This was my day today. Get up at 5:30, make coffee, take pills, shower, get dressed. Spend a bit of time on trapperman, Fox News, Newsmax. Check my work route for the day while nuking a breakfast biscuit I made a couple of weeks ago. Give the lady some love and encourougement and head out to work. End of work day, come home and pull pork butts out of fridge, cube up and season. Grind 15# of breakfast sausage while making biscuits from a can. Thaw burger, pick tomatoes and cukes for side with dinner. Fire up the flat top and cook eggs for sausage/egg/cheese biscuits. Cook burgers, bacon and onions for dinner. Eat dinner and vac seal breakfast biscuits for next week. Polish off dishes and resume beer drinking. Oh, wait, I forgot the first beer when I finished the knife work on the pork butts. Anyway, that's about how today went for this privileged, Caucasian American. Well, at least, I eat better than most!

I guess, I was just curious how y'all live on an average day. Big breakfast at home, no breakfast, fast food breakfast? How about lunch? I make a sammich and maybe throw in some chips. Splurge a bit at dinner.

Wake up anywhere from 3-6 an enjoy my morning coffee, then take shower an off to the shop to meet the crew. Crew an I wait until we get done pouring cement or forming to grab breakfast or lunch. Hard to work on your head when full. Breakfast or lunch can be anywhere from 9-2 for us we don’t eat both. So for me I have breakfast or lunch, then come home an 99% of the time I cook supper at home. Usually an late eater about 8-10 after I enjoy a few beers

up at 00:00 to take a call for work
up at 03:00 to take a call for work

get up an take shower at 05:00

get the coffee made and wake up the wife 06:00

left over chicken and coffee for breakfast
start work at 07:00
cheap reduced price pork steak for lunch
more coffee

finish work
run some errands with the wife to the pharmacy and cheese store.
chill with the wife
clean up the kitchen some
pick zucchini , chard , green pepper , us the last few strips of bacon and the other half of my lunch pork steak to make stir fri
have that with a beer and type this

a day in the life

I also eat pretty well.

frugal or broke? have to be frugal if I don't want to be totally broke

Sunday evening I make a week's worth of overnight oats for breakfast at work in the mornings. I usually skip lunch and work straight through. Dinner is at home almost always cooked by my wife. I'd consider it frugal overall. My employees order lunch almost everyday. Nothing wrong with that but I'd rather spend my money on other things. Every now and then my wife will get Chick-fil-A and bring it to the office with the kids and we will have lunch together. That's always fun, getting to see the kids in the middle of the day and it's rare enough that it's a big treat for them (and me).

You can afford beer?

Me?.... I like beer an yes I can “afford” beer.

Times are hard.

I was being a smart alec to Keck, he said he does all that and then enjoys a beer.

^ no worries.

Two cups of coffee every morning...egg sandwich on toast...maybe lunch, tomatoes from the garden, another sandwich. Meanwhile, doing the work of 3 ordinary men (the kind that work). Supper has been scrounged from the garden, and I am down to pork or venison ribs and roasts in the freezer, and it's nice that cooler weather lends itself to crock pot cooking.

Squash, potatoes, peppers and tomatoes and carrots are in supply now.

middle of the night over time money right there gets me 2 cases a month of the best Miller Lite on the shelf , in bottle even.

they call me when ever they have middle of the night or early morning stuff they want done.

Miller lite because it doesn't mess up my blood sugar. I used to drink real beer.

Where is the "lady" while you are doing all this?

I have no routine. Working 12 to 16 hr shifts days one week nights the next out of town while working. My eating and sleeping is always messed up. Probably spend 4k a year or more on eating out and on junk food while traveling. When I was off 4 month for long covid or Ms? Never determined I lost 15lb just from not eating the junk. It will be an premature death for me if I don't make some changes

3 ordinary men les?

That explains how you maintain your Greek God stature.

Y’all rich folks not sounds like, lol.

Up at 0515.
At gym by 0535.
Home by 0715.
Shower.
Pull up jobs on computer if I have any.
Call or text coworker to discuss work.
Leave house by 0800.
Home for lunch between 11 or 12. Lunch is either leftovers or a sandwich…all depends on what wife has planned for dinner.
Home by 1600.
In the woods by 1700. May just be riding, feeding, moving cameras, or even sitting in the stand.
Back home by 2000-2030.
Shower.
Eat something light.
Bed by 2200-2215.

Repeat…I’m not a big eater. Lunch is generally my big meal so I can work it off. If I eat breakfast the wife has me something by the time I get him from the gym. Drink nothing but water. Occasionally I’ll treat myself to a Mt.Dew if it’s been a rough day.

Not a breakfast person usually lunch and light supper maybe a few beers. I never eat desert or candy I hate sweets

Must be nice, lol. I could eat a dozen chocolate covered Krispy Kreme doughnuts with 3 20oz Mt.Dews and not bat an eye!!! Sweets are my downfall!!

The woman makes me a good breakfast every day without fail. One in a million!!

I must have the two out of a million woman. Probably five or six days out of the year she doesn't get up and fix me breakfast (the days I'm home, I'm gone quite often and probably only sleep at home a couple hundred days a year). On those handful of days she isn't up to fix me breakfast I usually make myself some Top Ramen or oatmeal. Used to cook steak and eggs or sausage and eggs most mornings for breakfast when I was single, but I so rarely fix my own at home any more that quick and easy usually does it.
I am usually up somewhere between 3 and 5 am, start coffee, get dressed, get ready for the day while the lady fixes breakfast, almost never eat lunch, just a big breakfast (I like to eat when I get up, not later) and a good dinner. I like milk and have it with breakfast and dinner if we've been to the store recent enough to have it in the fridge, otherwise all I ever used to drink was coffee, the wife has been on me since I got married to drink water. I used to tell her that coffee contained water, but I find myself drinking more water than I ever used to. Back when I was single I might not make it to the grocery store all winter and would go weeks at time with drinking nothing but coffee, now I seldom go a day without drinking water and/or milk. Have maybe five or six beers a year, and maybe a drink of something harder once a year. Got most of my drinking done back in the days before I was old enough to buy it legally.