Food is my #1 time suck and I’m honestly dying to get a consistent plan down, but it’s terribly hard to make a plan that allows you to buy the same things every week and use up all the perishables.

  • Kindymycin@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Maybe there’s a good middle road. come up with, say, 3 breakfast plans and 5 lunch plans that you rotate between. For what it’s worth, my breakfast is a bowl of pecan granola with homemade almond milk and some fresh berries (usually blueberries) with a cup of coffee. For lunch I have an OM mushroom protein shake to drink and eat a roasted red pepper hummus sandwich with a spinach salad topped with olive oil and vinegar and a side of carrots/cucumbers/apple or something else from the garden.

    Now that I think of it. I guess I do change things up a bit. So could have some staple items and them some items that you change for variety, but it’s not overwhelming like planning a whole meal. Like how I change my granola berries and my lunch side fruit/veggie occasionally

    • halfelfhalfreindeer@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      There’s probably also a difference in the variety within each dish and the effect it has. “Eating the same thing” is probably better if you eat granola with dark chocolate, cashews, blueberries, and spinach topped with almond milk and banana for breakfast versus a banana for breakfast. The nutrient profile is still always the same and that’s not great, but at least the former has different nutrient profiles within it.