What do you people eat in a normal day?

aileencrone · May 2012

I'm 14w3d and I feel like all I eat is crappy processed not-good-enough-for-the-nugget food. I try to eat fruit with breakfast, and at least a veggie with lunch and dinner, but that doesn't quite seem good enough.

I do take prenatals, and extra folic acid, vitamin D, and iron per the doc.

So what do you eat on any given day? Just wondering how I compare.

Thanks!

sassenma · May 2012

So far today, I've eaten cereal, a yogurt parfait with granola, three deviled eggs, and shrimp cocktail. Huh?

MarisaKathleen · May 2012

I can't stop eating. I'm also craving fruit.

I graze all day, but today have eaten 2 egg whites on toast, a pint of strawberries, a pear, a banana, 2 pieces of string cheese, a lean cuisine cheese pizza and a chocolate covered peanut butter rice krispie treat. I was overweight to begin with, so my doc recommended that I stick with my weight watchers plan while pregnant. I should gain around 10-15lbs total, but haven't put on anything yet, even the 15lbs I lost in the first tri.

I wish I could eat pie right now. Pie would be excellent.

gnomemom · May 2012

Hey, what do you mean "you people"? Just kidding. Wink

I have really been craving fresh fruit and veggies. Which is odd, because I don't have the best eating habits normally. Although, the other day I ate an entire Totino's pizza by myself. I'm not proud. I really regretted it afterwards...I was sick for 2 days.

I try to drink a lot of juice in the mornings and water throughout the day, although I usually fail on the whole water thing and have a 7-Up instead.

CLeigh03 · May 2012

I'm pretty consistent with my eating habits and I rarely eat any form of processed foods.

For breakfast I have a whole wheat english muffin smothered with freshly ground peanut butter, sliced bananas, and honey. On the side Trader Joes frozen mangos - they rock!

Lunch is a HUGE salad - like an entire plate full. Since pregnant I've added a 1/2 sandwich to go with that. Typically a veggie panini with gooey mozzerella on toatsed whole wheat.

Dinner I'm more creative as I love to cook. It varies but always includes some type of protein, veggies, and most often a carb (roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes baked fries...etc).

Dessert is mango sorbet. I eat it almost nightly.

Of course I vary from this from time to time, but I love this food so it's easy to keep it going.

Cantw82bamom · May 2012

well up until this past week I have been eating whatever I could down... Whether it be taquitos or corn dogs or spaghettios and beefaroni.. ALL PROCESSED... I ate a ton of fruit .. veggies are so so after throwing up salad repeatedly... ewwwww... worst thing ever... Meat I barely could touch unless it was chick fa let sandwiches yummy so not the best things to be eating... however now that my nausea has gone down I usually eat a fiber or whole grain cereal w/2% milk in the morning a few hours after some almonds and yogurt.... a few hours later whatever I want for lunch (be it Chick fa let, spaghettios or a fruit bowl) , a few hours after that some kind of snak either pb&j sandwich or turkey sandwich (something to that affect) than dinner (spaghetti pizza subs pasta salad) basically whatever I feel my body can handle... and than a few hours after that some kind of snack (fruit sorbet, sometimes a mini candy bar (so sue me) sometimes a large candy bar hehe.. Bottom line is eat what you can handle take your vitamins exercise.. no need to be hitler about what you eat .. Enjoy life!!

roxyttandme · May 2012

Food.

:::real helpful, Roxy. Real helpful::::::

skyejo · May 2012

I wasn't able to stomach healthier foods until around 16w but now I can eat just about anything. I'm having some m/s today, great just great, so I haven't ate too much:

Breakfast: toast w/ hard boiled egg

Lunch: turkey Jimmy John's sub

Dinner: most likely pasta with olive oil, parm, and beef

Typically I have three full meals with snacks in between each. I snack primarily on fruit and manage to sneak a little chocolate in here and there

ccam · May 2012

During the work week, I'm pretty predictable. Breakfast - bowl of cereal or oatmeal, OJ & coffee. Mid morning - banana & maybe some pretzels or crackers. Lunch - small salad & a yogurt or a PB&J sandwich. Snack - a cup of fruit. Dinner - chicken or meat with tons of veggies, maybe a little rice or bread but not every night. After dinner I might have an italian ice or something.

Weekends are a different story - depends on what we're doing.

lickitysplit · May 2012

I've been adding more healthy fruit and salads lately, but only because I am wanting them more now (thankfully). Although I still have an appetite for cheeseburgers, pizza, pasta, and cheese and bean burritos. I eat sweets too; especially peanut mnms and cake. I try to eat a mixture of foods but it comes down to what sounds good usually.

abbyful · May 2012

Here's examples of meals I've eaten in the last week:

Breakfasts
- organic full-fat yogurt & some fruit
- 2 hard boiled eggs & some fruit
- ommlette (on the weekends)

Lunches & Dinners (lunch is usually leftovers from the night before)
- chicken, fennel, & kale stew; also has mushrooms, onions, and coconut milk
- steak topped with gaucamole, sweet potato
- tilapia & asparagus in a vermouth cream sauce
- taco salad (literally a salad, taco fixings on top of mixed greens, no chips)
- shrimp ceviche
- dolmades (grape leaves stuff with lamb & rice), tomato olive and feta salad
- Chipotle burrito bowl

Snacks:
- berries, apple, mango, kiwi, or other fruit
- hard boiled egg(s)
- handful of nuts, or fruit & nut trail mix
- cheese
- coconut water
- milkshake (Breyers vanilla ice cream, buttermilk, lemon extract)
- organic full-fat yogurt

Daily supplements: prenatal vitamin, vitamin D, fish & krill oil, iron

ATMmom324 · May 2012

What ever my one year old rejects. Today for breakfast we had carrots with dip and some french toast sticks.

Then we ate some mandarin oranges.

For lunch we had pizza and some grapes.

For snack we had some fruit snacks.

aileencrone · May 2012

Ah, you ladies make me feel much better about life. I haven't really been able to stomach meat lately, but I think that's finally going away. I'm glad to see I'm pretty much in line with most of you. Thanks again!

blindvictory · May 2012

So far today, I've had a tuna sandwich. Normally I'll have some cereal for breakfast but I slept in today. I normally go big on dinner and eat whatever I want. Which is normally something carb-loaded like pasta.

cherilynann · May 2012

Wow, I am a cow!

BF: either 4 egg whites, fat free cheese, and toast or 2 bagel thins with low fat cc

then at about 9 am- Banana and/or apple

then about 11 - small salad - iceberg lettuce, some chick peas, and low fat ranch

Lunch - usually leftovers that i cook, once a week we get salad pizza at work, or soup and cheese sandwich

about 4 pm - low fat yogurt and fruit

dinner - i cook almost every day so a protein, veg, and carb

and of course some sort of frozen yogurt for dessert. MOOOOO!

I think i eat every 2-3 hours!

gnomemom · May 2012

This thread is making me hungry...

Cantw82bamom · May 2012

abbyful:

Here's examples of meals I've eaten in the last week:

Breakfasts
- organic full-fat yogurt & some fruit
- 2 hard boiled eggs & some fruit
- ommlette (on the weekends)

Lunches & Dinners (lunch is usually leftovers from the night before)
- chicken, fennel, & kale stew; also has mushrooms, onions, and coconut milk
- steak topped with gaucamole, sweet potato
- tilapia & asparagus in a vermouth cream sauce
- taco salad (literally a salad, taco fixings on top of mixed greens, no chips)
- shrimp ceviche
- dolmades (grape leaves stuff with lamb & rice), tomato olive and feta salad
- Chipotle burrito bowl

Snacks:
- berries, apple, mango, kiwi, or other fruit
- hard boiled egg(s)
- handful of nuts, or fruit & nut trail mix
- cheese
- coconut water
- milkshake (Breyers vanilla ice cream, buttermilk, lemon extract)
- organic full-fat yogurt

Daily supplements: prenatal vitamin, vitamin D, fish & krill oil, iron

Umm can I come live with you for the remainder of my pregnancy... please and thank you!!

kelnyc · May 2012

Breakfast: Same thing every day. Luna bar on the way to the train and instant oatmeal at my desk

Lunch: Some kind of sandwich or wheat toast, usually egg salad, PB&J or the occassional toasted turkey sub. I also get soup and salad or a grilled chicken wrap on occassion.

Dinner: H is a vegetarian, so we eat no meat at home. If it's a pasta dish, we load up on veggies and only use quinoa pasta (skinnytaste spinach lasagna rolls = YUM!) Otherwise, we have baked fish with a veg and starch, or veggie nuggets and mac & cheese, or a whole wheat frozen pizza, black bean chilli, a veggie fritatta, stuffed peppers... lots of different things, but usually not processed and never fried.

Snacks: BabyBel light cheese, Greek or regular full-fat yogurt, fresh fruit, hummus with carrots/ whole wheat pita, multigrain tortilla chips with heated salsa con queso, wheat crackers with low-fat block cheese, cereal with 1% milk, Skinny Cow ice cream, and the occassional cookie or two.

abbyful · May 2012

Cantw82bamom:
abbyful:

Here's examples of meals I've eaten in the last week:

Breakfasts
- organic full-fat yogurt & some fruit
- 2 hard boiled eggs & some fruit
- ommlette (on the weekends)

Lunches & Dinners (lunch is usually leftovers from the night before)
- chicken, fennel, & kale stew; also has mushrooms, onions, and coconut milk
- steak topped with gaucamole, sweet potato
- tilapia & asparagus in a vermouth cream sauce
- taco salad (literally a salad, taco fixings on top of mixed greens, no chips)
- shrimp ceviche
- dolmades (grape leaves stuff with lamb & rice), tomato olive and feta salad
- Chipotle burrito bowl

Snacks:
- berries, apple, mango, kiwi, or other fruit
- hard boiled egg(s)
- handful of nuts, or fruit & nut trail mix
- cheese
- coconut water
- milkshake (Breyers vanilla ice cream, buttermilk, lemon extract)
- organic full-fat yogurt

Daily supplements: prenatal vitamin, vitamin D, fish & krill oil, iron

Umm can I come live with you for the remainder of my pregnancy... please and thank you!!

I'll cook if you clean!

MzAshie · May 2012

Here's mine:

Breakfast: Cereal or Waffles (during work week) or Bacon, Eggs, & Rice (weekends)

Lunch: Leftover dinner or Pizza, Egg salad sandwich w/chips

Dinner: Meat (steak, chicken, ground beef, or pork), usually a veggie (broccoli, corn, asparagus), and rice, or baked potato

Snacks: Popcorn, nuts, apples, oranges, mangoes, nectarines, carrots w/ranch, my fave snack is popcorn w/m&m peanuts & arare.

I've been craving chocolate shakes! Only had one so far & I eat ice cream some nights. Usually I'm a big JUNK FOOD addict but I cut down & haven't been to into chocolate candy mostly like sour candy right now.

Water: I try to drink 50.7 - 64 FL oz a day. (I'm not a big fan of water so it's hard)

I'll have orange juice some mornings. I try not to drink juices or soda. I'll have a few sips of sprite once in a great while.

&I take my prenatals daily

morethancottoncandy · May 2012

My day looks a little like this.

Breakfast is usually a grapefruit or banana and then some eggs with tomatoes or spinach. Some days I'll just have a few pieces of turkey bacon with tomatoes instead of eggs. Lunch is almost always salad with chicken and a sweet potato. Dinner is meat or fish and veggies. I usually have fruit and cheese or almond butter for snacks or some cut up avocado with lemon.

kelnyc · May 2012

aileencrone:

Ah, you ladies make me feel much better about life. I haven't really been able to stomach meat lately, but I think that's finally going away. I'm glad to see I'm pretty much in line with most of you. Thanks again!

I think you could add more fruits & veggies (as snacks maybe?) from what you implied in your original post. The processed foods you mention are loaded with preservatives, so keep those to a minimum and watch out for wasted calories in some carbs (opt for whole grains). And if you aren't eating any meat, make sure you are getting at least 75 grams of protein a day from other sources (like eggs, beans, peanut butter, avocado, etc.)

LuckyMissus · May 2012

I keep hearing people, on this thread and tv, magazines, etc. saying they don't eat, or they eat very little processed food. But then they talk about what look like to me, tons of processed foods listed.

So, what is the definition of processed food? Is there some working definiton I don't know about?

Let's use corn as an example. To me, anything but plain corn on the cob is processed, and even that is cooked! So, everything from popcorn to corn syrup would be processed.

So, besides the apple I had for a snack this morning, everything I've eaten today is processed: Egg & cheese on a bagel, chicken & cheddar sandwich w/mustard, Kashii go-lean and non-fat greek yogurt, a few Sour Patch kids (left over m/s "treatment"). I'm contemplating pizza for dinner, yumm!

[Deleted User] · May 2012

gnomemom:

Although, the other day I ate an entire Totino's pizza by myself. I'm not proud. I really regretted it afterwards...I was sick for 2 days.

OMG now I NEED to eat Totino's Pizza...So bad for me but so good in the moment! This is why I don't allow myself to buy them when I grocery shop!

kelnyc · May 2012

LuckyMissus:

I keep hearing people, on this thread and tv, magazines, etc. saying they don't eat, or they eat very little processed food. But then they talk about what look like to me, tons of processed foods listed.

So, what is the definition of processed food? Is there some working definiton I don't know about?

Let's use corn as an example. To me, anything but plain corn on the cob is processed, and even that is cooked! So, everything from popcorn to corn syrup would be processed.

So, besides the apple I had for a snack this morning, everything I've eaten today is processed: Egg & cheese on a bagel, chicken & cheddar sandwich w/mustard, Kashii go-lean and non-fat greek yogurt, a few Sour Patch kids (left over m/s "treatment"). I'm contemplating pizza for dinner, yumm!

I refer to things that are pre-cooked and pre-packaged as being processed. Like popping some frozen breaded chicken in the oven, or boling up a package of ravioli and serving it with a jar of pasta sauce. That sort of thing. it would be better to bake your own organic chicken breast at home and serve it with some baby potatoes that you mashed. (Like my mac & cheese... it's not from a box. I boil quinoa elbow macaroni and shred organic cheese.) Yes, microwave popcorn and corn syrup are processed, but some choices are certainly better than others. Most processed foods have a lot of sodium and preservatives, which can be easily avoided.

pb_bride · May 2012

I'm a flexitarian and only cook meat once or twice a week (in very small amts), so I have been adding more non-meat protein to my diet.

Typical meals:

Breakfast homemade granola topped with low-fat plain yogurt and fruit (these days usually 1/2 mango, diced)

Lunch small serving of noodles with cooked veggies (usu bok choy or similar),plus fried egg and/or tofu

Dinner I cook from scratch and don't use any processed food (I'm SAHW), so it's plenty of veggies with carbs and proteins from quinoa/lentils etc. A piece of fruit after dinner.

Snacks Slice of cheese; hummus; trail mix; and lately I enjoy Trader Joe's root vegetable chips!

P.S. I also drink about 2 glasses of non-fat milk a day for protein!

morethancottoncandy · May 2012

LuckyMissus:
I keep hearing people, on this thread and tv, magazines, etc. saying they don't eat, or they eat very little processed food. But then they talk about what look like to me, tons of processed foods listed.

So, what is the definition of processed food? Is there some working definiton I don't know about?

Let's use corn as an example. To me, anything but plain corn on the cob is processed, and even that is cooked! So, everything from popcorn to corn syrup would be processed.

So, besides the apple I had for a snack this morning, everything I've eaten today is processed: Egg & cheese on a bagel, chicken & cheddar sandwich w/mustard, Kashii go-lean and non-fat greek yogurt, a few Sour Patch kids (left over m/s "treatment"). I'm contemplating pizza for dinner, yumm!

Processed foods are things like packaged crackers, cookies, canned soups, frozen meals or meats and fish (like fish sticks or nuggets), jarred sauces, baked or fried snack foods, margarine, velveeta, boxed mac & cheese, etc.

NHRunner · May 2012

Breakfast - usually greek yogurt, fresh fruit and fiber one cereal

Snack (sometimes) - 100 calorie granola bar

Lunch - lately spinach salad with grilled chicken, veggies, pasterized goat cheese and balsamic dressing.

Snack (sometimes) - balance bar, but today we had some cake in the office for a graduation so I had a little of that

Dinner - some of the stuff we normally eat....grilled chicken w/veggies and rice , ground turkey tacos w/ black beans on the side, grilled or baked salmon w/veggies and rice or couscous, pink slime free burgers with baked sweet potato fries and steamed veggies.

SraSanchez · May 2012

I eat terribly. I am always on the go. Between field work, job and school, I don't feel like I have time to cook, so what do I do? I eat carls jr biscuits or a spinach wrap from starbucks for breakfast with a small coffee or a decaf americano. I usually eat a school cafeteria turkey wrap for lunch with a cookie and a bottle of water or can of diet soda ( caffeine free if they have it, but usually not). For dinner, if I'm working at Starbucks, I'll have one of our sandwiches, but I'm so sick of them now that I usually end up with a chicken salad from oporto, or tortilla rolls from el pollo loco. 3 out of five weekdays are 14 hour days for me, weekend days are 8 hour days so I can usually eat better for at least one meal of the day, and the two weeknights I have school, hubby usually cooks something and I eat when i get home. Our kid is gonna come out in the form of chicken tenders or something wrapped in a tortilla.

pb_bride · May 2012

LuckyMissus:

I keep hearing people, on this thread and tv, magazines, etc. saying they don't eat, or they eat very little processed food. But then they talk about what look like to me, tons of processed foods listed.

I make my own granola (ingredients: old-fashioned oats, walnuts, almonds, freeze-dried fruits, raw honey). I only eat plain organic yogurt instead of the whipped ones or flavored ones, so I don't consider my yogurt as your typical "processed" foods.

I buy fresh veggies and fruits from produce store or farmers market, organic raw chicken from TJ's, and pasture-raised raw meat from local farms. I rarely buy any packaged foods. Of course, the TJ's vegetable root chips I eat are processed. Surprise

Oh, and I only eat baked goods that I bake myself - so foods like cookies, muffins, scones etc at my house are homemade. although they have been "processed by me," I use real ingredients instead of those packaged foods full of chemicals, preservatives and dyes that one cannot pronounce.

I'm lucky that I'm a SAHW so I have the luxury of time to plan AND cook meals from scratch. Back when I was working 10 hrs a day, I hardly had anytime to even think what we'd have for dinner...

cad0327 · May 2012

Today for breakfast I had cereal, lunch a turkey and cheese pita and an apple with peanut butter. For a snack I'll have another apple probably, I'm for dinner baked chicken, sweet potatoes, corn and a small salad. I'm not a huge fan of sweets so sometimes for dessert I'll have a small bowl of cereal too....or just an otter Pop. Snacks are usually fruit or veggies in dip, or a granola bar. Lunch is usually a sandwich or salad with turkey, tuna or chicken. Its harder being pregnant because of the whole lunch meat issue. But I eat mostly the same. Just more water and I snack more often:) the only really hard thing lately for me is veggies....they gross me out now days! So I try and eat them when I can stomach it.

CrazyLife3 · May 2012

Breakfast: Old fashioned oatmeal with coconut oil, apple sauce, and brown sugar or Eggs.

Snack: either cottage cheese or greek yogurt plus and apple or banana

Lunch: Leftovers from the night before or a chicken or tuna salad. Cookie, ice cream or candy for dessert

Snack: Peanut butter w/ crackers or banana, or nuts.

Dinner: Beef, chicken or deer with a potato, rice, or noodles and some sort of veggie. Ice cream for dessert.

On days I workout: A protien shake and banana after workout.

Sometimes before bed: Greek yogurt w/ frozen berries.

3 Days a week I usually make a green smoothie in my vitamix at lunch or dinner.

One day a week I have pop with lunch.

Pizza one dinner a week.

I cook mostly at home except usually 2 lunches out a week.

RuthieGemal · May 2012

paleo?

RuthieGemal · May 2012

abbyful:
Here's examples of meals I've eaten in the last week:
Breakfasts
- organic full-fat yogurt & some fruit
- 2 hard boiled eggs & some fruit
- ommlette (on the weekends)
Lunches & Dinners (lunch is usually leftovers from the night before)
- chicken, fennel, & kale stew; also has mushrooms, onions, and coconut milk
- steak topped with gaucamole, sweet potato
- tilapia & asparagus in a vermouth cream sauce
- taco salad (literally a salad, taco fixings on top of mixed greens, no chips)
- shrimp ceviche
- dolmades (grape leaves stuff with lamb & rice), tomato olive and feta salad
- Chipotle burrito bowl
Snacks:
- berries, apple, mango, kiwi, or other fruit
- hard boiled egg(s)
- handful of nuts, or fruit & nut trail mix
- cheese
- coconut water
- milkshake (Breyers vanilla ice cream, buttermilk, lemon extract)
- organic full-fat yogurt
Daily supplements: prenatal vitamin, vitamin D, fish & krill oil, iron

paleo??

Jessfulller · May 2012

basically Ill eat what I please. I love steak, potatoes, pasta. salad, and i lovvvvee cereal. I try my best to stay away from processed foods and saturated fat. Even though i did indulge in a digiornos the other day yum! lots of water too!

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