I always eat coffee with oatmeal for breakfast on weekdays, and coffee with an omelet on the weekends.
I buy enough chicken and vegetables for a salad with grilled chicken that lasts about 1-2 days.
My grandmother lives across the street. She gives me food from her senior citizens center that she cannot finish.
The rest of the week I eat whatever long term storage food I can find. Usually rice or buckwheat with tuna, or spaghetti with vegetables (either canned or frozen vegetables).
I’ve got a weird schedule right now. On weekdays I don’t eat breakfast; every other day I don’t have a lunch, so I’ll just bring something portable like mixed nuts, while on the other days I’ll have a sandwich. My main meal is dinner. On weekends, I naturally graze on various foods throughout the day - when I can, I prefer eating many small meals to two or three big ones.
Oh, and Wednesdays and Saturdays are the official Ice Cream Nights.
I usually eat 2 big meals sometime from noon-8 pm. a 7 day dinner menu is planned out. Whenever I wake up I have iced coffee with almond milk. I don’t eat breakfast for at least 4 hours. I will usually have an omelet with anything I can put in it- onions, tomatoes, cheese, bacon, green onions, olives, turkey, salmon, whatever. Usually before dinner I will have 2 cups of coffee with heavy cream. For snacks I might have full fat yogurt, dark chocolate, genoa salami (not together). If I’m sick of eggs or on days with a lot of vegetables at dinner, I might have big Greek salad or something like that for breakfast. Sometimes instead of omelets, I make egg sandwiches or I make some sort of hash brown thing.
Coffee every morning, black. Weekdays, breakfast is a handful of almonds and a banana. On Saturdays I don’t eat breakfast; on Sundays, I run for a friend for about 2 hours, so I usually take a granola bar.
Lunch is usually fruit, veggies and whatever protein I can scrounge up; dinner is usually a little more planned: some protein with at least a vegetable (if not two) and a fruit. Vegetables have to be eaten first (by me, anyway - I don’t care in what order my kids or husband eat them), followed by fruit, then protein. Reading this makes me realize I’m extremely predictable foodwise.
I’ve been doing no-carb for weight loss, so no fruits, root vegetables, added sugar or carbs. I’m not supposed to have soy, but I do drink soy milk and use soy sauce.
My drink of choice is canned coffee (they have tasty stuff here) with unsweetened soy milk added. I drink surprisingly tasty chocolate protein powder from my gym mixed with cold water for breakfast, then usually taco rice (with no rice) and grilled chicken off the trucks that park outside work for lunch, then tuna sashimi or a nice steak for dinner. I cheat one meal per week and eat whatever the hell I want.
Going no-carb isn’t permanent, just until I get my body-fat down, muscle mass up a bit. I have found I enjoy carbs and sweets a lot more when I restrict my intake.
This is basically my prime directive. Parallel directive:
Are there children below the age of 5 in the building? If yes, produce balanced protein + vegetable + carbohydrate concoction. Add ketchup/milk/cheese as needed. (I.E., tuna salad + wholemeal crackers + string cheese + orange juice)
Further directive:
Are older XY chroma persons arriving this evening? If Y, then serve menu items with >15 g protein/pp menu items.
If meal(participant)=me, then prepare 8 oz of bloody beef + 10 oz roughage + 6 oz sauce/veg + 6 oz. EtoH. I.E., rare steak + salad + bearnaise + cauliflower + brandy.
Monday through Friday, I try to eat 300 calories for breakfast. I might have oatmeal or a bagel or even an egg with toast. I switch it up, but it’s the calories that matter.
Same for lunch, try to stick to 300 calories with soup or sandwich. Dinner is 450 calories, which is usually just meat and veggies and then dessert is 150.
Weekends are a different story. I eat whatever I feel like.
Breakfast – large mug of coffee, two slices of toast with butter, and handful of medications and vitamins.
Lunch – Try to take something reasonably healthy to eat instead of eating in office cafeteria. If this fails, try to eat peanut butter and crackers, followed by greek yogurt and fruit. If I do go to the caff, check out salad bar. If the salad fixin’s look pretty fresh, get one. If this fails, say the hell with it and have some chicken fingers and honey mustard sauce. I pretend I’m a 5-year-old every so often.
Dinner. Yeah, I suck at dinner, because I’m tired. I’m working on prepping and putting in freezer-to-slow-cooker meals now that it’s getting cooler, because crackers and cheese are not a proper dinner. Take first batch of nighttime pills.
Dessert. Yes, I eat it. I generally have frozen lower-fat Greek yogurt, which I make myself so I can control the amount of sugar.
Bedtime snack: just a cookie or two. I also take the final bedtime meds then.
Wine. I don’t drink it often, but I’m thinking of replacing some sweets with a glass of wine. I was thinner when I drank wine.
ETA: I hate chicken breast other than in chicken fingers form. I blame Weight Watchers; I had every permutation of boneless, skinless chicken breast known to man during my trip into WW in the early aughts.
