I eat about 4k calories a day. Most of it is luxury euro food, heavy on the meat and dairy by normal standards. Huge amounts of old world deli foods, various salamis, pickles, preserves, etc. I binge eat fruits and vegetables (a whole pineapple, or 4-5 apples in a row, half a dozen mandarins, etc). I binge eat salty snacks to the point I can't buy them or I will eat the entire family bag of chips in an hour.

I cook often but don't live with my partner. It's nearly always a big piece of protein with a side of veggies in vinegar. Either that or a one-pot curry, soup, stir fry, etc. if I don't care about portion control.

We eat out a couple times a week. Almost always some kind of Asian food. I also regularly eat alone at pho, sushi and Caribbean places.

I have a wholesale hookup for immigrant ingredients which contributes to my unique brand of overindulgent diaspora. I've eaten more caviar than the rest of yous combined. I'll eat anything that isn't balut or a pet.

Breakfast:

I'm an eggs man. I'm in the mood for eggs almost every day of the week. My favorite breakfast is a fully loaded breakfast burrito with creamy scrambled eggs, carmelized onion, green peppers, a small amount of bacon or sausage, avocado, cheese, salsa, hot sauce and little bit of sour cream. So good. Plus I've got my workflow down to a science. Breakfast tacos are good too.

If no eggs than either granola + yogurt + fruit or a bagel w/ cream cheese. Lox bagels are delicious.

Guilty pleasure: Going out to the place that has these calorie bomb pancakes and french toasts in heavy cream sauces or chocolate or whatever. Something like this:



Lunch: Try to keep things pretty light, usually just salads and sandwiches. Or maybe like a thai basil chicken and rice. Fruit to snack on.

Dinners: Some sort of big protein, usually chicken or pork, plus veggies and rice. Sometimes a stir fry. Or tacos. Lots of tacos! I'll get a nice steak if I feel like splurging. If I go out to eat/order in its usually Thai, Indian, or sushi. Guilty pleasure: Deep dish pizza!



Dessert: Usually just a few pieces of a good dark chocolate. Maybe a scoop of ice cream.

My diet tends to vary wildly, depending on season and what I'm doing.

A few years ago I lived on lentils and low-calorie frozen meals while binging on yoga classes. In the span of a year I dropped more than half my body fat. Lentils are amazing and delicious and cheap and healthy. Frozen meals let me get the munchies, binge-eat and still not feel awful.

But that was living in a big city. Now I'm in the woods and it's winter, and so I eat a lot of soups and pastas and make loaves of bread at home. I work weekends in a restaurant where I graze most of the day on whatever I'm making or swerving ...

In the summer, my meals are much less repetitive. But I am definitely someone who finds what works and sticks with it.

Haven't done a fancy meal out in a long time. I think olives and truffles are both vastly overrated.

This is better for making hot chocolate than as an eating chocolate.

Just melt in to some milk over low heat and make that thick Euro/Mexican style hot chocolate that you can dip churros in to.

Many will find my diet boring when I'm not traveling and eating at home.

Breakfast - Yogurt and a banana. Every day. Sometimes, three or four times a year, my wife will want pancakes or waffles. So I make them and some eggs. But it really ends up being a brunch.

Lunch - Sandwich. Sliced bread and some meat from the deli counter. Usually turkey, ham, or roast beef. Sometimes pastrami. Usually no cheese or condiments. Although right now we have some deli mustard we got when we had some people over and I'm trying to use it up. Doesn't really add much for me. A couple times a month I'll have an cheese omelette.

Dinner - Meat and a side. Beef or pork roast, chicken breasts, pork chops, steak are the usual. When my wife is traveling I'll have salmon. If it's grilling season add hamburgers and sausage. Sides are limited to peas, corn, rice, or a salad (romaine lettuce only please, tomatoes are ok to add). Once a month or so we'll have something with pasta.

Desert - Fruit. Usually mixed berries. If I'm feeling special, ice cream.

When traveling the menu expands. But let's not get crazy.

Also - "Dids just posted about not caring very much about food." This is true, but not quite complete. I like good food (within the parameters of what I think is tasty, of course), but for me the marginal enjoyment I get going from, "Hey, that was tasty" to "Wow, that's the best I ever had!" is minimal. It's also fleeting. An hour later, how the food tasted is irrelevant to me. I honestly just don't see it when people get all excited about food they've had in the past. My mother-in-law is like this. She'll start describing a restaurant she's been to and some fabulous meal she's had there and get all worked up about it like she's tasting it again in her mind. To me, the only thing I remember about a restaurant (assuming the food is good) is whether or not I had a good time there.

I vary a lot, but an average/typical weekday for me is something like:

Breakfast: Bialy or bagel from the deli next door; coffee or energy drink. Sometimes just eat some trail mix and a banana or something at home if I get a late start

Lunch: Either leftovers from last night's dinner or some sort of wrap/sandwich

Dinner: I cook a lot of stuff (and go out more than I should) but my most common home dinner is a salad with either grilled chicken breast or salmon, feta cheese, oil and balsamic.

Drink tea/water throughout the day; never been a big snacker between meals.

I pretty much eat the same things every day regardless of where I'm at. Turkey and chicken are my go-to meats, but I enjoy a good steak every few weeks. No chopped meat, fish, seafood, or pork. Very little dairy. Sometimes swap meat protein for plant based protein. Bread/pasta usually at the end of the week. Desert always.

*I exercise everyday, take a few supplements, and only drink water or herbal tea. No caffeine.

Breakfast: oj, oatmeal, banana, nuts

Mid-morning snack: granola or some more nuts, dried fruit

Lunch: some kind of protein topped salad (no cheese or dressings)

Afternoon snack: apple

Dinner: protein, broccoli, raw baby spinach + roasted zucchini or eggplant

Evening snack: banana and or some nuts

Desert:

Food a ton of people flip their **** over but I think is just ok/pretty overrated: pork belly

When I'm on a strict diet / trying to lose weight, eating the same thing (or almost the same thing) for two meals out of three helps me a ton. So during those times, I go with:

BREAKFAST --> one whole egg and two egg whites cooked in olive oil w/ salt & pepper; and
LUNCH --> seasoned chicken breast and a roasted vegetable -or- a sandwich from a local shop like Potbelly.

And then as long as dinner isn't absurd, I'll be at a deficit.

When I'm not on a strict diet / trying to lose weight, the breakfast remains the same for the most part, but lunches are either leftovers from cooking, a sandwich, or some sort of Asian dish from the local sushi, Chinese, Thai, or Vietnamese places.

I'm very lucky to live with someone who is an excellent cook, so I get a wide variety of great dinners when she cooks. I personally cook a lot of Hungarian food (gulyas, paprikas, and porkolt) and simple stuff like chicken breasts or sous vide steak, pork, and fish.

I go out to eat either for brunch on the weekend or dinner any night probably two times per week. I live in DC, so we have a dizzying array of restaurants within walking distance.

i get into work and take advantage of the free fruit for breakfast, usually have an apple and/or plum/banana.

Then for lunch I often get either a meal deal monstrosity from the supermarket (bad shop sandwich, veg crisps and drink, maybe coconut water) or a giant salad from a good buffet place nearby that I squash into the big tupperware box (chicken leg, fried potatoes, carrot, leaves, tomatoes, fennel, pasta, lasagna, tabbouleh) or some other takeout thing. I'm spoiled for choice where i work for great lunch options.

Then for evening meal I'll often have one of something pasta-related with a tomato based sauce, with some cheese or chorizo stirred in, filled supermarket pasta, chinese takeout (vermicelli + sichuan style meat dish), toast with pate & coleslaw/baba ganoush, can't even think of much else which means I must eat out at random places/get random takeaways a lot more than I care to consider.

I love to cook and i'm pretty good at it so I'm aiming to make some wholesome meals on the weekend and freeze them in tupperware for the week so I can eat better stuff and save money. Also, I spend way too much on lunch so I'd like to be able to make that in advance too.

I have too many "favorite" foods to list, but I've never had a tripe preparation I enjoyed. I also don't love swordfish.

Someone else mentioned not liking foie gras. I enjoy foie gras, but I prefer chicken liver mousse because I find it to be less intense. So maybe that person could give chicken liver mousse a try to see if they like it.

I tend to enjoy cheeses that other people think are stinky/funky/gross/weird.

During week breakfast is something quick, cereal or a bar. Lunch is usually leftovers, or tuna bagel from local place. Dinner is rotation,, Monday is pizza, Tuesday meatballs or burgers. Wednesday my homemade (and really good) Baked Ziti. Thursday chicken.

Weekends are much better (or worse-calorie wise). Sabbath is always full of large and delicious meals. Matza ball soup, challah, brisket/pastrami, cholent, garlic chicken, roasted ranch potatoes, pumpkin muffins. Followed by delicious deserts, homemade cakes and brownies, rugelach, etc. Wacky Jews.

Sunday morning we hit up a local bakery for breakfast. Lunch is optional (usually too busy) and dinner is generally take out. Rotate through chicken sandwich place, burger place and shawarma.

Sadly on Atkins for now, so a good portion of that is no longer happening for me.

For a lack of a better word, I like simple food. While I actually enjoy cooking, I don't do anything fancy. I think the fanciest spice in my cabinet is garlic salty w/parsley.

My only requirement is to eat real whole foods. I try to buy everything locally that I can. I get my beef and chicken from a local rancher. Vegetables from a local co-op share etc.

Stock go-to meals -

Breakfast:
scrambled eggs w/spinach

Lunch:
chicken breast w/ broccoli - this is basically lunch every week day due to simplicity.

Dinner:
Steak w/green beans

I do get a little creative sometimes. As I'll buy a quarter of a cow at a time, sometimes I will get cuts of meat that require some imagination. For instance, I'll get flanken style ribs. I have a Korean recipe that I'll prepare.

Same thing with vegetables. I never know what I am going to get until I get it. You pay a weekly fee and they pack a basket of whatever the co-op has sourced that week. On more than one occasion, I have gotten vegetables I could not identify. You really need to be creative there.

Doing this.

What is LFS eating? I also eat basically the same things every day. On work days I have eaten almost exactly the same food every day for roughly the past year:
Skip breakfast because I do intermittent fasting
Lunch for my 12.5 hour shift is 3 pickles, ~1/2lb baby carrots, ~1.25lb of chicken breasts seasoned with tony chacheres and crushed red pepper, and 8 string cheeses.
Dinner is a bowl of cottage cheese and a can of campbells chunky soup.

On off days if I'm being really strict about my diet I'll have a salad with some chicken breast for lunch and usually some form of lean ground beef or turkey with frozen veggies for dinner.

Probably a strange diet but it works for me and I've managed to lose almost exactly 100lbs since Nov. 2016.

Holy **** re 8 string cheeses!

And congrats on the weight loss. That's really impressive.

I am a vegetarian and a diabetic, so I don't do beef/chicken/pork/seafood and I have to watch my carbs closely. Typical breakfast is either plain greek yogurt or cottage cheese with splenda and a tablespoon of granola and a little fresh fruit. Or two eggs scrambled with veggies and a slice of multigrain bread. Sometimes I do l low sugar oatmeal. Lunch is usually a salad with some type of protein added, chick peas, cheese or even tofu. I do a lot of hummus and roasted veggies for dinner, and veggies with yogurt dip for snacks. If I am dying for a candy bar or cupcake I will make sure I have a very low carb meal such as a salad or cottage cheese, but the last time I did that was over a month ago. I also make a lot of home made soups that are good low carb comfort foods for me.

Thanks! Yeah it's a lot of cheese but for the record I don't eat all of that food at once. I usually start snacking on it about 4 hours into my shift and finish it about 6 hours later.

I've been eating the same ten or so meals weekly for the past 6 months or so. I was diagnosed pre-diebetes in September and went hardcore to phase out sugar and carbs. So far it's worked and I'm down 50 lbs to about 188-190. I eat a "mixed grill/stir fry" for about 7-8 meals a week that rotates the following ingredients:

Base: Butter, Avocado oil, EVOO
Veggies: Green/Yellow/Red/Orange bell peppers, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, spinach, kale, potatoes (sparingly), cauliflower, green chilies, jalepeno, Napa cabbage, tomatoes, avocado, onions
Protien: chicken, steak (rarely), lots of eggs, ground beef on cheat days
Carbs: white or blue corn tortilla chips, oats (rarely), protien bars less than 7 net carbs (Carbs - fiber - sugar alcohols), veggie pasta (rarely).

I rarely eat seafood except the occasional tuna steak as I'm allergic to shellfish. It sucks as I wish I could eat pizza, burritos, burgers, and chicken parmesan with a huge plate of spaghetti all day everyday and finish it with a trip to Sonic for milkshakes, but I'll gain 10lbs a week with no end going back to my old diet.

Since I travel about 2-3x a month for work, it makes it hell staying on course in airports. My meals during those times usually leads to a begrudging $10 meal of a protein bar and a venti cold brew from Starbucks, cream no sugar. Most times it's my only way to curb my appetite while not loading up on a 100g carb meal for the same price. Seeing results happening so fast makes it much easier to stay on course with this lifestyle/diet change.

Cheat days are exclusively for ridiculous fast food runs. Can't forget your roots.

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I'm a meat and potatoes man. Also a fried chicken man.

I was in Oklahoma City with a girl I was dating, and she took me to Eischens Bar, which had some of the best fried chicken I'd ever had. We were on our way somewhere else, somewhere in Texas, but we drove out into the middle of nowhere to find this place.

Until lunch, I usually have the same things every day:
- Cinnamon raisin toast with jelly and cold brew coffee before working out
- banana, Greek yogurt, PB milk shake after
- for breakfast fruit salad with 5 or 6 different things we have ATM. Today was apple, orange, grapefruit, strawberry, kiwi, black grapes. Tomorrow will probably be 3 of those plus pineapple, green grapes and banana
- for lunch a bowl of quinoa, sweet potato, black beans, or pasta aglio e olio

During the day at least 3-4 snacks of candy, dried fruit, mixed nuts or chocolate

Dinner: usually rice or potatoes or pasta with various veggies. Unless my wife wants to have something different.

My Lebanese buddy introduced me to kefta a couple years ago, where has that been all my life? Brought it to a tailgate good lawd.

Dinner: almost always either stew of the week, or meat+salad. This started as a habit in grad school, when I'd have little time for food prep and not a ton of money, so I'd typically make 2 pots of stew, one Saturday and one Sunday, and then I'd have lunch and dinner leftovers all week. Consequently, I have a good breadth of stews in the repertoire, incl. stuff from American, French, German, Italian, Japanese, African, and other cuisines, because there are poor people everywhere who eat stews. These days I have more time and more money, so it's easier to put together dinner mid week, and that's most likely to be steak+salad, pork chop+salad, fish+salad, etc. Sometimes the salad is steamed asparagus or some other cooked vegetable, but that's the usual routine.

Lunch: Dinner leftovers, or the company has a pretty extensive salad bar for free, so I'll make the usual salad with blue cheese and chicken, or sometimes a sandwich for a change of pace. I almost always get a slice of pizza at Costco during Saturday shopping, and there's a pretty good taco truck near my house that I'll hit up for a burrito sometimes.

Breakfast: eggs and coffee pretty much every day. Bacon included on the weekends.

I put on a bunch of weight recently when I moved out to the PNW. Too much good craft beer and local foodies.

Anyways, I am using a combined intermittent fasting and restricted diet and was down ~2 belt notches in a month. Routine is only eating in a ten hour window so for me its between noon and 10pm and adding in some cardio on that empty stomach in the morning. Then eating almost exclusively animal protein, so a lot of red meat and 2-3 eggs a day, and roughage like broccoli and cauliflower.

This is mostly thrown out of whack as my room mate is a really good cook and makes some elaborate dishes, but I try and stay 95% on my way and 5% not my way.