2) No, I grew up in Oklahoma, which was more conventional with an all all-American diet.
3) In California, each person is different. Perhaps as many as 20% is vegetarian, & I'm one of those. I also plan to try fitting in more aspects of The Mediterranean Diet.
4) Lounging around the house all day, I just ate snacks rather than concise meals.
I had a baked sweet potato & an avocado, mashed & made into 2 big sandwiches with mozzarella cheese melted on the toasted bread first.
Later I had plain yogurt with spices stirred in.
At some point in time I had a cup of apricot mango juice.
Finally, last night I had a frozen Amy's Pocket Sandwich, the variety containing a creamy broccoli filling, which smells & tastes something like chicken pot pie without the chicken. So, it sounds like barely any dinner at all. That's why I listed everything for the whole day. It wasn't much to eat, but I wasn't using many calories at all just sitting at the computer & going out to get the newspaper, etc.
A better diet would have been steamed veggies with tahini (often my side dish with breakfast!), cheese omelet, for lunch, rice & lentils & veggies with Indian seasoning, cooked apples that I make with chutney type seasoning, a couple of bananas, & so on for the day. That might be a more active day.
Some workdays also involve snacks that people bring as treats. For instance, the day before yesterday somebody brought in several types of bagels & 3 tubs of cream cheese. Since I was working late, I had 3 bagels with cream cheese in addition to both lunch & evening meals that I brought in to microwave. So, I had plenty to eat. (Lest you think that I'm probably a tub, I'll mention that I'm very underweight & always trying to gain weight.) Most of us at work either bring or buy something there like a burrito or whatever to heat in the microwave. Burritos & wraps are very common. For about 3 of us who are vegetarians, that may be a bean burrito or one of Amy's frozen meals or for any of us, something from Trader Joe's. I may instead prepare an entree at home from scratch & heat that. It usually is something with rice or quinoa or another grain. I also like to bring plain yogurt or rice pudding. There's a snack bar upstairs, & I may get a chocolate muffin & a banana as a mid-morning snack. I may have a lukewarm baked sweet potato or a couple of bananas brought from home. Mid-morning is prime time for me to feel starved, in spite of a big breakfast.
So, I eat more on a workday with much more food before work & at noon, but very little in the evening. Evening is for very light meals like soup or salad & maybe later, hot milk before bedtime. I'm not very hungry in the evening. Would probably eat it if somebody else cooked it.
Q1 Where do you live? Illinois
Q2 Did you grow up there? yes
Q3 What do you consider your countries cuisine to be all about? meat and potatoes
Q4 What did you have for dinner yesterday. Roasted turkey breast with potatoes and carrots and gravy. Jelly beans, rice pudding. That was today, yesterday was out to eat at a restaurant for salad, fried chicken, baked potato and green beans. Breakfast was cocoa krispies with sliced banana and chocolate milk on it. If your a chocoholic like me, try it, it was fantastic!'
California
yes
fast food/food from every country
angel hair alfredo with lobster
Q1 Where do you live? (a country/state is specific enough)
Q2 Did you grow up there?
Q3 What do you consider your countries cuisine to be all about?
Q4 What did you have for dinner yesterday.
