The one thing I can say for sure is that Im a vegetarian.

Outside of that, i try to take a holistic approach to food, but my relationship with it isn't always healthy. I never ever buy junk, carbs or saturated fats when I do a grocery shop. Those things don't exist in my house. I also try to buy local and organic wherever possible; so when I cook for myself at home, I eat fantastically. I make a lot of green smoothies at home.

However, I am a sugar addict and when I eat badly (usually take out) I go all out and can't seem to stop. That is something I am working on.

I am also a total breakfast convert. Forcing myself to eat in the mornings used to make me feel sick, but I think it was related to what I was trying to eat. Cereals or toast in the morning still makes me sick. Its too heavy. usually I have a whey protein smoothie with some berries and chia seeds and that hits the spot. Sometimes I'll have egg whites and a small amount of yoghurt or something. My days are far better when I eat breakfast.

I eat whatever I want, because what I like to eat the most is lots of fruit and veggies, plus pasta and rice. I am very active, so even when I eat whatever I want I usually lose weight. My favourite meal is pasta sauce with heaps of veggies in it, with either brown rice or white pasta. I never really got into the whole wheat pasta, but to be honest I'm not that fussed, everything else I eat is super healthy so what's a bit of pasta going to do?

As for breakfast, I've always been a big breakfast eater, most mornings I'll wake up hungry. Until last year, breakfast was typically a bowl of museli, or porridge in winter, but last year I've upgraded to porridge with dried fruit, museli with heaps of nuts and seeds or a fruit smoothie with oats and chia seeds. All three are super yummy and keep me going until lunchtime! I tend to eat a big breakfast, a medium lunch and a small dinner, with some snacking in between.

Last year I turned into a massive health freak food wise, I'd always been pretty good, but now I eat lots of nuts and seeds and dried fruit, and I cut way back on anything junk. As Puss said, we were never allowed soft drinks and lollies and cordial when we were growing up, so I don't really have a weakness for them, but I do have a weakness for dark chocolate and some brands of biscuits. It's generally safer to just not keep stuff like that around.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm not a massive meat eater either, I don't really eat red meat (except for roast lamb, because that stuff is just too damn good!) but I do like chicken, and on occasion barramundi (fish). So if I do eat meat, it's usually chicken, but most nights I just go vegetarian. I am active though, so I try to eat some meat each week to keep up the protein and iron.

When I snack I prefer to eat a piece of fruit or some nuts or carrot sticks, rather than chips, so that's handy. I also make my own museli bars which are SO good, so I snack on those too.

As I type this I'm indulging in a bag of biscotti, one of my weaknesses. Ooops?

I can't eat wheat. I'm also quite fussy - I hate all potatoes except crisps, I don't like red meat other than sausage, mince or steak. I hate peas.

I tend to eat the same sort of things, especially during the week. If I'm at work I will eat:

Breakfast: Dry porridge oats mixed with yoghurt. Usually raspberry or rhubarb.
Mid morning: Cup of coffee and a satsuma
Lunch: Soup, apple. Often a packet of crisps.
Mid afternoon: Cup of green tea. Another satsuma.
Dinner: Varies but usually stir fry, chilli con carne, steak and salad, salmon and green vegetables, chicken salad, thai curry...

At weekends I'm a bit more varied. I sometimes have gluten free sausages as brunch, or baked beans on GF toast. I usually have brunch at 11ish, and then snack on fruit until tea time, so I skip lunch.

Once a week my friends and I do a vegetarian coeliac come dine with me (to cater for all of our various diets!) We each take it in turns to cook, and we usually have some pretty exciting stuff.

In terms of my weakness, it's definitely crisps. I have them most work days. I especially love Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli crisps. Yummy! I'm not a huge sweet fan other than at a certain time of the month, when I will devour chocolate.

I love coffee, not a huge tea fan. I drink a lot of herbal/green tea though. I also get through loads of water in a day. In terms of alcohol, I will have a glass of wine with my friends approximately once a week, and maybe once or twice a month go all out and have a small binge (probably 3-4 glasses of wine).

For the most part, I eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. No one's perfect, so of course I snack sometimes when I'm bored, but that's what I try to follow.

As far as the quality of what I eat, I try to pick mostly fruits, veggies, fresh food. For processed food (which most of my food is; I can't afford to buy EVERYTHING fresh all the time), I read nutrition labels like a fiend, hah. I don't really care much about eating super low-calorie or low-fat, but I do try to get stuff that has some semblance of nutritional value.

I don't think I could ever be happy if I were on any sort of diet or counting calories or anything like that, so I don't.

I've always been underweight ( I have a Thyroid problem & a fast metabolism) and now I am okay although loosing a few lbs. wouldn't be bad. I have a weird Thyroid problem. It's rare but not so rare that I am only one of a few who have it. I have a little of both kinds of Thyroid although I have more of one than the other. We can't mention weight numbers but my doctor says I should weigh what an obese person would but I've never weighed in the triple numbers ever. Food was never a problem. We have never been vegans or vegetarians. My family loves meat and we are half Italian and half Polish. I love pasta, meatballs, alfredo sauce, gravy (my grandfather used to call tomato sauce that), kielbasa, stuffed cabbage but only the stuffing not the cabbage, and lots of other foods.

I have a garden every year so we have fresh veggies. In fact, I have peas in my garden and I live in New England! I don't have any peas but they are still growing and the survived the Autumn Nor'Easter we had. I especially love the baby peas I grew last year and wish I had planted more. This year I will.

When I don't have veggies from my garden, we try to buy from the Farmer's Market in the summer. Sometimes fresh can be expensive though. I can see why some people buy processed or junk food when you see the price as apposed to the fresh fruit or veggies. In our store where we do a lot of our shopping, Parm Reg. cheese costs $16 a lb. and they cut up the chunks for you & wrap them in clear wrap. You can imagine we don't buy that hardly at all.

I love steak and fried chicken, roasted chicken, pizza and I am a cheese head. I drink 1% milk, OJ, V-8 and Orange Pineapple Juice. I also try to drink plenty of water. We have a Pur filter on our faucet in the kitchen and my water bottle, which holds almost 4 cups of water is always filled. I checked on-line and because of my body mass and size and weight, I should have 6 glasses when it's cold out and 8 when it isn't.

I never drink alcohol anymore. I used to drink Screwdrivers w/only 1/2 shot of Vodka and plenty of OJ and ice. Not very often and usually only on special occasions. I hate the taste and smell of alcohol and twice I got more than my share of Vodka in a drink even though I didn't ask for it and I got drunk. The room was spinning & I was not in control of myself. My dad also has a drinking problem as he has gotten older and depressed so I just choose not to drink. If I want what is in red wine I take Resveratrol. I can't get drunk on it and the amount I would need to be healthy would make me very drunk when I can get it in a pill and not be drunk. At least that's what Dr. Oz says.

I am one of I think 20% of the population who has more taste buds on their tongue than most people. There are some foods I can't eat for that reason or they make me totally ill. I don't mean when they hit my stomach, but when they hit my tongue. Sweets are one of them. I love to bake cookies, cupcakes, dessert bread (I just made one out of ice cream that is baked in the oven!) but I can't eat any of them. My family are the guinea pigs. They say I am an amazing baker.

I eat when I am hungry and when I am full, I am full. For Breakfast I usually eat scrambled or fried eggs. Sometimes I put cheese or a slice of lunchmeat chopped up in them and I will sometimes make an omelet. My family says I make the best scrambled eggs and now my dad is eating them too. I like Cream of Wheat in the winter, Cherrios or Rice Krispies in the summer. Sometimes I have pork sausages or hash browns or corned beef hash w/my eggs. For lunch I eat something we have left over in the fridge. If I am at work, I bring my lunch of whatever we have left over in the fridge or a sandwich. I love to cook so we always eat something good for supper. We have a huge upright freezer in our basement so when we have lots of leftovers, they go in the freezer for another day.

My snack weakness? Hot buttered popcorn made by me on top of the stove. My sister says I should bag it and sell it, it's that good. I eat it everyday late at night. Keeps me regular. I also like chips but I don't eat them as often. I can go days without eating chips even if they are in the house. It depends on if I am hungry or not.

I wish I ate more veggies but there are a lot I just can't stomach. Same w/fruit. I like Oranges and will eat natural applesauce but that's about it. Most of it is way to sweet for me.

It's interesting to see what kinds of food people eat and when they eat it. I hope I didn't ramble on to much. Oh yeah, I just last week made an amazing Mac & Cheese meatloaf w/Mac & Cheese in the meatloaf! Now I am making myself hungry! LOL

My relationship with food is a really weird messed up love affair. Currently all is well, but there have been times when it wasn't that good. That's why I don't own a scale.

I'm a vegetarian, btw.

I'd say I'm eating pretty healthy these days. Breakfast is steel cut oats with organic muesli (no sugar added, only dried fruits) with skimmed milk + tea. Lunch is whatever looks edible in the cafeteria, skipping the too fatty things (nothing fried, please). Dinner is small: fruits and veggies, some joghurt, a banana. I rarely snack, and if I do it's nuts or dried fruits or "Zwieback", something that probably doesn't exsist outside of Germany. That's my everyday-food.

But then I'm german, and I love bread. So a good Sunday Breakfast would surely have some kind of bread. I never pass over the bread basket in a restaurant. I don't cook with anything that's supposed to replace something - if I want butter I want butter and not some artificial stuff. I also adore pasta, but it has to be well made. I cook and bake from scratch, and love my products. I buy mostly organic. And if there's a special occasion I can go all out and treat friends and family to multiple course meals, sumptious cakes and cookies, cupcakes and muffins. I make french chocolate truffes and big birthday cakes.

There are things I eat and things I don't eat. I'd never eat a whole bar of chocolate or the entire bag of crisps. I'm more an "everything in moderation" type of eater. A bit of chocolate, sure, and apple, a handful of crisps - perfect. A glass of wine is grand, a sip of whiskey, but I won't fill myself up. I love coffee, but one cup of it per day is my maximum. I couldn't live without strong black tea though.

I learnt that I need to listen to my body more. I found that by eating "mindfully" I can easily find out what I need and what I don't need and eat accordingly. That's why I prefer straight-forward food, stuff that is what it looks like, with no hidden additives. I lived in the US for a while, and all the added vitamins and artificial stuff made me really sick. I have neurodermatitis, and it's 100% controlled over my food intake, so I needed to get that back under control.

So, my rules for good eating in a sentence: Good quality foods enjoyed in moderation.

We have or did have Zwieback but it was cookies or teething biscuits for babies. I remember seeing them on shelves years ago in the US. I think they were in the cookie isle in the supermarket.