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Healthy Eating

MJJ24

Hello all, does anyone please have any tips on how to eat healthy and get the vitamins and minerals needed when you struggle eating stuff outside of safe foods (which for me are not the healthiest)? I have had a few deficiencies in the past and want to take steps to prevent them but its hard! Thanks in advance Slight smile

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  • What are your safe and unsafe foods? It would be much easier to make suggestions if I knew.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    So I do a lot of snacking through the day a lot of biscuits (bad I know). I usually have cereal for breakfast (frosties, or chocolate hoops something like that). My mum makes dinner so not normally to bad and lunch varies depending on how I feel that day. Normally like a cheese sandwich or something. I do mainly rely on a lot of snacks and i know I don't drink as much as I should as I find that hard too. I am vegetarian and can't have fructose. I'm sorry I know its not an exact list its just really hard to think of them on the spot!

  • in reply to MJJ24
    Lotus said:
    The breakfast cereals you eat have a lot of sugar, so you could try plain porridge and add just a teaspoonful of brown sugar if you want to sweeten it

    It’s worth keeping in mind that most breakfast cereals are fortified with added vitamins and minerals, so can help with meeting our recommended daily levels of them.

    MJJ24 said:
    I usually have cereal for breakfast (frosties, or chocolate hoops

    For example, Kellogg’s Frosties and Kellogg’s Coco Pop Loops each contain added vitamins and minerals. A serving of each also contains only 12% or 7%, respectively, of the daily adult reference intake of sugar.

    This is perhaps a good example of why I‘d encourage you to get advice from your GP and/or a nutritionist or dietician (as I’m currently doing).

    I know that Lotus’s suggestion is well-intentioned (and I don’t mean any offence with this reply), but medical professionals will consider your overall dietary needs, enabling them to make fully informed recommendations for a healthy and balanced overall diet.

  • in reply to Bunny

    No offence taken - you made a good point. I agree that seeing your doctor is a good idea for advice / referral to a dietician.

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