Nope. I did not see the B in bits… :eek:
- Decide what I want to eat.
- Go out and buy it (I live in the city, so this is a matter of walking a couple blocks)
- Cook it.
- Open a bottle of wine or a bottle of beer. Set everything on the dining table.
- Dine.
The Ukulele Lady is out of town for a few days, so I’m looking forward to having what I want for dinner, with no compromises. My list includes chicken parmigiana with pasta, roasted spare ribs, a hamburger steak with onion gravy, dirty rice, and a pot of minestrone.
Not all at one meal.
I don’t usually think of eating as needing a strategy, except for times when I’ve been broke, ill, or out camping or traveling. But on an everyday level:
Assess deliciousness. If deliciousness factor is high, assess how much, if any, I can afford to eat, given my financial and carb/calorie intake balance for the day. If affordable, or irresistible, assess digestibility and currently, chewability. I’m in the middle of extensive dental work, so chewability has been the killer lately. If unchewable, reject delicious food and go back to start.
Repeat as needed.
Sunday: Pizza and bread sticks breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Garlic butter on bread sticks = veggies)
Monday: Cheeseburgers breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Ketchup = veggies)
Tuesday: Spam for breakfast, canned corned beef for lunch, Pastrami sandwiches for dinner. (skip the damn veggies)
Wednesday: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Peanut butter and jelly are both veggies)
Thursday: Eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and grits for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Ketchup, hashbrowns, grits = veggies)
Friday: Pork chops for breakfast, baloney and salami sandwiches for lunch, fried chicken for dinner. (skip the damn veggies)
Saturday: Ice cream and candy all day long! Steak for dinner. (Many ice cream flavors and candies contain copious amounts of fruit = veggies)
- Run as fast as necessary to catch it. Slower food is better food.
- Subdue it.
- Chomp it.
- Mmmm.
The seefood diet has served me well.
My food strategy sucks. I wish I were better at it.
Greek yogurt for breakfast, if weak-willed, followed by overpriced pastry from coffee shop at work.
Wildly overpriced lunch from cafe at work- soup, salad, sandwich or burrito. Will always end up costing a fortune.
Frozen pizza or delivery for dinner. If feeling economical, pasta and sauce.
Make your own if you don’t already! I once made The Leaning Tower of Hummus to share with my friends and family.
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Not to be pedantic but most of these are less strategies than tactics, routines, and even sub-routines.
FWIW my strategy is to mostly eat real foods that are high satiety and avoid the processed crap. I’ll add in that dinner is hoped to be a family social event. Lots of veggies, fruits, nuts, moderately high protein.
Tactically, given my life schedule, that means a breakfast that is often Greek yogurt with added chia and hemp seeds along with All-Bran, some dried cherries, and some extra kefir, or at least some fruit if I am on the run. Along with my big mug of black coffee. Snacking on a mix that is mostly raw unsalted almonds with some other nuts, dried fruit and maybe roasted chickpeas added, along with more coffee, during my work day. And a family meal in the evening when possible with schedules that is often a pretty standard arrangement of protein (like a bison strip steak or a meatloaf, or chicken or fish), a veggie or two, starch such as potato. But can be vegetarian at times. Maybe with a beer or a glass of wine. When not at work sometimes snacking at home on hummus and I do like this dark nutty Finn bread from our local Whole Foods.
Of course we sometimes order in and have pizza or Chinese or Pho or Indian or …
I did not know that.
My strategy is pretty complex - I eat what I want, when I want it.
Just make sure you adjust this strategy if you are doing a handstand.
the only strategy I have is that when I shop I try to buy the different food groups in the right ratios or approx. I try not to eat out more than once a week. I prepare meals that I can usually have for diner at least twice in most cases and maybe one lunch. Most of our meat dishes are cooked in with a vege and starch dish of somekind.
Fish and chicken about 4 times a week, beef or pork about 3 times, vege at every meal, cereal for breakfast, 1 loaf of bread, 1 half gallon of milk and one carton of eggs about every 10 days. this is for two people. We don’t strictly stick to this, just a guideline for shopping.
Vegeburger for breakfast. Two slices of bread and a microwaved vegetarian burger.
Fruit for lunch.
Homemade Spaghetti for dinner. Yes, from scratch.
Also, I’m a free range eater on the weekends because I’m never at home.
If it wasn’t for an unfortunately uncontrolled sweet tooth I’d be the weight I want to be.:smack:
I’m trying to lose a couple of pounds. My strategy is to eat whenever I want all day long, as long as it’s fruit, veggies, or my high-fiber cereal.
Dinner, I get to eat whatever I want, but only one reasonable portion. Wine unlimited. 
Food.
Food dead.
Eat.
Go surf the web.
NOT snark: how’s that working out for you?
(I could see it working for some folks, got curious about your results so far.)
purplehorseshoe: It’s going fine. I don’t find it hard to stick to because I like most fruits and veggies.
And I’m literally trying to lose two pounds…I don’t think this is a very healthy way to eat for long. If I wanted to lose more weight than that, I’d use the MyFitnessPal app which has worked for me in the past. I only “invented” this diet because I don’t feel like logging stuff right now. 
Work week:
Breakfast – small bowl of cereal (usually Life, Cheerios, or Corn Flakes) with milk – approx. 300 calories. Small glass of 50/50 OJ/water - 50 calories.
Lunch – 1 frozen burrito (~300 calories), plus 2 citrus fruits (~150 calories). Water to drink. Once or twice a week I can’t face the frozen burrito and go get a sandwich or prepared sushi from the nearby supermarket (500-800 calories).
Dinner – usually what my wife and I cook, or leftovers, or once ever week or two take-out or delivery (often Chinese). When we cook it’s usually some sort of stew; sometimes a pasta dish; and sometimes something else. I usually have fruit for dessert, and sometimes a beer or glass of wine with dinner. Calorie count varies widely – probably 800 to 1500 calories.
Weekends – usually two big meals, late breakfast and dinner. Both meals are usually large – breakfast might be waffles and eggs, or pastries and cold cuts; dinner can be the same thing as during the week, or a restaurant meal. Probably ~2500 calories each day for the weekend, on average. More on holidays.