Do Not Eat: Breakfast Sandwiches Eggs, meat and cheese on a bun, sounds simple enough, right? If you buy your breakfast sandwiches at a fast food chain like McDonalds, the cheese is often processed, and the meat often greasy, which can leave you feeling drowsy and lethargic by lunch. Try This Instead: Toast With Almond Butter Many midlifers neglect to eat well simply because they are always on the go, according to Bonnie Taub-Dix. While it is easy to grab a breakfast sandwich or muffin when in a rush, these items are high in fat and calories. A quick, easy and healthy replacement is toast with almond butter. Do Not Eat: Chunks Of Cheese Chunks of cheese often seem like a great addition to a boring salad. However, you will have to add more than just a few pieces to get that savory taste, overtaking the health benefits of eating a salad. Try This Instead: Shredded Cheese You can get the consistent taste of cheese throughout your salad while using less when you trade out chunks of cheese for shredded cheese. Do Not Eat: Cereal Bars While cereal bars are tasty and low in calories, they are often low in protein, leaving one hungry and de-energized. Try This Instead: Protein Bar Protein bars are a quick, easy and convenient way to keep yourself energized and full throughout the day. Bonnie Taub-Dix suggests keeping protein bars in the glove compartment of your car so you can stay healthy, even while on-the-go. Do Not Eat: Mayonnaise Mayonnaise contains a high amount of fats and oils, and just one teaspoon can contain about 90 calories (<a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/440204-how-unhealthy-is-mayonnaise/">that's about 4.5 percent of your daily recommended caloric intake!</a>). Try This Instead: Horseradish Sauce Horseradish sauce has "the same creamy taste of mayonnaise, hardly any calories," according to Bonnie Taub-Dix. If you're looking to cut extra fat out of your diet, you can use a mayonnaise substitute like horseradish sauce, or dilute mayo with a less fatty condiment, like mustard. Do Not Eat: White Pasta Dinner is often our least healthy meal of the day, as many choose to eat out, or whip something together last minute, according to Bonnie Taub-Dix. An easy way to avoid the dangers of dinnertime is by cutting back on white pasta consumption. White pasta lacks fiber, vitamins and minerals. Thankfully, there are healthy, satiating white pasta alternatives. Try This Instead: Whole Grain Pasta Whole wheat pasta is much more natural than its white pasta counterpart. It is rich in fiber, which helps control cholesterol and blood sugar, and vitamin B, which helps promote a healthy nervous system and energy <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/281765-what-are-the-benefits-of-whole-grain-pasta/">metabolism</a>. Do Not Eat: Ice Cream Sundaes There is no doubt that ice cream sundaes are extremely tasty, but they are also very high in sugar, fat and lack nutrients. Try This Instead: Yogurt With Warm Fruit A healthy desert alternative to ice cream is yogurt with warm fruit. Yogurt is high in protein and calcium, which can prevent osteoporosis, while fruit has a great natural sugar taste, and is full of anti-oxidants, vitamin C and fiber. Glad to be of service
You forgot to add ***** and spazzy. Your standards are slipping old chap, maybe a healthy diet will help you
Almond butter? What kind of hippy nonsense is this? It's £3 a jar and for the same money you can buy a kilo of margerine. No wonder there is a report out today saying the poorest kids are the most likely to be obese. Bag of chips £1 Bag of lettuce £1 Sausage in batter £1.50 Salmon fillet £1.50 If you are feeding your kids on a budget what is going to fill them up more? Sausage & chips or salmon & salad? No excuse for piling your kids plates with take aways, burgers, chips, sweets, cakes, chocolates every day but when an apple costs the same as a Mars bar you can see why there are so many porkers around. My kids may get McDonalds once a month, we might take them for a curry once a month and same with any other sort of take away or junk food. Every day they get a balanced lunch at school, something light in the evening and I cook every weekend so they are loaded up with fresh veg. They love sweet stuff the same as all kids and get one or two sweets or a biscuit after school most days but not a whole bag of Haribo, not an adult sized bar of chocolate. I'll do them nuggets & chips every now and again but most of the time I'll do them chicken and pasta if they want more than a snack in the evenings. They get fruit at school, fruit with their lunch and fruit as snacks if they are at after school club and we always have fruit in the house. Providing this would be much harder if I was on a lower wage even if I went for the value stuff, the cost of food is scandalous. Almond butter? Good grief.
Its not really the cost that's the problem. It's laziness. Much easier to throw some oven chips and chicken nuggets on a tray and bang them in the over than it is to say, make a shepherd's pie.
Judging by how busy the local chip shops are in the early evening most of the fat ****s are too lazy even to do that.
Nuggets and oven chips are fine once in a while but every day is a problem. Agree about a shepherds pie too, you can get away with not using so much mince and shred carrots, swede, courgettes etc into it which pads the pie out and gets veg into the kids who turn their noses up when it is served whole. Maybe we should bring back home economics in schools and make it a compulsory lesson, as well as PE, that way we'd all learn to cook and keep a budget. I learned to cook from a very early age, good job too because my missus would burn water.
