The preface is ridiculous. Salads, PBJs, Ramen, rice and veggies, english muffins / rice cakes and PB/nutella. I'm not sure why this is a thing.
I'm voted down for looking at the link and giving a half dozen options without reading the link.
The Sad Bastard Cookbook
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#12Reminds me of a non satire student cookbook where recipes are sectioned by what utensils and cooking appliances you have at hand. E.g. one pot, frying pan, etc. all the way up to, well a normal kitchen.
Or the sad microwave cooking https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTp1iWAHHko
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#14The preface is ridiculous. Salads, PBJs, Ramen, rice and veggies, english muffins / rice cakes and PB/nutella. I'm not sure why this is a thing.
Is it ridiculous because it is too complicated, or too sinple?
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#15The preface is ridiculous. Salads, PBJs, Ramen, rice and veggies, english muffins / rice cakes and PB/nutella. I'm not sure why this is a thing.
Don't underestimate the stresses, struggles, and conditions people are dealing with in life that make tasks difficult which may seem trivial to you.
There was a 6 month period in my life where 3 slices a bread per day and cup of tea per day were all I could afford. When that ran out it was cornflakes and tea. Last week in the month was just tea. I had this novel idea of crumbling some bread, mixing it up with water to create a paste and then applying the paste to the 2 remaining slices. That was my Sad Bastard Menu.
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#16How many commenting / voting actually followed through and downloaded the content? The content itself is a mess (they admit to it) and sensible alternatives are an easy first pass.
The link is worth looking at and the recipes aren't bad. But "so you don't die" is hyperbole and you can survive on less.
I live in a food void and cooking is a passion. The link isn't bad, but it's approach is over the top.
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#17Would work better as a webpage with clickable ToC. I'm not gonna print out a 146 page doc with such recipes as boxed mac and cheese.
> webpage And, as an extension of that: a real, reflowable, searchable, bookmarkable ebook.
Early stopper. Since you are there, you could make the contents into a reorganized sqlite file for queries such as "Which dishes contain pasta or broccoli".
(For only tentative searches, you know you have Transformers.)
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myself, I would also reorganize the contents in a multipanel demoscene interface such as Crusaders' "Bass-o-matic" ( https://media.demozoo.org/screens/s/f4/b1/d9ee.107542.png ), but with queries, selectors and hyperlinks, but that may just be me.
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#18I wish I could just take one pill a day (or three) for nutrition (and satiating hunger) and not have to eat meals at all. That would be amazing, not to have to deal with food. Buying, preparing, ordering, over eating.
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#19The preface is ridiculous. Salads, PBJs, Ramen, rice and veggies, english muffins / rice cakes and PB/nutella. I'm not sure why this is a thing.
The funny thing is, I’m not even sure if you mean that this is ridiculous because it’s so simple or because it’s so complicated. I say this, because, when I was at the worst of my depressive state, and still occasionally every now and then, I get to the point where I just can’t do anything at all and if there’s more than one or two steps between me and eating, I’ll just go days without eating at all, this kind of depression menu is the exact kind of menu that I was looking for that period of time. Something simple, something fast, something easy. I didn’t even have clean dishes available because I was too depressed to do anything, so if it required any level of cooking more than what the microwave and a paper bowl could handle, then I just wouldn’t eat. I literally would go days without eating because the mental energy to even chew and swallow wasn’t there. I’m glad there are people making cookbooks like this.
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#20Reminds me of a non satire student cookbook where recipes are sectioned by what utensils and cooking appliances you have at hand. E.g. one pot, frying pan, etc. all the way up to, well a normal kitchen.
As a student myself I’d appreciate all those recipe sites to have a filter by appliances. Seems half of recipes involving meat requires a stove I don’t have.