What do you eat? How do you eat?

In the summer when the garden is coming in we eat a lot of green beans. Fact is we eat a lot of green beans all the time as I am allergic to field peas. Green beans are also healthier for diabetics.

We eat chicken, turkey and fish for meats. Rarely, we have a steak. We never have pork (another allergy) here at home.

Winter time finds us eating dried beans of various types. We eat rice a good bit although in the last few months we have changed from white rice to the brown rice because the brown rice is supposed to be healthier. We hardly ever eat potatoes unless we have a sweet potato.

I make our bread most of the time but when we buy bread we buy the 7 gram wheat.

We don't eat a regular breakfast. Sometimes I make breakfast but a lot of the times I will have a banana or a piece of fruit. Hubby has a peanut butter/banana sandwich. For lunch we have sandwiches most of the time with a piece of fruit or I will have a salad.

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Dh does not eat breakfast much in the mornings during the summer, fall-spring it's oatmeal. If there are bananas and apples he will take one with him.

He eats lunch out right now because he never knows where he's going to be.

I usually eat lunch in either leftovers or a sandwich. During the summer months I live on berries and fruit.

Dinner in the summer is light. Sometimes roasted veggies from the garden/farmer's market over pasta. We don't always eat meat during the summer but do love stirfries and salads with veggies. We do grill out on occasion and I do steaks or burgers. We love Blts hold the lettuce. In the winter I like to do stews and crockpot meals using the veggies from the freezer that are from my garden or the farmer's market. We also like tacos and enchiladas, I serve those with a black bean salad/salsa type side dish.

We are cutting down on dinner because it's just us and maybe my sister during the week. I also try to take a dinner over to my mom on occasion, she and I plus my dsis are eating together on Thursday nights.

Breakfast here is French Toast (made with raisin bread) once a week, biscuits with eggs and hashbrowns once or twice a week, omelets at least once a week and cereal with fruit the other times. I usually alternate cereal mornings with cooked meal mornings.

Hubby takes leftovers to work for his lunch. I always include a cup of fruit or fresh raw veggies (cucumbers or tomatoes right now) in his lunch, along with a dessert and a container of tea or a canned Diet Coke. I just snack and don't usually eat a "real" meal for lunch. Depends on what's in the fridge or in the garden.

Supper is the one meal I cook, but that also depends on what time hubby gets home from work. He doesn't work regular 9-5 hours. Some nights he doesn't get home until after midnight and on "early" nights he's home at 10:30. Late nights are usually a pizza or sandwiches (BLTs in the summer). Early nights are meat and veggie nights. We like to grill out too and usually do that on his weekends.

I find myself cooking less and less prepackaged foods as I am trying to change our eating habits. I want to eliminate high fructose corn syrup from our diets completely, plus I am no longer purchasing products from certain companies for various reasons. We are trying to produce more and more of our own foods (it's a slow process) and I find that by doing so we are eating healthier. My kids are grown and are very interested in the changes I'm making and are working on following my lead.

I am buying more and more foodstuffs from Amazon.com. Their selection of organic products is good and I find that buying in bulk is quite handy. I enjoy sharing it with my kids and they are grateful to receive the stuff I pass on to them. My bi-monthly staples from the grocery store are: wholewheat bread, mushrooms, salad mix, organic milk, butter, bananas, vinegar and ice cream. That's about all I buy at the grocery store now, unless I have a really good coupon for something and buy it as a treat.

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Breakfast....everything from a cup of coffee and a biscuit to cold cereal, but not overly heavy, except...when I'm off, and doing hard, physical labor such as cutting firewood, it's eggs, grits biscuits and smoked deer sausage, or the equivalent.

Lunch? Generally just a sandwich, or thereabouts.

Supper? It's our main cooked meal of the day. Usually a meat of some kind, cornbread or biscuits, and fresh vegetables from whatever's growing in the garden, anything from snap beans to mustard greens...I like my vegetables, so it's usually more than one. And if we're lucky, the wife will have desert of some kind cooked. Maybe a banana pudding, a cake or a blackberry cobbler...whatever she's in the mood for...

Shopping List: 50# sack quick oats, lots of canned beans, chicken noodle soup, cottage cheese, Cabot cheese, 1/2 & 1/2, hamburger, chicken, steaks, red salmon, broccoli, salad greens, zucchini, frozen peas, stir-fry vegies, fruits (apples, bananas, pears, oranges, and nectarines), frozen pizza, jasmine rice, watermelon when in season, odds and ends.

Breakfast: kids have oatmeal with applesauce or syrup, I have scrambled eggs.
Snack: Sailor Boy Pilot Bread with Spiced Apple Butter or fruits
Lunch: sandwiches and soup, chicken nuggets, burgers, or fish sticks.
Snack: apple or baby carrots
Dinner: salad, green veggies, meat, and probably rice. (New England Boiled Dinner or Red Curry with rice or Chili Con Carne or Ricotta and Spinach Stuffed Shells or Broccoli and cheddar quiche or homemade whole wheat pizza)

I really try to make healthy food for everyone. It is a challenge getting the kids to eat what my husband and I like. They think everything that is not rice is spicy. I get the frozen pizzas for when I'm just too exhausted to make dinner. I ask my hubby to go pick one out. It is his FAVORITE. If we wern't married he would live on pizza.

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We shop at the resturant service store once a month and about every time we go we get 1 or 2- 50 pound bags of flour, oatmeal, raw sugar, brown rice, potatoes, beans, ect.. Which ever we can use.
Yeast by 2 pound bag and salt in 25 pound bags.
Then I'll go to the #10 can aisle and get what ever is on sale. Pine apple, cheese, salsa,, condiments ect. If it's a really good sale and I think we can use it I'll buy a case of 6 cans.
In gallon jugs, we get salad dressing, mayo, mustard, bbq sause, vinegar, cooking oil.
We will buy a few fresh veggies and fruit in the winter, but our garden provides canned for the winter and fresh for the summer.
In the dairy section we buy 5 doz eggs, 1/2 gallon cartons of cottage cheese, yogurt by the 6 count case of quarts, half and half and butter milk. Several pounds of butter.
In the meat locker we buy bulk meat, what ever is on sale. If it is a good sale I'll buy several bulk pks. We have to cut these into portions so we grind the scraps for hamburger meat.
during the summer we eat alot of cold meals, but during the winter we eat soups, stew, casaroles ect. and a big slice of home made bread. home made pizza is our favorite on baking day.
We have to eat whole grain because of dh's diabetis, so I order whole wheat noodles from azure standard, or if we have time DH makes home made for us. My spices and flavored teas I get there also.
We've been buying our coffee at the dent and ding store.
We get 25 pound bags of lentles, split peas, and pearl barley from the distributor in Spokane for $5 a bag.

My list o' food would include rice, olive oil, lemon juice (for lemonade & cheese) angel hair spaghetti, sour cream, sugar/honey, coffee, shiro miso, seasoned Ry-Krisp, Ovaltine, canned tuna, & tea. The homegrown staples are produce, dry beans, eggs, venison, chicken, milk & cheese.

Didn't go deer hunting last fall so I don't have any red meat. I'm too cheap to buy steak or hamburger, but I'll sometimes get a pack of kosher hot dogs.

I live by myself, so I can eat whatever pleases me whenever I'm hungry. Some days I'm just not hungry and some days I eat 7 meals. If I find something I like, I'll eat it every day until I find something else. I've been on an Asian food kick lately. Breakfast is Japanese, a bowl of rice with chopped up dill pickles and goat cheese, miso, and green tea. Supper has been curry made of peas, tomatoes & goat cheese, with a pint jar of goat milk to drink.

Lunch was half a jar of store-bought goat milk caramel. MMMM Cajeta!

I'll cook up a large amount of rice at once, but I try to make only what I'll eat in one sitting. Leftovers tend to go to the back of the fridge and sit there until they're so toxic I throw them out, container & all.

I'm sorry to say I have low resistance to fast food. There's usually a Whopper Jr. or a Taco Bell goodie in every trip to town.

Normally, I eat just one meal a day - dinner in the evening. It's almost always home-cooked, usually meat-and-veges in some form or another, or a pasta dish with salad. Sometimes, when lazy, it might be eggs on toast, or a sandwich of some kind. I eat a lot of fruit during the day. Occasionally I'll make some toast for breakfast, or toast a crumpet and put lashings of golden syrup on it. Very naughty.

Normally I don't have leftovers. After decades of cooking, I've learned to judge quantities to perfection. But sometimes I make extra and freeze it.

I've been very ill for the last couple of months, and the pills I'm on have given me a ravenous appetite - side effect. So I'm having Meals on Wheels which is delivered about 11am each day, and I eat it then. It comes with a dessert, and a salad which I eat in the evening. Took a bit of getting used to a hot meal in the late morning!

I'm often up at ungodly hours absolutely starving, so I'll make some toast and tea and have it then. If I don't watch out, I'll end up like the side of a barn! I've gone off fruit altogether - partly because I'm not mobile and can't do any shopping. I've got a Thing for ice cream lately, too.

Neither one of us eat breakfast except on the weekends. During the week, we both just have coffee. But weekends will have bacon, eggs, toast, & baked beans or omelets.

Lunch, Oz will usually eat leftovers from the previous evenings dinner. If I'm being a really good girl, I'll pack leftovers or a sandwich and take to work. This doesn't happen very often! So, I either grab something out or skip lunch all together.

Dinner is home cooked most nights. We don't get take out very often. We eat a lot of chicken. We don't raise them, we just really like chicken. Every Friday is seafood night though. Whether it's fish and chips, or shrimp and grits, whatever.......it's something seafood. Usually dinner does involve a meat, a starch and a veggie (or 2). Right now veggie-wise, tomatoes and okra are a biggie, we love steamed cabbage, and we love carrots. Unfortunately, nothing comes out of our garden because this is the 2nd season we haven't had one. Last year we took a trip to England so I couldn't have one and this year we're trying to get the house ready to sell and most buyers would rather see flowers than veggies!

Desserts......well, right now we've got ice cream in the house. But I will usually bake brownies or cookies and have around for desserts.

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I eat when I am hungry
I try to keep my total calorie intake below 1000 a day, but it isnt a radial rule.... just a line in the sand I try not to cross.
I pick fat over carbs if I have a choice
Avoid refined sugar as much as possible

but all those rules are not do or die thing... just a nagging thought to heed when I can.

what d I eat... anyting that I can find that fits my idea of an acceptable choice.

Sometimes I cook, often i live out of tin cans.

I'm not real picky. food is food.

but mayonnaise is not food..... no way no how.

Breakfast is usually whatever we can grab. Cereal (hot or cold), fresh fruit and yogurt, or toast . Ocassionally I'll get enough sleep where I'll be up to actually cooking breakfast. on those days it may be pancakes and bacon or biscuits and gravy.

Lunch is normally either soup or a sandwich with some sort of salad. OR on hot days just a salad.

Supper again ranges on how busy or tired I am. On bad days admittedly I'll rely on one skillet meals like hamburger helper or fajitas. However most of the time I try to get a pretty rounded out meal on the table.

I guess I'm the everything in moderation type of mother. I try not to rely on "boxed suppers" too much but I won't snub them either. I have to say though, that is one reason I LOOOOVE my slow cookers. When I KNOW I'm up for a hectic day I can plan on a roast, smoked picnic, chilli/stew, etc to give me that home cooked meal without trying to find the time to stop and actually cook. I just get the stuff ready at night. throw it in the pot when I wake up, and let it go.

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Breakfast:
DH- coffee and a frozen breakfast sandwich (grab and go)
Me- coffee
Kids- The older two help the younger two get breakfast in the morning, so it is usually cereal, yogurt, fruit, toast...easy things, but pretty healthy.

Snack at school: the school has regulations about what can be served, so whoever brings snack that day has to make sure it fits.

Lunch: I have to pack lunches for school (and we have summer school here, so this is all year long). I make sure they have a protein source, carb, veggie, fruit and dairy. Today for example was leftovers from dinner last night. Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, stir fried snap peas, raw carrot, apple and juice. (All three kids got different veggies based on what they would eat, and what we had left. they were happy.)

Dinner:
Monday- Mom cooks something fairly elaborate
Tuesday- Dad is at school late, so Mom and kids have "breakfast for dinner"
(pancakes, eggs, fruit for dessert is a favorite)
Wednesday- Mom cooks something fairly elaborate
Thursday- Dad usually orders a pizza
Friday- Mom cooks something "fun" for the kids
Weekends- depends on how hectic our plans are.

As far as leftovers go, they are either re-used as-is for lunch the next day, or if we have enough for dinner, I will turn it into something else. DH *hates* leftovers, so I must disguise them or he will complain.

Forgive me....

I was reading the thread titles and my 9 yodd walked up, looked over my shoulder and read the title of this thread, then replied:

DUH, I eat food with my mouth.

What a coincidence. Our family had read the Time article about what people eat in the world for a week so we made up our own photo and list. One hard thing was what we eat is extremely seasonal but we tried to adjust for that.

The biggest category we buy is dairy, primarily milk followed by cheese, yogurt, butter, etc. Someday I will get a cow, or goats.

We eat a lot of fresh veggies in the months they're available from our garden, less fresh ones in the winter when we switch to canned ones until we run out. Then it is store bought. Most of the stuff we can is in the form of soups and stews. Quick ready to eat meals - very filling and warming during the cold months.

We drink a lot of mint tea, since that is one we harvest ourselves - cold in the summer, hot in the winter. We also love hot chocolate in the cold months.

Pasta, rice and potatoes are a big thing on our list. The potatoes we grow ourselves but rice, flour for bread and pasta we buy.

We eat a _lot_ of tomatoes most of which we grow but some of which we can. We tend to run out of fresh tomatoes in early January (they're looking pretty leathery by then) and the canned ones run out in the spring.

Olives are something we dearly love and we cook a lot with olive oil and garlic - vampires beware!

Most of the meat, maybe 99%, is pork from our pigs or chicken from our flock along with the occasional mutton, especially in soup or stew. The livestock also provides most of the food for our dogs - they share in the harvest.

That's sort of the top of the list. See my A Week of Food post on my blog for the full list.


Breakfast is cereal, hot in the winter, cold in the summer, or pancakes or waffles or eggs.

Lunch is hot during the winter, usually soup, cold during the summer, usually veggies, cheese, fruit, salad, bread or sandwiches. Often it is leftovers either hot or cold depending on the weather.

Supper is usually hot, soup, stew, meat dish, etc except in the hottest weather when we'll have something like lunch or cold cereal.

We aim for left overs. Ham or turkey might get eaten for a week in various dishes after the main meal. Omelets, sandwiches and then the bones to soup.

Yes. And often we'll make up 30 meals ahead of time like stew, chili, soup, etc and can them. It saves a lot of time - just pour it out in a big bowl, add water and heat in the microwave or on the burner. Generally we'll make corn bread, muffins or biscuits to go with the made meal. We premake our own mix, saves money and means we control the ingredients. We keep the mixes in 1 gallon pickle jars so making up quick breads is extra fast.

Cheers

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in the mountains of Vermont
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Breakfast is usually our biggest meal, but if we skimp on breakfast, then we have a huge supper

For breakfast:

bacon/ham/sausage, eggs, toast, butter, jelly, juice -or-
oatmeal & toast -or-
cold cereal with goat milk
biscuits & gravy
omelets (I like the omelet in a ziplock baggie)


Dinner:
soup & sandwich, sandwiches are sometimes BLT, PB & jelly, or applebutter
soup is usually something like beef stew, chicken noodle, or vegetable.


Supper:

meat, potatoes, and a veggie, usually with some type of bread. (leftover veggies are saved to make veggie soup later)
sometimes a single dish meal like SOS, beef stew, chicken & dumplings, etc.


I can most of the leftovers so I have a lot of ready to eat meals on the shelf.

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I plan for leftovers, too. It makes me feel better that a lot of other people eat leftovers for lunch!

We eat quite a bit of rice. My grandma was Filipino and I could eat rice 3 times a day. I know it isn't as healthy, but I eat white jasmine rice most of the time. Pasta dishes and soups are next on the frequency list.

I usually have a double shot latte for breakfast and nothing else, or perhaps a piece of fruit. By lunchtime, a piece of fruit and maybe a granola bar or leftovers. By afternoon I start nibbling and grazing on stuff...chocolate, fruit, maybe a juice popsicle or a veggie. Dinner is typically the only meal cooked from scratch and made hot and fresh. Usually it's a one meal thing or rice or pasta with a sauce such as curried chicken, tomato curry, or chili, chicken adobo, or a soup without the starches. We don't eat very much meat. It's expensive and store meat kind of creeps me out. When we do eat meat, it's usually part of a dish rather than the main feature- hamburger in a stroganoff sauce with mushrooms rather than hamburger patties.

I'm trying to be more vigilant about breakfast for the kids. I used to just tell them where the fruit was or that they could have cold cereal (expensive and a box is always gone within the day I buy it). Sometimes I fried eggs for them or boiled a whole passel of eggs and kept them in the fridge to eat on demand. Yesterday I cooked a nice pot of amaranth as a hot cereal and they wouldn't touch the stuff. Today they got oatmeal.

We usually have a variety of foods that are OK to eat whenever the urge strikes them: salad, baby carrots, fruit (can ya telll we eat lots of fruit?), leftovers, peanut butter and bread for sandwiches, pancake mix, yogurt. I also try to make cold stuff such as a nice pasta salad that is more fulling but can be whittled away on for 3-5 days until gone. Sometimes this backfires. I made a nice big pot of gazpacho a month ago and it turned out I had to eat the entire thing myself....it was good, but geez, I didn't want a whole pot of it!

We eat mostly 'Southern Country'..If dh is home (works away), we eat very well--he is a big eater and wants meat at every meal! We have our own garden we have peas,okra,beans,corn, squash, watermelon,pumpkins and many many tomatoes!--I freeze and can most of our veggies. We have our own beef,chicken, fish (freezers are full). I have a small vineyard and make all the grape juice,jelly and jam we would ever need.. A nice orchard- Most years we have peaches, apples, blueberries, blackberries, plums, pears, figs-for preserving in one way or the other for winter. I have several nut trees that are just now starting to bear!! I have honeybees and have bartered honey for organic eggs, homemade pasta and bread. If it's just me I don't eat breakfast-tea is good for me.. Lunch is a quick bit--sandwich or fresh veggies and friut. Dinner is usually veggies, tea and fruit..I like meat but get tired of it...QB

I eat 3 eggs for breakfast, occasionally oatmeat instead, very little cold cereal (way too expensive and we rarely drink milk)
(side note: Cheerios need to be UN-invented)
We grow our own eggs and butcher chickens. We buy lean hamburger at the local locker. Most of the stuff we buy in bulk is veggies - broccoli, corn, peas, ocra. We also east very little pasta (we have sphagetti once a month). Cheese is another thing we buy. Not many "boxed" or "canned" stuff.
We eat according to God's food Laws in the Bible, so no dead pig or seafood, etc.