As long as you’re getting proper nutrition I don’t think it’s loony at all. I went through a period of using an online calorie counter to keep track of everything I ate. It was taking too much time so I took to having the same breakfast and lunch for many days in a row.
Years ago I read an article about Woody Allen. It said that when he’s shooting a film he finds a restaurant and goes there to have the same lunch every day. The rationale was that while directing he’s called on to make so many decisions that it was freeing to not have to give lunch a thought. I see the appeal.
I go through weeks to months long periods of very similar lunches at work. This past winter, fall and into spring, I’d make a boneless turkey breast on Sunday to slice and eat for the next four or five lunches. I probably made 25 of them in the last 10 months.
I’ve also have had half an avocado about four days a week for the last six months.
It isn’t anything like rigid sameness as some have described here but there are clear tendencies.
I eat the same breakfast nearly every day when I am home. My wife and I seem to recycle about 7 meals much of the time (although it is different in the summer when we eat a lot of dinner salads). It seems normal to me. When we want pizza, I make it. My absolute favorite is one that cannot be bought, AFAIK: basil pesto, goat cheese, strong olives, walnut pieces, topped with parmesan cheese. Yum yum.
Shaved ham and provolone, light mayo, with tomato slices (in season) on a sub bun. Every day for lunch weekdays for the last 20 years. If for some reason I fail to make my lunch, I get carryout. Subway.
Cabbage salad, scrambled eggs, flax hot cereal or microwave bread, olive oil, and cabbage soup. Every day. Much the same principle as austerity, except my body handles starch poorly. Never have to worry about calorie count.
My ex only ate Totino’s Frozen Pizzas, Nachos, and buttered pasta when left to her own devices. The only thing she drank was Coke. I admit… it worried me a bit. However, it does seem to mean you’re not unique.
Reiss’theory of the 16 basic human drivesdescribes 16 different drives. People differ in which of the 16 drive them, or, which of the 16 are far less important to them then average. Eating is one of those drives. If thinking about food, preparing it, and eating it, for you is a chore, you would score low on that drive.
There is no wrong or right, just human differences. The species of man, as a whole, needs that variety to adapt. So there is nothing wrong with you, it’s just ordinary human variation.
I hope some of y’all are taking your vitamins because you sound like you’re on the train to Scurvytown.
That said, I too eat basically the same breakfast and lunch every day. But I vary it occasionally, so this month I’ve been eating eggs and bacon for breakfast and a turkey and cheese sandwich with a homemade Greek yogurt/flaxseed/fruit concoction for lunch every day. Maybe next week I’ll have cottage cheese and toast for breakfast and soup for lunch, and do that for three weeks and then switch it up again. I do this mainly because I’m on a restricted diet and it just makes my life easier if I don’t have to put any thought into what I can or can’t put in my mouth for two meals a day.
Variety in food does not really interest me, so long as I’m satiated and getting good nutrition. During the workweek I live alone, and eat pretty much the same thing every day.
An apple, banana or pear for breakfast.
PBJ, some nuts, maybe a cereal bar for lunch, maybe some cut up veggies or fruit for lunch.
Every day dinner is a spiced mix of beans and fresh/frozen veggies over rice and/or pasta.
Throughout the day, I may blend up a smoothie. If I have plenty of berries and yogurt, I’ll blend up a big batch in the a.m., then just keep the blender pitcher in the fridge and mix it up again in the afternoon or for dinner.
I really like these tastes, this fills me up, it is easy to shop for, keep, and cook, and is inexpensive, so why should I change?
I’m a fine cook - especially on the grill. On weekends I do most of the cooking - pretty much whatever my wife wants. But by myself, I’m fine with the same thing day after day.
I have pretty much no willpower as far as junkfood is concerned, so my best practice is to keep it out of the house.
But I vary it occasionally, so this month I’ve been eating eggs and bacon for breakfast and a turkey and cheese sandwich with a homemade Greek yogurt/flaxseed/fruit concoction for lunch every day. Maybe next week I’ll have cottage cheese and toast for breakfast and soup for lunch, and do that for three weeks and then switch it up again. I do this mainly because I’m on a restricted diet and it just makes my life easier if I don’t have to put any thought into what I can or can’t put in my mouth for two meals a day.