People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day • Hacker News Board

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by gerbilly » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #63

jimhefferon wrote: post #61

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I meant that surfing the interwebs sometimes turns up things that are pleasant. And, finding that other people do something that my wife regards as a bit odd. As to the other half can, I eat iton the next day.

Ha! When I read your comment I imagined a wonderful life that involved surfing (on the beach) every day for the past thirty years and eventually meeting a friendly community of fellow surfers that liked canned pipeapple.

That breakfast wouldn't last you through a multi hour surf session.

I'd bonk on that after half an hour.

I think oatmeal would work better for actual surfing.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by mywittyname » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

k_sze wrote: post #13

I wonder if HN readers just have a higher tendency to not care about fancy food. I’m that kind of person. I also don’t care about varying my clothing unless absolutely necessary for the occasion. I’d rather save my money for other things that I care about, such as decent portable and home audio, vintage fountain pens, and the occasional computer gear.

I bet a lot of people here are good/excellent cooks. I wouldn't necessarily call my food "fancy," but I would call it good and high quality. Lunch is the worst meal for a lot of those types because most of us are not at home to prepare something good.

I actually skip lunch most days.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #45

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #15

My view on food is relatively simple: Life is way too short for boring food. I could not imagine eating the same thing every day. That's not to say I eat a completely new-to-me meal every day. When I was single, I would cook and then eat the same meal 3-4 days in a row, but I would change it up every week. Now, what we (my girlfriend and I) usually do is cook and bake on Sundays, then freeze about half and eat the re…

> Life is way too short for boring food I think it's not that life is way too short, but that you enjoy new food. For me, sometimes the food decision tree feels like too much time lost to food while other more interesting tasks could be done, and then I choose a tuna/chicken salad and get over with it.

It's not that I only like new food, I absolutely love comfort food as well. I just love food in general, including good tuna/chicken salad :-)

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by chrisseaton » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:33 PM UTC

Mirioron wrote: post #8

codingdave wrote: post #2

I eat the same 3 meals a day, 5-6 days a week. I spent a couple years refining what meals give me the nutrition I need, with enough energy to code, and help me keep weight off. When I stop this routine, I put on weight fast, so I try to keep jobs that let me work from home and keep my routine. I will meal-prep 4 days at a time, consume those 4 days worth of meals, then have a day where I take my wife out to lunch, bu…

How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients? Humans can eat a deficient diet for a long time and not notice serious side effects, so I'm wondering if you have some kind of good way of figuring out whether the different micronutrient quotas are fulfilled properly.

> How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients?

How do you?

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by CNJ7654 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:33 PM UTC

ozzyman700 wrote: post #25

I have 5 bottles of soylent a day, I absolutely love it and don't see myself stopping. I dislike preparing, eating, and cleaning up so I just avoid it. Every month I get a shipment of soylent and that is all my food related chores done for the month once I bring the boxes up to my room.

How long have you been at it? I've heard conflicting reports of hormonal and micro-nutrient issues with heavy long term use, but it's almost always anecdotal.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by ip26 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #74

Mirioron wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients? Humans can eat a deficient diet for a long time and not notice serious side effects, so I'm wondering if you have some kind of good way of figuring out whether the different micronutrient quotas are fulfilled properly.

> How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients? How do you?

The simple hedge of eating a variety of foods, plus medical wisdom around simple things like iodine that have eliminated certain deficiencies.

By definition you don't need micronutrients often, so you don't need to eat a lot of them every day, which is what makes the variety scheme work.

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Post by madcaptenor » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

scruple wrote: post #59

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #32

Knew a couple, had a stack of frozen dinners delivered every week, put them in a standup freezer. Whoever got home first had to take the top two dinners, put them in the oven for dinner. No picking thru the stack; no arguing over who got what. Does that count as 'the same dinner every day'?

This made me think of the Chinese practice of zuoyuezi (坐月子) [0] which translates to "sitting the month" and refers to what we know as postpartum confinement in the West, and which includes a fairly strict diet for postpartum mothers. Many women who practice this in the US will pay someone to prepare these meals for them a week at a time (they will come to your home and basically do meal prep for the week with the la…

That would be useful even if you're not keeping a particular diet, but just want to have food and not want to have to think about it when you've got a new baby.

We stocked the freezer by cooking a lot before our baby was born... and then in a sleep-deprived haze I left the freezer open.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by munificent » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

When my daughter was born during the recession, my wife and I went through a stretch where money was pretty tight. One obvious expense to cut was eating out for lunch every weekday. So I switched to bringing in lunch.

For several months, I brought the same thing: granola, yogurt, and chopped melon. I love food and love variety, so I was really surprised to discover that I simply didn't get tired of it or resentful. Every day, I looked forward to having it.

Every now and then I would have a bowl of canned soup instead, but that was literally the only variety I had. Like others in the article, I found the peacefulness and simplicity of not having to stress out about where to go for lunch more than made up for the monotony. In fact, knowing all day what I was going to have for lunch led to a greater anticipation of it.

I think this worked for me because I was only doing this for lunch and not for every meal of the day. So this actually increased the meta-variety of my eating: dinner meals were varied and lunch meals were not. So I got to experience both repetition and novelty.

It was a really interesting experience that I'd encourage others to try. In general, I think repetition and ritual tends to be undervalued in Western culture, but has always been an important part of the human experience.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by JKCalhoun » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #9

tshaddox wrote: post #4

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Do you have a blog post or something that goes into detail about your routine? It sounds interesting.

I don't have it posted, but it isn't that complex, so I can give a quick rundown here: Breakfast - 2 eggs, scrambled with generous amounts of mushrooms and spinach, and a little cheese tossed in. Lunch - Veggie mix that I chop up all together every few days - green peppers, pasilla peppers, green onion, yellow onions, eggplant, jicama, cauliflower, and whatever other root veggies looked good at the store - turnips, r…

> and a little cheese tossed in

Or as I like it call it, salt. ;-)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

ip26 wrote: post #76

chrisseaton wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients? How do you?

The simple hedge of eating a variety of foods, plus medical wisdom around simple things like iodine that have eliminated certain deficiencies. By definition you don't need micronutrients often, so you don't need to eat a lot of them every day, which is what makes the variety scheme work.

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