Variety or little variety in what you eat?

I usually have the same thing for breakfast and lunch M-F (but change it weekly); and then my dinner is different every night.

It is important to keep giving your body a variety.... the vitamins and minerals found in one vegetable will vary greatly to the next vegetable - but that vegetable will have more of something else.

I have different meals each day/every day.

This is where disciplining yourself into meal-planning really does come into play.

Last night I roasted off about 5# of whole split chicken breasts (there were six breasts), a full rack of ribs, and prepped up some angus steaks for a stout beef stew for tonight's dinner.

Half the chicken will be pulled and used for quick sandwiches...

The other half will be used for making dishes and freezing them individually....

Rack of ribs - that meat will be pulled and be used for making dishes and freezing them individually as well...

I work with all varieties of vegetables including exotic...

I have certain things I really like (oatmeal or eggs for breakfast, for example), and I tend to get in a groove with things, like soups in the winter, but I also have as much variety as I can. I always get red, yellow, and orange peppers, but I recently discovered kale chips. I try making new things for the family, though they don't always appreciate it, lol!

To be honest... not a whole lot of variety.

I'm trying to eat a metric ton of veggies ( lettuce, onion, peppers, celery, carrots ) every day, so that isn't a whole lot of variety there.

I often do soup with black beans / lentils for lunch, or have vegetarian baked beans ( mmm fiber )

Later in the afternoon, I eat a can of tuna for some protein... almost every day.

Dinner has a bit more variety, but it could really use more. I had taco salad last night and it was so yummy that I might have licked the plate clean.

Hi, I tend to eat the same things for a week at a time. For example I buy a box of cereal and eat that until it's gone, I make a big batch of soup or pasta and eat that every day for lunch, I buy a packet of fruit for my afternoon snacks, and I buy a couple of packets of veg or salad to go with my evening meals. However, I do try and change it for the next week, so that I am not constantly eating the same things week in and week out. Having said that, onions, mushrooms and peppers do seem to form part of my everyday diet, as do bananas.

I've heard of both being recommended. For me personally I find that being on "auto-pilot" during my work day helps a LOT. If I know what I'm going to be eating I can easily plan ahead, pack my food etc... and not be swayed by what others are eating. We are on an extremely tight food budget so it also works that I can buy and cook in bulk. I tend to "cook ahead" every Sunday for most of the coming week and use leftovers and such a lot. However, having said that I do shake things up at dinner or on weekends. I believe that averaged out over the month I do have variety of vitamins and minerals. Example: sandwich may for lunch with carrots but then one week I buy a big bag of radishes and have those each day. Or my afternoon snack may be some fruit and almonds but the fruit will change each week based on sale prices/season.

If I have to absolutely chose one I choose autopilot only for the fact it works for me and takes my mind off obsessing over calories, what should I eat, etc.. It's easier to log something you've had

I tend to stay on one thing for a week or so and then go on to something else. I like hot food for breakfast and need protein so there is not a whole lot of wiggle room there--mostly eggs. This week it has been open face grilled cheese fixed under the broiler.and I love soups or casseroles in the winter.

I try to keep variety but it doesn't always happen.

Breakfast is almost always Greek yogurt with a banana. Sometimes I add cinnamon or honey. Sometimes no banana and I add raisins and cinnamon. This week it has been banana and blueberries! If it's not Greek yogurt then it's oatmeal with whatever I would put with the yogurt. I add a boiled egg white for protein when I eat oatmeal. I usually go over on my protein everyday but it helps keeps me full and satisfied.

Lunch is usually left overs from previous night's dinner and dinner changes constantly. I have a few staples like chicken and steamed vegetables on days I don't feel like thinking. I also made turkey patties and bean patties to bring for lunch sometime this week too. If I don't have anything for lunch I will make a lettuce wrap. My lettuce wraps consist of everything I would have put on a sandwich just no bread (I don't eat mayo, I never have really liked it).

I usually eat 200ish cal for breakfast, 100ish cal am snack, 300ish for lunch, 100ish pm snack, and 400ish for dinner. I know this adds up to 1100 but those ishes add up. I am usually 50 or so calories over my 1200 calorie allotment. I almost always eat my exercise calories too. When I stick to this my weight consistently goes down during the week. Right after Christmas I was 125, I weighed 120.4 this morning and I was really bad this weekend... peach cobbler crepes.. ice cream.. oreos and milk.. can you guess my vice?