Couple eats same meal every weekday for 15 years.

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...I lost a draft . I just have so lite equipment - ALWAYS
The website Kansas.com has a story about a couple, named Ron and Diana Watson. I can't link . They approach their meals in a rather repetitious way.
Six days of the week, they go to the same restaurant in Wichita...and sit at the same table every day and have pretty much the same meal every day! And they have done so for the last fifteen years, same restaurant meal, same table in same restaurant, six nights a week. Oh, and it's the only meal they have all day .
They're not poor, and the restaurant is a with-servers " family restaurant ", not a fast-food one. He is a Vietnam vet with some PTSD ( likely putting his age in his sixties).
The obvious question - They two of us? The Atlantic also had an article about people who, when packing a lunch for work, have the same lunch every day so maybe this is in the air ! !! !! !! !! !!

Here are 2 links:

https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/re ... 33934.html

...Thank you.

You're welcome


I can't imagine eating the same thing 6 days a week for 15 years! Not even my favorite foods....

...That CNN link was rather bland - I thought that it would be an interview with them, some footage of the restaurant...Jt seemed to be just the Kansas.com story read by a drkningly ' cheerful " voice and drkney music.
I would presume that Kansas.com would be the Web e tension of the major newspapers in Kansas, maybe TV stations. Did CNN make a deal with them to repurpose their content that way ?

Kansas.com is the website for the Wichita Eagle Beacon newspaper only. They serve mostly the Wichita area and surrounding areas in south central Kansas. That website does not include TV stations, as they have their own websites. Most people who have never been to Kansas just do not understand how rural this area of the US is. In my hometown, it is common to get the news from an out of state TV station because it is closer than most of the ones in the same state.

As for eating the same food for long periods of time, I have seen it happen. Some people only like to eat certain things from certain places. It usually does not lead to a balanced diet, so that issue will likely affect them later on. Texas Roadhouse is not a bad place to eat, but I would not want to eat there every single day from my perspective.

Seriously I see nothing unusual about it


Different people have different eating habits


Obsessive compulsive disorder


Favorite food


Autistics tend to eat the same thing over and over



And I am not too different

I'm close to that. I always want to sit at the same table and I always eat the same thing. Only difference is it's a few separate restaurants and I don't eat out six/seven days a week.

I've been eating the same thing for lunch on weekdays for about six months now and I don't see myself changing. It's something I make from scratch at home and bring to work to heat and eat there. It's a burrito with organic pinto beans, brown rice, 1 ounce of cheese and either ground pork or if I make a lacto-vegetarian batch, seitan (also homemade) and cumin. I douse it in fermented pepper sauce I make. It's a healthy meal. It's routine. I like it. I make a batch of ten on a Saturday or Sunday and freeze them. The batch lasts two work weeks. One less thing for me to think about.

For about the last month I've extended the meal routine to breakfast with a dried multi-grain mixture I cook then dehydrated myself (oats, wheat & millet), dried fruit (raisins, apple, banana). I portion out each serving on a kitchen scale. I sometimes add ground chia seeds. Then, I put in 1/2 tsp of Ceylon cinnamon & 1/2 tsp of ground ginger (I dry and grind it myself from fresh ginger root). I put each portion of the mix in a pint canning jar, and when I make my morning cup of coffee, I pour the right amount of boiling water in the jar, stir and put the lid on. Then I go about getting ready for work and in about 30 mins, breakfast us ready. I make five jars each week, enough for the work week. One less thing to think about.

Dinner is not routine and neither are weekend meals. This regimen helps me psychologically because it's a differentiation between the workweek and the weekends. It's admittedly regimented and perhaps boring, but in a small part that helps make the weekends more fun and different from the workweek.

Plus, I like to cook and do food experiments. I wouldn't expect someone without such an interest to go to such length and detail at all. For me it's fun and the routine helps me in numerous ways.

It's probably fairly common to eat, for instance, an Indian meal each Sunday afternoon pretty consistently, but the case of this couple seems rather unique.

If the couple gets in the new, so do I


And nobody put me in the news, so the couple does not get in the news either