am i eating the right amount of food a day *vegetarian*?!

Looks like too little volume, too little variety, too little nutrients. If you keep that up for much longer, you'll get very sick.

You should be aiming for *at least* 5 serves of vegetables and *at least* 2 serves of fruit per day (BTW this is for everyone, not just vegetarians), and it sounds like you may not even be getting 1 of each. 1 serve of fruit would be like 1 apple or 1 orange or 2 apricots or half a cup of fruit juice. 1 serve of vegetables would be like 1 cup of salad, or half a cup of cooked vegetables. So just imagine 1.5 cups of cooked vegetables, plus 1 cup of salad, plus an apple and an orange, spread out over the space of one day. And that is just the barest minimum.

For the vegetables, try for a wide variety, especially of different colours such as orange (carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato), dark green (spinach, kale, broccoli, peas, Brussels sprouts), red/purple (baby beet, tomato), yellow (corn, swede), light green (lettuce, cabbage), white (cauliflower, potato, parsnip, turnip). For the fruits, if you really don't like eating fresh fruit (some people don't), drink a cup of fruit juice instead (pure fruit juice please, not the watered-down and highly-sweetened crap), or eat a handful of sultanas.

And I'm wondering why you've got any leftovers the next morning at all, considering how little you're eating per day. I would starve on your rations!

For breakfast you should be having something a bit less monotonous (I mean, 2 identical meals in the one day?) - maybe a bowl of porridge on day 1, 2 slices of toast (with your choice of topping) on day 2, a bowl of muesli or whole-wheat cereal with soy milk or fruit juice on day 3, a bowl of fruit salad on day 4, a cup of soy yoghurt with some nuts and dried fruit on day 5, and so on.

For lunch, a small snack? Seriously? You should be eating at least 1 sandwich (wholemeal or wholegrain or mixed grain bread) and probably an apple as well. On the sandwich, maybe make it a salad sandwich, and kill 2 birds with 1 stone. For variety, perhaps instead of the sandwich, have a bowl of pumpkin soup, with a slice of bread broken into it, or crackers. If there's no microwave oven to heat up the soup where you work/study, then take it hot in a thermos flask.

For dinner, how about adding a couple of serves of vegetables and some brown rice or wholemeal pasta? There are so many different ways you could do it - stir-fry, casserole, tagine, lasagne, stew, salad, oven-roasted, tacos, risotto, curry, soup, etc.

I'm sorry to sound a little hard on you, but I think if you're going to be a vegetarian or a vegan, do it properly. I don't want you to become one of those people who comes in here a year down the track and says "I tried to be a veg*n, but it didn't work. I got very sick." Because, honestly, it looks from what you're eating (and not eating), that you're not trying at all.

No, you need more protein, fruit, and vegetables. Have a salad at lunch or snack on nuts and cut-up vegetables. At dinner have rice or potatoes, and a vegetable. Have some fruit at breakfast. Have 1 or 2 soy protein shakes (made with either water or soy milk) as a snack. You don't have to starve yourself hon, there's lots of foods a vegetarian can eat.

No, you need more protein, fruit, and vegetables. Have a salad at lunch or snack on nuts and cut-up vegetables. At dinner have rice or potatoes, and a vegetable. Have some fruit at breakfast. Have 1 or 2 soy protein shakes (made with either water or soy milk) as a snack. You don't have to starve yourself hon, there's lots of foods a vegetarian can eat.

Hi Jessica how r u yes dear you are eating right food a day but try to take a breakfast daily it's best for health ..take a one cup of milk or fresh juices. or take some vegetable in your daily routine . have a nice day ............:)

Lunch.