I totally can and do eat the same dinner for 3, 4 or 5 nights in a row. My wife hates it, though. But since I do all the cooking, she doesn't have much choice.

I love leftovers. I love cooking most of the time, but I hate rushing to make breakfast or lunch to take to work. I'll stretch leftovers out for those meals as long as I can.

I'm good for a couple days, but then I get tired. Typically, I plan for leftovers so I can bring them in to work for lunches. That means I get two dinners and two lunches out of most recipes. If a recipe is larger, then I'll freeze half right away to have for a quick meal down the road.

My husband and I very often eat the same meal two days in a row, whether it is leftovers or freshly made. Part of the reason for that is that it's hard to buy meat in portions small enough for two so it takes us two nights to cook up fresh meat.

Generally, 3 nights is the max for having the same food, but there are exceptions. My husband can go for homemade burritos for about 4 days - more if I vary the filling or make quesadillas instead of the burritos (but essentially it's the same thing in a different form).

At three nights in a row I get sick of leftovers. I can eat it for lunch forever, though.

Like many have said, lunch demands less variety than dinner. But even for dinner I can happily eat the same thing 3 nights in a row. Unfortunately, my husband and daughter cannot. To quote her, "But we ALREADY had this!" So I freeze leftovers and everyone is happy to eat them next week.

I find that when I'm by myself, it's easy and even good to make a big vat of something simple on the weekend, and then eat it every night for dinner all week. It's quick, leaves me time and energy to work in the evenings, and saves on prep and cleanup.

But when I'm enjoying food with a roommate or now, with my husband, I'd rather have something different every night. That second person provides someone to talk about the food, and an extra pair of hands to help.

Next week when my husband goes out of town, though, I think I'll be eating beans and rice and lots of that spaghetti-in-red-wine recipe you posted yesterday--for every meal, lunch and dinner!

I can with certain foods (soups, turkey/chicken, roasts) but it's almost impossible to get my husband to eat the same thing twice. So if I want to use leftovers, I have to plan ahead and make something that can be hidden in something else, like chicken chili being turned into enchiladas or etc.

The sole exception, for some mysterious reason, is quiche. It's not even his favorite meal ever, but he'll happily eat it as long as it lasts.

I gotta do something different every night, but don't mind it for lunch the next day. We seem to have been going fairly strong on a rotation of pasta, meat/potatoes, beans/rice, chicken/some other starch for a few months now . . any ideas to get outta the rut?

I get bored of food rather quickly; my boyfriend can barely stand having dinner leftovers for lunch the next day. If I do make a large batch of stew or a roast, I try to make a different vegetable dish each night to accompany it.

I have Soup Sundays...I make a huge pot of soup and eat it for dinner that night and lunch the rest of the week. Though, by the end of that week, I am real tired of that soup.

Three nights is about the max for me, particularly if eat the same thing for lunch, too.

I find that if I freeze the food, I forget about it permanently.

My boyfriend is so easy with food, he'll eat the same thing forever if he has to. I'm pretty good at it, too, but a week does it for me usually.

Gracia

Depends on the food. Soup, I'll eat for a couple of days and then not want to touch that recipe again for six months or more. But then again, I'll happily eat TJ's gyoza for dinner all week, or an egg over pasta. Since I like cooking, though, I often only do this until I have time to go grocery shopping.

Breakfast, I'm happy with little or no variation. Bowl of cereal (nearly always the same kind) handful of raisins on top.

i often end up eating the same thing for days and days and days. We're talking powering through enormous curries lasting 1.5 weeks, bottomless cauldrons of soup, etc. Why? It's not that i necessarily enjoy doing it, but rather i hate the thought of preparing something new when i KNOW i've got something already made in the fridge that needs eating. I also need to learn to cook in smaller portions (though i do save a tonne of weekday time this way).

I eat a small vegetarian chili every single day for lunch, at work. It's the cheapest thing in our cafeteria, and also the most consistently edible. :P Our cafeteria doesn't have a great track record for delicious food. The chili is the only item I never regret buying. Friends at work think I have issues, as I never change up my menu.

At home, we rarely repeat meals for dinner.

When I ask my husband what he wants for dinner it is ALWAYS either baked chicken and rice or spaghetti. And he would eat those two things every single night, with cereal for breakfast every morning and something out of a vending machine every lunch.

It drives me crazy. While I can eat leftovers for breakfast and lunch, I cannot eat the same thing for dinner more than once a week.

If I'm on my own, I could eat stirfy every night. I'll mix it up and have noodles one night, rice the next or vary the sauce a little bit, but I never get tired of it. Since moving in with my boyfriend though, I tend to keep our meals as varied as possible (we'll take leftovers for lunch!).

ill usually stick to the same thing all weekish for breakfast and lunch, dinner is my time to experiment and try new recipes or make something ive been craving.

If anything leftovers are recycled for lunches not dinners!

I could truly, truly eat buffalo tacos every night for the rest of my life, so long as the veggies are fresh.

I'm really happy when I make something that we can have for dinner one night, then take for a lunch for at least two or three more days. If I'm going to serve leftovers for dinner, I will try to make something about it a little different. The exception is homemade felafel. I could eat it every night for a week and be completely happy.

I hate NOT having enough leftovers of stuff, especially when it's something really tasty, but I'd rather eat it just once again and then tuck the rest away in the freezer. Nothing elevates leftovers like pulling them out of the freezer when you're hungry for something delicious but too lazy to cook.
Freezer jackpot.

I can do leftovers the next day for lunch and then I am sick of them. If I make big portions of something, I usually portion it out in quart-size Ziploc freezer bags and freeze them. (Protip: using Ziploc bags instead of Tupperware uses less space.)

I've been doing this the past 4 years. its called living in the dorms. :P

I love summer break because I get to go home and use our kitchen(the past 8 years my mom doesn't cook much-I figure she did enough working all day the least I can do is cook dinner)

It really depends on what it is.... Stews, potato chowder, curry, spinach ravioli - I could eat those all week long and be happy.

My boyfriend, on the other hand, draws the line at 2x - once for dinner, once for lunch.

-Ruth

I'm very routine, so much so that I'm sure it's not good for me. I find a breakfast and lunch that work for me, give me the right mix of protein and carbs, and I eat it day after day -- for months. Right now for breakfast it's oatmeal with mixed-in vanilla yogurt alongside a couple hard-boiled egg whites, and a deli sandwich with hummus and iced tea for lunch. I like not having to think about what to eat at 6:00 a.m.

I usually vary my dinners, though, and am a big fan of having leftovers for another night or two.

Generally speaking, I hate leftovers. (I usually end up throwing them out if I don't freeze them.)

But there is one thing...

I could eat pizza about 14 meals a week.

beans, salsa and tortillas ... all day ... every day ... mmm!

change it up by changing the salsa, corn or flour tortillas, add eggs for b-fast, and by adding sour cream, or cheese, or salad. mmm!

I often eat leftovers for lunch and a PB&J is my standard breakfast that I have almost every day. Breakfast and lunch I don't care too much about variety because I'm usually busy with work and just want to fill my belly. As long as dinner has variety I'm happy.

Not that I won't use part of one dinner to make another, tonight I'm using the hambone from last night to make pea soup. Also in the summer when my garden has things ripe you may see a whole week with variations on a theme (like swiss chard) to use up the harvest.

My breakfast doesn't vary much...partially because I try to ride my bike to work and I need a breakfast that is high in protein and fiber but isn't so heavy on my stomach to make me sick. I've figured out what items work so that's breakfast. Little variation, but at 6:45am variety is not what's on my mind.

Lunches and dinner do vary as much as possible. Even when I make a big pot I try to insert other things so it's not the same thing all the time. Dinner leftovers become lunch, but often the day after, so I eat something else in between. Yet, parts of my lunch are strangely boring: every lunch includes yogurt for dessert and either a piece of fruit or veggie sticks (carrots/celery/cucumber/etc.).

Admittedly I get bored eating the same thing all the time. I blame it on my mother, who liked to try new recipes to the point we didn't eat the same thing twice in a month sometimes.

The hubby and I eat leftovers the next day for lunch. Other than that I don't think I'd be happy eating leftovers over and over again. I don't typically make dishes so large that we'd have more than 4 servings anyway, except soup which I freeze excess leftovers for those times when you don't have the energy to cook or pack a lunch.

Quite honestly, I can't even eat the same thing for breakfast every day. I have common foods I eat in the morning, but I rotate them frequently.

Continually eating the same thing over and over doesn't seem healthy either. If you did it long enough, wouldn't you end up with a vitamin deficiency? A healthy diet has variety in it.

If I can find a way to make it a little different, then its good. Some things, like my mom's lasagna (that she never makes any more), 'fake' meatloaf (aka cottage cheese loaf), bourek (spinach, pine nuts, cheese and phyllo layered thing)... that stuff I could live on. But those are favorites of mine, and I get really tired of the run of the mill dinner options. So I make up stuff to change it up a bit. Cream of celery soup becomes celery cheese soup or pimiento cheese celery soup, and I eat it with different things so it doesn't seem the same. Likewise, the freezer is a good friend, and I often try to make small batches of things.

And I just cannot do the same thing for lunch and dinner, or dinner and then lunch the next day.

Breakfast is the exception, because (when I'm awake for that) I don't care if I eat the same cereal every day for a month straight.

Depends on what it is- just finished a week of homemade mac and cheese- mmmm, but most things get old before that. I wish I had a bigger freezer.

I only cook for myself most of the time, so there are a lot of times when it is more convenient to cook up several servings of something since it uses canned ingredients or something else that's hard to get in small amounts and doesn't keep well. I'm kind of forced in these cases to eat the same thing sever times in a week, a the beginning it's kind of nice, but towards the end I kind of just force myself to keep from wasting things.

I'm admittedly terrible about this kind of thing. Scrambled eggs with a little Quattro Formaggio (from TJ's!) with Sriracha for breakfast. Every morning. I work in restaurants though, so my lunches and dinners are usually taken care of there. Though I tend to pick the same items off the menu. My one night off every week though, I love to have baked salmon with green beans. Mmm..I really look forward to Monday nights!

I try to make things to freeze for later, but then the husband says, hey, why don't we just eat the rest of this? I'm fine with twice in a row. It's rarely more than that. But if I make something for myself that the husband doesn't like (like dal, funnily) it lasts longer and then it does get old.

I used to eat stir-fry with the same sauce at least 5 nights a week in university. I'd try a new recipe maybe once a week and then eat the leftovers for lunch. I think I'd still be doing that except now I live with my boyfriend and I'd feel bad subjecting him to that.

My husband would be happy eating the same two things (pizza and cheeseburgers) every day and night, but eating the same thing too often makes me lose interest in food. I need variety. I can handle eating leftovers for lunch, though.