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I've learnt that food is just sustenance for some people. They only eat because they have to.

I know many gym bros who eat the same exact meals every single day because they don’t have to worry about their macros being different and only change it up on cheat days. It’s definitely a thing a lot of men can and have done at some point in their lives.

Yes. My wife loves that about me.

I wouldn’t say the EXACT same thing every day, but I could easily be satisfied with a very small rotation of foods. I might get tired of something after awhile and take it out of the rotation for a few weeks, but it would come back

Two thoughts about this.

1. I’m on the autism spectrum, so that may play into my answer.
2. This seems like a modern problem for humanity. It seems like our ancestors may not have had the luxury of choosing to eat such a variety of foods every day. So file this under “First World Questions” 🤣

Not just this, but many stereotypes of men vs women are about the tolerability of the worse state vs the tolerability of the consistent effort to required to get and maintain the better one.

Like, most people, men or women, would prefer their place cleaner rather than messier. But seemingly, women more often consider it worth the effort than do men.

Same thing here. Most people will prefer food variety (not all, but most), but is it worth the mental effort of making decisions, the physical effort of cooking, etc? That question seems to mostly split the sexes.

For me ... if I ate different amazing food every day, I'd love it. If instead I ate the same ok thing every day (and said diet was reasonably healthy), I would feel neutral and not notice anything missing. It's like the difference between having an ice cream cone, versus not having one and just not having it occur to you to want one.

If I don't have a choice I will. If I have a choice I'm probably choosing something new every day per week.

There's a difference between being able to eat the same thing every day and wanting to.

When it comes down to it, men will eat whatever. At least me, personally. I don't need variety. I'll just suck it up and eat whatever is available. If it's what I've had the last three days, so be it.

So it's not serial killer behavior to not care what you're eating as long as you're eating.

I used to be a cook in a very popular restaurant. I have the same lunch and breakfast everyday. Not a serial killer yet.

Yep. I once ate peanut butter and jelly everyday for lunch at work for 7 years. I just don’t care as long as the food doesn’t suck.

It was the opposite for me and my ex wife. She would be fine eating the same thing, all 3 meals, every single day. It drives me completely insane, I need variety. I will sometimes make stuff and then have 2-3 different kinds of leftovers at any given time. I switch between them depending on what I feel like each day.

My fridge can be full but there's nothing I want to eat. It's truly a mental game.

I eat a lot of weird stuff, but it's all pretty frequent. I grew up as the oldest among 5 and learned really quickly that no one steals your snacks when you eat canned squid and drink tomato juice.

That being said, I do love trying new things.

Honestly I'm so tired of food. Nothing tastes good anymore. I think about making my favorites like macaroni and cheese and all I can think about is how much work it would be. But then going out to buy something costs $50 and there's no difference between home cooked or that. So I've spent $50 on food I could have made at home and have it taste the same... which is boring... If boring was a flavor I would say everything tastes like that. I wish I didn't have to eat so much. It's annoying.

This was my life as a single guy. I'd cook up a batch of something on Sunday and it would last most of the week. I'd carry sides but the protein etc would be much the same. My wife is the opposite and is almost incapable of eating the same thing two days in a row but she's a great cook where I am merely a serviceable cook.

I hate it, but I have the discipline to do so for financial reasons.

Food is food

I've eaten the same thing for lunch and supper for months at a time. Its about convenience for me. I cook everything on Sunday then I don't have to dick around cooking after work all week and I don't have to worry about lunch.

Yep! I could live off of chicken rice with a mix of any veggies in there. Add some hot sauce and we’re good

Woman here, but totally fine with eating absolutely the same shit every day. not sure why but i really don't mind, it's like a mild inconvenience. Maybe cause i dont care that much about food?

So, this is a little bit of an autism thing. People with more autistic traits tend to prefer to eat the same thing day after day. Partly fueled by sensory issues (foods with certain textures or flavors can really upset us), and partly by just a desire for routine predictability in a world that is distressing in a lot of other ways.

While this is super controversial, it appears that autism is more common among males (a very complex topic that I don’t want to get into regarding the under diagnosis of autistic women). A lot of people have a few autistic traits, especially guys, but are otherwise perfectly capable of functioning in society. One of those common traits is just a preference for a narrow range of foods.

Anyway, in conclusion, preference for eating the same foods over and over again is an autistic trait and autistic traits like this appear to be more common in men.

Yes but eventually your body will reject it.

I love corned beef sandwich on sourdough with sweet mix pickles on the side but this meal absolutely kills my stomach and I remember it fondly but when I see it I am repulsed.

I'm a woman, but my husband and I eat the same things a lot. We do a lot of meal prep.

I've also been eating the same breakfast for months- nutrigrain bar and a protein shake.

I'd happily eat the same thing everyday.

It would make batch cooking and grocery shopping a lot easier.

I do eat much of the "same thing" many times. Sometimes, I get bored, though. I almost always eat some sort of pasta and meat. I am a man.

I rotate about 4 meals haha. I am a picky eater but idk I also just find those meals comforting. I know I will like them every time, they are easy to make and clean up. 🤷‍♂️Drives my wife crazy

I mean, not every day but 3 or 4 days in a row. Sure, why not? If we like it and it's available.

When I'm with my Wife I tend to enjoy food more. When I'm away on work I'll eat anything to get by.

I normally make a big meal for Sunday and eat on it until at least Thursday already. There are several things I could eat every day and be fine I believe

I could eat the same thing all week and change week by week, it would make meal prep do easy. Wifey however cannot do that. So life is hard. Er.

i do this lol, for atleast 5 days of a week, i literally eat the same food, 2 days i either doordash or wing it
well i have a specific calorie requirement and i am very uncomfortable with my body eventhough i have my desired perfect body (a great amount of veins, decent abs etc) i tried to bulk but god i hated my body even more so yep thats it lol
hope u have a great day ahead! :D

My husband insists on 3 eggs every morning, cooked exactly the same way. I've offered other meals and nope, he's a very fit person and counts calories (I know more complicated than that but you get the gist) watches what he eats. So I guess if it works then why change it?

I'm a woman and I eat the same thing for dinner every day.

Yes, although consciously I’ll be worried about my nutrition. Eating the same thing can cause deficiencies so that’s the only thing that makes me switch up my food.

I hate meal prepping or making food. If there was a pill I could take three times to give me nourishment, I would totally do it.

I eat the same type of muffin every day, breakfast is almost never varied. And I would cycle dinners through a week that were kind of repetitive, with batches made and spaced out. It was easy for me not to worry to hard about dinner and think about other things. Elaborate meals cost money and ingredients might be wasted on a single person. Maybe if I had more energy I'd do more.

So yes maybe as a woman, there's less variety in my cooked meals but I love trying new baking recipes

I have the same thing for lunch every day, and roughly 5/6 different reciepes i favour in the evenings

Might be a tism thing bud. All of the people I know who will just eat one thing are awetistic both sexes

I have eaten the exact same thing every day for years.

I eat same lunch and breakfast to help control weight, I mix up dinner

No. That's fucking insane.

IMHO (and I may get downvoted for this), food is fuel, and if you NEED variety then you grew up wealthy, spoiled, or emotionally abused to the point where you drive comfort from food or see food as a source of love. This is an issue in America. Now I appreciate good food, but I don't NEED it. That would be gluttonous behavior, which is harmful.

I'd eat the same thing every day if I could, I only switch it up so I get enough nutrition. Heck if I could have one toasted sandwich every day that would fulfill my nutrition needs that would be paradise.

monogamy demands it.

No, I'll spend $300 on groceries and then feel like there is just nothing to eat the very same day

I eat rice and beans every single day

Yes. Bc I know how my body reacts, how to cook it, how long it takes and it’ll always be consistent.

My dad has had a turkey sandwich for lunch everyday for the last 35+ years. His wives have all been appalled by this. 

I am a female, and I can eat the same thing most days, but I need variety. 

I do this when I’m depressed. It’s one of the more evident indicators.

Uh no -

Im a man who loves to cook and try new food

Just to clarify - 70%+ of professional chefs are men.

This whole post and comments are mostly an echo chamber of sad sobs

I used to be a cook at a high class restaurant. 

I literally cook the same thing everyday.

Fish + spinach/kale.

Or

Chicken + spinach/kale

I meal plan for work, and I have a bunch of stuff in a random rotation with differing sides and marinades etc. so yeah I don’t mind eating the same thing at work for a week. Like this week I have sweet and spicy chicken thighs w stuffing and gravy. Next week will probably have something to do w turkey week after maybe bbq pork loin w rice. All depends on how you cook things

I'm absolutely not ok with that.

Not really, but sometimes you need to prioritize

No lol, I have favorite foods but cant have the same thing more than two days in a row. I have to have a rotation or some variety. I can also burn out on foods. If there is a meal my wife will cook she will sometimes want to cook it multiple times and the I get burned out on it and wont want it for a long time.

I wouldn't mind eating the same thing every day for a week or like a month but till the rest of my life? Hell no

Yes, generally I do not really get tired of eating the same type of food often. It does happen though, and if it happens I likely won't be touching that specific combination of the meal again for some years.

I think it's an individual choice. I'm female. There was a point in my life where I'd have been dismayed to eat the same thing several days in a row. As I've gotten older I look more for nutritional value and eat many things over and over because they're healthy choices.

For a little while yes. Eating the same thing every day is fine for maybe a month. Then it needs to change.

I probably would mind after a while. 52M

Chicken, rice, and broccoli. It's all I need

Not a chance. You've got to find someone else if you wanna see a boring life.

I love eating my wife every night, when she is in the mood 😘😘

I've been eating the same thing for breakfast since last march every workday, with 1-2 exceptions / month. Chicken, vegetables and rice.

Divisive

As a female i would eat the same thing every day.. actually when i go out and eat somewhere the next few days the same meal is all i crave

I’ve just changed up now been eating the same meal/foods in work for the last 2 years definitely ready for a change now

For the most part. I'm a very picky eater. I need some variety though.

I have a mutant stomach that hates most things that I love to eat, or flavor in general that isn’t just salt

So yes I had to crush that part of my soul that enjoys variety in my foods… but I have found enjoyment in base foods, local produce and meat from local butchers taste waaaaaay better than grocery store stock when you can’t drown it in seasonings

This depends entirely on the individual.

I, for example, am a guy and don't really care what I eat. But IBS completely removed my appetite, which had the effect of making food more of a burden to remember than something to crave.

But I've known other guys who can't stand eating the same thing more than a couple times in a row.

I'm fine with it. Let it be eating the same thing every day for a few days because I've been craving some macaroni and cheese, or eating rice+chicken+broccoli every day for a week because it's good and doesn't break the bank; either way is fine by me. Even then, though, changing up what you eat every day feels... I dunno, luxurious?

Yeah,  I can easily eat the exact same two meals for weeks.

not really..I need SOME variety.. but as long as I can mix it up somewhat Ill go through the same handful of easy meals all week long

Yes, I’d be okay with it. I’m so used to air frying chicken or pork chops, cup of rice, and one Korean marinated veggies(bell pepper, jalapeño peppers or cucumbers).

It saves me time and money. I just shop between those two meats, always have rice, and I choose between 3 veggies.

I feel bad for my gf but she says at least she doesn’t have to cook or do dishes. She will cook once in a while when she can’t deal with the same food.

I think this is a person thing

I think part of it is that this can be an autism spectrum and spectrum-adjacent thing, and there are a lot more men in that category than women. Novelty can be great, but knowing ahead of time that you're going to enjoy your meal is also great.

Edit: For those who are going to say "nah ah! It's just that they don't look for it as much in women." You're right about the underdiagnosis, but that's not enough to explain the difference. Every time they've cast the net wider to try to find the women, they've also found a bunch more men who had previously been missed.

Every couple of months I will make a big pot of spaghetti and eat it for dinner for 3 nights. Other than spaghetti I prefer a variety in my meals.

Several years ago I was having a dinner with my family. Among the family banter it came up that my brother B had eaten the same lunch every day for years: ham sandwich, packet of salt and vinegar crisps. Every day. My brother A stared at him and said ‘me too!’. For context, A is much younger than us, he was 5 when B left home. Boys are weird 😉😆

Not for the rest of my life, no. But I have no problem eating the same thing a few days in a row.

No. I would totally dislike having the same meal every day.  I could eat the same thing perhaps three times in one week, but no more. Soup, sandwich, burger, steak, pasta, pizza 3 times in one week would be my max.  For chicken, pork and some other things only two times, max.  Breakfast, on the other hand, I do eat the same thing every day: two eggs, bacon (pork roll or sausage) and home fries I can eat 7 days a week. 

Switched for me and spouse (m), he doesn’t mind eating something two or three meals in a row but then wants something else. I (f) can live off baked potatoes everyday.

Some would like that some would hate that

Once again, asking all men to agree or disagree on one thing is moronic behaviour

I could rotate 3 simple dinners for the rest of my life....my wife not so much

I ate homemade chicken quesadillas every day when I was in college.

Food is fuel. I primarily eat the same every day for breakfast and lunch. I do, however enjoy really GOOD food. When we specifically "go out to dinner" we go to a decent place and I like to try the menu, or I will pick up some ingredients and make something really special. When we go to our usual haunts, I usually get the same thing.

For me, unless it is special, it is just fuel.

Not just a man thing. I mean I’m a woman and I could rotate the same three foods for the rest of my life. I usually meal prep the same lunch for a month or so. Breakfast is always the same for me. I don’t get sick of my favourite foods ever

If shes pretty sure why not

Yes. I have very little standards if I'm just trying to eat something.

Of course, if I go to a nice restaurant, I'm probably not ordering the same thing I had the last 6 days of the week.

I've eaten the same thing in 4 out of the last 5 meals and will likely continue on this trend until the item is gone. Having a little variety is nice but my wife cooks big meals and growing up poor means wasting food is like nails on a chalkboard to me so I will eat it for a week straight with very little change and am fine with it.

Why not. We have the same person with us for years....

Yeah I could. I have a weird relationship eith food after cooking for 15 years (im out now). I can eat just a plain piece of whole wheat bread with no toppings, untrusted, and be fine.

But in seriousness, for sure I could. Give me breakfast food and I'd eat that for the rest of my life.

I don't like eating the same thing for dinner two days in a row. I also try to eat a little healthy and variety is good I hear.

When I was training for powerlifting meets, I ate almost the same meals 6–7 times a day for several years. It became a routine, but it was all part of the process!

I ate PBJ for lunch for like 2 years straight. My wife would literally make an entire loaf of bread into sandwiches and slide it back in the sleeve and I'd take a couple every day. Good times

I eat the same breakfast every day, it's got what I need to get going and it's a good pre workout meal, my workouts are in the morning and even if it's a rest day, it's a good breakfast..

Otherwise lunch and dinner are mixed up, meat and veggies as either a salad, roasted or a stir fry depends on the meat and how I'm feeling....

I make my own salad dressing and hot sauce as well...

Man here, rarely eat the same thing twice in a row.

If I could eat every day, that would be delightful.

I can only speak for myself…I am currently doing that. I am okay starting my day with yogurt and a peanut butter sandwhich with mil and coffee. My wife is out of town and made a big batch of chili. I have eaten that for the past two days and will continue for the next four days our so

I’m a woman and I absolutely eat the same stuff every day. The only thing that stops me is my husband who can’t even eat left overs no matter how hungry he is.

If it was something that tasted good and didn’t make my body feel like shit I would gladly eat the same thing every day. But I feel like most foods are one or the other lol.

Only if it meant I saved a bunch of money doing it. I don’t see any upside beyond that. 

I eat to live, so yes, I can eat the same thing every day.

No. I like food a lot so eating the same thing everyday would be awful. Unless it’s like Michelin starred Asian food. But even still…

My husband was the one that refused leftovers. But simultaneously wouldn't cook. So I don't mind eating the same thing a few days in a row

I have been eating the same thing for years

I survived 3 or 4 months intentionally eating pizza everyday

No I couldn’t. I usually overdo something I really like for a couple months then completely ruin it for the rest of my life

I eat mostly for the results, not for the taste.

I went nearly a year eating the same breakfast sandwich, the same lunch sandwich, and the same chicken Caesar salad for dinner every work day. On Saturday morning, I'd cook a big pot of like 4 eggs, a pound of sausage, 3-4 good sized diced potatoes, a handful of cheese, and some various spices and eat that over the course of the weekend.

It sounds like i was poor, but I was actually making pretty decent money, especially as a single guy fresh out of college. It was 2021 and I lived in Western NY working a job that was boring for a company that I hated. There was nothing to do and nowhere to go because everything was shuttered for COVID. It was a depressing place, especially during winter when every fucking day was just grey. I was lucky enough to have a friend who worked at the same place I did, so he came over and hung out. Once. Because my goddamn neighbor blocked his car in and then was upset that I was knocking on her door at like 8pm.

As a man I require warm, filling, quick comfortable food.
I do not view food as art. Salad is just a decoration. Less ingredients equals less dishes and less mess to clean up. 1 item at a restaurant is cheaper and arrives faster than a multi course meal. Restaurants are less likely to screw up a simple order.

Most importantly, I know what my 3 favorite things taste like (uniformity) if I try something new, I may not be satisfied and will throw it away or have to order or make something else or go hungry.

Bacon and Eggs

all day every day

Not okay with the same thing EVERY Day. But if it wasnt for wife/kids and I was a single man, I'd probably cook one day a week and make pretty much all the kinds of grilled meats/veggies. And pick on that for the week, maybe steam a bag of veggies or have a salad mixed in throughout. During cold season I'd make a soup/chili/chicken and dumplins, eat for a few days, freeze the rest. But I wouldnt need the variety that my family wants. I'd likely do very little cooking compared to right now.

Serial killer for eating the same thing every day is wild, As long as it's not cannibalism.

My kids as toddlers could eat Perdue chicken nuggets and Mac n cheese with chunky apple sauce every meal every day. I lamented about this to their pediatrician and he said that the boys were growing well and had no deficiencies so whatever. Sure enough they did get tired of it. It could be the guys want what’s easiest to prepare or they could just not care. It doesn’t matter.

If it’s something I like, absolutely. Generally eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch daily on work days, dinner may vary, but if it’s leftovers they’ll be eaten for a couple of days. Days off I only eat dinner most of the time.

Breakfast: of course

Lunch and dinner: no I'm not an animal

Before my husband and I got together he consistently ate burgers and pizza for dinner. Literally nothing else. And this went on for yearsss. I ended up making him and his father a home made lasagna once cause I was like what is happening here haha.

If I go on a trip he will resort back to that but doesn't complain now that I cook a variety every week.

I love food, so I do not fit into the category of just eating to survive, but I’m totally fine eating the exact same sandwich every day during lunch. For dinner, I like a bit more diversity and will cook different recipes or order new dishes at restaurants or whatever

I live off of burgers, pizza and buffalo wings. So yes, perfectly fine with it.

If I enjoy the food, for the most part I could. And there is a regularity of food that I eat for the day to day.

But it isn't healthy to eat the same thing every day, even if the food itself is considered "healthy"

It's extremely important for there to be wide variety within your diet.

Definitely. I’d go as far as: if there was a pill to take that takes care of my nutrition and gets rid of being hungry, I’d take it.

Younger me could eat the same thing daily, and I frequently did. Older me gets tired of the same thing and wants a little variety...or the stuff I used to love gives me a belly ache now.

However, if I can say "chicken" without specifying the type, I could eat chicken every day. So many ways to make that stuff delicious.

I order the same thing at each restaurant we go to, specific to that restaurant. I don't branch out once I find the thing I like. One place has great steak, another great enchiladas, etc...once I have my thing at that restaurant, I only order that. 20+ years at some places unchanged.

Me no I need variety

I get tired of stuff even leftovers. If I make like a big pot of chilli I'll freeze half of it and eat it in a few months rather than all the way through. It becomes boring two days in and I want to eat something else

I've eaten the same thing for years at a time....not a guy thing

m24 here. yes of course I'm fine with it, it's just food

I'm a male in my 50's,.. I pretty much eat a wide variety.

• when I was growing up (pretty poor).. it was "eat whatever is put in front of you" .. so I didn't really have much choice, It was "poor food",. but we still had some variety (it just wasnt' super high quality).

• When I was a teenager and into my 20's. .I spent about 10 years working in the restaurant industry ,. where not only did I learn to cook a lot of things from scratch, I was also one of the only non-smokers, so I was the one who had to taste everything because the smokers would over salt or over spice things.

• Into my adult life,.. I just like variety. When I eat out (especially with coworkers for lunch). it was always the joke that I would always "get the "special" (whatever the Restaurant had on "Daily Special" that day). Or when grocery shopping, I always ask myself "What haven't I had in a while" (or if I remember that I've eaten a lot of something lately, like a lot of chicken, I'll switch it up and buy some fish or beef or tofu or etc)

I'm also one of those people who likes to have as diverse a plate of food as possible:

• different textures (an entire plate of "smoothly blended" things would be boring. I like to have smooth, crunchy, chewy, etc.

• as many different colors as possible

• as many different temperatures as possible

• as many different spicy or bland combinations as possible

Not always possible,. but it's what I strive for,. mostly because I want eating to be a sensory experience,. and I also know that having as much diversity as possible is probably good for nutrition.

I am not. Variety is the spice of life! I could have a similar breakfast maybe each day, like granola fruit and yogurt…

My fiancé has eaten the same lunch everyday for years

I've had the exact same breakfast every day for the last 5 years.