FOOD DIARY

Food Diary and Commentary



Food Diary and Commentary

Diary

Week

Day

Meal or Snack

Foods and Beverages Consumed with the amount

1

Monday

Breakfast

Oatmeal cooked with milk (1 ½ cup)

Boiled egg (1)

Milk (200 ml)

Snack

Potato Chips (10 grams)

Mango Juice (200 ml)

Lunch

Chicken noodles (1/2 cup)

Salad (1 ½ cup)

Snack

Apples (2)

Mango Juice (200 ml)

Dinner

Grilled Chicken (250 grams)

Fresh Strawberries (1/2 cup)

Rice (1 cup)

Tuesday

Breakfast

2 slices with butter

Orange Juice (200 ml)

Half fried egg (1)

Snack

Fried peanuts (100 grams)

Tea (1 cup)

Lunch

Brown bread (2 slices)

Fried Fish

Salad

Bananas (2)

Snack

French Fries (100 grams)

Mango Juice (200 ml)

Dinner

Flavored almonds

Grilled meat

cheese

Green tea (1 cup)

Wednesday

Breakfast

Porridge with milk (1 cup)

Boiled Egg (1)

Mango Juice (200 ml)

Snack

2 slices with butter

Coffee (1 cup)

Lunch

Spaghetti noodles (1 cup)

Fruit Salad (1 cup)

Yoghurt (50 grams)

Snack

Roasted chicken leg

Pepsi (200 ml)

Dinner

Brown rice (1 cup)

Green beans

Garlic toast with margarine

Thursday

Breakfast

Corn flakes with milk (1 cup)

Cheese Omelet

Orange juice (200 ml)

Snack

Cheese Sandwich

Tea

Lunch

Grilled Meat

Chocolate Muffin

Salad

Snack

Round Pizza (small)

almonds

Dinner

Chicken Corn Soup

Prawn fried Rice

Prawn Ginger

Blue berries

Friday

Breakfast

2 Slices with Jam

1 half fried egg

Milk (1 cup)

Apple (1)

Snack

Chicken Nuggets

Mango Juice

Lunch

Rice (1 cup)

Yoghurt (100 grams)

Salad

Packaged lunch meat

Snack

Green Tea (1 cup)

Cheese

Dinner

Pineapple slices

Cooked Vegetables

Chicken fried rice

Grilled fish

Saturday

Breakfast

Snack

Wall nuts

Chocolate

Lunch

Salad

Garlic Bread

Packaged Lunch Meat

Snack

Green tea

Dinner

Fried Fish

Strawberries

Brown Rice

Sunday

Breakfast

Boiled eggs (2)

Milk (1 cup)

Snack

Roasted Toast with cheese (1)

Soft Drink (200 ml)

Lunch

Salad

Green beans

Rice (1 cup)

Fried Chicken (200 grams)

Snack

Chocolate Milk

Dinner

Grilled Meat

Brown bread (2 slices)

Pineapple slices (2)

Strawberry

Ice cream

Commentary

Eating behaviours of people are largely governed by the religious, cultural, economic and political settings. Though food is necessary element for survival and most of us try to consume food which should provide us with the necessary nutrition values; still our eating habits have become complex with the evolution of cultures of different place. This is the reason why we find entirely different eating habits in the different regions of the world.

To maintain the food diary, I took help from the resources available over internet (Start losing your weight today, 2012; Built lean, 2010). A number of templates and samples of food diaries and journals are available for free. Mostly people use these templates to record their food intakes, and manage their weight correspondingly (Easy journaling, 2013). I made it a routine to mark entries in the diary template as soon as I was done with any meal or snack. At the beginning, I found it difficult to carry the diary to College where I had to take notes mostly about my first snack and Lunch. However, after forgetting to take diary to college for a couple of days, it became a part of my routine to carry it with me all the time.

I am a Muslim female and thus my food diary reflects the consumption of HALAL food. I do not consumer Pork and Alcohol as a part of my religious obligation (Food by Country, 2013). Observing my food diary reveals on me that I have been taking food high on calories, for example, desserts, soft drinks and Juices (WebMD, 2013). Similarly, I have also been focusing more taking carbohydrates, instead of proteins (Atkins.com, 2013). In addition to the excessive carbohydrates and Calories, my eating pattern also reveals unnecessary consumption of fats (Rena and Gillis, 1996, p.2). I almost daily take fried items such as fried ...