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am I part of a dying breed?

nice_squirrel [Edit] [Delete] 120 replies 10:34, 16 February '07

I feel like I might be. I eat three meals a day, every day. Going out of the house without eating breakfast seems as unthinkable to me as going out without clothes on. I cook food every day, from scratch, and if I'm out I make sure I buy something. I always take lunchbreaks at work.

Do any of you do this? It seems like everyone I know is always skipping meals, and sees cooking properly as something you do on a special occasion. I do have to eat often because I have low blood sugar, but even if I didn't, I'd still take food as seriously because that's the way I've been brought up.

Thoughts please.

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  • I thought this thread

    was going to be about squirrels.

    IrishMagpie | 16 Feb '07, 10:35 | X
    • red

      squirrels :-)

      StaceySailplane @IrishMagpie | 16 Feb '07, 10:35 | X
      • :(

        pieces_of_reece @StaceySailplane | 16 Feb '07, 10:38 | X
    • I always

      have three meals a day AND snacks, because I'm greedy. If I don't have breakfast, I feel sick.

      StaceySailplane | 16 Feb '07, 10:35 | X
      • That's funny

        generally breakfast (or any food within about 2.5 hours of me getting up) makes me feel sick.

        commandercool @StaceySailplane | 16 Feb '07, 10:36 | X
    • It is very rare

      that I miss a meal. I cannot deal with being hungry.

      moribund | 16 Feb '07, 10:36 | X
    • i do do this

      but find myself increasingly wishing I could skip meals or at least eat far far less. I like to cook though, and I like to eat breakfast.

      HOW ON EARTH do you people stay so fucking thin. Bastards.

      snow_brigade | 16 Feb '07, 10:36 | X
      • Bulimia

        moribund @snow_brigade | 16 Feb '07, 10:37 | X
    • I rarely miss meals.

      It just doesn't feel healthy.

      IrishMagpie | 16 Feb '07, 10:37 | X
    • bf

      I have three meals a day, and I can cook very well.

      There are lots of young girls who really don't know the first thing about cooking- which is very sad.

      It's like 'cook! I don't learn to cook! What did our feminist sisters of the seventies fight for! It wasn't so I'd have to be able to cook!'

      grockle | 16 Feb '07, 10:37 | X
    • ready made

      "as a treat"? :-(

      shadyadie @soup100 | 16 Feb '07, 12:05 | X
    • I don't usually skip meals

      but a lot of the time I can't be bothered to cook stuff from scratch. I generally use stuff from jars and add just add chicken/fish/veg when I'm making dinner.

      Breakfast I can take or leave. I'm not usually hungry until about 2/3 hours after I've woken up.

      colonol_k | 16 Feb '07, 10:39 | X
    • i can't cook

      but i am trying to learn. but i always always eat breakfast. insisting on having breakfast means you get up early and it gives you a chance to wake up properly. and, to be honest, i feel quite ill if i don't.

      JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 10:39 | X
    • It's

      something I've taken a lot more seriously recently. I've always had a high metabolism up until the last few years, which meant I could eat anything/nothing and my weight always stayed the same. That isn't the case any more and what I eat is affecting me in all sorts of ways, such as my moods and the amount of energy that I have. So, in the last few weeks I have made a point of having breakfast before I leave the house which I haven't done in the past 10 years, and actually learning to cook stuff. Not from scratch, but at least now I can do chicken with noodles or a bolognese rather than just getting a pizza in or something.

      When I left home, I was worse than useless at anything house-related; cooking, cleaning, etc. When I think back now to the poor girl I was seeing when we moved in together, I can see things from her side a lot more. I must have been a nightmare to live with

      Judge_B | 16 Feb '07, 10:40 | X
    • i eat three meals every day

      but i don't always eat what i should be, because i am lazy and living at home.

      food is very important to me though, i get frustrated when i don't know where it is from, but again, i eat things like that again at the moment, which is bad.

      people who don't cook food from sctratch are missing out though, and it can't be all that good for them.

      pieces_of_reece | 16 Feb '07, 10:43 | X
    • I dont have breakfast until I get to work

      I've started walking to work so my metabolism is up and running by the time I munch my brekkie.

      I eat at least two other meals a day. At least. I snack loads.

      sadpunk | 16 Feb '07, 10:45 | X
    • when i'm at uni

      I eat in a horribly irregular fashion, I always skip breakfast and usually get at best two proper meals a day. I don't really eat a very healthy diet either, but I try to eat lots of fruit to make up for this.

      OceanStorm | 16 Feb '07, 10:45 | X
    • One meal a day

      Usually involving some sort of sandwich. Breakfast is a cuppa, tea is as much cider as I can get down my neck before 11pm.

      bamos | 16 Feb '07, 10:45 | X
    • my eating patterns are completely erratic

      nothing all day then SHITpasta i have to go to the pub and then OMG starving hungry drunk mr bagel.

      John_Brainlove | 16 Feb '07, 10:47 | X
    • i always have breakfast, always have done

      otherwise i keel over in hunger by 10am. i always have lunch, soup or sandwich, and have dinner depending on whether i go out or not. if i go out, it depends on who i meet and what i am doing. otherwise, i'll cook food mainly from scratch, as i buy fresh stuff every day - i haven't done a massive shop in about a year. at the weekends is the worst though, because i don't do a big shop and generally fail to provide myself with any kind of food other than cheese and icecream at the weekends. and sundays usually involve pizza. as i am normally hungover.

      sarkyfox | 16 Feb '07, 10:55 | X
    • I always have breakfast

      and need to eat 3 meals a day or else I get all moody and in a daze

      I also cook from scratch most nights...and make lunch to take to work

      Lunchbreaks are a must at work..otherwise you never move from your desk and it's just awfulawful...

      Slicky | 16 Feb '07, 10:59 | X
    • I agree

      I used to buy crap, cheap food during my uni days but then realised it's the one area you really shouldn't try to save money on.

      moribund @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:04 | X
      • Making food yourself

        is often cheaper than ready meals etc anyway.

        commandercool @moribund | 16 Feb '07, 11:05 | X
        • i'm unconvinced by this

          the cheapest microwave meals are very cheap...

          JacobJones @Jack_El_Biscuit | 16 Feb '07, 11:41 | X
          • and full of

            absolute junk.

            shadyadie @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 12:20 | X
            • ..

              oh, i'm sorry. i must have missed the part where i said that microwave meals were worth eating. do point me towards it...

              JacobJones @shadyadie | 16 Feb '07, 12:39 | X
              • oh for christ's sake...

                shadyadie @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 18:54 | X
                • and yes

                  food made from scratch can be a lot cheaper than microwaved shit.

                  shadyadie @shadyadie | 16 Feb '07, 18:57 | X
                  • cheap microwave meals involving meat probably are cheaper

                    cos you wouldn't even be able to buy the shitty meat they use just as meat in the supermarket, and would thus have to spend more to create an equivalent meal.

                    veggie ready meals or ones that use relatively cheap meat, like mince, aren't cheaper.

                    ex_cynic @shadyadie | 16 Feb '07, 19:07 | X
        • I'm a terrible cook

          but I love doing it!

          I like knowing what I'm eating and knowing that I made it! :)

          sadpunk @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:05 | X
          • i can only

            cook about 3 things. it's getting to be a bit annoying.

            one of them involves anchovies and my housemates hate me cooking it because it stinks....

            JacobJones @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:20 | X
            • this is true

              what can you do with spinach, though?

              JacobJones @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:40 | X
              • curry!

                or use it instead of lettuce in salads or stuff it in pita bread with some other yum filling.

                shadyadie @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 12:22 | X
                • curry confuses

                  me enormously ... if i could know how to make curries my life would be near perfect.

                  JacobJones @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:34 | X
                  • chuck a load of things in a pan

                    make sure that masala and chili are among these things

                    serve with rice, naan, bread, chapatis, poppadoms, whatever else you want

                    call this 'curry'

                    easy!

                    ex_cynic @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 19:06 | X
                    • oh yeh

                      put the pan on the heat and all that.

                      ex_cynic @ex_cynic | 16 Feb '07, 19:06 | X
                • I can't afford

                  to eat 3 decent meals a day and go out. So I eat one proper meal and not much else.

                  doubtful | 16 Feb '07, 11:07 | X
                  • And it helps you beat up fat, bearded men!

                    moribund @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:19 | X
                  • *shameful admittance*

                    I have never eaten spinach.

                    doubtful @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 11:21 | X
                    • great thread squizzaaaaa

                      i blame capitalism

                      ex_cynic | 16 Feb '07, 11:18 | X
                      • do you? why?

                        .

                        JacobJones @ex_cynic | 16 Feb '07, 11:19 | X
                        • I normally only eat

                          2 meals a day.

                          I will either eat breakfast or lunch, but rarely both. If I'm hungry in the morning, I will have breakfast. If I'm not, then I'll wait until lunch. I normally have dinner each night too, unless of course it's Friday when I'm usually in the pub.

                          johnny_goatboy @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 11:32 | X
                          • i was being a bit facetious

                            but it perpetuates overworking on pointless shitty jobs so you don't feel like cooking when you get back.

                            ex_cynic @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 19:09 | X
                          • I'm not eating breakfast at the moment

                            because I'm not usually up in time but I do try and cook the other two meals a day. On Tuesday I didn't eat anything until about 6.30pm and I thought I was going to pass out in Sister Ray.

                            bobbygeorge | 16 Feb '07, 11:42 | X
                          • it depends if you call

                            a bag of crisps and a kitkat chunky at 1030 breakfast or not.

                            keiths_tele | 16 Feb '07, 11:51 | X
                          • I think you're definitely a dying breed but you're confusing 'breakfast' and 'three meals'

                            Almost everyone has breakfast because it's just too hard to function without. I usually wake up ravenous and MUST HAVE IT.

                            But your slavish devotion to an evening meal is unusual I think. Most of us would put the evening meal at the bottom of priorities after going out, watching TV, playing on the internet, drinking alcohol, etc.

                            You make a point of eating even when it means you'll be late, which is unusual I reckon: I just eat when I can and otherwise don't eat at all in the evenings. Life's too short...

                            TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 11:54 | X
                            • i eat three meals a day

                              but not brekkie :|

                              breakfast is lunch

                              lunch is dinner

                              dinner is a late night meal.

                              moodiejg @TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 11:55 | X
                            • Theo, this may

                              be a first, but I agree with you on your last two paragraphs.

                              bamos @TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 11:57 | X
                              • I'll keep an eye out for the four horsemen, then

                                I don't smell brimstone yet so I think we're okay. For now.

                                TheoGB @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 12:07 | X
                              • I usually eat dinner

                                It's just I rarely cook dinner or if I do, it's rarely more than a heated tin of something.

                                'Classic' dinners:
                                3 pints of Guinness
                                2 veggie sausage rolls from the Cornish Pasty shop
                                A box of Viennese Whirls/other cakes
                                A packet of dolly mixtures
                                Fresh pasta (only 2 mins cooking y'see) and a pre-made sauce with some cheese on top.
                                Tin o' Baxter's soup
                                Baked beans with some grilled burger (usually burned as I get distracted before it's done.)

                                TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 16 Feb '07, 12:32 | X
                                • Yes, obviously

                                  TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 16 Feb '07, 12:46 | X
                                • ..

                                  "I think more people have dinner than they do breakfast"

                                  this is almost certainly true

                                  JacobJones @Jack_El_Biscuit | 16 Feb '07, 12:59 | X
                                • Below going out, yeah

                                  I'm not sure the internet features *that* highly though. I can't agree with Theo on every detail. I'd have to hurt myself.

                                  bamos @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:20 | X
                                • it sounds mad to me

                                  but I suppose that's because (and i know this sounds a bit sad) but for me and maybe you and the others planning, cooking and eating dinner is actually part of my evening's entertainment.

                                  It's a social thing too, sitting down and eating dinner togtether means you talk without distractions like TVs and all...

                                  Slicky @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:21 | X
                                  • i would be better at

                                    eating proper meals if i could completely destroy the 'social' element.

                                    which is basically having to try to have banal conversations with dickhead housemates ...

                                    but i try not to ever go out without going home and eating something first but not everyone has a 3 minute commute, like i do.

                                    JacobJones @Slicky | 16 Feb '07, 12:37 | X
                                • that's so odd

                                  going on the internet??!!

                                  nice_squirrel @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:27 | X
                                  • It's Theo

                                    bamos @nice_squirrel | 16 Feb '07, 12:27 | X
                                  • It's a bit rich from the girl

                                    who used to post at 3am on a 'school night' on here after saying about 11pm she was off to bed. :-p

                                    TheoGB @nice_squirrel | 16 Feb '07, 12:37 | X
                                    • i remember 'school nights'

                                      it's nice to have 'uni nights' instead

                                      ex_cynic @TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 19:16 | X
                                • Well, I was really just talking about all kinds of things to do

                                  Cooking means thinking about ingredients, getting them, spending ages putting stuff together and then finally (and those who've seen me eat know what I'm like) wolfing it down in about 2 minutes. (And making loads of mess.)

                                  If I had a company and a conversation while I was doing it then it's not so bad, or a good radio show etc.

                                  But essentially I only need food for survival so often I'll just be sat here, chatting to you good folks, burning CDs, check some other stuff and then realise I'm a bit hungry. Either that goes away or I just grab something really quick and easy from the shop.

                                  TheoGB @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:29 | X
                                  • But going home to cook

                                    before going out does take time. Going straight to the pub and maybe grabbing a pastie on the way if you're feeling flush doesn't :)

                                    bamos @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:41 | X
                                    • ^

                                      Him right. I'd agree that you should eat something before going out, but a pastie's fine.

                                      colonol_k @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 13:00 | X
                                  • Well that's not cooking

                                    that's just putting together a bunch of food.

                                    I've done that too. I usually call such things a sandwich or something. Anyway, what you describe doesn't sound much like an evening meal.

                                    The fact that I don't eat fish or meat obviously means I'm not about to try that out.

                                    TheoGB @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:47 | X
                                    • tuna steak + salad sounds like a meal to me

                                      i dread to think what you have for dinner.

                                      shadyadie @TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 18:59 | X
                                    • putting together a bunch of food

                                      so what do you think cooking is, then? fuckssake theo!

                                      ex_cynic @TheoGB | 16 Feb '07, 19:16 | X
                                  • tuna steaks

                                    are pretty expensive though, aren't they?

                                    really though ... if you can make a meal in 30 minutes or less then it's no excuse to say it takes ages. Even if it only takes you 5 minutes to eat it, that means you've spent 35 minutes on an evening meal. Which isn't much.

                                    JacobJones @honorary_welsh_steph | 16 Feb '07, 12:49 | X
                                  • It's very rair that I can stomach anything first thing in the morning

                                    but I'll often have a banana or something around mid-morning ish.

                                    Lunch will be a sanwich type thing, then a cooked meal from scratch at tea-time (made your bean wraps last nigth, yum!). And often a bit of cereal before bed.

                                    monpot | 16 Feb '07, 11:54 | X
                                  • good one fatty

                                    nah, i do that too
                                    it 'impresses people'

                                    -Raz- | 16 Feb '07, 12:05 | X
                                    • *swoon*

                                      I'm impressed, and not just because Raz eats breakfast.

                                      yo_soy_welshmun @-Raz- | 16 Feb '07, 12:30 | X
                                  • i get chest pains

                                    when i skip breakfast :(

                                    Smigs | 16 Feb '07, 12:32 | X
                                  • I EAT

                                    In the week I eat porridge every morning, a big salad at lunch and then usually some kind of dinner, but this can got dropped in favour of booze.

                                    At the weekend I'll eat a BIG brunch at about 1 and then snack before consuming more BOOOZE.

                                    I eat quite a lot of sweets too.

                                    smilingcrazylady | 16 Feb '07, 12:57 | X
                                    • Your first paragraph reads like Barry Bethel

                                      yo_soy_welshmun @smilingcrazylady | 16 Feb '07, 12:59 | X
                                    • i would eat

                                      porridge but it's a painf in the arse.

                                      today, i had one + a half bowls of rice crispies and two bagels. i think it was too much.

                                      JacobJones @smilingcrazylady | 16 Feb '07, 13:01 | X
                                      • and 4 coffees

                                        JacobJones @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 13:01 | X
                                      • My work canteen makes it

                                        so that's nice, I don't cook anything, ever. I'm very lazy, I want food to be instant. Fortunately, nice people cook for me occasionally, and other houmous, raw veg and hallumi and pitta are nice.

                                        smilingcrazylady @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 13:09 | X
                                      • How is porridge a pain to make?

                                        Oats in a bowl. Add milk. Microwave for 2 minutes. Stir. Add more milk if it looks a bit dry. Microwave it 2 more minutes. Add stuff. Eat.

                                        monpot @JacobJones | 16 Feb '07, 13:30 | X
                                        • I'm exhausted just reading

                                          those instructions, frankly.

                                          bamos @monpot | 16 Feb '07, 13:32 | X
                                        • yes but

                                          remember who you're replying to.

                                          shadyadie @monpot | 16 Feb '07, 19:02 | X
                                    • It shows

                                      Mr_JDTraynor @smilingcrazylady | 16 Feb '07, 19:04 | X
                                  • hello, I'm an avowed breakfast misser

                                    and have been so for the last four years. This isn't a conscious thing; at uni it's because I generally don't get up until about eleven. I don't feel bad about this; it seems a good a method as any to keeping my weight down, and I've done it for so long now that I can easily go without eating all day, including going to work/lectures etc.

                                    I like eating, I just think it's silly to box it into particular times of the day. I'm sure this'll change as I get older, though.

                                    Parsefone | 16 Feb '07, 13:12 | X
                                  • This is a London thing

                                    but you're not from London so you still have some normality.

                                    Mr_JDTraynor | 16 Feb '07, 13:16 | X
                                    • Everyone in London is THE SAMEE!!!!

                                      Apart from you Sophie, because I fancy you a little bit.

                                      Kind regards

                                      John T Weirdatron

                                      bamos @Mr_JDTraynor | 16 Feb '07, 13:17 | X
                                      • Bloody Londoners

                                        Skipping meals, just so they can swan around on the Millenium Ferris Wheel.

                                        monpot @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 13:32 | X
                                        • I sometimes

                                          miss my lunch, purely because I'm so busy counting my money that I just lose track of the time!!

                                          bamos @monpot | 16 Feb '07, 13:33 | X
                                          • I thought you Londoners

                                            had napkins, sorry i mean 'serviettes', made out of £50 notes?

                                            monpot @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 13:34 | X
                                            • I had some £100 notes

                                              specially commissioned purely to use as toilet paper. Many, they chaffed, but it was worth it, just to see all of that money go down the drain.

                                              bamos @monpot | 16 Feb '07, 13:42 | X
                                              • oh, you guys

                                                <3

                                                ex_cynic @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 19:05 | X
                                            • no.

                                              my serviettes are made only out of legal tender.

                                              shadyadie @monpot | 16 Feb '07, 19:03 | X
                                      • Hmmm

                                        Mr_JDTraynor @bamos | 16 Feb '07, 19:04 | X
                                        • I cook a lot

                                          Because I enjoy it.

                                          And I love food, so I eat a lot of it.

                                          I'm not a big breakfast fan though. I tend to just pick up a croissant or something on the way to work if I'm feeling peckish.

                                          fionapinkstars | 16 Feb '07, 13:29 | X
                                          • that's still breakfast

                                            :-P

                                            shadyadie @fionapinkstars | 16 Feb '07, 19:04 | X
                                            • Of course it is.

                                              I just said I wasn't it's biggest fan, and it doesn't happen with any regularity.

                                              fionapinkstars @shadyadie | 16 Feb '07, 19:12 | X
                                        • i cooked a pie for the first time

                                          the other day, i dont cook, ever. i also tend to eat the same stuff every day, usually only have 1 meal a day.

                                          sharp_yet_blunt | 16 Feb '07, 19:05 | X
                                          • i like cooking

                                            but i only know how to cook things that either a) take hours b) involve lots of grease and chilli.

                                            a lot of the time i will end up eating a massive portion of one meal a day, which isn't exactly the best idea in the world.

                                            i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 16 Feb '07, 19:28 | X
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