I thought it would be interesting to see how much I ate on a typical day in Japan, some Japanese food didn’t have a ready analogue with western food so I’ve tried to describe it:
Breakfast
2 small bananas around 100 kcal
2 tuna onigiri/rice balls 386 kcal
1 mystery flavour onigiri/rice ball 154 kcal
Snack
1 choc chip sponge bun 450 kcal
Snack
1 sake cake 312 kcal
Lunch
1 tuna onigiri/rice ball 193 kcal
1 fish onigiri/rice ball 159 kcal
1 pack of caramelised chipped potatoes 496 kcal
4 granola buns 516 kcal
Snack
Gel pack 180 kcal
Snack
1 pack of crouton like crisps 552 kcal
Dinner
1 chicken and rice bento 840 kcal
2 curry flavoured meat sandwiches 304 kcal
3 sticks dango, sweet rice balls around 300 kcal
1 bun 399kcal
450gm yogurt 283 kcal with honey
Total of kcalories: around 5624