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Do you have a meal "decision tree"? (1 Viewer)

How do you decide what to eat at each meal?

  • someone else makes my meals

    Votes: 5 10.2%

  • i open the cupboard/fridge and grab the first thing i see

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • my meal options are planned out based on time of day

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • i eat seasonal food options only

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • i eat cold food at lunch, hot food at dinner

    Votes: 4 8.2%

  • i don't eat

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • none of the above

    Votes: 19 38.8%

  • SMOO

    Votes: 6 12.2%
  • Total voters
    49
mr. furley

mr. furley

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let's see if the poll works and don't youse give me any guff if there are issues, hear me?


as has been meme'd thousands of times, who knew the hardest decision adults would face is what to eat each day. it's lunch here and i'm torn on what to make. cupboards and fridge are full of options (clyde bless) but i can't decide what to eat.

a cold sandwich?
a hot sandwich?
eggs?
microwave some leftovers?

some days i have a craving and others i'm just adrift until my stomach forces a decision on my brain and/or circumstances govern what i have time to eat.

how many of you are meticulous meal planners? any meal preppers in the house?
 
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mr. furley said:
belljr said:
none of the above?

thats your guff

seriously - none of those options really feel like how i decide
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but only for you.
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in all seriousness - i have no set cold vs hot or open this and see first thing i see.

If I'm home - I'll kind of just decide then get what I want - or if I'm not sure I'll open cabinets/fridge/freezer look around and then whatever "hits" me I make/eat
 
I am a natural planner.

Lunches are flexible... sometime leftovers/ something we have in the house/ grab quick takeout (sandwich/chinese/burrito, etc).

Dinners drive me crazy. I do not have a lot of prep time these days. The difficulty is that our daughter has a boyfriend. He is always welcome, but mini dk is very loose about if she or they are joining us for dinner (sometimes at his house).... so i do not know if i/we are cooking for 2, 3, or 4. Serious PITA as we want to take what she wants into consideration, but we do not know if she is joining.
 
I have terrible eating habits. Will be the first to admit it. Really depends on if I'm working from home or office. I don't eat breakfast except an occasional protein bar.

My domestic partner makes herself dinner most nights and one of us makes something for our son; daughter usually cooks something for herself. I sometimes eat dinner.... depends on if I had a big lunch (usually days I work from office).
 
normally leftovers for me, sometimes just nibble some random cold stuff... we do plan out evening meals a week at a time, makes grocery shopping easier.
 
I'm not sure how to respond. I guess here's how it works for me:

1. Assuming I'm not away for work, my wife plans and makes dinners M-Th.
2. Friday night, barring travel, is family "pizza night;"
3. Lunches are entirely on me and usually dependent on work schedule. I commonly will have "working lunches" where I'll eat with colleagues/coworkers/clients. If not, I'll try to pack leftovers or bring a premade meal (been eating Factor meals a few times per week) and if I forget then it's takeout;
4. Weekends are completely up in the air. Usually this includes probably eating out at least one meal. Sundays are usually cooking up whatever is in the house that's easy. I usually make the weekend decisions.
 
nirad3 said:
I have terrible eating habits. Will be the first to admit it. Really depends on if I'm working from home or office. I don't eat breakfast except an occasional protein bar.

My domestic partner makes herself dinner most nights and one of us makes something for our son; daughter usually cooks something for herself. I sometimes eat dinner.... depends on if I had a big lunch (usually days I work from office).
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Just so I have a written record of just how bad I eat...

M - lunch is usually Nashville hot chicken since I work from office... no dinner since I watch MNF at a bar; although sometimes I will grab a burger on the way home
T - work from home, so usually a small breakfast (protein bar), small lunch at home and pizza at night since I'm usually having a couple cocktails whilest watching NBA
W - wildcard, since I sometimes work from office.... if I do eat lunch, I rarely eat dinner too.
Th - work from office, usually eat what my company provides or grab a burger/fries out somewhere... in which case, no dinner or something small like leftovers or cereal
F - work from home, sometimes a sandwich for lunch... if I go out for beers I may have BBQ before hitting the bar.
Weekends - all over the place, depends on what we do.

Thank God my wife cooks healthy during the week, as I usually grab some of her veggies from the air fryer.
 
Drunken knight said:
Serious PITA as we want to take what she wants into consideration, but we do not know if she is joining.
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Sounds like you should stop taking her into consideration since she doesn't communicate well enough in advance. It will make your life much easier and she gets whatever you guys come up with if she graces you with her presence.

I have the same issue with my son. He is 17 and it's hit or miss if he comes home or his GF's for dinner. We just text him what we are having and ask if he will be here. He decides based on what we are having.
 
In general, many of the choices are applicable depending on the meal (lunch/dinner). There is no set decision process.
 
Dinner is all over the damn place, but we have 2 teenage kids and both work full time. On the one hand, my wife is a health nut and cooks whenever she can. On the other hand, she is a workaholic and doesn't spend much time making meals. We are all over the place on what we eat, from fast food junk to high quality homemade vegan dishes depending on schedules.

My lunches are a hodgepodge of quality homemade leftovers, nice meals at lunch meetings and crappy fast food when I'm on my own and don't pack anything.

Breakfast is also a mixed bag, but more often than not I do just black coffee until lunch.
 
I get home after the wife and kids eat dinner, so I eat what my wife made and have it again at lunch the next day.


Edit- Thursday mornings I grocery shop for staples we have used during the last week and replenish what the kids took to school for lunch. Anything outside of our regular meals my wife will put on my list or get it herself. Once or twice a week I bring home fast food when my wife asks.
 
Lunch is either a can of soup or frozen protein/rice bowl thing that pretends to be healthy.

Dinner goes something like this: Do I have stuff to make nachos and/or a sandwich? If yes, do I want that? If yes, keep driving home. If no to any of those questions, which fast food is at which exit that is not to much of a hassle to get to. If hassle, keep driving home with intention of ordering food. If too lazy to order food, silently curse my inability to cook the simplest of things and eat a bowl of cereal while standing in the kitchen.
 
I do the grocery shopping. Thus I have general control over what we eat during a given week. Mrs. Galilei is the one who usually pulls items from the freezer to thaw on any given day...chicken, beef, pork, etc. So, she decides a general category. I do the majority of the cooking for dinner, so I determine what to do with whatever the Mrs. pulls out that day. Lunches for the Mrs. are usually salads or leftovers. I usually eat a wrap, typically chicken or turkey deli meat (sometimes ham) with cheese on a low carb tortilla. Neither of us really eat breakfast during the week, but if we do eggs are typically the choice...more often on the weekends.
 
I do 90% of the cooking around here. It's become an integral part of my day since I retired. It's great to not have to do everything in a short prep window after getting home from work.

I plan dinner around the protein usually a couple of days in advance if I have to thaw something from the freezer. We always go shopping on Thursday when we have to move the car for street cleaning so I have a rough idea then about the week ahead. How I'm preparing the protein determines the starch and vegetable sides.

Lunch depends on what leftovers remain. Sandwiches are the fallback option.
 
I skip a ton of meals, usually eating once or twice a day, if left to my own devices. Meanwhile, my wife needs to eat 3 meals + snacks per day. She also makes like ~90% of our food. We eat out a fair bit as well.

At work, I eat the vegetarian option in the cafeteria. If we’re together, I eat whatever she makes. While she’s at work and I’m off, I open the fridge and eat whatever requires the least effort.
 
Generally plan out the weeks dinners. We will plan to order out certain days depending on what activities are going on

Lunch usually leftovers but will go out once or twice a week for work that’s usually a last minute decision where we go

Breakfast I eat pretty light anymore, banana or granola bar or donut, during the week, bagel or toast usually on the weekend. Will do an occasional big weekend breakfast but my kids always have some practice or game going on
 
I could kind of write a book on this as I think about it... it's changed a lot over the years. Pre-marriage - I ate whatever, whenever. First married, we went out to eat a lot with a few pre-planned meals. Once we had kids, we did a lot of pre-planned meals for many, many years with a sandwich or leftovers for lunch. Now that the kids are grown, and current jobs make schedules kind of wack-a-doodle (technical term), we are pretty much back to my "pre-marriage" schedule, i.e. whatever, whenever. I'm about to have a banana and a cliff bar for dinner before going out for a run. Need to get back on something at least slightly more structured - the whatever, whenever plan means lots of bad choices, imo.
 
Wife cooks something every night during the week. I usually cook on Saturdays and Sundays. Wife does all the grocery shopping so she plans the meals each week. I do the farmers market every saturday morning so she uses whatever is in season for the veggie portion of the meals.

We rarely eat out anymore unless we are traveling. Every once in awhile I will grab something fast food while at work, but most days its leftovers. Breakfast is always cereal, since it’s the one time a day I get at least a serving of milk.

My kids pretty much eat anything so that makes it easy. And they eat their fruits and veggies.
 
It’s so annoying. I’m a guy so naturally I don’t care, I eat when I’m hungry. But the wife insists we parent these heathens.

A few years ago I made and printed a spreadsheet with three columns. The left was a protein, middle, vegetables, right side carbs. All you need to do was pick one in each category. Mix-and-match!

Dispite this spreadsheet being 15-30 deep in each it never gets used.
 
*Grocery shop Friday night or Saturday morning (preferably)
*Food prep Sunday - the fridge has somewhere near 2 dozen containers when we're done (only some hyperbole)
*Good meal Sun - yesterday was lamb chops and asparagus
*Easy meals cooked Mon and Tues - today was a spaghetti squash, crab, and bacon concoction...tomorrow is turkey meatloaf and roasted brussels sprouts (all pre-prepared)
*Stop at the market on the way home from work Wed to reload produce and if meal options are getting sparse grab some combination of antipasto, chickpea salad, sushi, etc
*Assemble lunches (wife & 3 kids) each weekday night - can usually get it all done and wipe the counters while they clean up the table and take care of the dishes before they sweep the floor. Tomorrow's haul is a hard boiled egg, banana, avocado, orange, apple, pineapple, blueberries, red grapes, celery, cucumber, grape tomatoes, kalmata olives, jalapeno green olives, a few slices of pork loin, a couple handfuls of cherrios if I need some ammo pre-run, and a butterscotch dum dum during.
*If the kids run out of food Thu make some pasta
*Then eat, drink, and be merry until Sunday...then do it all over again
 
Breakfast - never eat breakfast as I do IF most days
Lunch - WFH so typically either leftovers if there are any or salad/burrito bowl/snacks/protein shake
Dinner - either wife cooks - typical is chicken dish with veggies, tacos or we will grab Chick-fil-a or Guthries/Zaxby's once or twice a week

Weekends - mostly the same but often grill/smoke something
 
The Iguana said:
Need to get back on something at least slightly more structured - the whatever, whenever plan means lots of bad choices, imo.
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Agree with this in theory, though it’s not too hard to mitigate by not buying unhealthy crap. For snacks in our house, we eat stuff like fruit, avocado toast and baked broccoli/brussel sprouts, for example. And after growing up on McDonalds, Wendy’s, Chic-fil-A and Taco Bell, I’ve made a habit to avoid fast food like the plague for the last 20 years. I gotten to the point I don’t even notice the restaurants anymore, as they don’t register as a choice.
 
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Only dinners are planned, by the wife.
Cooking is her passion and my 10lbs. overweight is proof just how good of a cook she is :biggrin:

Lunch is usually leftovers.. But there are days where just some crackers and cheese is my lunch.
 
The Iguana said:
I could kind of write a book on this as I think about it... it's changed a lot over the years. Pre-marriage - I ate whatever, whenever. First married, we went out to eat a lot with a few pre-planned meals. Once we had kids, we did a lot of pre-planned meals for many, many years with a sandwich or leftovers for lunch. Now that the kids are grown, and current jobs make schedules kind of wack-a-doodle (technical term), we are pretty much back to my "pre-marriage" schedule, i.e. whatever, whenever. I'm about to have a banana and a cliff bar for dinner before going out for a run. Need to get back on something at least slightly more structured - the whatever, whenever plan means lots of bad choices, imo.
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yeah, I am drinking VO & diet coke prior to "dressing up" a thin crust frozen pizza with thin sliced artichoke hearts, mushrooms and finely ground italian sausage.

sometimes I just keep drinking and then I'm not hungry.

I keep moderately thin that way

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I try to make something for supper that the family will actually eat. For other meals, I eat all the leftovers as the family won't.
 
New Binky the Doormat said:
yeah, I am drinking VO & diet coke prior to "dressing up" a thin crust frozen pizza with thin sliced artichoke hearts, mushrooms and finely ground italian sausage.

sometimes I just keep drinking and then I'm not hungry.

I keep moderately thin that way

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careful with soda, but i approve of the rest.
 
mr. furley said:
let's see if the poll works and don't youse give me any guff if there are issues, hear me?


as has been meme'd thousands of times, who knew the hardest decision adults would face is what to eat each day. it's lunch here and i'm torn on what to make. cupboards and fridge are full of options (clyde bless) but i can't decide what to eat.

a cold sandwich?
a hot sandwich?
eggs?
microwave some leftovers?

some days i have a craving and others i'm just adrift until my stomach forces a decision on my brain and/or circumstances govern what i have time to eat.

how many of you are meticulous meal planners? any meal preppers in the house?
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Knowing you, it'll probably be a pickle and condiment sandwich on rye.
 
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