balanced meal
No. This is a large unhealthy snack.
I kinda do.
Your friend probably has autism; the thing in common all of these have is they’re singular textures:
E.g: Pear juice and apple sauce are mushy and fruity, the chips and pickle are crunchy, and the PB&J and stick are soft.
Don’t bully people with autism, let them eat their chicken tendies (or a PB&J with pickle) for 349 straight days in a row in peace.
Autistic people need to not eat trash diets, too. It isn’t bullying to tell someone that their eating habits will lead them to poor health
My only suggestion to them is to bump up their protein intake and cut back a bit on the carbs. =D
Not carbs, but sugar
I mean we’ve got the sandwich, the juice and the apple sauce (and I don’t actually want to know how much sugar was added to the chips and pickle).
There’s like no fibre or complex carbohydrate in that meal whatsoever 🥲
Nice observation!
And you helped me notice, the crunchy are salty snacks, so they might also e.g. eat the crunchy salty first and then the soft sweets, or eat a crunchy chip with the soft sandwich, etc!
Cupboard clean out day?
It’s better than my lunch today
Id recommend 0.666666667 PBJ
Perfectly fine, it’s food. Food is always an acceptable form of lunch.
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How?
Your indirect implication, that this “always” acceptable for lunch.
This is something you give a diabetic who’s low on sugar.
Not something you’d eat for sustenance, especially in long term. It might technically be food, but I wouldn’t call it a meal.
Ahhh each to their own.
Noot reaally though.
This isn’t a matter of preference, but simple nutritional facts.
If you’re a student and/or poor, yes. Otherwise, this is fine, but you can do better.
If you are poor, you should definitely not be buying individual servings of applesauce (or most things). Of course, this is also true if you are not poor.
Maybe it came from a food pantry or neighborhood box.
It’s definitely not good for students. It might be what a student ends up eating because of lack of resources needed to eat better, but anyone who is engaged in learning and needs their brain to perform well isn’t going to get what they need from this.
This is a pretty average lunch if ever I saw one.
As someone who works for a living, I must agree.
Honestly, if I opened my lunchbox to this, I would be pretty happy. Though, I’d wonder where the rest of the PBJ went?
Whatever, food!
Problem being - average is pretty shit
Seems fine aside from the applesauce packaging being unnecessarily wasteful.
This economical, practical, and flavorful. It’s healthy enough (assuming the other 2 meals pack in some of the missing stuff like whole fiber veggies). Good job!
I mean, its food, I’d eat it.
Depending on the source the Jalapeño chips could be not so great. Often they are produced with seed oils which are super high in Omega 6, but without a balanced diet to counteract that with the other omegas this could lead to internal inflammation over time. This is (as far as I’m aware) why eating processed foods makes you feel terrible.
The white American bread is basically pure sugar, with very little gluten, so that’s not great.
Peanut butter is not very high in protein, and most American sources are super high in sugar. It does contain lots of fat though, hopefully peanut oil but probably sunflower seed oil, see above for why that’s not great.
Cucumber Pickles are nearly devoid of nutrition, but if they’re live fermented and not brined they’re good for digestion, paired with this much sugar though expect some major gas and probably a trip to the bathroom within half an hour.
The mozz stick is a good source of protein.
All in all, 3/10. Poorly balanced but delicious and loaded with carbs for energy. Will feel bloated afterwards.
After a quick and dirty look at nutrional fact lables: That’s almost half the daily recommended sodium, over a third the fat, and three tablespoons of sugar. Depending on the PB and J brands and types, it could be more fat, sodium and sugar.
Depends on your standards. Looks disgusting to me.
Health-wise, you have a cup of sugar, a pouch of probably sugar, a PB and sugar on starch slab next to a pile of salty starch and a stick of salt water, with a cheese stick on the side. With not much protein or fibre that’s a lot of food to leave you hungry soon after.
Taste-wise, eeugh, but that’s just personal preference.
Not much protein? Excuse me what? There’s literally peanut butter and cheese. What in the world are you talking about?
By proportion. It’s mostly carbs.
Sure but still a decent amount of protein. Peanut butter is dense as fuck.
the only think unhealthy here is the cheesestick, your fascination with protein is interesting, can you elaborate? The majority of Americans get more than triple the recommended protein.
As a professional chef, I would rate this lunch better than what most people eat.
Not shitty food porn
It’s wild. Idk how that person can look at Peanut Butter and cheese and then claim it lacks substantial protein. Rofl
