Gregg Wallace says the UK's snack culture "problem" is of "epidemic proportions".
Gregg Wallace says the UK's snack culture 'problem' is of 'epidemic proportions'
The ‘MasterChef’ judge dropped five stone and now believes the way Brits eat between meals is a huge problem.
The 58-year-old TV presenter told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Everybody started to ask how I’d done it. I realised there was a massive interest because so many people are on diets that don’t work.
“As I started to look at it more, people’s shopping and eating habits, I realised what a terrible state the nation is in. The snack culture is so bad that people don’t ask, ‘Should I snack?’ They ask, ‘What should I snack on?’
“I go to work in many different places and see snacks spread across the desks, it’s become so standard.
“Far too many people go to work in the morning with no idea what they’re going to have for breakfast, so they grab a pot of yoghurt or a croissant, which in no way is going to fill them up, so mid-morning they’re hungry and grabbing a packet of crisps.
“Come lunchtime they’re in a supermarket looking for a meal deal which doesn’t fill them either. And at dinnertime they open the fridge, think, ‘I can’t do this’, and phone for a takeaway. On and on it goes, in epidemic proportions. It’s a real problem.”
Gregg - who tied the knot with caterer Anne-Marie Sterpini in 2016 - feels the solution is to “just eat healthy food”.
He said: “They [diets] were all uncomfortable, made me unhappy and left me hungry and dissatisfied. That was when Anna said, well, let’s just eat healthy food. It worked.
“I realised that’s all you need to do – you need to know what your breakfast, lunch and dinner is going to be, and you need to be full up after every meal.
"You’ll lose weight and save a fortune on shopping. And you don’t need willpower.”
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