Thread: How does everyone eat?

We're usually pretty healthy here, always home cooked meals every night, lots of fruits and veggies, limited candy/junk food. But we've been having a hard time getting on track since the start of the school year and hockey season. Hockey is hard because we never get home until after 6 pm, and then it's trying to get supper on, get the kids bathed, Adrian's reading/homework and then off to bed. Anyhow, this is normally how I eat, and granted, there has been a lot of snacks/junk food that comes and goes so I'm not writing that all down, lol.

Breakfast: around 7 am, either a bowl of cereal, whole wheat oatmeal or a bagel w/cream cheese; fruit, either blackberries, strawberries, blueberries or apples and peanut butter; if I feel it's not enough I have yogurt (so far loving Greek yogurt sweetened with strawberries).
Snack: around 10 am, usually whatever I find that I want. Nuts, string cheese, granola bar, mandarin orange
Lunch: around 11:30 or 12, depending on when DH gets home for lunch. Differs, sometimes fried eggs on toast, salad (spring mix w/ parmesan garlic dressing, chicken and craisins), or a sandwich.
Snack: same as the 10 am snacks, usually around 2:30, and then I'm always starving again at around 4, and if we're at hockey I always buy a piece of banana bread from the concession.
Supper: around 5 on normal nights, and as soon as we get home on hockey nights. I usually cook, and when we were in our routine, I had the nights planned on the calendar of what to make. Roast chicken, chicken breasts in mushroom soup, homemade nachos, pork chops (seasoned, sweet and sour, or mushroom soup), roasts, sausages, turkey loaf, chilis, stews. And a lot of hockey night fast meals, hamburger helper (sometimes with ground turkey/chicken instead), soup and sandwiches, hot dogs.
Snack: Usually around 8. Usually it's air popped popcorn with butter, although I've tried it when my aunt made it with peanut oil and it tasted like buttered popcorn, so I'm going to have to try that.

I'm hoping that we can get back into that routine, lately it's been a lot of fast food, or buying from the deli's at the grocery stores.

Originally Posted by Jennifer

I'm hoping that we can get back into that routine, lately it's been a lot of fast food, or buying from the deli's at the grocery stores.

We've been eating out tons lately, which has it's ups and downs. We try to hit Timmys for sandwiches and soup rather then McDonalds, I always always sub my fries for roasted or mashed potatoes at restaraunts, etc. I guess the big one is getting in a rut of go-to foods when in a hurry, we almost always have a freezer pizza in the deep freeze, or a box of that lovely ginger beef that is just dripping in sodium and stuff. I found that I can't stomach overly processed foods so well being pregnant, it makes me feel really sick.

I did try keeping hard boiled eggs in the fridge, but I can only stand to eat them maybe once a week. I'm not a big egg fan.

I have no clue how I'm going to feed myself once Cody is here. I was thinking I might look into Body By Vi (After I'm not knocked up, that is), and eat on top of that if I'm hungry. One of the ladies in town is breastfeeding her daughter while on it and says she still has enough energy to chase all 3 of her kids without eating huge meals.

When busy, I tend to live on Tims as well. It's hard because it's so cheap! Especially as a vegetarian- I can pretty much buy meals there cheaper than making them myself...

I've been working really hard this year to cut out takeout, though, and have been really good so far. DP and I live out of our slow cooker! We (and by we, I mean he...I do literally no cooking in our house) put all the ingredients in in the morning and let it cook while we're at home- that way it's ready! For lunch, he packs either leftovers or a sandwich of sorts, and for morning it's coffee and cereal for me (I get it myself- that's my contribution! Not the coffee, though...) and this horrible gruel-like porridge for him that I wouldn't touch if you paid me.

The pull of the fast food is always there, though... :( I keep a steady flow of tea going while I'm at work and that helps stave off the Tims craving! Also, sneaking off for fast food at lunch is a pain because the students do too (which they're not allowed to!), so you end up spending your whole lunch break escorting kids back to the school and lecturing them. Not worth it!

Its time to find your love for the crockpot. Especially once the baby comes. You can chop everything in the morning while you still have energy left I got lots of recipes if you need some.

I will take any crock pot recipes I can get!!!

I am terrible when at work,I live off take-aways,and I can see it on the scale!on weekend I am not reallly bothered with eating.Hubby is the one that cooks at home,so I'm lazy and spoiled in that department....

Paige --- I would take crockpot recipes as well!! I have been using it a lot more these days!

Ohhhh share the crockpot recipes plz!!!

Sounds like you have a good diet Vikki,nothing too bad in there at all,few treats are good for the mind and soul IMO. Your freezer and a crock pot will be your best friend with a newborn,stuff your freezer to the top before you reach full term with portioned out meals. MOD Jennie is a crockpot girl and uses a webpage for her recipes.....OK just looked it is a facebook page Crock Pot Girls | Facebook

Also you might want to pick the breastfeeding girls brains as what foods are good after birth too,but healthy high energy snacks are always good to have about