I’m going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I’m hungry.
I solve this by eating the same thing for lunch every day and a rotating set of dinners that I pick based on which ingredients will go bad the fastest.
This admittedly only works if you can eat the same thing for lunch every day without going mad, but lucky for me I really like burritos.
Oh do it in advance? Just do it in advance?? Why don’t I strap on my Advance Helmet and squeeze down into an Advance Cannon and fire off into AdvanceLand, where Advances grow on Advancies??!
There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many “where should we go” logjams in the office. It was nice
i understand that, but i highly recommend you not to rely on chatgpt for that. it is much easier to do so, but you are making it even harder for yourself in the future, by slowly training yourself to trust even less on yourself.
you could set some time aside when you are not hungry and get a list of easy meals that you can make when you are in hungry mode
but also, if you do it from time to time when you really need it, that is ok. just not always
I know that this is probably about roommates or family members, but I like to imagine you leave your door open and yell these sorts of questions at whoever might wander in
This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It’s like… 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can’t write it yourself.
Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.
How about 1-2 egg omelette on top of a crispy bagel? Don’t cook the omelette all the way, then cut it into triangles or strips, then place onto bagel in a circular pattern. The idea is the bagel absorbs the cheese/butter/egg mix.
I am the eggman. I have a whole egg preparation routine that I can run through before I’ve even had coffee. Doesn’t even have to be exactly the same every time.
My issues generally occur at lunchtime, more often when that time has been pushed back from “regular noon lunch” to 2p or 3p. In a pinch, if there’s nobody around to demand instruction from, I can dip into the snack bucket and unwrap something and eat it, which might give me the mental space to figure out what I actually should eat. Kind of like how a fission bomb is used as a detonator for a fusion bomb.
Oh just pack the same lunch every day. Is it enjoyable? No. Did I prefer a peanut butter on whole wheat with an apple to actually having to decide what to eat or dealing with inconvenience in preparing lunch? You cannot understand how much of a game changer this was. No struggle to pack a lunch. If I was busy the night before then I’d just pack an extra in advance (and keep emergency food in my desk).
I’m going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I’m hungry.
We technically solved this problem years ago:
They should make this but with actual food instead of answers. Shake up the Magic Ate Ball and it says a meal. I’d buy that.
I had to look it up to be sure that’s not real. How is it not fkn real? What a great idea!
Asi seeit yes? Is that an Indian dish? None of my local places seem to have it on their menu.
“Hey magic 8 ball, what should I eat for dinner?”
“Yes”
I solve this by eating the same thing for lunch every day and a rotating set of dinners that I pick based on which ingredients will go bad the fastest.
This admittedly only works if you can eat the same thing for lunch every day without going mad, but lucky for me I really like burritos.
You can make a list of 20 options and roll a d20 dice.
I’m unclear on how that’s a smaller obstacle.
Okay, 6 items and a d6?
Why not 1 item and a D1? Zero items and a D0? π items and a Dπ?
Because you can do it in advance
Oh do it in advance? Just do it in advance?? Why don’t I strap on my Advance Helmet and squeeze down into an Advance Cannon and fire off into AdvanceLand, where Advances grow on Advancies??!
Roll a d20, search “food”, then select the option according to the roll.
There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many “where should we go” logjams in the office. It was nice
Computer is thinking
Computer is calculating an answer
Computer is incorporating your personal preferences
Computer is polling the audience
Computer is building a heuristic with over 9000 data points in order to triangulate the perfect meal for you in this given moment
Computer is producing a response
🥪
Reticulating splines
i understand that, but i highly recommend you not to rely on chatgpt for that. it is much easier to do so, but you are making it even harder for yourself in the future, by slowly training yourself to trust even less on yourself.
you could set some time aside when you are not hungry and get a list of easy meals that you can make when you are in hungry mode
but also, if you do it from time to time when you really need it, that is ok. just not always
What I actually do: lumber up to whoever happens to be in the house at the moment and say “WHAT SHOULD I EAT”.
I know that this is probably about roommates or family members, but I like to imagine you leave your door open and yell these sorts of questions at whoever might wander in
“Probably”.
This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It’s like… 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can’t write it yourself.
Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.
But I would rather pollute the air that poor people breathe!
You need fuck it foods. Also, make a list of stuff you like based on effort you can put in and assign it to numbers on a die.
How about 1-2 egg omelette on top of a crispy bagel? Don’t cook the omelette all the way, then cut it into triangles or strips, then place onto bagel in a circular pattern. The idea is the bagel absorbs the cheese/butter/egg mix.
I am the eggman. I have a whole egg preparation routine that I can run through before I’ve even had coffee. Doesn’t even have to be exactly the same every time.
My issues generally occur at lunchtime, more often when that time has been pushed back from “regular noon lunch” to 2p or 3p. In a pinch, if there’s nobody around to demand instruction from, I can dip into the snack bucket and unwrap something and eat it, which might give me the mental space to figure out what I actually should eat. Kind of like how a fission bomb is used as a detonator for a fusion bomb.
Oh just pack the same lunch every day. Is it enjoyable? No. Did I prefer a peanut butter on whole wheat with an apple to actually having to decide what to eat or dealing with inconvenience in preparing lunch? You cannot understand how much of a game changer this was. No struggle to pack a lunch. If I was busy the night before then I’d just pack an extra in advance (and keep emergency food in my desk).
I’m WFH, no packing required.