I’ve been living on practically nothing but the same brand of frozen pizza for the past six months, in addition to some fruit and yoghurt. Well, OK, I had a short period where I ate tuna sandwiches. And I’ve been eating the egg sandwiches from the shop around the corner for lunch at work. But it’s been overwhelmingly the frozen pizzas. I can’t seem to stomach anything else.
Before that, I had a period of a couple of months where I ate practically nothing but hummus, to the point where people would take note and wonder why the heck I would only eat hummus.
This followed on from a long period of eating almost exclusively two things: 1) Salad made with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and beans, and 2) chana masala.
(Well, in addition I also eat some chocolate. Too much, actually.)
How nuts am I? I’m a bit worried.
(Edit: I should mention that my health is fine and I don’t seem to be suffering any malnutrition. And I’ve always been like this, more or less, although not to the extent of recent times.)
While my lunches and dinners are varied I’ve eaten the same breakfast nearly every day for 40 years. Well, if my usual items aren’t available I’ll eat something else, but like I said, nearly every day.
If you’re healthy it’s a quirk but it’s not a problem. Your diet actually does vary, just not as rapidly as most. You don’t have to have constant variety, and for much of human history a lot of people did eat basically the same thing all the time for months on end.
Key here is are you healthy? If you are, it’s not a problem.
I eat a lot of pizza too. I had pizza for lunch and dinner yesterday…and I was seriously thinking about getting it again today. (I live near too many pizzerias!)
For the past year I’ve been on a hummus kick. Humus and flatbread. Every day for lunch. I think in a past life I was a Mediterranean.
I’m not a picky eater. I’m just boring when it comes to food. I find something that works for me and stick with it. It may be weird, but who cares? As long as you’re open to trying new things when the occasion arises, it’s no big deal.
I eat the same things all the time. Even when I break from the routine once a week or so, I have the same other things. The idea of deciding what to eat three times a day everyday exhausts me.
I cycle through the same five or so things for my meals. It’s actually reduced by one, because now chicken causes problems for me, which is disappointing.
I have always been this way. As far as I can tell it has never once been the cause of any issues with my health.
Eat whatever the hell you want. If it doesn’t harm you, then who cares?
I go through phases several months long where my breakfast and late night snacks will be the same thing. But I do have a varied dinner menu. I have always thought of it as immature to some extent to eat the same thing over and over but aside from that it seems pretty normal.
I recall reading a while ago that Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston ate the same chicken, bacon and tomato salad every day during ten years of filming Friends together. It was in an article about how eating the same meals every day can help people reduce their calorie intake.
I have oatmeal with cinnamon and raisins for breakfast almost every morning. We do something different on about 1 sunday a month - tomorrow we are doing omelets. I eat more or less the same salad every day. I have 4 or 5 different snacks that I rotate through for morning, evening and bedtime snacks. Dinner is usually preplanned a week in advanced for ease of shopping. Probably 3 or 4 times a year we do a restaurant dinner - we do a mutual birthday dinner in September for my husband, our roommate and I - it is a 10 year standing tradition, and we end up with one or two weddings a year, and an occasional business function [in the past it could have been a navy function for mrAru or a business function for myself, but I am now more or less retired for health reasons.]
It isn’t that I refuse to eat a large variety of foods, I actually do - being diabetic I found it was easier to stultify everything except dinner to make regulating my glucose easier. I am lazy =)
{I have trouble understanding how people can live on nothing but chicken nuggets, french fries and hot dogs, I love fruits and veggies in all their nifty differences.}
Speaking for myself, for the last several months I have been having a dandelion greens salad, (I got tired of spinach, and bought dandelion greens on a whim at Whole Foods) and have discovered I really like them. Anyway, I have the dandelion greens, with either tuna or chicken, and topped with olive oil and vinegar. In addition, I think if people eat pretty much the same thing a lot, it can help control weight.
Feeling unable to vary your diet (as opposed to just being happy to eat the same things) can be a symptom of depression or other mental illness, but if that’s the case you’d probably have other symptoms too. To answer the question “how nuts are you”, probably not at all, unless there’s other reasons to think you are.
I’ve been in food ruts before, especially when I was pregnant. I lived on Pb&j for months because it was one of the only foods that I could tolerate. But as you know, one of the best thing people can do for their overall health is to eat a varied diet, so be sure to take a multi-vitamin to make sure all your nutritional bases are covered.
Haha, I thought this said nothing but humans and I did a comedy double take.
I too want to know what brand of frozen pizza, because I am obsessed with pizza. I find the devolution of quality of your singular meals interesting. Salad –> chana masala –> hummus –> tuna sandwiches –> frozen pizza. It started so healthy!
In this episode of Radiolab Oliver Sacks talks about how he eats the same thing every day. And he’s a brilliant neuroscientist
I eat the same breakfast every morning, same lunch every weekday, and probably have about 10 dinner meals that I rotate. When I eat out, I do try to get something that I don’t normally have.
To the OP, how is your health? Not your weight, your health. Cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.
