I spend a lot of my time watching YouTube videos, and reading endless blog posts. With that comes the constant appearance of "What I eat in a Day" type videos, boasting meals of Avacado, Quinoa and some form of Coconut Oil included recipe. While these posts are good, I often read them and feel a sense of deflation when I realise my diet and lifestyle is far from the blogging stereotype... and do I care? For about 5 minutes - yes, it gets me down until I realise I LOVE FOOD. Seriously I am overweight for a reason - its well earned in my love of food.. so the thought of giving up any food group by choice makes me want to cry.
My concern is that I am a very strong person, I can stand and say I don't want that, but to teens and people who suffer with eating issues... are they being badly affected by the new food trends, seeing constant #cleaneating on instagram, showing you how your meals are inferior... So this post is here to make people feel better about their diets, maybe yours is as bad, or maybe your better, but either way no shaming or guilt trips here, just a view at what I eat, no trends, no fads. Just typical. And I hope it helps you see what I am trying to say...
I would also like to take this moment to say I have nothing against Vegans, or Healthy Eaters, what I have an issue with is them pushing their lifestyle and beliefs onto other people and demanding they believe the same as them. Vegan right now is a phase, its trendy to be this way, and yes everyones intentions are very good, but please do not expect others to be the same, please do not place guilt on others, do not be cruel or nasty. Everyone has a right to eat what they want and not be ashamed of anything.. there should be no fear of someone coming along saying "your wrong for eating that" your body.. eat whatever you want, your blog/IG/YouTube, post what you want!
BREAKFAST
Coffee. ASAP. Seriously I cannot function without one most days, while that cools I reach for a yoghurt. I am normally way too shattered to even consider heating anything or actually cooking something, so the chances of any omlettes before lunch time for me are 0.
This morning I had a chocolate flake yoghurt. Pretty standard for me, chocolate before 9am is totally allowed if you are mixing it in with yoghurt right?
For coffee I usually have one of these Nescafe Sachets. The coconut one is awesome, this is made with cow milk, it just has a coconut flavour, either way it tastes good.
To make me feel better I usually have an apple mid morning too, even out all the chocolate haha.
LUNCH
By 12 I am normally thinking I should be healthy. It always starts off well, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes. Then I throw in some ham to beef it up a bit, Boursin to make it taste better (cheese makes EVERYTHING taste better) and a generous helping of Thousand Island to make the whole thing edible. By the time its all in the bowl it tastes pretty awesome. Even if its now beyond healthy.
As for a drink I rarely drink water, I know I should but its just so flavourless. So I usually go for sparkling fruit water, or just diluting juice.
MID-AFTERNOON SNACK
Around 3 I tend to get hangry. And its always for something sweet. If we are out and about its usually an ice cream, but today we had our homemade ice lollies. This one is made from fresh orange juice and Haribo Fangtastics. They taste AWESOME. You can find more recipes here.
DINNER
Hello quick and easy. Cooking for just me seems pointless, so right now I am in love with ready meals. They are so easy, watch a YouTube video until they ping, and I don't end up with enough leftovers to do me a week. It just works for me right now, and this one is my favourite. Pasta mixed in a cheesy tomatoey almost lasagne type sauce with pepperoni... can't get much better than this for a micro meal!
PUDDING
At 7pm AJ goes into the shower and I clean the kitchen, I scrub down all my surfaces and wash and dry the dishes. I put AJ to bed, then I come to the kitchen and make a HUGE cup of tea. with loads of sweetners and cow milk. Nothing beats that moment. Peace, at last.
LATE NIGHT SNACK
Yeah, so I cant just stop there. At about 8.30-9.00 I get the munchies. ALWAYS. Recently the obsession has been with Candy Kitten... not because they are vegan or gluten free, but because they taste AMAZING. SO SO GOOD. I love the Sour Watermelon ones the best. I'm not going to lie either, most nights I will eat the full bag. Sometimes I can restrain myself, but typically the whole thing is gone while I am on twitter chats or binge watching netflix...So I did promise this post would be real, and it is. Honest and unedited. This is a very standard day for me, and I will not appologise for it. Sure my eating could be a lot better, but I just cannot be arsed spending a day a week meal prepping... but more importantly I cannot afford to live like that, I think people see a healthy Vegan lifestyle as a class thing now, as it is expensive... really expensive. (Like coconut yoghurt is £3.50 for 250g, compared to normal cow yoghurt at 45p for 250g. I think for £3.05 saving on yoghurt alone I would rather live with the guilt! #sorryvegans)
So let me know your thoughts on this whole phase at the moment? Do you love a "What I eat in a Day" posts? Do you live a super healthy clean lifestyle? If you havent already I would highly recommend checking out "Clean Eating's Dirty Secrets" It is available here on BBC3 iPlayer, a vlogger Grace Victory investigates eating trends, and I found it really interesting, and really goes into the new diet crazes going about. Well worth watching!
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