Do you usually eat healthy foods or unhealthy foods? What are your typical meals?

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I eat pretty healthy So I eat alot of different yet healthy foods. A typical day for me is: gh fiber cearel with soy milk with dried fruit, ususally prunes because I LOVE THEM! Then early afternoon I’ll have soy yogurt with ground flax seed crackers normally organic fruit(I really love the organic dried fruit, its very good) For a early dinner I’ll make all kinds of things: Vegeatarian chili meatless spagetti with roasted veggied chicken pot pie(with meatless chicken) I eat alot of salads with Morning star chicken, 3 kinds of beans, lots of veggies(no carrots, really high in sugar) flax seed I also love mexican food---meatless of course and I make a awesome Veggie burger(that even my meat eater friends rave about) I eat alot of variety of food, but my main staples are dried fruit, soy, and alot of high fiber.

I have no problem eating this way...oh I also love suger free frozen yougurt...I go to this place that has the best flavors and they even have flax seed as a topping. Flax seed pretty much has a nutty flavor, so its kind of like eating nuts. I do eat some suger free candy---and during the holidays I do eat my share of BAD FOOD(LOL) with that said I make a MEAN TOFU CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE I eat this way not only because of health reasons but because I spent from age 9 to 24 being GRAVELY OBESE.

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Unhealthy, I'm afraid. I think it's mostly due to time constraints. By the time we get up in the morning, we're at a run to go to work, so it's cereal at best (except weekends, when I cook).

Then lunch is fast food of some type or a sandwich and then supper--whatever we can scrounge together that doesn't take long. If I'm really tired, we may order out (pizze, mexican food, etc. ) but if I cook, it's usually healthy, i.e. , vegetables, cornbread and chicken or something like that.

It's just that we're all so late getting home and so tired, I only cook about 2 times a week until the weekends--I cook breakfast and supper on the weekends when I'm not working. I can remember years ago people didn't have access to a lot of fast foods, so you had to cook and my mom had 3 square meals a day for us. She didn't work until we were almost out of high school.

Now, most of us start to work when our maternity leave ends and run ourselves ragged trying to do two full-time jobs--it's really more than two. I have also noticed that buying the healthiest foods, fresh foods and those without a lot of preservatives, etc., cost alot more, so if you're watching your budget, it's alot harder to eat the healthiest way. I think another problem is the fact that most of us like our diet drinks and crave that sugary chocolate too.

My mom used to not allow that type of food in the house and we always ate healthy, but now, almost every household (mine included) has junk food.It's really hard to resist something to which you have easy access. So, I think that time constraints, cost and willpower are three issues with me. Divafluff's Recommendations Cook Smart Eat Smart - Easy and Healthy Recipes and More Amazon List Price: $24.95 Eat This Not That: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!

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Rather healthy I tend to eat good meals and bad snacks. I keep a lot of vegetables on hand at home, from a community-supported-agriculture farm. So I never have an excuse not to eat vegetables.

I find that the most palatable way to eat vegetables is often to mix them with some sort of starch, and I've made a habit of keeping whole grain starches on hand (e.g. Brown rice). A meal of greens and rice is a pretty good meal. I don't feel the need to add a lot of fatty things to it.

I'll often have farm-raised meats, like pasture-raised beef and chicken, on hand. I don't want fancy, fatty preparations of those.My favorite thing to do with a chicken is to just roast it with salt and pepper; my favorite way to cook beef is to sear it (on a grill or in a pan). I've also got farm-raised eggs, and they're a good supplement to vegetables.

Part of it is because I want to be healthy, but a lot of it is that I want to see my food grown properly. I object deeply to the way animals are raised industrially. I'd rather shift to a more humane way of growing food.

Vegetables, at least, can't suffer, but I'd like to see a shift away from the massive scale of food to more locally-grown products. I'll eat industrial-organic if local food isn't available, but I try to encourage local farming. And it's healthier, too.

My snacks, however, are often dreadful. They're usually eaten on the go, on my way to some other activity. I should do a better job of carrying around leftovers as snacks, but they usually require refrigeration, and I admit that I find hot food comforting.

So I'll often stop for fast food. I almost always get the smallest thing available on the menu: a small cheeseburger, a few chicken nuggets, or a single hot dog from a convenience store. And yes, I do feel guilt about the poor animals that went into those nuggets, but the vegetarian options are simply unpalatable.

(If there's a Subway, a bun with vegetables on it is the best option, but it's still not good: the wheat bread is mostly white flour, and the tomatoes are so sad I cry.) In the worst nutritional cases, I'll even stop by a vending machine, and there's nothing EVER good in those so I might as well have some cupcakes. Either way, it's almost always empty calories. Having not too terribly many of them keeps it from blowing out my total calorie budget, which is higher than for some because I exercise a lot..

Inspiration The only inspiration that works is that it tastes good. If you try to live on a "healthy" diet that tastes like crap you go crazy in pretty short order. I dumped the major tonnage on South Beach a few years ago and I try to maintain a South Beach Phase II diet: lots of lean protein, veggies and fruit, low carb and fat, no butter & bad oils or sugar (read the labels, anything with corn syrup goes back on the shelf).

I don't do much bread but what I do is whole grain. I found that half the stuff that I used to eat as sandwiches is just as good without the bread. I make my own burgers with low fat hamburger and top 'em with lots of sliced red onion, tomatoes and low fat cheese.

Tuna, crab meat and chicken salads with lots of veggies and low fat Ranch dressing instead of mayonnaise. Hummus with lots of garlic and lemon juice topped with fresh salsa. If I do bread with them I use whole grain pita bread.

I make chili and stews with minimal fat instead of buying the canned stuff. I make a big pot of spicy tomato sauce (hot peppers are your friends) and then use that as a base to cook meat or seafood and serve over sauteed mushrooms instead of pasta. We use a vertical roaster (beer can) for roast chicken once a week.

Done that way most of the fat drops off and the meat stays moist. It actually tastes better than chicken roasted the regular way. The leftovers make chicken curry or stew for the weekend.

I cheat, of course. But I pay attention. When I have pizza or pasta I start with a big salad.

If I pig out today, It's bunny food tomorrow. I don't do much beer anymore but when I do it's a good ale or stout. One good beer is better than three bad ones and better for you to.

Variety and creativity is what makes it work. If you don't get bored with it and enjoy what you are eating, "healthy" isn't a chore, it's a pleasure. JBENZ's Recommendations The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Amazon List Price: $24.95 Used from: $0.29 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 714 reviews) The South Beach Diet Cookbook Amazon List Price: $27.95 Used from: $4.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 84 reviews) The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide (Revised): The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods Amazon List Price: $7.99 Used from: $1.88 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 66 reviews) .

Both Sometimes both at the same meal! Why does having a little steamed broccoli after an otherwise totally unhealthy meal day me feel less guilty? Well, I never said I was rational.

I’m not one to sit down to a balanced meal. I live alone and spending over an hour cooking three or four different things that get every dish in the house dirty and will take me all of 4½ minutes to eat is not a good use of my time. So while a meal for a normal person might be chicken, potatoes, some steamed vegetables and bread, I’ll eat the bread for breakfast, the chicken for lunch, the veggies for dinner, and nuke a potato for a bedtime snack.

What I will do, though, is cook up a storm some Sundays and then freeze the results so that I actually have real food (as opposed to frozen or microwaveable food) to eat for a while. I'm also big on one-pot dishes - you know, those dinners that have the meat and grains and veggies all rolled into one recipe. So things like lentil soup with rice and veggies, or chicken and rice, or risotto with lots of "stuff" in it...those are some very common meals around my place.

And, yes, I've been known to turn a pint of Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream into a meal, too. As you’ve no doubt surmised, I’m lazy. That laziness can work for me or against me.

If I have enough willpower to buy only healthy things at the store when I go shopping, then that’s what I eat...mostly because I hate grocery shopping and won’t go back until I’m out of food. If I’m hungry or stressed or just really really craving a brownie when I’m at the store, well, it’s all over. My food choices are largely driven by inertia.

Believe me, I do love some unhealthy foods. I also love foods that can be healthy in little doses (like almonds, for example)...but when you open a can of nuts, look down 20 minutes later and wonder where they all went, health flies out the window. I eat these types of foods when I have them in the house - I can usually manage willpower at the grocery store since I’m only there for 20 minutes once a week, but once they’re in my cupboard calling my name, what do you think I’m going to choose to eat?

It’s not all bad, though. I genuinely like vegetables and fruits and whole grain breads. They may not give me the same "fat satisfaction" that pastrami and cream cheese do, but right around now, when the weather is getting (slightly) warmer, I start to get hungry for the sweetness of a home grown tomato or the refreshing bite of a radish or the crunch and greenness of some lightly steamed green beans.

And yeah, I fall off the wagon sometimes (OK, a lot) and indulge in things that aren’t very good for me, but I doubt I’d ever lose my taste for a fresh salad with a little balsamic vinegar and some lemon juice or lose the rapture some freshly-picked raspberries can give me. (And yes, "rapture" is the correct word...you’d have to see it to believe it. My friends could sell tickets.) So it’s a balance.

I like eating many healthy things...both because I like their tastes and because I like the feeling of a job well done afterwards. I also really like things like cream cheese (I even made up a song about it) and nuts and deep fried egg rolls from the Chinese place down the street. I try to stay pretty balanced so I don’t end up craving bad foods and go on a cholesterol-themed pig out session.

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