This is the eleventh year in a row that I've kept an Excel spreadsheet recording evening meals eaten in our household, and analysed the spreadsheet each year to find out what we ate most often. I've been using a weekly menu for much longer than eleven years, and the spreadsheet is a way of capturing the data from all the handwritten menus and looking for patterns (and ways to diversify our diet).
Not sure this level of discipline actually DOES lead to more diverse eating ... we still have our favourite dishes, and things that appear again and again! While the spreadsheet currently has over 260 rows of data – where each row is a menu item – I do tend to rotate between a few dozen dishes. Ah well. If anything, the tendency has become even stronger during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's comforting to fall back on flavourful favourite meals.
So, here's what we ate most between April 2019 and April 2020:
vegetable gyoza (a new entrant to the list! bought frozen and heated at home)
pasta and sauce (classic comfort food)
hearty vegetable and barley soup
tofu curry
BLTs (sandwiches or wraps)
shakshuka
pumpkin and pea curry
potato, leek, bacon and bean soup
Most years I vaguely resolve to do better in the coming year, but 2020 is looking so strange that I don't want to make any promises I won't keep. Provided we stay alive and well fed (even if comfort food wins out) let's count that as success this time.
Cheers!
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