Manuel Viso, PhD: “Three dinners I would never make: fried meat with French fries, spaghetti, and milk with cocoa and cookies.”

After a long, hard day at work , with rushing, traffic jams, and a thousand tasks piled up, the last thing you want to think about when you get home is thinking about an elaborate dinner . Most of us opt for quick and convenient options : a mixed sandwich , a salad with whatever's left in the fridge, some slices of cold cuts with bread, or the classic yogurt or a piece of fruit . Easy solutions that calm hunger , but they don't always provide what our body needs at the end of the day.

Light and healthy dinners are recommended by doctors and nutritionists, but fatigue is more prevalent. Although Spain is home to the Mediterranean diet, the truth is that there is increasingly less time—and desire—to cook balanced meals . Therefore, seemingly harmless menus are repeated every night in many homes, but which, if consumed frequently, may not be as healthy as we think.

Processed foods, pastries, white bread, pasta with sauces, sugary smoothies, or the classic cocoa with cookies are among the most common options, especially during the week. The problem is that many of these dinners, although quick, are not recommended if you want to maintain a healthy diet . This is the warning from Dr. Manuel Viso , an emergency room and hematology specialist, who has publicly highlighted three very popular dishes that he always avoids.

Dr. Manuel Viso: "There are three dinners I would never make."

The doctor has shared on social media the three dinners he would never serve himself at the end of the day. In his own words, they would be: "A plate of fries with fried meat. A plate of spaghetti with tomato and grated cheese. Milk with sweetened cocoa and dipping cookies."

Regarding the first course, Dr. Viso points out that although potatoes are a vegetable, the way they are cooked can turn them into a serious nutritional problem . As he has explained on other occasions, these foods often contain "excessive sodium, refined oils, starch, and acrylamide , the latter a potentially carcinogenic substance." Added to this is the frying of meat, which can also lead to excess fat and reduced nutritional value if the product is not chosen carefully.

According to Viso, these three dinners can be eaten occasionally, but should not be part of the weekly routine.

Regarding spaghetti with tomato and grated cheese, Viso warns that it seems like a healthy combination, but it isn't. White pasta has little fiber and minerals , processed tomato sauce often contains sugar and additives , and many commercially grated cheeses aren't even real cheese. Finally, the classic bowl of milk with cocoa and cookies , although reminiscent of childhood, is full of sugars and lacks the nutrients a complete dinner should offer. That's why she recommends putting a stop to them and eating them only occasionally.