Making bracha again for same bracha

Question

If I drink water now and say a bracha, and then in a few minutes decide to eat chicken, do I repeat my shehakol?

Answer 1

Because it's a completely different type of food, it would only be covered if you had in mind to eat other types of shehakol. See Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 57:5:

If you say the berachah [Shehakol] over beer, with the intention that the berachah should exempt all other articles of food that require the berachah, Shehakol, and then fish is brought [to the table], you need not repeat the berachah over the fish. [If, however, when saying the berachah,] you did not think [about any food that might be served later], then, even if at the time the fish is served there is still some beer left, you must say the berachah over the fish. This case cannot be compared to the case of the [different] fruits, where, even though one of the fruits is an apple and the other nuts, both belong to the same category of food, whereas, beer and fish are two entirely different kinds of food, one is food, the other a beverage. [Even though both require the berachah Shehakol] the one cannot exempt the other, unless they are both on the table when you recite the berachah, or you had the intention to exempt it.

If the foods are similar, like different types of meat, Mishnah Berurah 206:22 seems to hold that you can rely on the original bracha as long as the first item is still unfinished:

ומ"מ אם הביאו לו המין האחר בעוד שלא כלה מין הראשון נראה שאין לברך כיון שהביאו לו בשעה שהיה עסוק עדיין באכילה וכן נראה להלכה

But it's best to explicitly have additional foods in mind. See here and here for more details.