What's YOUR Idea of a "Balanced Diet"?

Hey Everyone,

Last night for dinner I had:

1. A spinach salad.



2. A bowl of potato chips (one of my most favorite food groups!)



2. And to top it all off, half of a donut (the frosted half, of course!)




I don't know about you, but I'd say that was a perfectly balanced dinner.


How about the rest of you?

What's you're idea off a "Balanced" diet or meal?

I like for everything to be equally spaced on my plate. 😁🤪

I was trying to drink coffee while reading your post, and my mind automatically translated it as, "I like for everything to be EQUALLY YOKED on plate."

Yes, indeed.

We all know how important it is to keep all of our foods equally yo(l)ked!

Cut down on excessive sugars.

Today at w*rk we had a lot of leftover McGriddles when lunch was through. Somebody cooked up WAY too many.

So I deep fried a lot of McGriddles and handed them out to anybody who wanted them. They taste kind of like a funnel cake. I told them I would buy them and fry them if they wanted to try them. About half the crew wanted to try one.

I also happen to have a pineapple cream cheese ball from the local food giant.

So right now I am eating pineapple cream cheese ball on deep fried McGriddles for lunch.

I said all that to say this: how do you know this was what I was eating for lunch, and why do you hate me so much that you want to bring up balanced meals at a time like this?

One where the waiter has to balance my food on his tray as he brings it to me. 😝

Sign in our kitchen says: "Chocolate fixes everything," but I balance
it out with an equal amount of peanut butter - yummy ♫ ↑

Well ...

If she gives you that look, pucker up! 😀

still chuckling at this

a balanced diet contains all four food groups:

coffee
chocolate
popcorn
bacon

Balanced diet? A pound of bacon in each hand.

(Not really) Joking aside, we in the Western world have been fed a steady diet of misinformation about nutrition. The “food pyramid” is complete bunk, unless you turn it upside down.

I've had more or less No appetite for months. I decided to go to the china buffet for lunch last week to fill up on protein and sea vegetables. I didn't want to, but thought it necessary.

Today I was sick all day.
I didn't feel like it, but decided to fry ground beef, cheese, garlic, onion with rosemary. Just finished that. Feeling better.
Moral: Nobody may help when you're down, so get as much protein and healthy animal fat as possible. Eat to live.

Well balanced meal. A bowl of Grandma's chicken and dumplings, followed by a large slice of her apple pie topped with a large scoop of homemade ice cream.

if you are in the south, substitute peach or blackberry cobbler for the apple pie. ( you can still put ice cream on those too).

Okay, Adrian Monk.

Until I was in High School, I had the custom (habit) ofeating one item at a time on my plate, that is potatoes, then peas, then meat, etc. I was never conscious of this until my father said to a friend guesting our table, "That boy eats one thing at a time." That was when I began to wean myself from doing such, though I do find myself, at 80, tending to do the same now, hmmmm!

Wait, what? What's wrong with one thing at a time? I eat all of one thing before I start on another thing.

no, it isn't if the doughnut was made with refined sugar. r. sugar is super bad for humans. it causes inflammation in bone joints & doctors won't tell you that. use SUCANAT which is sugar cane in the natural. or better yet, eat honey or maple syrup for sweeteners. the potato chips are proper if they were made with olive oil. spinach was voted as the #1 food in the world along with bananas.

Hi Karlon,

I hope the beginning post comes across as a joke, as that's what was intended -- kind of like when person orders a double cheeseburger, large fries -- and a diet Coke. None of those things are good for you, but it's kind of a modern day parody of a supposed "healthy" diet for a lot of people.

I think most everyone knows that processed and refined foods are bad for them, but not many people make the best eating decisions 100% of the time -- so this was just meant to poke a little fun at that fact.

Today for lunch I just ate three biscuits with a can of mushroom soup. The mushroom soup was a brand called Amy's, something slightly better than Campbell's soybean oil in a can.

I call it almost biscuits and gravy, and it was delicious.

My favorite school lunch was two of my mothers biscuits filled with a fried (in bacon fat) egg and homemade sausage. For breakfast, it was fried eggs, grits, biscuits, sausage or bacon, homemade butter and a tall glass of fresh milk. In the winter the chickens didn't lay enough eggs for a family of eight, so she substituted egg gravy for the fried eggs.