How I Choose What Food to Eat

One of my favorite lunches is a quick and simple meal of broccoli and turkey. All I really need to do is pop the raw broccoli + the turkey in the microwave, and viola, I have steamed veggies and some meat! My old manager never truly understood this. “Jason, some people live to eat, but you eat to live, don’t you.”
The real answer is: it depends!
I consume food as a function of 4 variables:
- Health as H
- Cost as C
- Taste as T
- Ambiance as A
These 4 variables are influenced by 1 coefficient, X, which embodies:
- the people that I am with (company)
- desire to create memories
Desire for food Y can be imagined in a function as simple such as:
Y = [(H) + (X/4)^2*(T + A)]/C
X = 10 is when I’m sitting in Paris with on my honeymoon (I would like to immortalize this moment)
X = 1 is when I’m I have 15 minutes between meetings to grab food (Hurry up body, this chewing is distracting)
Generally speaking, anything with X =< 4 and means I’m generally disregarding Taste and Ambiance as a deciding factor on my food. In other words, the health and the cost are going to be the primary drivers. However, if you catch me on vacation (maybe around the X = 6-7 range), I’m going to start paying a little more attention to that taste and ambiance levels.
X | Multipler | What is this? |
1 | 0.06 | 10 minutes between meetings go go go |
2 | 0.25 | |
3 | 0.56 | |
4 | 1.00 | |
5 | 1.56 | Vacation |
6 | 2.25 | Vacation |
7 | 3.06 | |
8 | 4.00 | |
9 | 5.06 | |
10 | 6.25 | Honeymoon |
Of course, whenever the C cost approaches 0, the desire for that food reaches almost infinity. If you serve me an amazingly healthy, tasty, and free food in amazing ambience…