Do you eat the same things weekly/daily? or prefer routine?

pastelrosedream
pastelrosedream Posts: 17
in Food and Nutrition
I personally like routine and have the same breakfast usually and only a few dinners to choose from. They are well rounded meals though. People pick on me about it but whatever, I just never seen the need to try something new even if that means I'm "non adventurous" or "boring". I enjoy what I currently eat and, yeah, I just want to hear what you all do.
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  • pastelrosedream
    pastelrosedream Posts: 17
    Sorry, I meant (or prefer something different?)
  • hjb85
    hjb85 Posts: 14 Member
    I find that routine is the only thing that keeps me on track. That being said, I don't ever stick to the EXACT same meals - I think that would drive me crazy. I have coffee and smoothie for brekky but mix up what goes in my smoothie. For lunch its soup or a frozen meal or some salad - this gives me enough variety most of the time but sme days I do get annoyed and end up "breaking my diet" to have some bread. Dinners are harder for me but I always try to incorprate lean meat and veggies, finding ways to cut down on carbs and saturated fat.
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
    Breakfast and lunch during the week is pretty much the same everyday. I like to cook, so dinner is where I get variety.
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    I usually cook for a week, since I'm a student so I'm pretty short on time and money. So this means I eat the same lunch for a whole week. Also like you my dinner is usually the same thing, and for breakfast it's usually a choice from 2-3 options. If it's nutritious food and it tastes good, I don't really care if I had it yesterday.
  • LittleDuckyQueen
    LittleDuckyQueen Posts: 4
    Hehe well in my case, since I'm a student, during the day at uni my options for healthy cheap things are pretty limited so I keep eating the same things every day. Like at uni there isn't much to cook with so it mainly means that every morning I go into Coles and just grab 1 of every practical fruit :P
    But yea I prefer routine. I've had tuna for breakfast almost every morning for the past 2 years.
    I like it when a rule of thumb can make my decisions easier :D
  • threnjen
    threnjen Posts: 687 Member
    So far my ability to eat monotonously has been key to my (short) success. I've long since learned that dinner and after-dinner snacks are the things of most interest to me, and I don't particularly care what I eat for breakfast/lunch/earlier snacks. So with that in mind I eat rather monotonously and low calorie, usually saving at 50% of my daily calories for dinner and after.
  • chouflour
    chouflour Posts: 193 Member
    I don't like to think before I've had coffee. So weekday breakfast is always cold coffee with some milk or hot black coffee. On Saturdays, my husband cooks something low-carb for breakfast - usually involving meat, eggs and vegetables. Sunday I'll make waffles if I got a request for them by Saturday night (so I don't have to think in the morning) or I have coffee.

    I pack my lunch while I drink my coffee, and I have medication that needs to be dissolved in cold liquid. So If I had cold coffee (and remembered to dump my medication in), I pack a pint of soup and some crackers or cheese crisps for lunch. If I didn't remember the medication, or had hot coffee - I have a smoothie for lunch. Whatever juice is in the fridge that week, yogurt, banana, medication, ice. It goes in the same cup every day (because the cup holds exactly the volume of smoothie that the recipe makes and keeps the smoothie cold until lunch.) If I remember we have some other fruit to use up, I'll use half a banana, and half some other kind of fruit.

    My whole morning runs on autopilot, so weekend lunches are more interesting, and dinners tend to vary. Of course, my husband is out of town this week - so I had another smoothie for dinner. Oops.
  • IvyLuci
    IvyLuci Posts: 117 Member
    I mostly eat the same, or similar things.
    Breakfast is eggs with something like mustard,or cream, to cover the taste.
    Snack is peanuts most often, somethimes a bit of chocolate with my coffee.
    Lunch is meat with a bit of fresh veggies. I cook a big pan of it, then portion and freeze, so I can have w or 3 variants of the same thing alternating (for instance, one will be meat with lentils, one with beans, one with whatever veggie caught my eye in the store)
    Snack is an egg, a slice of cheese, some deli meat.
    Dinner is usually just a bite or two of something since the other meals use most of my calories.

    If I get a desire for a specific food, I buy it and incorporate it. If it's a veggie that can mean I eat it a couple of days in a row, or that it gets added to one if the meat lunches.

    Peanuts are "timed" so that they are my after-workout snack.

    The more substantial snack is for when I am at work.

    I find that I don't have the desire to snack as much when I'm not at work, so weekends usually have larger meals.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    breakfast (or lack thereof) is the same
    lunch and snacks during the day are the same.

    I have variety at dinner and after dinner dinner.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    I tend to stick to the same things more when I'm cutting as it seems to help me stay on track. I also pack breakfast/lunch to take to work and usually end up with similar things. Dinners and weekends I have a bit more variety.
  • GatorDeb1
    GatorDeb1 Posts: 245 Member
    Same thing every day. It does vary but I'm good with sameness. Less to think about.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    routine is key for me. i tend to eat the same things every day. i like it. i don't need variety. i have a very dulled sense of taste anyway, and the control and predictability of sticking to the same routine every day makes me really happy and satisfied.
  • AddiesHK
    AddiesHK Posts: 8 Member
    If I could I would eat different meals probably everyday my kids the same. With the exception of oatmeal for breakfast my meals have a lot of variety that's because I'm not the one cooking :laugh:
  • itsjustmish
    itsjustmish Posts: 107 Member
    I'm a big fan of routine and not having to think too much, so on weekdays my breakfast (currently scrambled eggs with oats and peanut butter mixed in) and lunch (currently a tortilla wrap with chicken breast, salad, and cottage cheese) tend to stay the same until I get sick of them.

    Snacks don't vary too much; I'm a big fan of Nakd bars and nuts - the flavours of the bars/ type of nut can change daily depending on what I'm feeling like. I also usually have a bowl of oats mixed with greek yoghurt, nut butter, a melted square of 90% dark chocolate and a bit of granola before bedtime.

    Dinners change daily depending on what I feel like, but I do tend to have 6 or 7 'favourite' meals on rotation for a few months before I get bored and change them for different ones!

    Weekends are a bit haphazard as I'm often out or away from home so end up eating a lot more randomly!
  • genki90
    genki90 Posts: 94 Member
    No way! I like variety or I'll get bored and end up eating more than I should (in order to add the "different" taste). If I cook for myself I may eat the same food for 2-3 days. But I'll definitely cook something different after that. The only meal that's usually the same is breakfast.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I need variety!
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Same thing every day. It does vary but I'm good with sameness. Less to think about.

    this.

    I rotate meals through the weeks- so like one week it's stir fry- the next lemon pepper chicken- the next something to make taco's or variation there of... and eggs- and yogurt.
    But I eat the same stuff every week pretty much b/c it makes tracking simple- and I just do NOT have time to cook multiple meals.

    At best I can cook 2 meals on Sunday and rotate the different dishes- but I'm pretty lazy with food- I love delicious food- and I get variety when my BF comes to visit Wed/Thur- usually we'll do steak one night- and then go out another night so that's where my 'variety' comes in.

    but I pretty much eat the same *kitten* all the time.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    Breakfast and lunch during the week is pretty much the same everyday. I like to cook, so dinner is where I get variety.

    Pretty much this. I eat breakfast/lunch at work so it is just easier to keep it simple. Dinners and weekends are where I mix things up. I've got a few standard dinners to rotate through if things are busy or we don't meal plan.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I switch things up a bit from time to time, but I keep within the same structure as long as I eat at home or pack my own snack. Eating out and at friends' give me the necessary break from the routine. But I like my routine, everything is tasteful and I never overeat, and I never have to be uncomfortably hungry for too long.

    I eat really simple, mostly cheap things, five meals a day, and around 1550 calories total.
    Breakfast is a slice of crispbread with whatever spread I have in the fridge, a small glass of milk, a piece of fruit and vegetable.
    Lunch can be same as breakfast, or porridge, salad, smoothie, cheese, fruit, nuts.
    Snack is whatever, but something I didn't have for lunch.
    Dinner is meat/fish, starch and vegetable.
    Evening meal can be yoghurt, cheese, nut butter, fruit, vegetable, deli meat, pickled herring, or whatever I have and fancy.
  • ashleydawndill
    ashleydawndill Posts: 242 Member
    I generally stick to eating the same things throughout the week, to stay on track. Weekends are a bit of a mess, I'll eat anything that comes my way :P
  • Joannesmith2818
    Joannesmith2818 Posts: 438 Member
    I eat 1 of 2 breakfasts.

    I eat the same lunch every day

    And have about 4-5 choices for dinner.

    I also eat the same snacks most days.

    I find simplicity is my best friend. Also it keeps the IBS under control :)
  • trivard676
    trivard676 Posts: 90 Member
    I get bored pretty easily of food. I wish I would get bored of the junk food though ;)

    However, my food tastes tend to go in cycles. Sometimes I'll really want to eat a lot of peppers or salads, other times I can't stand them and will opt for something different. Same goes for coffee and slim-fast shakes (I have slim-fast for breakfast sometimes) and eggs. I freaking love eggs, but I can go weeks at a time without giving them a second thought.

    But if routine helps you stay within moderation, then all the best :D
  • nicola8989
    nicola8989 Posts: 381 Member
    I eat the same during the week - I find it easier to track my calories that way plus I am a very picky eater!

    I do "weekends off" (within reason!) so I have a bit more variety then.
  • Ibarone73
    Ibarone73 Posts: 2
    Breakfast and lunch during the week is pretty much the same everyday. I like to cook, so dinner is where I get variety.

    Same here
  • jfauci
    jfauci Posts: 531 Member
    I pretty much eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch Mon-Fri because it's easy and I like not having to think much about it. I'm a bit more relaxed on the week-end, but still like my usual foods.
  • ttknowles01
    ttknowles01 Posts: 255 Member
    I mostly eat the same thing during the week (dinner consists of something with beef or chicken and veggies on Monday, fish and veggies on Tuesday, Wednesday is salad night, breakfast for dinner on Thursday, Fend for yourself Friday = leftovers), and then get all adventurous on the weekends. It just easier if I don't have to think about what to eat during the week, and stick to the usual. Breakfast and snacks are always the same (fruit and almonds), lunch is usually leftovers from the night before, and dessert is always the same (peanut butter and chocolate protein cake).
  • donnat238
    donnat238 Posts: 309 Member
    Routine during the week. I prep everything on the weekend - so I have enough chopped veggies, fruits,hummus, nut butter,cheese sticks, etc for snacks during the week. I make a meal and divide into 5 servings for lunch. Breakfast is usually a smoothie or greek yogurt. Dinner a lean meat and veggie. On the weekends I eat out or go to family functions - that is my variety!
  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
    Breakfast varies from week to week, usually. Lunches and my afternoon snacks are the same. It's easier and cheaper to prep food on the weekend and eat the same thing all week. I try to keep some variety in my dinners because I cook for my husband, who gets sick of meals very easily when I cook the same thing often enough.

    My desserts are different each day, but the same "schedule" from week to week. Monday is usually a mug cake or graham cracker with peanut butter. Tuesdays and Thursdays I make a s'more. Wednesday is another s'more, but with a Reeses cup instead of half a Hershey bar. Friday is another mug cake or graham cracker with peanut butter, depending on what I had that Monday.

    I love my routine. I'm type A for sure. Everything is planned out way in advance.
  • belgerian
    belgerian Posts: 1,059 Member
    Breakfeast and lunch are the same Dinners vary somewhat and I do snack in the evenings, so my breakfeast and lunch are usually only about 1000 cal. Dinner and snacks are the rest.
  • NyteMirage
    NyteMirage Posts: 315 Member
    I personally like routine and have the same breakfast usually and only a few dinners to choose from. They are well rounded meals though. People pick on me about it but whatever, I just never seen the need to try something new even if that means I'm "non adventurous" or "boring". I enjoy what I currently eat and, yeah, I just want to hear what you all do.

    I'm a very picky eater so its hard for me to be adventurous when it comes to food. I usually eat the same thing each day except for a couple variations in snacks and a few different options for dinner. You aren't alone! You can add me as a friend on here if you'd like! Thanks!

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