What I'm wondering is, for other people who live alone, or eat alone at home a lot, where do you end up eating?
When I grew up my family was somewhat dysfunctional and on conflicting schedules, and we tended to eat at separate times, in the living room on chairs and couches. I've always done that living alone too, eat on the couch. Or I'll eat in front of the computer. I would never, ever eat at the dining room table, it was where I did bills and left junk to clutter things up. I'd eat fast food straight from the bag, or frozen dinners straight from the tray, drink sodas out of cans or bottles. Or I'd eat in the car, munching breakfast from the drive-in while sitting in rush hour traffic.
So this past week I decided to try to start a new habit, of eating meals at the dining room table. Since I live alone, there's no one else to talk to, so I do leave the TV on. I'll watch CNN, or something Tivoed. And I've been using real plates, real glasses, real silverware. If I microwave something, either a meal or leftovers, I don't usually eat it from whatever I heat it up in. I transfer it to a proper plate. Even when I had a craving and got McDonald's, I put the cheeseburger and fries on a china plate, and poured the diet coke into a real glass.
So where do other people who eat at home alone a lot do their eating? Basically my goal is to try to make eating more of a conscious act, rather than something I do while doing something else. Well, except for snacks, I still snack wherever.
