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Teens: what did YOU eat today?

I'm kind of copying the oh so popular topic found in the food forum. This is different, though: for teens! I think it's pretty interesting to see what we teenagers eat, and this will kind of give the chance for teens to see what other healthy foods they can add to their diet.. I sure know that my diet needs improvement XD

Oh, and the same rules as the one in the other forum applies.. especially do not post if you are not eating enough. Nobody wants to see it, and you're only hurting yourself in the long run; believe me, I found out the hard way.

I'll start!
breakfast: cheerios, a yogurt, & and orange
lunch: a turkey sandwich (i love low carb bread! really.) an apple, another yogurt, &wheat thins
after school: a peanut butter sandwhich on whole grain & an orange
dinner: probably light soup & a salad or something!

don't be shy XD

i'm at my cottage right and there's no food scale and half of my regular foods aren't here so i'm doing alot of estimating until school starts again, so i'm basically just trying to stay between 1500-2000 for now.

breakfast: 2 cups of bran flakes, 1 cup of vanilla silk. (320)

lunch: oatmeal made with 1 cup of oats, 1 cup of skim milk, a pinch of salt and 2 slices of light swiss cheese. (530)

dinner: chicken stir-fry with brown rice, brussel sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower. (530 - taking a little bit of olive oil into account)

snack: popcorn, and hot chocolate. (260)

total: 1640.

i usually eat so many more fruits and veggies, but my mom and her boyfriend really don't care about health so they never bought any :|

hi-

do most of you have a food scale?  i dont have one and mostly eyeball things, but just curious.

thanks!

Original Post by agruskin:

hi-

do most of you have a food scale?  i dont have one and mostly eyeball things, but just curious.

thanks!

 I've got a food scale, but it's really difficult to read, I want to see if I can get a digital one for my birthday (I don't trust the analog ones too much, too much guessing)

hmm, so not to be rude at all---i just feel like it may lead to too much obssesion having to measure everything, im trying to not measure at all but i still get nuts w the few things i do measure.

I have a food scale.  I just started using it very recently.  I've heard that its way more accurate than measuring volume of food in cups, and I noticed that I was probably eating more calories than i thought by measuring in volume.  So I recommend getting a food scale!

I used to use food scale like a mad person. I would even weigh a hundred calorie packs to see if they were the weight they were supposed to be. Then it broke. I haven't gotten a new one yet...

It's funny though, the six months I used the scale were the six months I never lost a pound. After I stopped using it, it was only a few weeks before I started losing again.

Granted alot of other factors went into me starting to lose again, and I still use the only measuring spoon that ever gave me an accurate amount of peanut butter on my food scale, but I don't think that using a food scale actual helps me all that much as long as I am realistic in my use of measuring cups ( i.e. not filling them to the top, leveling them off) and use common sense (i.e. did it feel like alot more pb than usual? Is that chicken breast really large?)

Breakfast: Peanut Butter Fiber Bar.

Lunch: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Snack: Mentos

Dinner: Vegtable Beef Stew. (i didn't eat the beef)

What do you think the is total amount of calories?
:/

Breakfast: 3/4 c special k protein plus w/ vanilla almond milk, 1/2 c blueberries

Lunch: turkey sandwich on light wheat w/ lettuce + honey mustard

Snack: 1 c multigrain cheerios w/ vanilla almond milk, mini pita w/ 1 tbs red pepper hummus, 3 wheat thins

Dinner: small caesar salad, jumbo lump crab cake, roasted butternut squash (from Metro 9 Steakhouse)

lots and lots of carbs today and not enough fruit :[

Epic fail again today, No post. I'll do better tomorrow though :)

B: Oatmeal with an egg and egg whites stirred in, yogurt with blueberries, cucumber

S: Apple, peanut butter dip (PB whipped with tofu), toast with cottage cheese

L: Turkey wrap (tortilla, turkey breast, lettuce, mustard), cucumber

S: Oatmeal with PB and chocolate protein powder

D: Oatmeal with broccoli and spinach stirred in, tempeh

S: Popcorn, turkey breast, egg whites

S: Warm milk with chocolate protein powder, egg, cottage cheese

Wow! It's been a long time since posting on here!

Breakfast: egg whites with ketchup and tobasco sauce. Whole wheat toast.

Snack: Some of my Mom's famous home-made chex mix! So good!

Lunch: vegetable combination salad with a few pieces of shrimp on it. 

Dinner: IDk yet! Thinking about it!

Today I allowed myself to have some sweets as long as it still added up to only 1,200.

Breakfast - 1 pudding, 1 banana

Snack - some candy

Dinner - 1 yogurt and grapes.

 

Not my best day. Too little variety. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

 

Original Post by heroinchic:

Today I allowed myself to have some sweets as long as it still added up to only 1,200.

Breakfast - 1 pudding, 1 banana

Snack - some candy

Dinner - 1 yogurt and grapes.

 

Not my best day. Too little variety. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

 

 *sigh*
READ THE FIRST POST

You're right, it's not your best day.

Tell me, what the hell do you thinki you're doing? You're 15. You CAN'T go under 1,500, and that's if you're comatose.

Don't post here again until you do better. We don't want people on here starving themselves.

waah wahh wahh today i ate 1 yogurt and 12 grapes and 1 pudding and a banana, i even allowed myself to have a bit of candy as a snack but oh my god i am such an epic fail wahh wahh wah pity me guys look at what a lard ass i am.


you have to realize that is exactly what it sounds like, reading your post. dont even post here if you dont eat enough.
im so sick of seeing this **** on here, this COULD be a really great, constructive thread if we didnt have whingey people who can't read on heere.

and now that im done ranting, here is my day:

breakfast

• 2 cups almond milk + 3 tablespoons chocolate ovaltine (mixed, for yummy healthy chocolate milk)
• 1 cup strawberry jello (im sick, my throat hurts. i dont normally eat jello for breakfast ahaha)
• 1.5 cups cooked kamut (its like cream of wheat consistency.. so good) + 1/3rd cup chopped walnuts
  

lunch

• salad of: 2 cups arugula, 1/2 cup chopped cucumber, 2 tablespoons organic honey dijon dressing
• another cup jello

snack

• 2 large (and thick) pieces of naan, toasted

dinner

• went out to an indian restaurant, ordered:
• chicken palak (chicken cooked with chopped spinach)
• basmati rice
• i ate about 3/4 the chicken dish and probably had about 2 cups of rice
  

What did I eat today...hmmmm leeets see here:

B: 2 pieces of whole wheat toast, 2 eggs sunny side up, coffee

s: light vanilla ice cream with sugar free strawberry jam (low cal strawberry sundae yummyy)

L: 1 cup lentil soup, apple with 2 slices of cheddar cheese, 12 baby carrots

s: 6 almonds/1 chicken wing

D: baby spinach salad with mandarin and grilled chicken/ ww weight watchers bagel with margerine

s: activia yogurt and 1 beer (my roomate offered!)

roughly 1300 cals i think, maybe more

this is for tomorrow, but posting now so i stick to it!

Breakfast: 3/4 c special k protein plus w/ vanilla almond milk, 1/2 c blueberries

Lunch: turkey sandwich on light wheat w/ lettuce + honey mustard, dannon light n fit yogurt

Snack: 1/2 c blueberries, 1 c strawberries, + 1/2 c multigrain cheerios (dry) all mixed together

Dinner: Ethnic Gourmet Chicken Tandoori, Trader Joes Naan

Snack: lower sugar apple cinnamon oatmeal

Original Post by loserxface:

Breakfast: Peanut Butter Fiber Bar.

Lunch: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Snack: Mentos

Dinner: Vegtable Beef Stew. (i didn't eat the beef)

What do you think the is total amount of calories?
:/

 Not enough. Seriously.

If you want the actual calorie count:

fiber bar (i'm guessing it's FiberOne) =150

sandwich (two pieces of bread and a piece of cheese) =400 AT THE MOST

Mentos= like nothing. 100 maybe

Vegetable beef stew without the beef= no more than 300 calories, unless you ate a vat of it.

High estimate is 950. You need AT LEAST 1500. Do the math.

I hope your post was a joke.

 

Yesterday~

breakfast- 2 strawberry flax waffles, 1/4 cup of sugar free syrup, 1 small banana, 1/2 cup of plain soy milk. = 330 calories

lunch- 1 orange, 1 black bean burrito. = 342 calories

snack- 5 ritz crackers. = 80 calories

dinner- macaroni & soy cheese, 1 cup of skim milk. = 500 calories

Total~ 1,252 calories

i cant believe it! >< that's so low! i truly thought i ate enough. *sigh*

Breakfast- A blueberry shake made w/soymilk, frozen berries, and a couple scoops of vanilla soy protein powder (320 cal)

Snack- A banana and some grapes (225 cal)

Lunch- Avocado on wheat toast w/vegan bacon, fresh tomatoes, and salad greens (410 cal)

Snack- Unsalted popcorn (120 cal)

Supper- Home-made spicy vegetable rice w/black beans; natural tortilla chips and half an avocado (530 cal)

Total- 1605  Goal- 1600