eating the same foods everyday

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  • gainer39911
    gainer39911 Posts: 125 Member
    The diversity in menu varies considerably by meal. Breakfast is almost always the same: Fiber One cereal with berries and skim milk and a cup of tomato juice. Lunch is somewhat more varied, but most often a green or spinach salad with ham and a low cal dressing (I like Bolthouse products), and some fruit (grapes, clementines, etc.). The principal alternative for lunch is a tuna or turkey sandwich. Dinner is much more varied. We always cook from scratch so it's relatively easy to buy a variety of proteins and vegetables and be creative.
  • eliza8897
    eliza8897 Posts: 35 Member
    I eat the same lunch everyday before work. 3 Eggs, Triple Threat Oikos Greek yogurt, turkey sausage links, and a teaspoon of nut butter. I can then go to work and not be hungry again until I get home. I like the veggie rice steamers with tuna, chicken, or tilapia for dinner. I rarely eat bread or sweets and only drink sparkling water.
  • brandiseagroves
    brandiseagroves Posts: 29 Member
    thanks for all the replies...you guys are awesome
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    My lunch is typically the same for long periods of time, but my dinner almost always changes. The lunch is more for convenience (food wise, not calorie wise, but it does help with planning other food intake).
  • kthompson601
    kthompson601 Posts: 174 Member
    I also tend to do this, with some variation on the weekends. During the week it's just a lot easier to eat the same thing. Homemade smoothie for breakfast; fruit and salad for lunch; and a homemade meal with fruit, occasionally extra veg, and a sweet treat for dinner. I'm single, and it's very difficult to make a single portion of anything, so I make something on Sunday and eat it for dinner every night through Friday. Could be a stew, a lasagna, beans and rice, different pastas, or whatever.

    On the weekends I tend to eat more irregularly and more likely to eat out, though I try not to, to save both money adn calories.
  • TrickyDisco
    TrickyDisco Posts: 2,869 Member
    Breakfast is either overnight oatmeal or porridge made with soya milk, lunch a slice of wholemeal bread with dairy-free spread and either peanut butter, home-made hummous, red lentil or kidney bean spread or yeast extract, a few almonds, walnuts, dried apricots, prunes, pumpkin seeds, apple, sweet pepper and celery and a sweet biscuit like a ginger snap and/or digestive. Evening meals vary, depends on the season, snacks vary too.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    i don't always eat the same thing or the same way
    but most days I'll have some egg and cheese, yogurt, cookie or sweet bread/muffin, and ice cream. then veggies and fruit fill in most else
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    During a standard week my breaksfast and lunch are pretty standard.
    breakfast: yoghurt, nuts, muesli and fruit The fruit will vary depending on season.
    Lunch: two slices of bread with cheese, soup and a small salad. The latter I am trying to change to homemade and the soup is whatever is on offer in our company restaurant.
    Snacks: two pieces of fruit a day.
    That said, I also travel a lot away from our offices and those days the lunch will vary on occasion significantly.
    Dinner a lot less structured, in part because both my husband and I love cooking
  • missjones513
    missjones513 Posts: 345 Member
    Breakfast is usually Greek yogurt and a granola bar. Sometimes I'll do the smart ones breakfast wrap or oatmeal in the winter. On the weekends it's scrambled eggs and turkey bacon.

    Lunch is usually baked chicken or pork chops with steamed veggies or sweet potatoes. Sometimes I'll do healthy choice, lean cuisine or smart ones if I don't feel like cooking stuff for the week.

    Dinner is random, based on my eMeals plan or whatever I have a taste for.
  • nyponbell
    nyponbell Posts: 379 Member
    I eat pretty much the same things every day;
    Breakfast: oatmeal, banana, linseed, an iron tablet (unless I'm in a hurry then it's just a banana and hopefully an egg and some other piece of fruit I might find)
    Lunch: some salad and beans from the school cafeteria (I eat with the kids) and a bean soup I bring with me (which I eat on my break as we're not allowed to bring our own food to the cafeteria)
    Midday snack: a green smoothie (with lots of berries and other delicious and healthy stuff)
    Evening: eggs (unless I ate it in the morning), some treat (dried mango, some chocolate covered cashews, or I go all out and eat a gigantic bar of chocolate or a tub of B&J, you know, the normal stuff), cheese, other random stuff (sometimes)

    I also recently got a protein powder I actually like, so now I'm working it into my day as well (with milk). Today I had it with breakfast, because I didn't have time to make and eat my oatmeal (but the shake I can drink on my way to work), but I will probably start drinking it with my lunch and move the bean soup to evening at home. I figure I need the quick protein boost during the day more than in the evening (as I work out in the morning and am active at my job).

    This makes it so much easier to plan out my work-week and prepare food on Sunday. On weekends I might eat some of this, depending on what I've got planned for the day (and if I have any soup left), but it's mainly for weekdays.
  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    I eat the same foods regularly as do most people. Out of habit we find things we like and then eat them frequently.

    The thing a lot of new MFP users get discouraged by is entering foods in their diary. After several weeks it gets very easy because you eat the same things regularly whether you realized it before or not.
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