Am I the only one who eats like this?

[LaraMN]

I eat the same thing over and over, until I get sick of it. For about a month and a half, I was eating a piece of snack toast for breakfast and afternoon snack, until I finally got tired of it.

For the last month or so, I've been eating a few chips and a ton of salsa at night, every night.

Prior to that, I was eating Healthy Pop Kettle corn for a bedtime snack. I did it long enough that I went through four boxes of microwave packs, before I finally tired of it.

I often eat the same one or two things for lunch every day, for weeks.

At one point, I was eating string cheese every day.
For awhile, it was fruit cups.
Before that it was caramel rice cakes.

It takes me quite awhile to get sick of the stuff, considering I eat it almost every day.

Am I weird, or do other people eat like this?

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. That's pretty much what I do

I never seem to get sick of turkey sammiches, though.

[LaraMN]

2. Mmmm. turkey sammiches...

I don't think one CAN get sick of those!

Honey wheat, lettuce, and some spread!
:9

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. White, mayo, spicy mustard

With Swiss or (better) Muenster.

And sour cream 'n' onion tato chips.

And a Dr Pepper.

:9

[LaraMN]

6. OHHH! SWISS! Swiss!

I wouldn't be nearly so excited about the idea of cheese, if you people had told me I needed a corkscrew! I will promptly lose my ability to type coherently in T-minus 30 minutes.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. BTW...

I thought this thread was gonna have a photo of you in a high chair with mashed bananas all over your face and fingers and cracker bits covering the tray.

:7

[LaraMN]

16. Nah- that's "kinky food Friday."

Missed it by a day.
:D

[auntAgonist]

4. I do that too..

I find a high protein food that I like and I eat it constantly. String cheese is a favourite of mine. Peanut butter and crackers too. Beef Jerky .. on and on.

[LaraMN]

8. I used to melt the string cheese in the microwave, sometimes.

Just enough to make a little bit mushy. That probably sounds gross. :D

[reyd reid reed]

5. Nope. I eat like that, too.

Same thing, over and over. Don't get me wrong...I like to try new things...but I want my tried and true, too.

Last year, it was Pringles at work. This year, it's fruit.

[LaraMN]

Oh! I go on nectarine benders, in the summer!

I'm waiting for the Clementines to go on sale, now! I LOVE those babies!

[reyd reid reed]

I bought a box just before Thanksgiving for $4.00

Then I got jury duty and girly-poo got to it before I did.

I got one...ONE...of 'em.

:mad:

Right now, I've got strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew, a pear and two pomegranates at home. And a few apples.

That's what I'm having when I get home. I'm going to cut up some fruit and put up my feet and -- breathe.

[LaraMN]

13. Wow! I've never seen them that cheap, here. I just wait until they're around

$5 a box.

You know what I could eat endlessly, if they were fresh and cheap?
Blueberries.
Omg, I love them.

[reyd reid reed]

14. I'm not that wild about blueberries...

I used to love to go berry picking for blackberries and raspberries when we lived in Maryland and Alabama, though.

*sigh*

Now THOSE were fresh. And cheap.

Thorny, but when you're a kid, who cares?

[LaraMN]

17. Oh, wild ones are the best!

We used to pick them when I was a kid, too. Ice cream pails full. They tasted MUCH better than anything you can get in a grocery store now.

[reyd reid reed]

23. Yup...and then, if any made it home...

my mom would sometimes make a cobbler. Or preserves or something.

I used to love to climb trees and eat the plums and peaches, too. And yes, even the crabapples.

Kids don't do stuff like that anymore.

:shrug:

[Crabby Appleton]

46. Hey, what's wrong with crab apples?

[u4ic]

48. Me, too

LOVE blueberries. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Fuzz]

7. Yeah, my wife calls them my "food jags"

[LaraMN]

10. That's how I usually characterize them, too.

It makes things fairly simple, though!

[ForrestGump]

9. I tend to be that way, too

Same with restaurants...when I find something on the menu that I love, usually on the first visit, I have to make a real effort to eat anything else when I go there.

I also tend to eat my food by components, when I've got a plate of it, most of the time. You know: eat each of the parts of the meal separately and save what I anticipate to be the 'best' 'til last. Not always, but very often.

And I have a very specific way -- have had since I was a little kid -- of eating ice cream in a cone. I've developed a couple of variations on the theme, but it's pretty consistent.

You're in good company, by the way: it is written in the sacred texts that the prophet Elvis would regularly go on a kick with regard to particular meals, such as a liking he developed for meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans and sliced beefsteak tomatoes that allegedly lasted for a year's worth of dinners (and the Spanish omelet phase he developed after getting hold of particularly good examples in the holy city of Las Vegas). Obviously, this trait is common to charismatic, physically-stunning sex gods and goddesses... :D

[LaraMN]

11. Bwahaha! Well, then that explains it!

So long as I can retain sex-goddess status, by avoiding a jag related to items that are deep-fried, or "smothered" in anything.
:D

[ForrestGump]

15. I suggest

you avoid the peanut-butter-and-mashed-'nana sammiches.

Otherwise, knock y'allself out. :hi:




Off to eat my raisin bran, smothered in flax seed....

[LaraMN]

18. Yuck, shouldn't be a problem there!

I don't like peanut butter.
I'd rather eat your raisin bran, actually.

[ForrestGump]

20. I thought perhaps that I should check, at this point

-- given my history of being totally oblivious to such things and the further complication of being so long "out of the loop" as far as such colloquialisms are concerned -- whether "I'd rather eat your raisin bran" is some kind of code for...um...well, you know. :blush:

Mrs MN, are you trying to seduce me?













I just know it...she's gonna tell me "kiss my grits!" :-(

[LaraMN]

21. That's SO not my leg, honey!

Way too stumpy!
:P

[ForrestGump]

44. Well, yeah, but

Dustin Hoffman's kinda way too stumpy to play me, too...

The sad truth, however, is that showing your leg (and quite a leg it is, too, and so is the other one) and my Adonis-like physiognomy in the same picture could very well end the universe.

Safety first...




I'm still taking a lot of heat for those up-shorts shots of me getting out of the limo that time...



There's a time and a place for wearing items from my '70s running shorts collection. :o

[u4ic]

47. Flax is so passe...

:P

This is great stuff (as is the oil): http://www.manitobaharvest.com/products/hemp_seed_nut.html

Better balance of all the omega fatty acids than flax, and tastes much better, too. :-)

[SPKrazy]

19. I Would Do That

I do that to some extent

I eat the same thing for breakfast until i get sick of it

i eat the same thing for lunch until i get sick of it

dinner is more flexible

i go through phases with snacks too although i haven't been eating snacks much lately


:shrug:

[Dangerously Amused]

22. Not only do I eat like that,

...but I listen to music like that too. I can play the same CD for hours a day, days on end... and never grow tired of it. Because every time I'm finding something new in the sound... a lick of an improv backbeat here, a vocal nuance there, an extra sixteenth note I hadn't really noticed before...

The food though, it's not new every time. But I think when I'm eating the same stuff over and over it's because my thoughts are sufficiently scattered and focused elsewhere such that the food doesn't matter, as long as it tastes okay and isn't distracting from the really interesting stuff going on in my brain.

Sometimes food is entertainment, and sometimes it's fuel. For me, most of the time, it's just fuel.

[LaraMN]

24. Oh! I do the same thing with songs!

I rotate a few songs out of my mp3 player every week or so, then usually proceed to replace them with a few songs that I listen to repetedly, until I get tired of them. I rarely sit and listen to full albums.

[JVS]

25. Yeah. I've been working on a 2 lb disc of brie for a week.

I can't open something else because I don't want to waste the food through spoilage, so I gotta keep eating the cheese.

They joys of single life!

[LaraMN]

27. That's alot of cheese!

I hope you're eating your fiber!

[JVS]

29. Don't get me started on fiber

I don't get much fiber but at least everything that should happen daily happens daily and without problem. I've met people lately who are on a weekly schedule. :wtf: How do they not die?

[trackfan]

26. I pretty much did that till my wife intervened.

She protests if we repeat something too often - that is, unless it's somthing for which SHE has an especial hankering.

[LaraMN]

28. So... what you're saying is: she's the Boss of you!

S'okay. I'm totally the boss of EVERYTHING, here.
(that's what I like to tell myself, anywya.)

[Nicole]

30. I do the same thing

I've been having chocolate covered cashews for a late night snack for about 2 weeks now. Before that it was pretzels every night for a month.

I've been having oatmeal every day but I rotate between maple brown sugar & apple cinnamon flavors.

[LaraMN]

31. I liek the oatmeal with bitty chunks of apple!

but sometimes the apple reminds me of a piece of skin, and then i get creeped out.

[Nicole]

32. Gee thanks!

Now I will probably think of skin when I eat my chunks of apple tomorrow.

:rofl:

[u4ic]

49. Instant/quick cooking oatmeal?

Have you ever tried the steel cut oats? I'll never go back to rolled oats after having steel cut. The texture, flavour - everything is different, but so much better. :9

[Nicole]

52. Instant oatmeal

I've never bought the steel cut but I've heard they are much better than rolled. I'm not normally an oatmeal eater soI never buy any.

I'm trying to get rid of 3 boxes of the instant that my niece left here after visiting with her kids.
I can just barely eat the apple cinnamon & the maple brown sugar. I threw out the blueberry ones.

[u4ic]

33. That's me

Summer was honeydew melon. Now it's black grapes. I'm on a severe black grape kick. I actually went into withdrawl last week when the grocery store didn't have any in stock. :scared:

[reyd reid reed]

35. I've done that with cheese-in-a-can and ritz crackers...

of course, I was pregnant at the time...

[u4ic]

I'm also like that

with canned salmon (Wild Pacific sockeye, to be exact. Pink salmon just won't do). I must have a can (it'll last me 2 days) every week, or I start to get a bit loopy. :silly:

[LaraMN]

36. I"ve never had a black grape. Is it just like a bloated raisin?

:o

[u4ic]

43. I guess all grapes

are just like bloated raisins. ;)

Black ones are much sweeter, I find, than the others. :9

[Lex]

34. Not me. After two or three times in a row of the same thing

I'm sick of it and must move on, gastronomically speaking, at least for a while.

But I totally respect your method of eating too.

:hi:

[LaraMN]

37. I totally respect htat you respect my method.

:D :crazy: :rofl:

[Lex]

42. We cool then.

[unsavedtrash]

38. corn with two meals a day for three years

:blush:

[LaraMN]

41. That a hell of alot of corn!

:rofl:

[Floogeldy]

39. It is called "obsessive-compulsive."

And, yes, I do it too. ;)

[LaraMN]

40. Oh. Is that why?

That might explain it.

[Porcupine]

45. Um, try fresh fruits and vegetables. They change w/seasons

as to what will be fresh and cheap. Especially if you go to Farmer's Markets. What you eat is dreck. Yuck.

[Suich]

50. Me, too!

:hi:

[Evoman]

51. No way. If the food isn't VERY good, I won't even eat leftovers.

I hate eating the same thing over and over...I get bored of food very easily. Y'know when all those variations of choclate bars or chips or whatever else comes out, and people say. "Man..what are they thinking...who's ever going to eat that?". Yeah, thats me. I always buy new things. I have an obsession with trying out new spices, and am always looking out for new flavours. I hate eating the same thing everday so much, that sometimes food I buy goes bad because I get bored too fast (although I really hate wasting food).

[Left Is Write]

53. You are weird, but not because of your eating habits.

Kidding!

No, actually I think that a lot of people eat like that.

[pink-o]

54. Over the last 15 years, I seem to have lost all my food cravings...

...I used to love a lot of things that are bad for me, like deep-fried stuff and processed snack food like potato chips and cookies. But I quit buying it, and don't miss it anymore. So I tend to eat what's good for me--day after day after day.

For breakfast, it's always a fruit salad with plain non-fat yogurt and a sprinkle of mixed raw nuts (walnuts actually have the same omega 3 fatty acids as salmon or tuna--without the mercury.) Then maybe a high-protein bar or some baked tofu as a snack. For dinner, a cage-free omelet and salad. It totally satisfies me--I guess I'm just not an epicurian.

But I definitely get flack from my friends. My diet freaks them out totally, which makes no sense since THEY'RE not eating it! So don't worry about your eccentric eating habits--people just gotta eat what they want, forget what anyone else thinks!

[GalleryGod]

55. Apparently not, but, this IS DU.

and this IS the Farside of the normal universe.
EOM:crazy:

[LynzM]

56. I'm like that, too

In fact, there are foods I still cannot eat 10 years later, because I ate them too much during high school! Specifically, blueberry flavored NutriGrain bars!

[WindRavenX]

57. I am EXACTLY the same way.

Wow, quite freaky :scared:

[Ediacara]

58. Persimmons, Avocados, and Blood Oranges

Sometimes that's my ENTIRE diet for several days in a row. Then I don't eat them for several weeks, then I'm back to it.