"Meal Schedule"

Greetings dearest members of healthy Steem, I hope we are all in good health. There is a saying that "health is wealth". I appreciate @helengutier for topic which will enable members to share their meal schedule. I hope you learn something from mine. A meal schedule is a meal plan where one notes down things to eat, whether for breakfast, lunch and dinner and maybe when to include snacks and fruits. Planning a meal can be sometimes difficult especially if one is the type that selects meals, but with a meal schedule, one might find it easier to work with his or her budget and also eat a balanced diet.

Unfortunately, some of us eat according to our desires or wants rather than needs and forgetting to think of our health. A good meal schedule or plan should include a meal that makes up the balance diet. I'm one of those who snacks a lot and I can say my meal schedule is not too good.

As an adult, one is supposed to eat at least twice a day but there are times I end up eating once a day due to my busy schedule. Most times I eat twice a day and few times, I eat thrice a day. But I snack in-between these times.

As a teacher, I have a very busy schedule because I have to be at work very early, so most times, I leave the house without food and work catches up with me in my workplace. Before I know it, it's 4pm and I go home, and that's my first real meal for the day. But on weekends like Saturdays, I eat three times a day.

Lots of time, I have had trouble keeping to my meal times. There are some things responsible for this.
• Taking snacks in-between meals can make me have trouble keeping to my meal times. Too much snacks before meals makes one not feel hungry again to eat real food.
• When I'm too busy, I might not keep to my meal times cos I will be trying to meet deadline.
• When I'm sick, I feel it unable to eat. I might end up skipping meals cos of no appetite to eat.
• If I'm away from home example attending event, there is no way I'll be able to keep to my meal time.
• Also, finance can stop me from keeping to my meal time as a person without money can't afford eating like he or she would.

I am one of those people who can eat snacks when I don't have time for full meal. Eating a full meal is very good as it gives one nutrients in the body but there are some things that prevents one from eating full meal example money and time. So in a situation I can't afford or have time for a full meal, I go for snacks like buns, pancake, fried yam with sauce, etc. But I prefer eating snacks over buying cooked food on the street though I know it's almost the same thing. I hate stress because after a stressful day at work, I might feel too tired to cook so I can decide to go for an easy meal which is buns and soft drink.

I sometimes take beans cake as snacks

An ideal eating schedule should be meal of at least 3 times a day and made up of breakfast, lunch and dinner. It should be a balance diet.

An ideal eating schedule should start with breakfast which is the most important meal of the day as it is a break from fast throughout the night, is should be something light, lunch which can be a little heavy and taken maybe 4 hours after breakfast and dinner which should be taken at least 2 hours before bedtime so it can digest before one sleeps. An example of my schedule can be:

• Tea or golden morn or pap for breakfast with bread and egg. The golden mourn has vitamin A and also gives protein, same with egg while the bread is carbohydrate.

Breakfast

• For lunch, one might need a heavy food so as to take one through while one is labouring so I lobe having garri or fufu, with soup. The garri or fufu gives one carbohydrate while soup which is made from Vegetables gives vitamins and minerals. The soup can be okra soup, pumpkin, melon, bitter leaf soup, etc

Lunch

• Finally for dinner, I would rather go for something light and I'll eat before 9pm. Dinner can be rice, beans, porridge plantain, etc.

A meal schedule is very important for the following reasons:

• It helps keep one in check on what one is eating whether it's healthy or not.

• It doesn't allow one waste one's money.

• It helps prevent diseases as eating healthy can prevent certain diseases.

• It controls blood pressure and sugar level.

There are certain things that are also very important in-between meal schedule example fruits and water. Fruits contains minerals and vitamins which is very good for the body. Fruits helps in constipation.