Silly: what’s your “eating style”?

[zauberflote]

I’m sitting here 2 hr after my breakfast started, having just finished the solid food and just begun the coffee part. BG was reflective of this just now.
So my meals tend to be working meals. Bfast I’m feeding the cats, doing various housework/business management/possible damage control of family member. Or, on the road to someplace.
Lunch is only sometimes a sit-down meal, either playing here on forum or paying bills etc. Other times it’s exactly as breakfast. Right, feeding cats too.
Supper is feeding cats (yes these are special diet cats <eyeroll>), and sometimes sitting down. That may be sitting in the car driving to work, or may be pure exhaustion with feet up.
Mr ZF and I never sit down together for supper any more: I eat at 6:00 and he eats between 9:00 and 10:30, depending on when he got home from office or swim.
All the meals take a good long time, can be hours, to eat. I won’t gobble, and food needs chewed! I try to do the “in the moment” thing that maybe @Emma_369 has mentioned.
What do others do (if you want to play this game!)?
Edit to remove pic that wasn’t going to show. A busy coffee mug, nothing exciting.

 

[Goonergal]

I’ll play.

Weekdays, lunch (if I have it) will be one of 3 styles - wolfed down at my desk as I try to get work done; sat on the sofa in the work kitchen browsing the forum or at one of a couple of local eateries I frequent, Jack’s cafe or Nando’s. If time any of the 3 styles may be preceded or followed by a walk. If I’m not eating a walk is definitely on the agenda.

Dinner is almost always at home and almost always as soon as I get in. Quick and simple meals that don’t require hours in the kitchen after a long day at work.

Weekends are generally OMAD days. Big evening meal to end (usually) active days. Usually beef short rib or lamb with garlic and rosemary.

Unlike you @zauberflote my meals are usually quick and wolfed down!

 

[Rachox]

I try to concentrate on my meals and appreciate each mouthful these days. I try not to be distracted by my iPad or phone notifications whilst eating, though I will perhaps watch the TV. These days I am also very aware if I’m not enjoying something for whatever reason, I leave it rather than eating it anyway. I also don’t ‘mop up’ any sauce of gravy left (no bread to do this anyway!), as these are often where the carbs are in a dinner, I just eat the solid food.

 

[Chook]

In my house breakfast and dinner has always been eaten sitting at the kitchen table - lunch is different - usually just a snack (usually just a smallish chunk of cheese) eaten at my desk, out in the garden, sitting on the sofa or in the car.

Mr C does shift work so we both like to have one meal together each day which, at the momentt, is usually breakfast. Even though on weekdays i usually eat dinner alone its impossible to eat from a tray watching TV as I've got three big dogs who like to sit upright staring at me and drooling while I eat. If I sit at the table they just ignore me.

 

[zauberflote]

@Goonergal yeah, there are advantages to having a traditional workplace! So much of my work besides the actual playing part happens at home: arranging programs, finding and buying music, calls and texts and emails, so I can eat until I have to brush teeth and get down to work work. My meals ought to be quicker, but there is only so fast you can eat celery!
@Rachox yours is a style I’d like someday! I do “mop up the sauce” ... by tipping the bowl into my mouth. It’s just olive oil and veggie juice anyway. Don’t waste the vitamins
@Chook you are a better wife than I! Mr ZF eats cereal on his own regular schedule, which is “get to the office asap!” while making his lunch and answering his phone and getting dressed etc. We are usually in the kitchen together, at least! We often have to lock the cats out if we’re watching a movie and he’s eating. We have an unbelievably aggressive cat who will strike like a snake and take a whole burger, or piece of bread or cheese off your plate or, one time, right out of my mouth!! It would be cute if it hadn’t been going on for so many years! And if I’m eating while doing admin work or relaxing, I lock myself into my practise room. When the kids were growing up, when Dad got home from work at 6:55, Mom walked out the door to work. We did have good table meals often enough to make it the usual MO for the kids.

 

[Bluetit1802]

We are very traditional. All 3 meals are at the table, set properly, sitting comfortably. No phones allowed but we do like to watch the TV at lunch time for the news, and also in the evenings. Tonight we will be watching Crufts. However, the TV doesn't stop us talking to each other. Then we sit and relax after we finish eating to let our food digest. When I was working (centuries ago) I ate my lunch at my desk or in the canteen, but no work in front of me, computer off, pleasant conversation. I made sure I took my full lunch break. Never had any meal on the go. It would never occur to me. It has always been a family thing and was the way we were both brought up back in the dark ages.

 

[zauberflote]

Yeah, @Bluetit1802 I was brought up with supper en famille until my dad became a small business owner, and Saturday and Sunday lunches en famille until we got to be teenagers and had lives! Breakfast was sitting down for kids, but no parents. One already gone or on his way out, and Mom doing kitchen stuff. And taking care of the baby... but I was a teen by then.
Mr ZF and I have so rarely watched network tv that it’s not funny. I was brought up with no tv in house, and now there’s Netflix and Amazon Prime to keep us happy. Our tv isn’t even set up to get regular programming.
Before our schedules so widely diverged, we’d sit and talk and fall asleep and say what our dreams were, but then his swimming window changed when *he* became a small business owner! Can’t win fer losin’ around here. Since my symphony job required work most weeknights and every weekend, we just sucked it up and got used to tag team parenting.

 

[Brunneria]

My preference is to forget about food until hunger strikes, prep it quickly, eat it with pleasure, then get on with other stuff.

This means that I usually skip breakfast, eat a v quick lunch of leftovers or fridge grabbings (or skip lunch too) and then have a sit down relished evening meal. We don’t have a dining table (we allowed the computers to consume the dining room), so unless we sit in the garden at the table out there, I am at my desk or on the sofa.

Mr B does some pretty variable and extreme shifts, so I make sure there are meals always quickly available, whether he needs them at 4am (breakfast), 5pm (lunch) or 2am (supper). The only time we sit together at a table, chatting over food, is when we eat out, which is usually a couple of times a week. I find it amusing that we spend more time together walking the dogs, than sharing meals.

I also see life as too short for kitchen slavery. Almost all my cooking is batch cooking with portions left over for the fridge or the freezer.

The dogs eat twice a day, breakfast without me, or supper at the same time I eat.

 

[Emma_369]

My breakfast is usually always a protein bar as I can grab it and eat either whilst getting ready, do it the school run or when I get to work.
Lunch in the week, when I can be bothered does also tend to be grab and go. The meat counter has become my go to although it does get so repetitive. Always eat at my desk though - work never stops when you’re in charge
In general I therefore like a sit down meal for dinner. Evening is the only time of day the three of us are together as a family and I value that greatly. We cook together in the kitchen, music playing to educate Ellie in the old as well as the new. Swimming so much at the minute is making me cook for them and then warm mine up later but hoping in time to get that balance right too

 

[Diakat]

Weekdays, breakfast if I have it is around 6.30 in peace before waking child. I sit on the sofa.Husband does not eat weekday breakfast.
Lunch at work. Can be at desk or in staff kitchen.
Dinner around 7.30 or 8. Sometimes at table, sometimes not. Mostly together as family.
Weekends - usually there is a Sunday dinner at the table otherwise anything goes!

 

[Caeseji]

Ooooooh well breakfast is usually sipping my coffee with cream before work and showing my family cat pictures I find online.
Lunch (If I eat it) is usually at my desk and an assortment of easily snacked on veggies and meat whilst I try to get the insanity of artwork together or poke at the website till something breaks or someone else has broke something.
Dinner is always with the family at around 6pm and is almost always face down in my latest keto endeavor.
Weekends going more towards OMAD now, a big ol' meal with the family unless they tempt me at lunch with bacon and egg...

 

[lovinglife]

Breakfast at the kitchen table on my own - I try to get 30 minutes to myself before son gets up

Lunch and dinner both at the dining room table with table set, my son does use his iPad whilst we chat but that's to do with direct chat being to intense for him, he does read out the news and we discuss it - I really enjoy my meal times because of the interaction - I don't snack but if I do I sit at the kitchen table so I'm aware of what I'm eating- never in front of the TV these days

 

[PenguinMum]

I am just grateful I wasnt diagnosed when my children were little because I think it would have been so much more challenging. Now theres usually just the two of us but OH works 12 hour days so we like to catch up over supper but thats about 8pm.. This doesnt help my FBG the next day I am sure. Also I try to fit in with my OH fave meals as much as possible and adapt for me. However I think I do my best and find half the time we just eat different suppers but at the same time.

 

[zauberflote]

@Brunneria I like the image of computers taking over the dining room...how lovely to eat in the garden!!!
@Emma_369 that is definitely the way to teach a child to love cooking with family and good music! The miles will soon be finished, and then you will turn into Mr ZF lol night swims only.
@Diakat all I can say about having a child that sleeps past when you want to is, you should probably write a how-to book! Or is this a teen and the school schedule doesn’t require them to catch the bus at 0645?
@Caeseji and the cat is interested more in the computer than the creeeeammm?
@lovinglife I feel So Lucky that small powerful smart devices didn’t come along when my kids were still at the table. What a whole nother set of battles, eh? But your DS iPad use is completely legit. My son with conversational difficulties finally got the hang of hogging the discussion by inserting random things that were important to him. <eyeroll>
@PenguinMum I know, dx with young kids must be a killer! Mr ZF has meal loves that I probably have an insulin response of some sort just shopping for! And these were my fave meals too! Never the twain shall meet unless by some weird chance he bucks his entire genetic heritage and gets T2...
This is fun! Thanks for playing along y’all!

 

[DCUKMod]

For us, there's always at least one cup of tea in bed in the mornign, whilst we wake up and catch up witht he news on TV.

Breakfast and dinner are always together, sitting at the table; properly set, with no distractions. This is when we talk, about anything and everything, but at dinner it tends to be about our days, and what we've been up to.

Lunch, if we decide to have it, will also be at the table, but that can be a variable feast. At the moment, in the heat, lunch is rarely happening, unless we ate very lightly the night before or brekkers was particularly early.

I'm very spoiled, not being the main cook at home, so I have a pretty relaxed time of things really.

 

[Debandez]

We have a dining table that is covered in paperwork usually (it's our dining table but doubles up as my office), at the moment. Unless brother in law comes for dinner (once or twice a week) when everything is scooped up and put in cupboard. But I have got negotiating my breakfast around the sea of paper to a fine art as my breakfast is so simple. Coffee and cream or Greek yogurt with a sprinkle of keto muesli. Odd occasion I will have a kipper conveniently microwaved for 4 mins and enjoyed with a cup of tea. I'm my own boss but hubby does a 9 to 5. We have breaky together at the table. My paperwork sometimes reaches his side but he never complains! News or comedy program on TV.

Lunch is often some hot chicken from sainsburys deli counter if I'm out and about. Usually eaten in car park in car! Or eggs of some sort if I'm in.

Dinner I usually cook. Pick hubby up or he walks if weather ok. Only about a 10 min walk and he enjoys it. We would have dinner in our lounge. I have 3 little tables propped up behind the door which we whip out. One each for me and hubby and one ready for our son who works shifts. He rarely has dinner with us because of his shift pattern to be honest. Works from 6pm to 2am mostly. So just me and hubby. Dinner is a very relaxed affair. We put on catch up TV. Homes under the hammer our current fave. Or escape to the chateau. Our guilt pleasure is cruising with Jane Macdonald. Never the news these days as it's far too depressing. Brexit or stabbings! We do eat out quite a lot. With friends or each other. I'm not brilliant in the kitchen so it's a great way of getting decent food! But it can be challenging on the old carb count. We dont have supper.

 

[Diakat]

@zauberflote no book to be written, it is the fluke of genetics, she inherited her father’s night owl tendencies. Hates going to sleep, hates waking up.

 

[Lamont D]

It is so interesting how our individual eating habits have changed for the better in all the posts so far.
But I still can't get my body to do the breakfast, dinner, lunch, supper scenario!
I have changed my dietary intake so much since diagnosis.
Because I have found that my body consistently telling me not to bother with too much food, and with intermittent fasting, which means my window of grazing, is only a few hours each day, I tend to please myself and of course with my hours of work, when I eat.

Looking forward to a few ribs about six p.m., no food since 9p.m.last night!
And I'm not even hungry!

Interesting thread.

 

[Bluetit1802]

Interesting thread.

I agree. I do wonder if it is a generation thing. The 3 meals a day sat round a pre-set table with no distractions is how everyone used to eat, and how those of my generation were brought up. My daughter was also brought up that way, but her adult children (aged 20 and 23) are completely different. They graze, they eat at different times to everyone else, they eat on the hoof, standing up, walking about, wherever they happen to be at the time. They were not brought up to eat this way, but this way has evolved somehow.

 

[DCUKMod]

I agree. I do wonder if it is a generation thing. The 3 meals a day sat round a pre-set table with no distractions is how everyone used to eat, and how those of my generation were brought up. My daughter was also brought up that way, but her adult children (aged 20 and 23) are completely different. They graze, they eat at different times to everyone else, they eat on the hoof, standing up, walking about, wherever they happen to be at the time. They were not brought up to eat this way, but this way has evolved somehow.

It's interesting. We're sort of wedded to the sitting t the table talking thing really.

Of course, we have on the hood, in the car, in front of the TV discussions, but if we're going to discuss anything big, like a planned project, significant purchase of whatever, the kettle seems to go on and we assemble at the breakfast table (usually).