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.
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.
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 🥲
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
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!
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.
It’s fine enough but a lot of sugar
It’s better than my lunch today
The stealth pickle and incognito string cheese help so much. Give them some acknowledgement.
No. This is a large unhealthy snack.
I guess, if you like it. Plastic wrapped cheese and plastic wrapped applesauce are a little crazy and it’s got a lot of refined sugar. If I were “fixing” this,
Apple not applesauce
Cheese sandwich not shrink wrapped cheese. With some lettuce, tomato, onion. Vegetables. On the side of you don’t like them in the sandwich.
Water not pear juice.
Those chips are (as my kids would say) fire. So good. I would not take them away even though they have not nutrition.
What I usually have for lunch is leftovers of whatever I made for supper the night before (if it’s leftover-able)
Also, I’d say it depends on if this is all you eat. If it’s an indulgent quick lunch in the context of an overall good diet, then heck yes, acceptable. If this is the healthiest meal of your day, then no.
I’d add a better protein source than just cheese too if it were me. Otherwise yeah.
Baby carrots would be a nice touch for vegetables here.
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.
Sodium: Yes
Seems fine aside from the applesauce packaging being unnecessarily wasteful.
I kinda do.
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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Vegetarian so yese
This is a pretty average lunch if ever I saw one.
Problem being - average is pretty shit
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!
