# What is your standard, fallback, baseline food you can eat at anytime? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459 "2006-06-28T06:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/1 "2006-06-28T06:03:58Z")
This is a tough question to put into words because I don’t think that there is a term for it. What food do you eat when you are not sure what you want and that you can eat multiple times without getting tired of it? Do you have a “standard” meal? I personally can eat a 6 inch Subway Club on wheat with Sun Chips and a cookie along with a Dr. Pepper at any time day or night regardless of how I feel and regardless if I just had it yesterday. If I am at home, I can always fall back on Cambell’s clam chowder with a few croutons along with a salad with bacon bits regardless of circumstances. Let me give you a few situations that might help people understand my question. What food do you like to eat: when you are hungry but are not sure for what, when you had a big lunch and don’t feel like having something big for dinner, when you are tired and don’t feel like cooking, when you woke up late- maybe too late for breakfast then all the sudden it is 11:00am and time for lunch, when you are driving to the lake or state park and you need to eat a little something before that won’t waste much time or get you too full, when you start to feel like you are coming down with something and you don’t feel like eating anything “challenging”? I am not necessarily talking about “comfort food” but I am sure that many people’s comfort food and “Standard, baseline, fallback food” are the same things. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/2 "2006-06-28T06:10:50Z")
Cold chicken. I live off the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/3 "2006-06-28T06:11:02Z")
Toasted cheese and vegemite sandwiches ---
**Author:** ![Ana\_Byrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ana\_Byrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana_Byrd)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/4 "2006-06-28T06:23:52Z")
Boiled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/5 "2006-06-28T06:24:21Z")
Eggbeaters and apples. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/6 "2006-06-28T06:26:23Z")
Mashed potatoes. Possibly with corn niblets and some kind of meat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/7 "2006-06-28T06:30:54Z")
Cheese. Mozarella, Parmesean, Gouda, Irish Cheddar, Feta, etc. I would live off of cheese in a heartbeat if I could. Mashed potatos and canned green beans are a distant second. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/8 "2006-06-28T06:47:53Z")
Chicken salad. If it’s in my fridge, I will eat it every single day until it is no longer in my fridge. I could probably go a long, long time before I tired of peanut butter and jelly and mac ‘n’ cheese, too. ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/9 "2006-06-28T07:04:11Z")
Fruit, apples in particular. I would only eat apples if it wouldn’t kill me or if I could afford it. And there are _so_ many different varieties. Galla, Rome, Fuji, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Braeburn… Augh, now I’m craving one. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/10 "2006-06-28T07:04:44Z")
Spaghetti with tomato sauce. A bit less “snacky” than some of the foods others chose, but it’s definitely the one meal I can still enjoy even if I’ve had it for three days straight. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/11 "2006-06-28T07:08:32Z")
Potatoes! You can boil 'em, steam 'em, mash 'em, fry 'em, roast 'em, bake 'em in cheese sauce and eat them with anything else you’ve got lying around the house. Taters make me happy on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/12 "2006-06-28T07:12:46Z")
Cheese sandwich with spicy mustard. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/13 "2006-06-28T07:41:31Z")
Ham, cheese and tomato **toasted** sammich. Lots of pepper. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/14 "2006-06-28T09:49:39Z")
Cheese on toast with Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce Dark chocolate Vanilla icecream ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/15 "2006-06-28T10:00:36Z")
Porridge, any sort of bran flake cereal, apples and bananas. With this sort of diet, I should probably be shifting the slight belly I’ve been getting of late, but these are fall back foods, not something i eat over anything else everyday :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/16 "2006-06-28T10:52:08Z")
Hummus with sharp cheddar on whole wheat pita. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/17 "2006-06-28T10:59:17Z")
pizza pizza pizza PIZZA pizza … leaning tower. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/18 "2006-06-28T11:21:56Z")
Dannon’s Light & Fit Cherry Vanilla Yogurt. It’s a non-fat, low sugar variety, and I know most people would say, “That’s your standard, baseline, fallback food?!? What the hell is wrong with you?” but it’s very tasty and satisfying. I’m addicted to them. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/19 "2006-06-28T11:48:35Z")
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/20 "2006-06-28T11:52:06Z")
Grilled cheese sandwiches. Eggs - scrambled, fried, omelets, whatever. Cheese of any type. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459.md?page=2)