King Charles ‘doesn’t eat lunch’ - prefers to eat an unusual breakfast ‘high in protein’ - Express

King Charles, as the monarch, is constantly travelling up and down the country, as well as abroad to perform duties for the Royal Family. A nutritionist spoke to Express.co.uk to explain what diet the sovereign follows, including his unusual breakfast.

Royal biographer Tina Brown confirmed in her book, The Palace Papers, that Prince William once warned guests at a breakfast buffet to stay away from his father's linseed breakfast at Highgrove House.

The young Prince of Wales reportedly told guest Stephen Fry that King Charles's breakfast choice of linseed was like “bird food”.

Ms Brown wrote: "At breakfast at Highgrove, Fry was inspecting a buffet when he lifted a tureen that offered Charles's preferred heap of Linseed.

“Prince William said 'Oh no, don't go near the bird table, Stephen, that's only for Pa.'"

Leading nutritionist Signe Svanfeldt at Lifesum, the healthy eating app, has shared the benefits of King Charles's diet.

Ms Svanfeldt acknowledged the benefits Charles is receiving from linseed: “Linseed can aid digestion and is high in protein, fibre and essential fatty acids (omega-3).

"For breakfast, King Charles is known to enjoy homemade bread, fresh fruit and fruit juices - which have many nutritional benefits.

“Home-made bread typically contains more nutrient-rich flours such as rye and spelt plus fibre- and protein-rich seeds, including psyllium or linseed. Fresh fruit and fruit juices will help to boost the King’s vitamin, mineral and fibre intake."

Over the years, it has been reported that King Charles does not eat lunch. His former press secretary, Julian Payne, has confirmed as such.

He told The Mirror: "The King doesn’t eat lunch; so, an early lesson I learnt when out on the road with him was to have a big breakfast or bring a few snack bars with you to keep you going.

“The working day is pretty relentless. Beginning with the radio news headlines and a breakfast of seasonal fruit salad and seeds with tea.”

Ms Svanfeldt explained to Express.co.uk whether or not this is a healthy option for the King.

She claimed: “The only ‘right way’ is what suits your lifestyle needs, which is what King Charles does and it works for him. Some prefer to eat many smaller meals, while others prefer to have fewer larger ones."

King Charles admitted in a BBC interview in 2021 that he has a routine when it comes to eating meat and fish.

The King said: “For years I haven’t eaten meat and fish on two days a week and I don’t eat dairy products on one day a week."

"This is a good strategy,” Ms Svanfeldt opined. “King Charles’s love for plant-based food increases his dietary fibre, decreases saturated fats and reduces his carbon footprint.

"Reducing your intake of animal-based products instead of cutting them out completely is a sustainable strategy since you don’t have to restrict yourself from things you love - and can enjoy them in moderation.

“Changing your diet to reduce your carbon footprint is easier than you think. Start by cutting down on meat and eating more root vegetables, beans, lentils and whole grains.”

Ms Svanfeldt offered some recommendations to ensure that King Charles has enough energy to perform his royal duties.

She suggested: “King Charles should ensure that his diet remains balanced and is coupled with regular exercise. Nutritious foods to consider include legumes, whole grains and root vegetables - as well as keeping hydrated by drinking enough water throughout the day.”

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Looking to set reasonable weight-loss goals that are actually fun and allow you to “eat more”? You’ve come to the right place! 

Ilana Muhlstein, a registered dietician and author of You Can Drop It!, shares ways to make a healthy lifestyle easier and more attainable. 

Growing up, Ilana says she struggled with her weight and did not find traditional weight-loss methods to be effective. “For years, I was taught to count calories or eat smaller portions, which obviously wasn’t working,” she says. 

However, after using her scale as an “accountability tool,” Ilana lost a whopping 100 pounds AND kept it off. Ilana says this experience inspired her to become an expert on the subject in order to “change the narrative around weight loss into something that can be joyful, fun, positive, and even celebrated.” 

She even says you’ll never “say ‘no’ to eating.” 

Here are her four tips: 

1. Use Ilana’s “More? Sure!” Model 

Ilana says she created her “More? Sure!” model for anyone with a big appetite or who attends social events with a lot of food options. The aim is to follow this cycle in order to stay in control of your eating. 

At the top of the cycle is water. “Drinking 16 ounces of water is going to help you set a positive tone and pace yourself with your food choices,” she says. 

Ilana says your first bite should be a veggie, and then a protein. 

After this, she says to choose a smart carb with lots of fiber. However, what happens if you eat something delicious, such as smashed potatoes, that “taste way better than you thought they would?”  

Ilana says “Sure!” but go back to the cycle — by drinking more water (or tea) and eating more veggies — before you indulge.  

“With my 'More? Sure!' model, you’re never saying ‘no’ to eating. You’re just approaching balanced eating in a way that will lead to positive weight loss.” 

2. Get Out Your Calendar 

“A goal is so much more successful when it feels attainable and you actually have a deadline,” Ilana says.  

She adds that in addition to your larger weight-loss goal, you should set a 2-pound weight-loss goal in 7-21 day increments. 

“Because no matter what age or stage of life you’re in, those 2 pounds do add up,” she says. 

3. Use Ilana’s 2:2 Rule 

Ilana’s 2:2 rule is simple: eat two cups of veggies by 2 p.m.  

“Because veggies make you feel full and help you lose more weight,” she says. 

Ilana adds that you can “actually eat more to weigh less” as long as you’re filling up with voluminous, flavorful veggies.  

“The more [veggies] you eat, the better you’ll start to look and feel.”   

4. Be Aware of Open-Ended Foods 

Ilana says to be mindful of open-ended foods, which she defines as large bags of chips or pretzels that don’t have a specific serving size. 

“If your environment is set up with all these temptations, you’re going to have a much harder time,” she says. 

Instead, Ilana recommends sticking to foods with trackable serving sizes, like whole fruits, pre-sliced breads, or 100-calorie packs of popcorn. 

“When you set your environment up for success, you’re setting yourself up for success. Because ultimately, what’s in sight ends up in [your] stomach.”

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As a longtime carrot connoisseur, I love every type out there. Except for one: packaged baby carrots. That’s right, those unnaturally perfect miniature carrot-like specimens that are sold everywhere from upscale grocery stores to gas stations to corporate office vending machines. They're actually bad in every way.

Ever since baby carrots were “invented” in the 1980s, marketers have conned us into believing that they're the ultimate healthy snack, a convenient way to enjoy veggies on the go. Sure, they may be snackable and convenient, but they’re definitely not what you think they are. Here’s why you should think twice about snagging a bag:

1. They’re not actually “baby.” The package might claim otherwise, but most carrots sold as “baby carrots” are just regular carrots that have been cut into two-inch pieces, shaved, and polished down to that snackable size.
   
2. They don’t actually taste like real carrots. The taste of these so-called baby carrots can best be described as factory fresh, which is VERY different from actual carrot flavor. Don’t believe me? Get a bag of regular carrots and do a side-by-side taste test.
   
3. The baby-carrot industry is obsessed with unrealistic beauty standards. Not all carrots can be cut and trimmed to become the perfectly straight, perfectly thin baby carrots that people will buy. As soon as they arrive at the baby-carrot processing plant, the carrots are sorted. Any that are too fat or not straight enough are deemed unworthy and discarded to become juice or animal fodder. So, just to be clear, when you buy a bag of these baby carrots, you’re buying into an industry that is as obsessed with unrealistic, unnatural perfection as any modern-day beauty industry.
   
4. They waste energy. After the carrots are sorted, they’re cut down by machines into perfect two-inch pieces and then shaved twice to make them perfectly round, once in a rough cutter and then again, more precisely, in a polisher. If this seems like no big deal, just think about all the energy these machines are eating up, all for the sole purpose of beautifying something that was fine to begin with, and that we’re going to consume the minute we open the bag anyway.
   
5. They’re rinsed with chlorine. To prevent “microbacterial contamination,” all baby carrots are treated with a weak chlorine solution before they’re packaged. True, they’re rinsed after the treatment. But do you really want to eat something that you know has been doused in chlorinated water? Or give it to kids? For me, that’s a hard no.
   
6. They can develop this weird white film and get slimy. Because these carrots are now entirely composed of cut sides, they’re more prone to drying out and developing carrot blush, a thin white film that forms due to dehydration. Or, even worse, they can get slimy inside the bag, even before it’s opened. Which is just downright gross.
   
7. They’re actually pretty expensive. The exact price may vary depending on the store, but, on average, a pound of regular carrots costs about $1. A pound of baby carrots, on the other hand, costs anywhere between $1.30 and $1.50. That’s a 33 percent mark-up. And for what? Someone else cutting your carrots, subjecting them to a beauty treatment, and giving them a chlorine rinse? Soooo not worth it.
   
8. It takes two minutes to cut your own carrots. Seriously. You can enjoy better carrots, save energy and money, and avoid supporting an industry obsessed with promoting false vegetable beauty standards if you just buy a bag of “adult” carrots and cut them yourself. It’ll take two minutes—less time than you spent reading this article.

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Taylor Ann Spencer is the assistant food editor at Delish, where she develops recipes, creates recipe videos, and styles food. With a background in writing and theater as well as professional cooking, she enjoys sharing her love for global flavors and all things baking through informational posts, hosted videos, and just plain everyday conversations. When she's not cooking, she's brainstorming her next culinary mash-up. Mac 'n' cheese chili rellenos, anyone?

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FILE – People sit, drinking and eating, outside cafes and pubs Soho, central London, April 12, 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly one degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study Monday, March 6, 2023. Researchers found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major food groups — meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats, dairy and rice. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

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• Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.

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• Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

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• The modeling study found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major sources.

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(AP) – Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.

Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, and will approach the agreement’s limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

The modeling study found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major sources: meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats; dairy; and rice. Those three sources account for at least 19 percent each of food’s contribution to a warming planet, according to the study, with meat contributing the most, at 33 percent.

All emit large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas with more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide, in the way they are currently farmed. The researchers calculated that methane will account for 75 percent of food’s share of warming by 2030, with carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide accounting for most of the rest.

“I think the biggest takeaway that I would want (policymakers) to have is the fact that methane emissions are really dominating the future warming associated with the food sector,” said Catherine C. Ivanovich, a climate scientist at Columbia University and the study’s lead author.

Ivanovich and colleagues from the University of Florida and Environmental Defense Fund calculated the three major gases produced by each type of food over its lifetime based on current consumption patterns. Then they scaled the annual emissions over time by gas based on five different population projections.

And then they used a climate model frequently used by the United Nations’ panel on climate change to model the effects of those emissions on surface air temperature change.

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Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, who wasn’t involved in the study, said it used well-established methods and datasets “to produce a novel, sobering conclusion.”

“The study highlights that food is absolutely critical to hitting our Paris Agreement climate targets — failure to consider food is failure to meet our climate targets globally,” said Meredith Niles, a food systems scientist at the University of Vermont who was not involved in the study.

The study offered some ways to change global food production and consumption that could limit warming.

Many of these changes are already being called for or adopted. U.S. President Joe Biden touted the climate benefits of planting cover crops that can draw down carbon from the atmosphere in an April 2021 address to Congress. Multiple recent studies and reports have recommended eating less meat in order to reduce greenhouse gas creation by animals raised for consumption. And California started a mandatory food waste recycling program in 2021 to reduce the emissions created by decaying food.

But reducing methane may be the most important goal of all. Although methane is far more potent than carbon, it also is much shorter-lived — meaning cuts in methane emissions can have a quick benefit, Ivanovich said.

“So that’s going to help us stay under the dangerous warming target,” she said, “as well as give us some time to build up resilience and adaptation to climate change in the meantime.”

A major question that remains is whether food producers and consumers can change their behavior in order to achieve the reductions in greenhouse gases laid out in the study. There’s a roadmap, but will it be followed?

“Changing behavior, especially when we are bombarded with constant media extolling the benefits of everything from Coke to french fries, from pizza to burgers, is pretty damned difficult,” Columbia University plant physiologist Lew Ziska wrote in an email to the AP. “So, overall, while we need to change, whether we can change is …. problematic.”

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I recently went to a restaurant in Denver where the Cobb salad was close to $20, while the burger and fries cost around $15. The price difference between more or less nutritious foods is evident almost everywhere you go, and the current economy is making it more and more expensive to grocery shop in general, let alone to eat healthily. 

Nutrition plays a significant role in your physical and mental health as it can lower your risk of heart disease, strengthen your immune system, build muscle, improve focus and more. A healthy diet can look many different ways, and there's nothing wrong with the occasional burger. The key is to eat a diverse and well-rounded diet, with plenty of produce such as fruits and veggies -- and those are some of the trickiest food groups to get enough of if you're short on time and money. 

That said, it's important to make sure you get the nutrients you need to maintain a healthier body and mind. The tips below will help you shop and eat smart so you can be healthy without having to spend an arm and a leg. 

How to eat healthily on a budget

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Plan meals where you anticipate leftovers 

Plan your meals ahead of time so you can consolidate the number of items you need to purchase at the grocery store. Apps like Mealime or Paprika can help take some of the mental work out of meal planning.

The larger the meals you plan, the more leftovers you get, the more money you save (and the less of your hard-earned healthy food goes to waste). Leftovers can be put to use in different dishes or even stored in the freezer to eat at a later time. I like to save leftover taco meat for a taco salad or breakfast burrito the next day. 

Make a grocery list and stick to it

Make a grocery list keeping prices in mind, so you know you're sticking to your budget. When in doubt on the price of an item, overestimate or use a price comparison app to double check, like Flipp or Grocery King. Give yourself an extra $20 or so for flexibility in case you see a few extra necessities you might not have thought of. 

Otherwise, it's important to stick to your list. Before you know it, your extra items can prove to be more costly than you anticipate, pushing you over budget. 

Buy canned or frozen produce

Canned and frozen foods may not be as tasty as the fresh stuff picked from your local farm, but they are just as nutritious and much less expensive. You'll have the same amount of vitamins and minerals as you would if they were fresh, and they last longer in the freezer or can. Try buying frozen or canned peas, corn, carrots, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and fruit. Look for products free of added sugar or salt.

Frozen produce can often be used in the same recipes as fresh produce with a little tweaking. Canned produce, on the other hand, is already cooked, so it's ideal to throw into stews, soups and casseroles.

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Join grocery loyalty clubs for discounts

Grocery stores offer discounts on certain products if you have a membership with them, like Safeway, Kroger and Giant. It's also free to join. You'll have to provide information like phone number and email, but the savings are significant and noticeable in your end total. 

Take advantage of sales

Along the same lines, stock up on products you know you'll need when they're on sale, like seltzer water and proteins. This especially goes for items with long shelf lives and freezer-friendly foods. 

Stick to the generic store brands

We all know and love our name brands, but store-brand items are considerably lower in price than the name-brand products such as condiments, bread, yogurt, frozen veggies and more. For the most part, you can hardly taste the difference and the savings can add up. For example, Consumer Reports calculated you save around 62 to 72 percent per serving if you buy store-brand ketchup over Heinz. 

Grow your own food 

If you have a green thumb, growing your own food in a garden will save you good money on produce. You also have the convenience of having your favorite fruits, vegetables and herbs in your own backyard. Not to mention the environmental impact, such as reducing fossil fuel emissions and plastic waste. 

Easy foods to grow for beginners include onions, peppers, cucumbers and herbs such as basil or parsley. You can even grow food from your kitchen scraps for free, such as celery, lettuce or scallions.

The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.

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