Reminds me of
"The Norwegian art of the packed lunch, Matpakke - Most Boring Lunch in the world - Ever?"
People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
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#12Once you start investing in healthy eating, you quickly realize that there are 3 types of food: healthy, sugary, and sluggish.
You always get to choose which one you want, but it's exactly that: a choice!
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#13I 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.
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#14Honestly I think this is partially why Blue Apron failed...they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices.
Someone build a blue apron except for ingredients for weekly meal prep.
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#15My 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 rest during the week, interspersed with meals from the freezer, from previous weeks. We like to cook big portions, especially soups, curries, stews and such.
Baking-wise, we prefer to bake sourdough bread or slow-raised bread with minimal yeast. We also make homemade ice cream and bake cakes.
I can understand that some people think it takes way too much time and effort that they would rather spend on other things, but we consider it quality time spent together, doing something we both love to do.
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#16I 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 don't care about fancy food, all of that flashy style over substance stuff you get at overpriced restaurants.
But I love good food that is made with care and good quality ingredients. Like for instance northern French countryside cuisine, or hearty north Italian dishes, or the best Indian curries. Nothing fancy, nothing flashy, but so goddamn tasty.
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#17I 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.
If lunchtime at my tech workplace is any indication the opposite is true.
Lots of variety. Few regularly bring a lunch and those that do don't seem to bring the same thing regularly.
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#18Honestly I think this is partially why Blue Apron failed...they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices. Someone build a blue apron except for ingredients for weekly meal prep.
Blue Apron failed?
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#19I 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.
I do something similar and after 7 years I discovered I was severely Vitimin D deficient. Thanks to an article that was posted recently about UV not penetrating glass.
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#20For me: 1989-1998 -- exact same school lunch
1998 - 2009 -- exact same school lunch but different from 1989 - 1998.
1998 - 2016 -- exact same breakfast 7 days a week
2019 - exact same breakfast for last 2-3 months