Food Discretion

[Kyle]

Do you sometimes wish you could take all the discretion out of your food choices? I do. And I realize this makes me sound like an old person. But if I had my way, I'd set up my meals like this:

Breakfast: Every day the same- two eggs on dry toast

Lunch: On Sunday I'd make a batch of something in my slow cooker or Instant Pot and eat it for lunch every day. It would rotate between black eyed peas, succotash, spicy black beans and then some Instant Pot experiment of the week.

Dinner: Two different meals made on Sunday and then alternated during the week. Like: spicy sausage stew and teriyaki beef over rice.

I'm thinking about this because, whenever my family goes away on their camping trips and I'm home alone, this is how I do my meals. And I eat WAY less and stick to the schedule because there's no discretion to it after I've decided on and made the meals. And in May my family is going on a month-long trip up the east coast, so I'm going to end up doing this for a month.

I guess what I'm saying is that I can't be trusted to make these decisions day to day.

[Mike]

I am so on board.

I saw Earl's Facebook posts about living on nothing but Soylent powdered meals, and I was actually jealous.

[Kyle]

The other issue for me is that I have so many food prohibitions because of the Celiacs and dairy allergy that it's just easier to sit down on a Sunday morning- plan it all out- then have it ready Sunday evening.

[Phoebe]

I can see wanting this for sure with celiac, or other major allergy issues, given the carousel of difficulties ensuring your meal is okay. For me, I love to cook and can eat most things, so my great wish is to be able to cook for people who eat most of what I want to cook, and have nothing systematized. I'm getting there, people. It's 2 out of 5 and sometimes 3 out of 5 now, thanks to the youngest kid being, you know, hungry and reasonable more often now. #4 is basically a vegan with exceptions for lobster, shrimp, and filet mignon, but hasn't yet realized you need to eat a wider variety of food as a vegan. The day is coming; I hear the thunder in the distance already.