If you rarely have time to stop for regular meals, you may want to log on to The Times Health Club's Erratic Eaters Forum to find like-minded people with whom you can share healthy eating tips. If buying the right property is about location, location, location, then for erratic eaters achieving “nutritional normality” is all about planning, planning, planning.

TAKE HEALTHY FOOD WITH YOU

This usually involves taking at least some of your own food with you. Food suitable to be eaten on the go needs to be transportable, non-perishable, and easy to eat without spilling or leaving you with dirty hands. It also needs to be food that is low GI; in other words, food that is digested slowly and keeps you feeling full after eating so that you don't find yourself on a blood-sugar rollercoaster, yearning for sugary, high-GI food, such as biscuits and cakes. Last but not least, your food choices need to be packed with nutrients to help sustain your high-speed lifestyle.

BREAKFAST

I'd recommend Flahavan's Quick Oats Original Porridge (Sainsbury's), which comes in a 44g pot to which you just add hot milk (you can buy this in a coffee shop). It is filling, low GI and, if you use skimmed milk, has only 247 calories. A pot of Rumblers Special Flakes (Boots) comes with a spoon and the milk in a clever separate container. One pot contains 165 calories and is easily turned into a more substantial meal if you also carry a banana and eat this at the same time. Both give you B vitamins, which are important for people with stressful lives.

LUNCH

Lunchtime suggestions include stashing little cans of John West WeightWatchers Tuna in Mayonnaise with Sweetcorn in your bag, glove compartment or desk drawer. They come in packs of three with little ring-pull tops. Eat one or two with pitta bread, easily transportable when wrapped in foil, for a satisfying lunch of fewer than 300 calories. Or you could just carry a piece of cheese wrapped in foil to eat with the pitta. Carrot and celery sticks tend to travel well to eat with these options.

SNACKS

Carry pieces of fruit, such as apples and pears, for snacking between meals. Dried fruit is also useful. So, too, are 150g pots of Ambrosia rice pudding and custard, though you need a plastic spoon to hand to eat these. All are digested slowly, giving a steady release of energy. While the fruits give you vitamins, supernutrients and soluble fibre, the rice pudding is great for bone-building calcium.

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