Patterns in eating - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

julie99s · 08-04-2008, 12:09 PM

Over time I've come to realize I have a pattern for eating every meal. When I'm at home, and especially now that I'm eating healthy, I start with the healthiest food item and work down. Like today I started with my salad, then the peach, and then my wrap with egg white, turkey bacon and cheese. I'm telling myself I must want to fill up on the healthiest stuff first, but I've never consciously said, I HAVE to eat the salad first, it's the healthiest....
When I used to go out to eat I'd tend to start with the salad, fries and/or bread, then my main dish. My reasoning for that was that if I got full, I wanted to box the stuff that would reheat the best. Soggy, reheated fries are nasty, so I never bothered to box those anyway. My ex boyfriend thought I was a nutjob because of this.

So I guess I'm wondering... Does anyone else have any certain eating patterns??

preetyladyserenity · 08-04-2008, 01:15 PM

Wow I do that as well. First is my salad and veggies, then my rice or potatoes and last my meat or fish.

We are both nutjobs. ^.^

JulieJ08 · 08-04-2008, 01:27 PM

I've heard that a more European or Mediterranean pattern is to have the salad last (but before cheese, fruit, or dessert). It's an interesting idea I'd like to try sometimes. But I'm not a huge side salad eater.

StillTryin · 08-04-2008, 01:27 PM

I do this also, and for the same reason you mentioned...I want to take things that re-heat well. Side dishes typically do not "save" well. So I would rather have them where I am eating.

At home on the other hand, it is similar. I do not eat left overs so I would rather save them for my DH and kids who will eat them. I LOVE my vegi's and sides so I would rather have them....if there are left over vegi's I start eating them and I will avoid my main dish most of the time....

JulieJ08 · 08-04-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by txsqlchick

I'd heard that Europeans do that, but I spent a summer with a French family between HS and college and they ate their salad after the apéritif but before the main course and the cheese was last. I guess every family is different, but every restaurant I went to in France also served the salad before the main course. Maybe it varies by region; I've been to France many times but have only visited Paris, the Bordeaux region, the Loire Valley, Normandy, and Brittany.

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

preetyladyserenity · 08-05-2008, 05:16 PM

In Cyprus and Greece we eat the salad with the bread, olives and yogurt first and then the main meal.