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The five meals I rotate now

Started 19 January 2025 · 15 replies · 170 hearts · read 2.4k times

PietPretoria, ZA · 19 January 2025
1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: The five meals I rotate now

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I would like practical detail rather than encouragement. What people actually do, in what order, and what goes wrong when they get it wrong.

I nearly did not ask because it sounds trivial written down, and it has been the most persistent difficulty of the last six months.

To put the figure in the title beside the rest of it: five. That is the whole of the arithmetic and none of it is an estimate.

No hurry. I have a fortnight before I need to decide anything.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#1

What helped was two things I actually enjoy rather than five things I felt I should eat. The should list never survived a difficult week.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#2

Piet, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

My experience is that this is entirely workable and needs a bit more planning, and the planning is a one-off cost rather than a daily one.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#3

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#4

Gently: nobody needs to justify the shape of their week here, including the members whose weeks have no shape at all.

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MableBolton, UK
#5

The soya question comes up here every few months and my dietitian was completely unbothered, which was a relief after a lot of internet noise.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#6

What I got wrong was relying on things that needed cooking. Everything that has worked is something I can eat without a decision.

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MorayElgin, UK
#7

Gently disagreeing with Nemone, or rather adding the other half of it.

My bloods have been unremarkable throughout, which I attribute mostly to a supplement I was already taking rather than anything clever.

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CloverTotnes, UK
#8

I found the restaurant side harder than the home side. Two constraints at once narrows a menu considerably.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#9

Coming back at two years to say it is completely routine now, that my bloods are fine, and that the planning stopped being work months ago.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#10

Protein without it becoming a chore is the whole problem, and most of the advice assumes a plate I do not eat from.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#11

The thing I would flag is not to let this become a project. Mine did for about two months and it was exhausting and unnecessary.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#12

I keep a note of what actually worked during the difficult fortnights, because from inside a good month I forget entirely.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#13

What helped was one very boring reliable breakfast that I have eaten roughly six hundred times and still do not mind.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#14

Stepping in to say that a household adjusting slowly is not a household failing. Several replies have been quite hard on people who are simply taking time.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#15

Ren — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Something practical: I batch things on a Sunday, which sounds tedious and takes forty minutes and covers most of my week.

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