Do You Ever Have Trouble Figuring Out What You Want To Eat?

OneEyedDiva

OneEyedDiva

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I do and it's happening a bit too much lately. Sometimes I wind up eating half a PBnJ sandwich, eggs and toast and sometimes Cheerios. Sometimes I eat a bunch of things..trying to satisfy my palette. That is certainly not good for my weight or diabetes. :sneaky: I also have frozen prepared meals on hand: Pasta Prima spinach mozzarella ravioli, Michael Angelo's eggplant parmesan, Golden cheese blintzes and just bought Sukhi's Chicken coconut-mango curry which I'll have with easy prep jasmine rice. Although I try to find the ones with the lowest sodium content, I'm aware I can't eat them at every meal due to the sodium content.

So do you have those days when you just don't know what you want? What do you wind up having?
 

Peanut butter sandwich tops the list. (I also only eat half a sandwich.) Lots of times I'll just have breakfast for dinner when nothing appeals to me. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had the problem of figuring out what they want to eat instead of wondering if they will eat at all?
 
caroln said:
Peanut butter sandwich tops the list. (I also only eat half a sandwich.) Lots of times I'll just have breakfast for dinner when nothing appeals to me. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had the problem of figuring out what they want to eat instead of wondering if they will eat at all?
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I sometimes have breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast too. Also, I can make a quick easy pizza using naan bread as my "crust". You are so right Caroln...we are blessed to have choices. Too many people are starving across the globe. :cry:
 
caroln said:
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had the problem of figuring out what they want to eat instead of wondering if they will eat at all?
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OneEyedDiva said:
we are blessed to have choices. Too many people are starving across the globe. :cry:
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Truth to that!

Fortunately, for me, I've never experienced not being able to get food. Kind of hard for me to imagine, but I know it's all too real.

Actually for most of human existence food was scarce and hunger common. We in the wealthier countries today are a very fortunate outlier in human history.
 
Yes, happens a lot. I have to make sure that what I'm craving for dinner is still going to be what I want when I'm thinking about it in the morning. Or not. 😵

I have a Miracle Thaw that allows me to thaw meats at the last minute if I can't decide earlier in the day. I bought it many years ago off the TV for $19.99, and it's been the best investment.

Right now I'm having an oven BBQ'd chicken breast and left over salad for breakfast.
 
I eat the same foods day after day, week after week, takes the guess work out of meals. It makes shopping easy and I never have to stand in front of the fridge wondering what to eat. Occasionally I will try something different but I always fall back to the same foods.

I know most couldn't live this way but for me it works.
 
Me? A meat and potatoes guy. With a side of kernel corn to die for.

Yeah, bowl of Cheerios and milk (2%) works well. Peanut butter on toast another favorite. Basically graze all day after breakfast. Suits me more these days than two or three heavy meals. Mixed up a sandwich spread yesterday. Beef bologna through a hand grinder, spoon in couple of tablespoons of sweet pickle relish and some mayo. Mix it all together. Been years since I've had that and still like it all over again.

This may sound strange, but I've often thought I'd like a couple of cases of Army C-rats to graze on. Mix and match. Save the rest (in neat little unopened bags) for grazing later.
 
For me this has been one of the best ways to moderate my food intake (in terms of both nutritional quality and quantities: I have a rule if don't really know what i want--i'm probably not really hungry, so i don't eat.

On mornings of busy days at home i plan a high protein breakfast. Because i know it will sustain me longer before stomach grumbles again interrupting what i'm doing. When i have to drive into city i plan a quick easy breakfast. Often a frozen burrito i can wrap in foil and take with me if need be.

When done with chores/errands and at home i always have choices between quick easy sandwiches (or leftover stew in winter, big bowl of bean salad in heat of summer) and things that may take more prep. (And of course there's i have spend time periodically making the stuff that will provide meals over several days).
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
I do and it's happening a bit too much lately. Sometimes I wind up eating half a PBnJ sandwich, eggs and toast and sometimes Cheerios. Sometimes I eat a bunch of things..trying to satisfy my palette. That is certainly not good for my weight or diabetes. :sneaky: I also have frozen prepared meals on hand: Pasta Prima spinach mozzarella ravioli, Michael Angelo's eggplant parmesan, Golden cheese blintzes and just bought Sukhi's Chicken coconut-mango curry which I'll have with easy prep jasmine rice. Although I try to find the ones with the lowest sodium content, I'm aware I can't eat them at every meal due to the sodium content.

So do you have those days when you just don't know what you want? What do you wind up having?
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If I don't know what to eat, I don't eat. I'm not hungry enough.
 
If I’m hungry but don’t know what I want to eat, I get one or two teaspoons of peanut butter and drink water. It keeps me content for a couple of hours.


One of my dad’s favorite meals was fried bologna sandwiches. I would toast the bread, fry the bologna, and add miracle whip.
I don’t know why but he loved it ☺️
 
C50 said:
I eat the same foods day after day, week after week, takes the guess work out of meals. It makes shopping easy and I never have to stand in front of the fridge wondering what to eat. Occasionally I will try something different but I always fall back to the same foods.

I know most couldn't live this way but for me it works.
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I'm pretty much the same. A creature of habit. My grocery shopping is very simple so it's always a quick trip for fresh veggies and fruits from regular supermarkets. I get my chicken and fish from Costco. Luckily for me, I'm never stumped for what to eat.
 
I don't like some of the things I used to like anymore, mostly meats. My meat nowadays is usually chicken but other protein is cheese, PB and nuts.

I eat breakfast for dinner often, dry cereal, oatmeal, sometimes eggs.

I try to have a good salad with assorted raw veggies at least 3 days a week and eat fresh fruit daily. I eat out or get takeout at least once a week, sometimes more, and try to get something I wouldn't make at home.

It seems like most seniors who live alone have a problem with their diet. :(
 
For dinner (evening meal) I cook 3 or 4 days in a roll; then left overs for dinner until the left overs are consumed.

Breakfast: Bircher Oatmeal for 364 days/year (raw oats, keifer, blueberries or other fruit, walnuts or almonds)

Lunch: Often this is the meal at restaurants with friends (seniors prefer NOT to have a heavy meal after 6 pm LOLOL) Currently, it is sandwich, frozen pizza or salad
 
There are days when I don't know what I want to eat, but I like to cook and always make more than enough. So, I have extra meals in the freezer that are already prepared and can just be thawed when I don't feel like cooking. Even if I don't know what I want, I'll just choose something. I have to eat, right? Occasionally, I'll have hummus or salsa with tortilla chips or a sandwich and soup for dinner.

I don't eat when I first wake up. I have breakfast around ten or eleven o'clock. It's usually a jumbo egg over easy, half of an avocado, half of a bagel or English muffin, or a slice of toast, and fruit. Occasionally, I'll have baked oatmeal with coconut, dried cranberries, pecans, fresh blueberries, and a couple of slices of bacon. I don't eat lunch because I eat a late breakfast.
 
Jules said:
I keep opening the fridge door in hope of finding something acceptable.

The hardest meal is lunch. When times are tough, I serve an emergency grilled cheese sandwich.
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I do that with the fridge door, open and shut, open and shut, don't fancy anything in it. The truth is my fridge holds a lot of interesting and some expensive foods that many people couldn't afford.. and so I have to sometimes give myself a good talking to...however if I'm not fancying any of it.. then I'm not.. so then I might have a bowl of frosties instead..

..and yes I do now what it's like to be literally starving...
 
Sometimes I am in that quandary, and often I let the expiration date nudge me in some direction. I have lots of frozen leftover portions from when I do cook. I also buy a Costco chicken, de-bone the whole thing, and freeze small portions for easy stir-frys, hot chicken sandwich, an on-the-spot microwave chiicken enchilada, or some other Frankenstein creation my mind pieces together. Some of the mismatched things I put together, you would swear I'm pregnant. As for tonight, it gonna be salmon, small red potato, and yellow squash. At least I won't be getting the "What the hell is this?" from my stomach microbes.
 

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