Are you one of those people who gets "bored" with eating

I only go "safe" when I'm cooking for other people.

When I'm cooking for just myself, which is 90% of the time, I do something new, or a variation on something I've done before. It's been years since I've eaten repetitively enough to get bored.

1.find new food stuff/ingredient
2.experiment it to death with weird unedible dishes and some successful ones
3.run out of said food stuff
4.find new food stuff/ingredient
5.rinse and repeat

eating staples is for boring people

Depends how poor I am. Onigri a lot lately.

I don't necessarily get 'bored' with repetitive meals, like I never stop enjoying eating them, but I get anxious if I go too long without challenging myself in some way.

I've now lived on my own and exclusively cooked for myself for just over a year, before that I was living with my mom who's a great cook, meal variation at home was not something that I even considered, it was just a fact.

Since moving out though I usually find myself making basically the same few dishes with some variations. These are:
>vegetable woks (usually with cabbage, carrots, onions, baby corn and coconut milk) over rice
>pasta with either just some olive oil and garlic or some tomato- or cream based sauce (sometimes with chicken if it's cheap)
>pan seared (frozen) salmon or cod with rice
>boiled potatoes with pickled herring (yes I'm Swedish) or a cheap cut of meat if it's available

I eat out fairly rarely, maybe a pizza or Chinese food once a month.
Worst part is, this doesn't bother me as much as I think it "should". I've always enjoyed good food, both eating and cooking it, but I just feel so damn uninspired. That's usually why I lurk this place, for those rare moments of " shit that looks good, might make that tonight".

>>8165554
just buy whatever is on sale

I have a few "staples" I tend to make for every meal plan, but those meals tend to have variation, especially based on the grocery store sales and time of year.

I'm somewhere in between.

I usually make variations on my staples, and enough of it for two or three days. There's experimentation on a very limited scale, but the food I'm eating now is quite different from the food I ate three years ago, and I now have a much larger variation of dishes and ingredients I'm comfortable with.

Every now and again I'll make something very different from what I usually eat. Oftentimes the things I learn from that will find their way in my variations on the staples.

I've been changing my staples quite a bit for the last month or so. I'm trying to lose weight so, among other things, I'm cutting back (not eliminating) on carbs and meat. This challenged me to play around with different ingredients, so I've had a lot more variation lately.

>>8165619
>losing wight
>cutting back on meat

why

>>8165624
Because I ate a fuckton of it, instead of the much more reasonable amounts I'm eating now.