Eat the cheese stick and the pickle, trade the rest for real food.
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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, and not a lot of nutritional value.
Taste-wise, eeugh, but that’s just personal preference.
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
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.
Sodium: Yes
This is gourmet hospital food 😂
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.
How much lead is in there?
Acceptable? I mean, if it’s what you’ve got it’s what you eat. But if you’re an adult who cares about their health and this is what you’re eating every day… it looks both sad and unhealthy. It isn’t what I would accept for myself if I were able to choose what I was eating.
The annoying thing is that people seem to think they need to have so many things to make a meal. You have pear juice and apple sauce and a sandwich and a pickle… you can just make and eat a sandwich and it would be tastier and more nutritionally complete, assuming it is a large sandwich with lots of protein and veggies. Or just pack yourself a bowl of soup (again, with lots of protein and veggies) that you meal prepped earlier and pop it in the microwave. Then drink water.
The only protein source here is the cheese stick and the rest is all just carbs on carbs with a little smattering of fat. Basically no fiber besodes the pickle and the apple sauce pouch which barely counts.
This is fine every now and again, but yeesh.
The pb and j has more protein than the cheese stick without the cholesterol and excess fat, it also has fiber.
Not enough protein and not that much fat
https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-comparison/1301134-784435/wt1-wt1/1-1/1
You could have 2 cheese sticks and have the same protein and less than half the calories and still less fat.
There’s some fiber, but the PBJ is mostly just carb and fat.
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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.
Ehh. Not a huge fan of both applesauce AND pear juice. Lots of added sugar. At a minimum, I would replace the applesauce with apple slices or the pear juice with water.
If it’s in the budget, some carrots would make this better. They’re fairly inexpensive if you get whole carrots and process them how you’d like. I like to buy a lot of them, cut them as part of meal prep, and eat/use them over the week.
The sandwich is fine, especially if this person doesn’t typically eat a large lunch. I wouldn’t have thought it was out of place if that was a whole sandwich, though.
For a kid; that isn’t a whole lot of calories. Unless your friend is small and has a low metabolism or doesn’t do a whole lot.
Looks like a good amount of calories to me, the two fruitdrinks alone would make up for most of it. The problem is that most of it comes in the form of sugar and carbohydrates. And there is a worryingly lack of fibre, which means that whoever eats that will likely get hungry again in a short while and crave “snacks” and other unnecessary calories.
Vegetarian so yese
Tell your friend to mind their own business if they don’t have to eat it
No veg, little fiber, high in refined carbs. Kinda shit, imo. Goddamn, eat a piece of whole fruit instead of processed shit that’s basically just sugar.
It got cheese stick.
No veg
I see a pickle
Cucumber’s a fruit lol
Vegatable is a culinary term, not a scientific term. All vegetables that we human eat that are not leafy greens or tubers are in fact fruits, scientifically speaking. Cucumbers are a fruit, until you bring them into the kitchen, at which point the vegatable-fruit superposition collapses and it becomes a vegatable, full stop.
The Tantrum Clause remains undefeated 😅
(If it’s not made through sexual reproduction it’s not fruit)
Pickle not a veg?
You’ve taken nearly all the nutritional value out of the cucumber. It’s basically just a bit of fiber now.
Incorrect, they are a good source of vitamins A and K
Fiber is good for you.
Lacto-fermenting the veg and drinking the brine improves nutritional value (so they say)
Except that it destroys much of the already small vitamin content of cucumbers.
To the contrary, lacto fermentation increases concentration of vitamins in food:
“Fermentation is indeed a process which allows an increase of content of some vitamins in food. For instance, over the last decades microbial fermentation has been increasingly investigated as a valuable alternative for natural folate (vitamin B9) production, and as a sustainable technology based on renewable resources [25].”
“diverse functional food components in the developed fermented cucumbers, such as active peptides, free amino acids, organic acids, oligosaccharides, exopolysaccharides, and vitamins may increase, but detrimental microbes, oxidants, and hypersensitivities may decrease and eliminate using innovative fermentation processing technologies (Liu, Wang, & Deng, 2023).”
Basically the lactobacilus and other beneficial bacteria eat primarily the carbohydrates, they don’t consume vitamins
But it creates probiotic environment in which beneficial bacteria thrive that will boost the absorbtion of the nutrients from other stuff you consume
No. This is a large unhealthy snack.
