Do You Like Your Meals Plain or Fancy?

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In my last post, http://www.mylot.com/post/3156214/i-cant-believe-how-easy-it-is-to-pass-by-the-sweets-now, I talked about my efforts to eat healthier meals. I am making so much progress that foods I used to crave don't have the same power over me as they used to. I am learning to enjoy and be content with foods that are as close as possible to their natural condition, allowing for applying heat to cook some of them. The photo shows a typical lunch I might eat, with some variation in the type of fruit or vegetables. I am happy with this. And I don't feel guilty about eating it. It's also very easy to prepare. For breakfast I might have a hard-boiled egg, some almonds, a tangerine, and maybe some toast or a half avocado. Or I might have my power breakfast -- rolled oats, chopped walnuts and apples, and blueberries, topped with cinnamon and Xylitol (a sweetner that's good for your teeth), and goat milk. I eat it cold and it's really quite good. In really cold weather I might have hot oatmeal. Or scrambled eggs. I don't eat a separate lunch and dinner. I eat my main meal in the late afternoon most of the time, since I usually eat my breakfast in late morning. I normally have homemade soup, salad, the meal you saw above, or, on Sundays, a hot meal with baked salmon, broccoli, some form of sweet potatoes, and brown rice. I usually add a tangerine for me. Sometimes I make a pot roast. When we watch TV, the commercials often show some very fancy foods being served in restaurants, resorts, and on cruise ships. Many of them are considered gourmet foods. For some reason those don't even look good to me. I'm sure I wouldn't starve on a cruise because I know I'd find something I like, but it probably wouldn't be the exotic foods. I do miss eating my favorite pasta dishes, and sometimes I do make them. I do like meat and fish in some forms. I'm not as wild about lots of sauces and exotic seafoods. I'll skip the bisque, thank you. Many of the recipes I see on blogs leave me cold. I guess my taste buds aren't a fancy as most people's are. I do like pizza, but don't eat it often anymore because I know its not good for me. I learned to like Cantonese food when I was three years old and my parents took me to a Chinese restaurant in Sacramento. They were amazed when I actually loved the food. I still do, but don't often eat it anymore because it takes so much time to chop everything up. I still stir fry, though, when the foods I have on hand seem to call for it. How about you? Do you like your food plain or fancy? Or do you like both? Does it depend on the occasion or on who does the cooking? If you had a personal chef and cost didn't make a difference, what would your favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner be? What are your favorite foods? Have your tastes changed over the years?