Do You Ever Not Know What You Want To Eat? What Do You Usually Wind Up Having?

Sometimes - when I just want to get dinner over and be done with it - I'll have a N. Y. Times Ramen bowl. "If it's in the Times, it can't be all bad." I prefer the egg added as I would to egg drop soup - break in cup, stir and add dribbles to broth with fork. It's tasty exactly as printed but I'll sometimes throw in a handful of frozen veggies.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016583-perfect-instant-ramen

Or sometimes Ramen with a slug of peanut butter, sriracha, dark sesame oil and soy sauce.

And WITH the dreadful seasoning packet.

None of it is good for me but at my age, what difference does it make.
 

C50 said:
I eat the same things every day, makes my life very easy.
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Do you mean the same thing every Tuesday and the same thing every Wednesday, and so on like we do, or the same thing all seven days of the week?

I think that's what I would do if I lived alone because I just get tired of making food decisions. It would have to be something healthy though, to get all the right vitamins and minerals.
 
Della said:
Do you mean the same thing every Tuesday and the same thing every Wednesday, and so on like we do, or the same thing all seven days of the week?

I think that's what I would do if I lived alone because I just get tired of making food decisions. It would have to be something healthy though, to get all the right vitamins and minerals.
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Monday thru Friday I eat everything the same, day after day, week after week.

Sat. and Sun. I eat a different breakfast and lunch but otherwise the same, week after week.

I'm very boring, but it suits me well.
 
Alligatorob said:
Happened to me yesterday, so I just at a bunch of apples.
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Rob...were the apples good? I gave up on apples. For the last few years, with the exception of a couple of times, the apples I get taste like nothing. I started buying Motts organic applesauce (no added sugar), put a little cinnamon and sweetener in it and it makes a good substitute, except there's no crunch.
@Shalimar "Cold beans? What sort of cold beans?" I was thinking of asking the same question.

@Pecos I've never thought about having cold beans, well except a few in salads (chic peas or kidney beans). Was that something you started doing when you were in the navy? I wouldn't mind having some lima beans right about now.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Rob...were the apples good? I gave up on apples. For the last few years, with the exception of a couple of times, the apples I get taste like nothing. I started buying Motts organic applesauce (no added sugar), put a little cinnamon and sweetener in it and it makes a good substitute, except there's no crunch.
@Shalimar "Cold beans? What sort of cold beans?" I was thinking of asking the same question.

@Pecos I've never thought about having cold beans, well except a few in salads (chic peas or kidney beans). Was that something you started doing when you were in the navy? I wouldn't mind having some lima beans right about now.
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MDS,

I think that eating cold beans started to really appeal to me when moved to South Carolina and started avoiding hot meals during the summer months.
 
Pecos said:
MDS,

I think that eating cold beans started to really appeal to me when moved to South Carolina and started avoiding hot meals during the summer months.
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Okay MDB...I get ya. I had a chic pea salad once that was so good, I wished I knew how to make it. It was at an event and I didn't know who had made it.
 
Alligatorob said:
Yes, and I have been fairly impressed by the produce we are getting here, at a Publix in Florida. Better than we could find in a grocery store in Utah.
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I don't doubt it. I always heard that the watermelons down south are better than the ones we get up here. And lately I've been finding Paramount navel oranges in our local supermarket. It's a California company and their oranges taste so much better than others I've gotten from there.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Okay MDB...I get ya. I had a chic pea salad once that was so good, I wished I knew how to make it. It was at an event and I didn't know who had made it.
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I'm getting ready to make a chick pea salad w/tzatziki dressing when I get done here!
Chick peas, feta, english cukes, red onion (I'm leaving out) kalamata olives, cherry toms, and red bell pepper.

Can't wait to taste it.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
I don't think I've experienced that dilemma because I'm a creature of habit and I love to cook. Cooking for ONE is very easy since I don't use recipes.

For breakfast, muesli and Old Fashion Quaker Oats are in the pantry. All those cereals I ate as a teenager, I have abandoned because they are LOADED with sugar.

For lunch I always have available fresh fruits, avocados and Roma tomatoes. Plus in the pantry there's skinless, boneless sardines as an alternative.

For dinner, I eat mainly a variety of steamed veggies. I stop at the store on the way back from my morning exercise about every 3 to 4 days.

Furthermore, I love nuts. I may eat too many but as the saying goes, we only live once. This is where Costco comes in handy because I like their Kirkland brand for quality and size. In my pantry or fridge (depending on what the package/jar says for preservation), I always have unsalted cashews, almonds, pecans and walnuts. These are my go to because I have high metabolism.

Well I just thought of a situation. If I want to take a two day break from my regular dinner routine, I would stop at the store and pick up either 2 baking potatoes or sweet potatoes. I can have a meal on the table in a jiffy because everything is done in the microwave.
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Seems you are a healthy eater and active too! I hate you! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Just kidding. I admire you greatly. Yes, good you ditched those cereals. I did too. Now my favorite cold cereal is plain Cheerios, which General Mills admitted a couple of years ago were the only ones that didn't use GMO ingredients. I have oatmeal often but admit, I'm into the flavored packets which do contain sugar. But the serving is so small that probably not that much harm is done. I also admire that you love to cook. I wish I did but I hate it. I've also been thinking about just having veggies for dinner or my broccoli salad, which I actually love. Real easy...steam the broccoli in the microwave, let it cool and add chopped egg or tuna or seafood blend (imitation crab meat) and a few croutons. I prefer thousand island dressing or plain mayo.

My son loves his avocados so when he buys for himself, I ask him to bring me at least one. I like to stuff them and I think I like them with egg salad better than tuna salad. You are so right about buying nuts from Costco. Huge savings! I have vanilla-coconut coated cashews and pistachios here. Nuts are good for an incredibly long time when you keep them in the refrigerator. And I found out pistachios last the longest.
I get on kicks where I'm into something for awhile, then I don't eat it anymore for a long time. Same for nuts.
 
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Cold beans! Reminds me of a dish my paternal grandmother often had on her table. It was the 30s and 40s and she ran a boarding house for young working men providing breakfast, bagged lunch and dinner.

Boarding House Salad.

Pork and Beans, Van Camps is best.
Tomato
Onion
Bell pepper
Mayo
S & P

Drain P & Bs but reserve liquid. Add diced veggies. Mix well and add mayo to taste. If it looks a little dry, add a little of the reserved juice.

Add saltines and fruit and it is sometimes dinner for me.
 
Another go to food when I don't know what to eat is my easy "homemade" pizza. I use Stonefire mini naan bread, sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray (I swear I put that stuff on almost everything), Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauce, dried basil and shredded mozzarella. Sometimes I'll put pieces of the tiniest frozen broccoli florets under the cheese and either way, it is good. I used a regular sized naan bread cut in half in this photo. Looks like it may have been the whole wheat variety.

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OneEyedDiva said:
I don't doubt it. I always heard that the watermelons down south are better than the ones we get up here. And lately I've been finding Paramount navel oranges in our local supermarket. It's a California company and their oranges taste so much better than others I've gotten from there.
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The best watermelon I've had was from someone selling them on the side of the road in Alabama.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Another go to food when I don't know what to eat is my easy "homemade" pizza. I use Stonefire mini naan bread, sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray (I swear I put that stuff on almost everything), Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauce, dried basil and shredded mozzarella. Sometimes I'll put pieces of the tiniest frozen broccoli florets under the cheese and either way, it is good. I used a regular sized naan bread cut in half in this photo. Looks like it may have been the whole wheat variety.

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Today's pictures at this site suggest people are currently craving food with cheese. I've been craving cheese the past few days too. Could it be? I've seen at least a couple of pizza posts, and HollyDolly showed a cheese stye lunch too.
 
Patricia said:
Today's pictures at this site suggest people are currently craving food with cheese. I've been craving cheese the past few days too. Could it be? I've seen at least a couple of pizza posts, and HollyDolly showed a cheese stye lunch too. This morning I had a scrambled egg, cheese toast and watermelon.
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Patricia said:
Today's pictures at this site suggest people are currently craving food with cheese. I've been craving cheese the past few days too. Could it be? I've seen at least a couple of pizza posts, and HollyDolly showed a cheese stye lunch too.
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A couple of years ago my blood tests showed I had low calcium levels. I started eating more cheese and eat yogurt almost daily, now my level is in normal range. I also eat a chunk of Muenster cheese (has to be Primo Taglia or Bowl and Basket) with Motts organic unsweetened applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon and Splenda. It serves well as a snack, but not a meal. I'm not surprised at all the cheese lovers. :)
 
OneEyedDiva said:
A couple of years ago my blood tests showed I had low calcium levels. I started eating more cheese and eat yogurt almost daily, now my level is in normal range. I also eat a chunk of Muenster cheese (has to be Primo Taglia or Bowl and Basket) with Motts organic unsweetened applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon and Splenda. It serves well as a snack, but not a meal. I'm not surprised at all the cheese lovers. :)
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Yogart sounds good.
 
dseag2 said:
We have a strict regimen of salads for lunch 5 days a week, which is fine with me. But I do get hungry late in the afternoon after I go to the gym. Fruit and vegetables don't cut it. I need something more substantial. I bought Dried Fuji Apple slices but they don't fill me up.

I recently picked up a Bison Quinoa Bowl at Whole Foods. It is really tasty. But my go-to is Cheesy Cauliflower Rice with Shrimp from Sprouts. I usually buy extra shrimp to go in it. Whole Foods had shrimp and grits recently and I was in heaven. I put the extra shrimp in that and ate it for days. For some reason, I like some type of casserole.

We have what we call "mouse food" in our house because late at night we get hungry and we say the "mice ate it". Our favorite Mouse Food is pizza.
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Years ago, there was a Whole Foods in a shopping center in Dallas that served some of the best cooked food on earth.
 

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