Yeah, like Destiny said, this is just a reflection of my parents. My mom is a two-meal-a-day person. During the week, she sometimes eats a light breakfast, but not often. Then she usually has yogurt and fruit or salad for lunch, and cooks dinner or eats out because she has a meeting and not enough time to go home. So basically this week she's been replacing her yogurt with rice cakes and peanut butter. On the weekends, my mom usually makes breakfast and a big dinner and doesn't eat lunch or eats something very small.
My dad, on the other hand, tends to be one of those people who snacks consistently through the day...he'll eat many little handfuls of something over the course of a much longer period of time. Usually nuts, popcorn, tomatoes, or junk food. So mostly this week he's limited in terms of junk food but still eating in the same way.
I tend not to eat during the morning, because eating just when I wake up makes me nauseated. But traditionally when we were an agricultural society, breakfast usually came after the morning farm labor, so I don't really think it's a problem that I eat at around 12:30 instead of 7:30 when I get up. Once in a while I will have a granola bar, bagel, or english muffin in the morning if I am really starving (say, if I didn't have dinner or ate dinner very early). Then I usually eat a reasonably-sized lunch-- usually a sandwich or sushi or soup and bread, and then usually a smaller dinner. I eat oatmeal or other hot whole grain cereals for dinner a lot, but sometimes I will have soup or rice and beans or something like that.
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:56 pm (UTC)My dad, on the other hand, tends to be one of those people who snacks consistently through the day...he'll eat many little handfuls of something over the course of a much longer period of time. Usually nuts, popcorn, tomatoes, or junk food. So mostly this week he's limited in terms of junk food but still eating in the same way.
I tend not to eat during the morning, because eating just when I wake up makes me nauseated. But traditionally when we were an agricultural society, breakfast usually came after the morning farm labor, so I don't really think it's a problem that I eat at around 12:30 instead of 7:30 when I get up. Once in a while I will have a granola bar, bagel, or english muffin in the morning if I am really starving (say, if I didn't have dinner or ate dinner very early). Then I usually eat a reasonably-sized lunch-- usually a sandwich or sushi or soup and bread, and then usually a smaller dinner. I eat oatmeal or other hot whole grain cereals for dinner a lot, but sometimes I will have soup or rice and beans or something like that.