People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:45AM (#19338494)

Knew a couple, had a stack of frozen dinners delivered every week, put them in a standup freezer. Whoever got home first had to take the top two dinners, put them in the oven for dinner. No picking thru the stack; no arguing over who got what. Does that count as 'the same dinner every day'?

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by scruple on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:06PM (#19339444)

This made me think of the Chinese practice of zuoyuezi (坐月子) [0] which translates to "sitting the month" and refers to what we know as postpartum confinement in the West, and which includes a fairly strict diet for postpartum mothers.

Many women who practice this in the US will pay someone to prepare these meals for them a week at a time (they will come to your home and basically do meal prep for the week with the last few days worth going in to the freezer). There is a company in SoCal [1] that will prepare the meals and ship them to you frozen, I believe, as well.

I don't know if they're actually healthy or not but you'd hope they would be better than processed foods.

And I guess my point is that money can buy you just about anything. If you want healthy, frozen, ready-to-eat meals, they can be had for a price.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_confinement#China

[1]: https://www.postpartummeal.com/zuo-yue-zi/

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by madcaptenor on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:38PM (#19340600)

That would be useful even if you're not keeping a particular diet, but just want to have food and not want to have to think about it when you've got a new baby.

We stocked the freezer by cooking a lot before our baby was born... and then in a sleep-deprived haze I left the freezer open.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by NullPrefix on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:48AM (#19338523)

Frozen food sounds like poverty dinner.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by cooooooffffeeee on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:30PM (#19344094)

You can go in the opposite direction and get frozen meals that cost ~$5 a piece. I eat a lot of pre-prepared tofu, dumplings (refrigerated, not frozen), fried tofu, meatless meatballs, etc... it definitely bucks the stereotype of salt-heavy "what's in this" frozen food.

Of course, it's still better (and cheaper) to make it yourself. But in a pinch it's nothing to shake a stick at.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:16AM (#19338863)

Neither one wanted to cook; they didn't like going out all the time.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by mikemac on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:52AM (#19338587)

and your blood pressure would be through the roof in no time

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:14AM (#19338836)

naysayer. What if they were boutique frozen Trader Joe's dinners? And don't say 'salt' because that's not actually a thing.

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