This questionnaire (Adapted from British Heart Foundation) is designed to assess the nutritional value of your feeding behavior. Please tick (√) to answers that are most suitable to you
| Food | Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | Always |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating habits | |||||
| 1. How often do you skip breakfast more than once a week? | |||||
| 2. How often do you skip lunch more than once a week? | |||||
| 3. How often do you skip evening meals more than once a week? | |||||
| 4. How often do you take snack instead of meals? | |||||
| Fruits and vegetables | |||||
| 5. How often do you eat >5 portions of fruit and/or vegetables? Remember that fruit juice only counts as 1 portion a day, regardless of how much you drink. The same applies to dried fruit. Potatoes count as starchy foods and not as vegetables. As a guide, a portion is about a handful | |||||
| 6. How often do you eat >4 different varieties of fruit each week? | |||||
| 7. How often do you eat >4 different varieties of vegetables each week? | |||||
| Fats | |||||
| 8. How often do you choose low-fat products when available? | |||||
| 9. How often do you eat fried foods (such as stew, crisps and snacks, or fish and chips)? | |||||
| 10. How often do you opt for lean cuts of meat or remove visible fat - for example, removing the skin on chicken or the rind on (bacon) pork? | |||||
| 11. How often do you eat oily fish? Examples of oily fish include salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, scumbia, and fresh tuna | |||||
| 12. How often do you include unsalted nuts and seeds (e.g., groundnut) in your diet? | |||||
| Starchy foods | |||||
| 13. How often do you base your main meals around starchy foods? For example, yam, foo-foo, potatoes, pasta, rice or bread | |||||
| 14. How often do you choose wheat bread or rolls rather than white bread? | |||||
| 15. How often do you regularly eat wholegrain cereals (e.g. quacker oat), with no added sugar? | |||||
| 16. How often do you include pulses in your diet? For example, beans, okpa, fio-fio and lentils | |||||
| Sugar | |||||
| 17. How often do you eat sugar-coated breakfast cereals or add sugar to your breakfast cereals (e.g. Golden morn)? | |||||
| 18. How often do you add sugar to your drinks? | |||||
| 19. How often do you drink sweet fizzy (soft) drinks? | |||||
| 20. How often do you eat cakes, sweets, chocolate, or biscuits at work? | |||||
| Salt | |||||
| 21. How often do you add salt to food during cooking? | |||||
| 22. How often do you add salt to meals at the table? | |||||
| 23. How often do you eat savory snacks at work? For example, crisps, or salted nuts | |||||
| 24. How often do you eat preprepared meals? For example, preprepared sandwiches, ready meals, or canned soups | |||||
| 25. How often do you eat processed meats such as ham or bacon, sugar, or smoked fish? | |||||
| Fluids | |||||
| 26. How often do you drink up to 3 L(5-6 satchets) of water daily? | |||||
| 27. How often do you take sugary fizzy (soft) drinks? | |||||
| 28. How often do you drink >2-3 units of alcohol a day if you’re a woman or more than 3-4 (1 bottle of beer) units of alcohol a day if you’re a man? |