Are you a snacker or do you eat proper meals?

[Ohiogal]

I would definitely be a snacker all day long if left to my own devices. If I didn't have to make dinner for my husband and two sons every day, I doubt I'd even eat a proper dinner.

My husband, however, eats a proper sit down breakfast at the dining room table immediately upon arising, followed by lunch and dinner in the same manner. (his proper sit down breakfast is two bowls of cereal and a banana 365 days a year .... because eggs have too much cholesterol and bacon and pancakes are bad for you). No coffee, no tea. He will not eat a between meal snack even if he's starving .... some doctor told him when he was a child that three meals and no in between meal snacking was the right way for a person to eat, and he has followed this practice his entire life. He's in good shape for 72, he's thin, does yard work, takes no prescription drugs at all.

Me ..... I have coffee in the morning ..... maybe around ten I might notice I'm hungry so I eat a piece of string cheese ..... lunch is when I sit with him and eat a salad or something, but around 4 I'm ready for my low carb snack of peanuts or almonds .... of course we eat dinner together as a family but that's not until 7 most nights. I definitely prefer small meals or snacks throughout the day.

What kind of eater are you?

[Phoenix61]

1. Since I have finally mastered how to make a

cheese omelette I like that and some fruit for breakfast. Usually dinner around 3:00 with a couple of snacks scattered throughout the day.

[Srkdqltr]

2. What do you mean by proper?

Is there a certain meal that is proper ? Atr there guidelines for what is proper?

[Ohiogal]

4. By proper

I mean you sit down at the table and eat a well balanced meal. I guess!

[mr_lebowski]

3. Doc has me on a strict vodka/cranberry diet ... no solid foods to speak of (nt)

[Codeine]

17. The Cape Cod Diet. nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. I'm both.

I generally snack during the day, and then eat a proper dinner. Good dinners. And that’s routine.

Even when my husband is out of town, and it’s just me, I usually make a proper dinner. Sometimes a fancy dinner, even.

But no dessert.

[samnsara]

6. i graze all day long...UNTIL I got Invisalines...now i am only able to have them out of my

..mouth 2 hours a day so i have had to learn to eat a full meal whenever i take them out. Ive lost at least 5 pounds in the 14 weeks I have had them in ( halfway there). I have to drink my red wine thru a straw (my gawd it goes down fast that way...coffee too) and have to brush my teeth every...single...time i even snack. SO......i was a snacker/grazer but now I see thats what made me pack on some pounds.

[Aristus]

7. I was raised in a no-snacks-between-meals family.

Mrs. Aristus was raised in a family in which snacking was not only permissible, but actually encouraged. So we have snacks everywhere in the house. I try to stay away from them.

I keep roasted peanuts at work for a protein slam on busy days, but indulgence is irregular at best.

[Beringia]

8. I eat 2 meals a day

I was trying to remember what I liked to eat as a child and teenager and can't remember. I was incredibly skinny until about age 20. I remember I loved the tall delicious dinner rolls they made in our HS cafeteria, but that is the only thing that sticks out.

[Guilded Lilly]

9. Grazer here. Many small meals/snacks throughout the day. Much better...

For my particular digestive health. Even keel.
Huge meals are hugely problematic.

[MontanaMama]

10. I'm somewhere in between a snacker and a proper meal person...

Coffee in the morning. I take a couple of little boxes of sliced apples, carrots, cucumbers, snow peas or whatever is in the veggie drawer with me to work and I snack on those from 11-1pm. Mid afternoon I’ll have some almonds, hummus and a piece of toasted naan bread and maybe a hard boiled egg or some grilled chicken. I drink some kind of herbal tea all day long. I make a sit down dinner for the family every night and we eat around 7pm. I enjoy making a nice dinner...it’s a creative outlet for me. I try not to eat anything after 8pm. Sleepy Time Extra tea is a must before bed. Weekends roll a little differently as I might make a big breakfast which I don’t really enjoy doing...breakfast prep seems like such a chore...if I’m going to enjoy a meal out it is definitely breakfast.

This is an interesting thread. Folks sure do have their routines, don’t they?

[leftieNanner]

11. I was raised in the time of the clean plate club

Which was so bad for me! I raised my children to eat when they are hungry. Listen to your body. If you are hungry at 10 am, have a snack. Don't just eat because the clock tells you to. I will say that we always sat down together for dinner every night, family style.

So I guess I'm a little bit of both.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Rarely sit at a table. Light breakfast of oatmeal or yogurt and berries, half a salmon salad

for lunch, a few nuts in the afternoon, salad or pasta for dinner. The feasting begins on Friday evening with pizza and continues through to Sunday evening anything/everything! 😋

[RobinA]

13. Proper Meals

no snacks. I was raised that way and it just stuck. I don't know what will happen when I am retired. Probably similar but less attention to time.

[smirkymonkey]

14. I am a meal person, but I only have about 2 meals a day and sometimes one, and the other one

is kind of a snack. I like sitting down and going out to dinner, but I don't really enjoy eating alone that much so sometimes dinner is just cheese and crackers or toast or something like that. My main meal during the working week is lunch and I eat very slowly so I never have a need for a snack in the afternoon.

I have never been a b-fast eater, even when I was little, so I get by on iced tea and occassionly a few nuts or something.

[Skittles]

15. I eat constantly

no meals, lots of junk food and fruit.....and I am the same weight I was in high school

[Claritie Pixie]

16. I eat when I'm hungry within an 8-10 hour window. Usually snacks and one meal.

I try to fast at least 14 hours a day.

Here's a little bit about the benefits of intermittent fasting:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323605.php

[Codeine]

18. I eat a small breakfast, no lunch,

and a fairly random “meal” for dinner. For me that might be an entire bag of salad greens, six or seven vegan tacos, a head of broccoli with an entire tub of hummus, or some equally absurd portion of food.

For example, today I had two everything bagels for breakfast, a small handful of Ruffles All-Dressed chips for a snack around 2pm, and for dinner just now I polished off four gigantic bowls of black bean tortilla soup with two avocados. It’s a weird way to eat but it works for me.

And several cups of decaf Earl Grey tea all day.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I don't eat three meals a day, but when I do eat, it's a proper meal. I don't know how to snack

For a lot of years I was severely anemic, so I was on a lot of iron supplements which I had to take on an empty stomach - and I got out of the habit of having a snack. Now that I can, I'm very poor at it, LOL, I can never think of anything snack-worthy.