variety or creatures of habits?

i know some of you boy moms posted about what you ate when conceiving your boys. was wondering if your diets were basically the same day to day or did you have a variety of diff types of foods/meals every day or every week.
im a creature of habit and i end up using the same recipes once a week, every week. i try to vary it up esply for the kids, but wondering if this will have any effect on my body (will my body get used to the same high potassium, sodium foods, or should i vary it?)

i typically eat the same bowl of cereal every morning (special K). on wknds or days dh is home we always have bagels with strawberry cream cheese (yum). for lunch, one week ill eat boiled eggs all week, then next week turkey salad all week. then back to boiled eggs. for dinner, i have a set menu for the week (alternating chicken and beef). its usually chicken risotto, beef enchiladas, chicken arabbiata, hamburgers, chicken fajitas, chilli, chicken cutlets, sp and meatballs, etc. and then this rotates. i may change a couple dishes here and there.

every saturday we eat chipotle (mexican). and every friday we have lunch out (subway or Mcds). hehee.
(this was my "girl diet" but i'll prob eat the same boy things the same way i schedule the meals previous to the boy diet).

I always ate the same breakfast and lunches and dinners during the week were always pretty much the same but the weekends were always varied - so a bit of both!

I ate a variety really (although always Shreddies for breakfast with full fat milk)

I'd buy a pack of minced beef at the start of the week and get 2-3 meals out of that (cottage pie, meatballs, spag bol, lasagne, chilli). Also enjoyed my stir frys. I'd make sure I packed veggies into every meal I ate. LOVED roast chicken dinners with lovely salty roast potatoes. I didn't know any of that swayed blue!

At lunch I'd sometimes have chips with baked beans if I was in the office, or a soup or sandwiches.

Ate chocolate, nuts, fruit, and cake as snacks, and had a yoghurt each day too.

I wouldn't eat the same thing for breakfast every day or the same thing for lunch every day but I wouldn't eat something completely different each day either. We have (had!) several meals which we ate often in rotation, things like chilli con carne, spaghetti bolognese, pasta with spicy tomato sauce, cottage/shepherd's pie, curry etc. We'd often have a take-away at the weekend (usually Indian or Chinese) and a roast dinner on a Sunday. Breakfast would either be toast (usually marmite) or toast and cereal (whatever was in the cupboard) on weekdays and something like a bacon sandwich/beans on toast or eggs on toast at weekends. Lunch was usually a sandwich, maybe cheese or ham and pickle.

Pretty much different meals daily, with a huge variety in the month. I am always looking at different stuff to make- sushi, curry dishes, different meats(fish, deer, moose, antelope, pork, beef, chicken, seafood(lots of raw salmon/tuna etc), shellfish, etc), chinese, vietnamese...the list is very long. And I don't think it was the variety that got me boys...I think it was salty, full fat, foods in EXCESS:)

Yeah i really have always eaten a variety but i really eat alot in excess,tiny portions are not something i have done in the past lol

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Originally Posted by gizmo77

i know some of you boy moms posted about what you ate when conceiving your boys. was wondering if your diets were basically the same day to day or did you have a variety of diff types of foods/meals every day or every week.
im a creature of habit and i end up using the same recipes once a week, every week. i try to vary it up esply for the kids, but wondering if this will have any effect on my body (will my body get used to the same high potassium, sodium foods, or should i vary it?)

i typically eat the same bowl of cereal every morning (special K). on wknds or days dh is home we always have bagels with strawberry cream cheese (yum). for lunch, one week ill eat boiled eggs all week, then next week turkey salad all week. then back to boiled eggs. for dinner, i have a set menu for the week (alternating chicken and beef). its usually chicken risotto, beef enchiladas, chicken arabbiata, hamburgers, chicken fajitas, chilli, chicken cutlets, sp and meatballs, etc. and then this rotates. i may change a couple dishes here and there.

every saturday we eat chipotle (mexican). and every friday we have lunch out (subway or Mcds). hehee.
(this was my "girl diet" but i'll prob eat the same boy things the same way i schedule the meals previous to the boy diet).

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Wow that is an interesting concept gizmo and I will tell you, I think variety = boys. In fact when I am working on my TTC boy cookbook my goal is to have 3 months of different months of recipes/meal suggestions for both lunch and dinner because I think lots of different foods and nutrients send a signal to your body that times are very good and there is so much food lying around that you can eat something different every day of the week.

I have also noticed that a lot of boy moms tend to be "foodies" and spend a lot of time seeking out new recipes and planning meals, and that simply HAS to have some sort of positive effect on testosterone. So if a mom who wants boys gets excited about more variety in her diet and starts researching/planning, that has to be a good thing.

FWIW I did eat the same thing for breakfast most days (nuts) but I do and always have liked a lot of variety for lunches and dinners and snacks.

I would say I am a foodie, I love finding and cooking new recipes, dh and I were always testing out new recipes on weekends

Ugh, does that mean I should stop being creative with the girl diet?!

hahaha I knew someone was going to worry about that. ;)

NO, because on the girl diet, it's already so limited that you are counteracting all that. Should you enter the Pillsbury Cookoff or go onto the Iron Chef, probably not (just ask Cat Cora, she has 4 boys herself!! although she did not get them in the usual fashion http://www.workingmother.com/2010/7/...-chef-cat-cora) But just some regular day to day fun with tahini and Craisins is totally acceptible. ;)