What do you guys like to eat on your birthday?

Homemade lasagna for dinner, followed by homemade cake! usually, I count calories (habit) but don't care if I'm over. At some point during the day I also get a giant latte from my favourite local place
Happy early birthday!

Well, to a lot of people birthdays are special.

I don't have any food in particular that I have on mine though.

Although birthday cake is always nice

My birthday is coming up soon, too. I share the day with my spouse's birthday and our anniversary! It's our Mega-Day!

We have a local fish restaurant that we always have lunch at on that day (20+ year tradition). They have curbside pickup so we will do that this year. We will probably "picnic" in our car since it's too far to bring the food home. Fortunately there is a nice park nearby and we have found in-car picnics with a nice view are actually kinda fun.

This year we are planning to get one of those small supermarket cakes to celebrate - one with lots of chocolate!!

We will also, fingers crossed for decent weather, visit with our adult child and their spouse in their backyard with social distancing. 🎁

Dinner will be something small.

No particular food. Pre-covid, people would normally take me out to a nice and interesting restaurant for dinner, but not necessarily on my birthday, but the closest weekend. This year (since it was this week, so I can easily remember), I had homemade beef stew with lots of vegetables on my birthday itself (nothing different than what I normally have), but then the following day my sister and I got together to get a Christmas tree and in partial celebration of my b-day we ordered kebobs from a favorite restaurant. I was planning to log but decided not to, but I don't think I overate my planned calories (I had some leftovers the next day and did log).

My birthday is the day after Halloween... I usually have steak and crab legs. My favorite.

Tiramisu is a must!

I haven't logged anything in years...but even when I did, occasions are occasions...nobody became overweight by celebrating and overindulging on a birthday or holiday or whatever.

My birthday is in October and I'm of German decent, so it's usually an Octoberfest kind of thing.

I enjoy steamed mixed veggies from a good Chinese place, and may have a piece of vegan gluten free cheesecake 😊

I believe in indulgent food on/around my birthday**. Usually, it'd be a good restaurant with friend(s), but different choices each year.

This year, during the pandemic, I've been cooking for myself nearly all the time, rarely getting takeout. On my birthday, I got a nice big chunk of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting from a local deli area that makes really good carrot cake, and a takeout blue corn enchilada dinner with a side of refried beans (and a takeout margarita) from my favorite locally-owned Mexican restaurant. (That's a meal that I'd have more often when I was going to restaurants regularly, but hadn't had in many months.)

While I was losing weight, I did log my indulgent birthday eating (though I had to estimate, because it was a local restaurant). During weight loss, and for a while after, I was pretty meticulous about logging daily and reasonably accurately (without obsessing, just making my best shot). I wanted to have enough solid logging data, including peak days, to do my own TDEE/NEAT calorie estimates for use in maintenance. I'd already figured out that the so-called calculators tended to give me estimates that weren't very accurate at all for me, so it would be better to work it out from my own data. YMMV.

** It's a joke, but I've advanced the theory that our birthday celebrations should be the same percentage of life, throughout life. So, if it's one day at age 1, it's 2 days at age 2, and so on. I'm now up to a full 65 days annually 😆, more than two months, so technically my mid-November birthday extends well past Christmas. 😉

I am pleased if I get to celebrate it dinning out in a nice restaurant. Not only for the food but because it is a good reason for not having to spend time in the kitchen. But like @yirara, for me it is just another day. It used to be more important when I was younger; now not so much. But I do greet family and friends on their birthdays because I know that the day is important to all of them.

This year my husband and I went for breakfast because the coffee shop/restaurant had a great front lawn with plenty of room for open seating and eating, and the weather was great. Glad that we did because all indoor and outdoor dinning was closed few days after that. I don't' care for cake and I haven't had one in years, I don't crave or miss it.

I celebrate the big 4-0 in a couple of months, and that will likely be still be during lockdown.Especially after this past year, I'm of the opinion that life is short, so every year I'm alive and well is something worth celebrating. I really haven't thought about what I want, but I know I'm always down for some curry. Cake for sure!!

Well, for my last birthday I got together with some friends, drank a medically unrecommended amount of alcohol and... uh... memory gets a bit fuzzy but I picked up a pizza at some point on my way home, got through a slice and half before passing out and ate most of it the next day to help with the hangover. It was pretty gross.

As a once-a-year thing... 10/10.

chris89topher wrote: »

dragon_girl26 wrote: »

I celebrate the big 4-0 in a couple of months, and that will likely be still be during lockdown.Especially after this past year, I'm of the opinion that life is short, so every year I'm alive and well is something worth celebrating. I really haven't thought about what I want, but I know I'm always down for some curry. Cake for sure!!

My next b-day is going to be the big 4-0 also. I can barely type it, lol. NOT looking forward to that number at all. It's weird. Even though I see that number approaching, I don't feel like that number. Ugh! Only 7 short more months to go (July).

😂 I know exactly what you mean. I've gotten to the point where I've had to remind myself that things I remember as five years ago...are actually from like 20 years ago. 🙃 People keep telling me their 40s were better than their 30s..so..one can only hope!