How much can one person eat?

Nearly missed the start of this as I woke up in the middle of the night and was starving so had an Alpen breakfast bar at about 3am on the Monday morning. Managed to catch myself though and put it in the tracker. And everything else from there...

All calorie values are estimates, but I have tried to give accurate weights and take the calorific values off the packets wherever I can. [these brackets] are subtotals for a particular item (these ones) are for the whole plate or course and anything with a "~" is estimated from the internet.

So here is the fine detail of what I put away in a normal week.

Monday

Alpen bars x 2 (122 calories each)

Monday lunch

Lunch - Cream of vegetable soup, and a sesame seed roll with margarine. [~200]. Mince and skirlie [490] with mash and carrots [~300]. Creme brulee with sticky ginger cake hidden in it [~500]. Glass each of diluting orange and blackcurrant juice. (~1600)

Dinner - Southern fried chicken goujons with oven chips, sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes and baby corn. (~890)

And throughout the day:

Latte with semi-skimmed milk x 5 (~75 each)

Green tea x 3 (2 each)

Fruit juice diluted 1:4 in water (25)

Total calories - 3,150 (or somewhere around that)

Tuesday

Tuesday lunch

Lunch started with highland lentil soup and a sesame seed roll with margarine [~200]. Main course was pork loin in hoisin sauce [395 calories], with roast potatoes and sweetcorn [~370]. Dessert was another dose of the creme brulee with the sticky ginger pudding in it [~500]. And the usual glass each of diluting orange and blackcurrant juice. (~1475)

Dinner was the southern fried chicken goujons again, but this time with oven chips [~200], onion rings [285] and mushy peas [230].  A couple of slices of hovis thick white bread [230], with soya margarine on the side.(~1050).

And a pack of pickled onion monster munch. (109)

And then a couple of my home-made honey, coconut and fruit flapjacks (~200 each)

And throughout the day:

Latte with semi-skimmed milk x 6 (~75 each)

Green tea x 4 (2 each)

Fruit juice (90)

Total calories - about 3,680 

Wednesday

Wednesday lunchtime

Lunch was carrot and coriander soup with a poppy seed roll and margarine [~200]. Then goulash [495 and yummy!] with boiled potatoes [~300] and grated carrots [30]. Dessert was chocolate roulade [~300]. Same diluting orange and blackcurrant juice. (~1325)

Dinner. Wednesday is beef day this week. Roast beef [320], mash [350] and baby corn [100]. (~770)

More snacking today.
Homemade flapjack (~200)
Plums x 2 (60)
Banana (45)
Maoam giant stripe (30)

And some other drinks:
Blueberry juice x 2 (45 each)
Latte x 6 (75 each)
Green tea x 4 (2 each)
Glass of water.

Total calories - about 2,815 

Thursday

Thursday Lunch

Lunch was an absolute treat. Mediterranean vegetable soup with a wholemeal roll and margarine [~150]. Lamb koftas [495 and YUMMY!], with rice, roast potatoes [~200] and broccoli [~35]. Chocolate roulade again [~300], hasn't been a great week for desserts. And the usual 2 glasses of juice. (~1150)

Through the afternoon there was a presentation at work and I loaded up on fruit skewers and a selection of mini cakes (~300).

Big coke at the cinema (~150).

Trip to Nandos for a butterfly chicken with chips, salad (691) and another coke [130].

Then home for a Vanilla Frijj (314) and a couple of home made flapjacks (~200 each).


And some other drinks through the day:
Latte x 5 (75 each)
Green tea x 4 (2 each)
Pint of water (0).

Daily total - 3,510 or thereabouts.

Friday

Friday Lunch

Couple of mini cakes in my morning meeting. (10 each)

Lunch started with yellow split pea soup and a wholemeal poppy seed roll [~150]. Then pan-fried haddock [465], (it is under there somewhere in the photo), with chips, salad and sweetcorn [~250]. And a bowl of fruit salad for dessert [~200] and the obligatory 2 glasses of diluting juice. (1065)

And a couple of chocolates in the afternoon. (10)

Two packets of haribo minis before my run. (10 each)

Then dinner I was too lazy to do any real cooking so I turned the left over roast beef into three rounds of sandwiches. Beef, cheese and tomato on hovis thick white [~410 each] with a bag of crisps [125]. And a plum for dessert (30).

And the drinks:
Latte x 6 (75 each)
Green tea x 3 (2 each)

Fruit juice x 3 (50 each)

About 3,086 calories for Friday.

Saturday

No free lunches at the weekend. But weekend training means that breakfast makes a first appearance. Two butteries with margarine and raspberry jam  and a mug of green tea. (~520).

Then a banana (~150) and a couple of flapjacks (200 each) just after training.

For lunch I had a tin of Campbells cream of chicken soup (128) with a couple of wholemeal bagels and philadelphia (~325 each).

Feeling a bit peckish by mid afternoon so I had some home made apple crumble (~360) and a vanilla frijj (315).

For dinner I made chicken and vegetable balti (with a little help from sharwoods) and basmati rice (~900). Then had some more of the apple crumble for dessert.(~360)

And a couple of packets of hula hoops. (127 each)

No coffee on the weekend. But plenty of green tea, and the odd glass of fruit juice.

Saturday about 3,939

Sunday

Two butteries with margarine and raspberry jam and a mug of green tea before going out on the bike. (~520). Bottle of fruit juice and water on the ride (~30).

Then the last two flapjacks (~200 each) just after training.

For lunch I finished off the leftover chicken and veg balti with rice (~900) with a can of cherry coke (149).

A pack of crisps (130) and a 9-bar (222) through the afternoon.

By evening I wasn't hungry, and then I was, and then I wasn't. Eventually I made a couple of tuna sandwiches (~650) and a pack of hula hoops (129).

And then before bed I had the last two servings of apple crumble (~720).

Sunday total was around 3,750

Weekly total is somewhere in the region of  ~23,930. 

As expected the amount of coffee I go through at work is frankly stupid. And the lunches are at least as big as the photos make them look. More in depth analysis to follow in a separate blog.