • LeanButNotMean44
    LeanButNotMean44 Posts: 852 Member
    Breakfast: 1/2c oats with soy milk, 1 scoop protein powder, 1TBSP ground flax seed, 1/3c blueberries

    Post workout: protein shake w/soy milk

    Breakfast 2: hard boiled egg, 1/4c almonds

    Lunch: salad (mixed greens, carrots, peas, banana peppers, grated parmesan, croutons, 5oz baked chicken breast)

    Dinner: varies - usually some sort of meat and perhaps more veggies

    Post dinner: Casein protein with 1TBSP PB2

    This is pretty much EVERY SINGLE DAY. :ohwell:

    Fridays I will have a few cocktails. No sweets, ever. :sad:
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    breakfast:cereal & semi skimmed milk/porridge
    morning snack: cereal bar/ wholefood bar/nuts
    lunch: salad with meat or cottage cheese & a boiled egg, fruit
    afternoon snack: savoury roast soya/spicy broadbeans/nuts
    pre workout snack: glass of milk/boiled egg/cheese
    tea: meat or fish with veg & some carbs. yesterday for example was haddock with cheese & spinach risotto.
  • xampx
    xampx Posts: 323 Member
    Breakfast is usually a whey smoothie with almond milk, oats, banana & other fruit if I have it. Plus PB (or almond or cashew) on a toasted low calorie bread product of some sort

    Lunch at work is almost always a salad, homemade with 100-150g lean meat and 30g feta & dressing

    Dinner in the week is usually either a stir fry with sauce or a scrambled egg type thing, with 1 egg and cartoned egg whites. Both have the same veggies and either fish, lean meat or seafood, and sometimes I throw in pasta or rice or noodles or potatoes if I have burned more calories in my workout of if I just feel extra hungry. Weekends is usually curry, homemade & healthy, with some sort of meat, usually served with rice.

    Snacks through the day include graze boxes, apples, pears, oranges, nuts, peanut butter, PB on toast, chocolate, cake if its available. I have issues with snacking! Trying so hard not to today but I had my workout this morning, have already eaten all my available snacks except I have more propow in my desk drawer so I could have a lumpy milkshake... Its 75 minutes until lunch! Argh!

    I JUST FOUND POPCORN! Winning!

    ETA: Boiled eggs are a good idea! If I go to the gym in the morning, I will take a couple with me for after :)
  • Ejourneys
    Ejourneys Posts: 1,603 Member
    Yesterday was fairly typical for me:

    Breakfast: 4 slices WASA Multigrain crispbread + 2 oz cheddar
    Lunch: 1 head of iceberg lettuce + 6 oz can tongol tuna in spring water, no salt added, with homemade dressing of 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil + 4 oz white distilled vinegar + garlic powder + paprika

    Snack: 1 banana

    Dinner: 3.5 oz carrot raisin Manna Bread

    Post-workout snack: 2.5 cups red seedless grapes. (I usually have 2 cups, but the extra half cup used up the bunch.)

    Throughout the day: four cups of black coffee

    Other foods that I eat include frozen spinach, frozen broccoli, canned chicken, unsalted peanuts, oranges, yerba mate tea, low-salt V-8 with hot sauce, garbanzos, corn, Greek yogurt (fruit flavored or plain with honey added). Winter foods include potatoes, cabbage, and onions.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Took a look at my diary, and in the last week:

    Breakfast: 6 out of the last 7 days I've had eggs (fried, scrambled with sausage and cheese, omelet, breakfast sandwich) usually accompanied by buttered toast; once oatmeal

    Lunch: Leftovers most of the time, often with a salad; Mother's Day we went out for a late lunch at an Indian restaurant (then didn't need dinner); one day a Marie Callender's frozen meal

    Dinner: pigs in blankets with a side of mac n' cheese; steak meal at Applebee's; mac n' cheese with Hawaiian rolls; pasta & meatballs with garlic bread and wine; salad with roast chicken and croissants; veggie nachos and wine.

    Snacks: Noosa honey yogurt, Chobani pineapple yogurt, clementines, bananas, TastyKakes, cereal & milk, popcorn, ice cream, toast with peanut butter, cookies, Balance bar, blueberries, coffee cake, protein drink, PowerBar, Chex mix.
  • Shadowknight137
    Shadowknight137 Posts: 1,243 Member
    A crapton of coffee. Usually ten or more mugs a day.
    At the very minimum, 100g dark chocolate... though I ofteen exceed this.
    Meat, potatoes and eggs.
    Frozen fruit. Maybe with nut butter, cottage cheese and/or more chocolate.
  • drefaw
    drefaw Posts: 739
    My diary is open, feel free to look at it ... Nothing exciting really ... but it's working for me ....
  • xDawnsgrace
    xDawnsgrace Posts: 436
    Breakfast-3 eggs, 2 slices turkey bacon, 1 slice of whole wheat bread, 1/2 grapefruit
    Lunch: some type of salad and white tea.
    Snack: some type of wrap.
    Dinner: some type of meat, tortilla, and veggies.
  • joolywooly33
    joolywooly33 Posts: 421 Member
    I normally eat 6 times a day. I'm not under any illusion that it effects weight loss but it works for me because I like to eat regularly and prefer smaller meals.

    Meal 1- one egg and two whites omelette with veggies and cheese. A slice of wheat bread with natural peanut butter and banana. Coffee.
    Meal 2- homemade protein cookies or Greek yoghurt
    Meal 3- Chicken or kangaroo with veggies, some form of sauce, sometimes an egg
    Meal 4- rice cakes with peanut butter and banana, occasionally cereal or beef jerky of I'm out and about
    Meal 5- varies could be home made curry, pitta pizzas, turkey burgers, seafood etc
    Meal 6- a curly wurly, and ice cream bar or other dessert item

    How do you make protein cookies:tongue:
  • Doylerawmeat
    Doylerawmeat Posts: 21 Member
    I normally eat 6 times a day. I'm not under any illusion that it effects weight loss but it works for me because I like to eat regularly and prefer smaller meals.

    Meal 1- one egg and two whites omelette with veggies and cheese. A slice of wheat bread with natural peanut butter and banana. Coffee.
    Meal 2- homemade protein cookies or Greek yoghurt
    Meal 3- Chicken or kangaroo with veggies, some form of sauce, sometimes an egg
    Meal 4- rice cakes with peanut butter and banana, occasionally cereal or beef jerky of I'm out and about
    Meal 5- varies could be home made curry, pitta pizzas, turkey burgers, seafood etc
    Meal 6- a curly wurly, and ice cream bar or other dessert item

    How do you make protein cookies:tongue:

    I used to make raw protein brownies for after the gym.. I can pass on the recipe if you wish?
  • momzeeee
    momzeeee Posts: 475 Member
    I'm in maintenance-

    10 am-6 egg omelet with cheddar, diced ham and mushrooms/green bell peppers (going to a local diner with friends)

    late afternoon-leftover homemade chicken fried rice; square of Lindt 85% dark chocolate, handful of almonds

    supper-might not be hungry, but if I do want something I'll either have homemade chicken salad on a bed of lettuce or a Larabar.

    Doing Mark Lauren's strength training program and walking two miles today, but I don't do anything besides drink water afterwards.
  • Hoosier96
    Hoosier96 Posts: 118 Member
    Breakfast: oatmeal with ground flax, brown sugar and skim milk. Coffee with splenda and 2%
    Lunch: natural peanut butter on dark bread with some fruit
    Dinner: salad, quinoa or cous cous, salmon
    snacks: almonds, belvita, green beans, celery, berries, yogurt

    weekend splurge: egg whites, bacon, a couple pancakes (heart healthy bisquick or multigrain).
  • Doylerawmeat
    Doylerawmeat Posts: 21 Member
    Lots of great diet plans happening here. Does anyone else do a cheat day?
    Usually, on a saturday, ill eat a healthy breakfast, then a semi healthy lunch (something like Leon meatballs and brown rice with a raw coleslaw) then in the evening treat myself to a naughty dinner. Pizza, or some ribs and pulled pork. That sort of thing, followed by a proper pudding.
  • HollisGrant
    HollisGrant Posts: 2,022 Member
    Breakfast: steel cut oats with diced apple, sesame seeds, and sometimes a little cinnamon

    Lunch: 1-2 cups of lentils, 1 cup brown rice, and steamed/blanched veggies (broccoli, carrots, shredded purple cabbage, onion, etc.) with sesame seeds or a little Tamari

    Dinner: repeat of lunch or something similar, or salad with egg or tuna (I squeeze some lime slices instead of salad dressing), sometimes soup with vegetables

    Snacks: boiled egg, apples, once in a while a Slim Fast shake since I have some left in the kitchen

    Drinks: black coffee and water with lemon slices

    Restaurants: cappuccino with skim milk, tuna salad, veggie omelet
  • adriana_hackney
    adriana_hackney Posts: 232 Member
    My diary is open if you wanna check it out. I changed over to 80/20 clean eating about 3 weeks ago (:
  • joolywooly33
    joolywooly33 Posts: 421 Member
    I normally eat 6 times a day. I'm not under any illusion that it effects weight loss but it works for me because I like to eat regularly and prefer smaller meals.

    Meal 1- one egg and two whites omelette with veggies and cheese. A slice of wheat bread with natural peanut butter and banana. Coffee.
    Meal 2- homemade protein cookies or Greek yoghurt
    Meal 3- Chicken or kangaroo with veggies, some form of sauce, sometimes an egg
    Meal 4- rice cakes with peanut butter and banana, occasionally cereal or beef jerky of I'm out and about
    Meal 5- varies could be home made curry, pitta pizzas, turkey burgers, seafood etc
    Meal 6- a curly wurly, and ice cream bar or other dessert item

    How do you make protein cookies:tongue:

    I used to make raw protein brownies for after the gym.. I can pass on the recipe if you wish?

    Yessssss pleeeeaaaassseeeeeee lol:wink:
  • Lunachic77
    Lunachic77 Posts: 434 Member
    Breakfast - Protein Shake & an egg or some fruit and cottage cheese

    Lunch - Steamed vegetables, baked chicken or fish, starch (rice or potato)

    Snack - Popcorn or Beef Jerky

    Dinner - Sometimes a repeater of lunch or I'll make a huge salad w/ Grilled chicken breast

    Evening Snack - Quest bar or Luna bar, peanut butter, nuts, or pudding cup

    Fridays are usually my Fat meal: crab legs, fried shrimp, ice cream (but still within calorie limits)
  • PlayerHatinDogooder
    PlayerHatinDogooder Posts: 1,018 Member
    Coffee, protein, fat, carbs, booze
  • HealthyDreamy
    HealthyDreamy Posts: 42 Member
    Meal 1: Real oatmeal porridge with Agave nectar

    Meal 2: Apple or banana (with peanut butter if feeling naughty)

    Meal 3: Chicken, tuna or turkey salad...tomatos, cucumber, spinach, boiled egg sometimes onions, capers, limiting beetroot and sweetcorn.

    Meal 4: Apple or banana (with peanut butter if feeling naughty) maybe with some natural mixed nuts

    Meal 5: 1 Egg, 2 white omelette with mixed vegetables in or meat with vegetables of some form

    Drinks - H2O BABY ;0)
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I eat twice a day. My first meal is always plain Greek yogurt and various fruits, usually pineapple and some kind of berry. Roughly 250 calories, eaten around 11 AM.

    My second meal is epic and consists of a protein shake, followed by a lot of meat and some vegetables (raw, steamed, sauteed ... makes no difference), and finished off with 1.5 oz of dark chocolate dipped in 2 tablespoons of peanut butter. This is 1500 to 1600 calories, eaten between 6 and 7 PM.
  • cals83
    cals83 Posts: 131
    Breakfast: shake
    Snack: Almonds and coffee with milk
    Lunch: omelet (2 whole eggs, meat, cheese, and after I go grocery shopping I will be adding spinach),apple
    Snack: cottage cheese or yogurt
    Dinner: varies
    Snack: varies based on what I had for dinner

    If I have something like chicken and vegetables for dinner, my snack will be chips, ice cream or something like that. If I have tacos for dinner, I usually just eat more tacos and don't have a snack after dinner. If I am under on fat,protein, or fiber, I will have another shake but will vary up the ingredients to meet my targets for the day. (nut butter if I need fats, vary the amount of protein powder/greek yogurt based on how much I need, flax meal if I need fiber)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Mostly frozen breakfast sandwiches, frozen dinners, McDonald's, Taco Bell, ice cream, and protein powder. With an occasional pizza binge.
  • anxietygirl
    anxietygirl Posts: 70 Member
    Breakfast: if I have to be at work by 830 (5 days per week) I almost always eat Quaker Oats with a cut-up apple, some almonds, and a sprinkle of dried fruits (raisins, dates, apricots, mangoes... we try 'em all).

    Snack: I tend to eat a Nature's Bakery fig bar in the morning to help get me to lunch, 2 or 3 days a week. Also I drink way too much coffee, with creamer and sugar and don't judge me it's delicious.

    Lunch: Right now we're doing various homemade chicken salads on bread. We tear apart a whole rotisserie chicken, add seasoning, nonfat greek yogurt and things like olives, spring onions, almonds, grapes, walnuts or whatever to add crunch and variety, and eat it on bread for lunch all week. Super filling and surprisingly low calorie.

    Snack: Usually fat-free cottage cheese with saltines. Sometimes tortilla chips and salsa. I found this thing called Muller Corner that is yogurt + add-on included, like caramelized almonds, honeyed apricots, fruit, that kind of thing and I like it a lot.

    Dinner: We make dinner. We're doing a thing with Mother Earth Produce where they deliver fruits & veggies, so we've been eating a LOT of veggie-heavy dinners lately. Think roasted veggies, fresh tomato sauce, I made greens with coconut milk and shrimp last night... that kind of stuff. I work really hard to eat as little I can give a brand name to as possible.

    We're not really dessert people. maybe some fruit & yogurt, now and then I pull out the vanilla fro-yo languishing in my freezer.

    The first week I did MFP, I was drinking a LOT of tea with honey and milk, because it counted as a snack without using up too many calories. I'm starting to settle more into not needing snacks as often, now, which is nice.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Breakfast: Two scrambled eggs with cheese, five turkey bacon slices, Greek yogurt, nuts.
    Lunch: Soup.
    Dinner: Fish or chicken, vegetable, maybe brown rice.
    Snacks: Greek yogurt, spoonfuls of peanut butter, nuts, ice cream...
  • TravisBikes
    TravisBikes Posts: 674 Member
    SSDD, Carb Loading, Muscle Builders, Healthy Crap, Fats, Ice Cream

    Open diary. Really not that interesting.
  • thistimewillbedifferent
    thistimewillbedifferent Posts: 217 Member
    My diary is open. 1800-2000 cals per day. Protein is key to keeping me full, especially at bfast. Ideally (but not always) my snacks are a combo of protein, carb, and healthy fat. I almost always have a morning and afternoon snack. I try not to go more than four hours without eating something during the day -- helps keep me from getting so hungry that I make poor choices in the evening.

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