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Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by maccard » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #78

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. E…

I used to do this and I did grow resentful of it, after about 6 months. I've switched to having the same thing for a week and cycling between 4 options. It's hit that sweet spot of variety and familiarity for me.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by JohnFen » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

randomacct3847 wrote: post #14

Honestly 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.

> they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices.

And here I thought it was because they are pretty seriously overpriced, not to mention environmentally questionable.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by ac29 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

blue4 wrote: post #29

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.

Sounds like some of my own work, I hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. So, what if I consumed only the raw ingredients the body uses for energy? Soylent was the obvious choice because our bodies do not need food.

Nutrition is hardly a "solved" science, but your body needs more than raw elements to live. You cant just eat a plate of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (some of the most common elements in organic chemistry).

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by lambda_lover » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #92

munificent wrote: post #78

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. E…

As an aside, I save ~$1300 a year by bringing in lunch, and ~$550 per year in breakfast, in addition to controlling portions and nutrition. If I had been doing that for the past 10 years I could buy a new car by now, or put a pretty decent chunk into retirement. I now find it absolutely bizarre how many people at work go out for lunch.

As an aside, I could save $XXXX a year by having a roommate/living in a worse house/having a crappier car/never going out for drinks/etc. The list goes on. There is an incredible number of things your average first world worker could give up to save money per year. The reason people spend money on these things is that they spend 40+ hours a week working so they CAN afford to spend those unnecessary dollars a year on things they enjoy, that enrich their lives. Otherwise we would all have plenty of money in the bank while we live in a 5x5 concrete cell and literally only go to work/sleep. Some things are not about maximizing profit.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by pradn » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #78

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. E…

Meta-variety is a novel concept. Perhaps we should look out for that more in our lives.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by rconti » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

jjtheblunt wrote: post #89

munificent wrote: post #78

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. E…

I'm so glad as I read what you wrote. I also long have hated the tedium of choosing where to go, actually going, not squandering finite time fucking around with ordering when coworkers want to chat up the alternatives, when I'm lucky enough, or persistent enough, to have a job I like which I'd prefer to be doing.

I quit eating out for lunch because I got tired of spending 20 minutes hungry, trying to decide where to go, then half the time paying money for food I didn't really want to eat in the first place.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by Knufen » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

I've eaten the same thing everyday ever since I got old enough to understand lunch as a concept. Food is just not important to me, it just has to fill me up and cover my macro nutrient. I think this is pretty common, at least here in Scandinavia

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:41 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #9

tshaddox wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by caymanjim » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #95

I'm one of those people who can eat the same PB&J sandwhich every day for lunch and be fine with it. My wife on the other hand really goes crazy if she doesn't get enough variety. I can't think of an evolutionary advantage of desiring variety, it seems (although I don't know if there is any studies to the effect that it is true) typical that various fauna have a 'typical' diet that they forage for and rarely vary. Ev…

There are no single foods that humans can live on, due to nutritional requirements. At least some desire for variety is necessary for basic survival.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by wil421 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #78

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. E…

Figuring out where to eat lunch causes you stress? Much easier than figuring out where your pregnant wife wants to eat. Now that is stressful!

Glad you were able to stick to bringing lunch. I always end up being too lazy and enjoy the break from the office or home office. If I don’t have variety I will become pretty cranky.