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| Themes | Subthemes | Example quotations |
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| Improvement/deterioration (opportunity) | Time | “In regard to timing, I am still eating at similar times.” |
| “I’m in better physical and nutritional shape in lockdown due to extended time to cater for myself” |
| “More time to cook. No hockey training or socialising means meals can be regular and planned” |
| “Eat less, at more consistent times each day (3 meals a day at regular times) and balance of diet improved but eating more” |
| “Consistency and always home-cooked” |
| “Taking more care to eat healthier options and at regular intervals. Drinking alcohol in much lower quantities” |
| Quality | “Eating more at home has led to cutting out on processed meals” |
| “More fresh produce, more time to cook from scratch” |
| “Improved in terms of nutrition and variety” |
| “I’d say the quality has got better as has the experience of making it. More time in the kitchen with my wife creating new habits” |
| “Lower quality lunches. More evening snacks” |
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| Food access (opportunity) | Emotional eating | “Boredom eating, finding shopping for things irritating so picking up snacks etc. as a reward” |
| “I have become much more aware of what I’m eating and often not in a very health (sic) way” |
| “Comfort eating. More chocolate |
| Diet adaptation | “I’m vegan and at points certain foodstuff were hard to get hold of I felt I should not go to multiple shops and so I curtailed my normal buying habits” |
| “Changed to a vegan diet and eating at more regular times” |
| “Major change is that I have started taking creatine preworkout before gym sessions, and drinking protein shakes after gym sessions and eating more protein bars” |
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