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Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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recipes to make when you've worked a 16-hour day Why not just sit down in a restaurant on your way home? Or if you worked at home, take a nice walk and sit down in a nice restaurant along the way?

1. Because they are a "sad bastard"

(And not a highly paid programmer)

2. It's a recipe book

(For cooking by oneself not a self help book for fixing ones sad bastardness)

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Reminds 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.

Who needs a stove?

https://youtu.be/lvVplicKlrc?t=185

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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post #50

recipes to make when you've worked a 16-hour day Why not just sit down in a restaurant on your way home? Or if you worked at home, take a nice walk and sit down in a nice restaurant along the way?

1. Because they are a "sad bastard" (And not a highly paid programmer) 2. It's a recipe book (For cooking by oneself not a self help book for fixing ones sad bastardness)

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Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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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.

You're being downvoted because your message was dismissive and lacked empathy. (by others, not me)

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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How 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.

The "so you don't die" is both black humour and a reference to it being things you might be willing/able to both assemble and eat while exhausted, depressed or otherwise impaired.

I've had days when I can't get past the activation energy required to use a frying pan, but a microwaved poached egg on toast is just about within my mental capacity. I've had days when I can't deal with anything with a significant flavour or complicated texture, but I can manage to eat a bowl of ramen over the course of an hour or so.

It's not about what you -can- survive on, the anticipated limiting factor here is the human themselves.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever tried not eating at all? Fasting is actually easier than you think once you get over the initial hunger humps. Obviously seek proper medical advice first but just to point out that it's possible and I've personally done up to five day fasts while still working and going to gym as normal.

Hah strange that people are downvoting this answer, I think the parent referred to skipping a meal rather than not eating for the rest of (now short) life. I’ve been skipping a meal for 5 years now, with just having lunch and dinner, and for the last year have been trying to do only dinner some of the days with relative success. Benefits include staying fit, having more energy, having more time, enjoying the food I a…

perhaps people are wary of people who actually believed you could live on air and sun. Yes, people died because of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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There are quite a few companies that deals with this, usually in the form of a shake rather than a pill. I think Soylent was the name of one of the early entrants.

Now I feel old. It feels like yesterday that everyone was talking about Soylent and its eccentric founder who ordered new shirts from China instead of washing the ones he had and tried to find a diet that allows you to not to have to use the bathroom.

I am strangely intrigued by the bathroom avoidance. Did he find much success? Although, I seem to recall a correlation between low fiber/defecation frequency and colon cancer, but not sure how strong the association was supposed to be.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Thank you for posting this. It made me realize that with this very portable device I can eliminate a stove from dwelling requirements.

A lot of dishes would require more than one of these, at which point you might as well get an actual stove.

With an Instant Pot, an induction burner, and a toaster oven you can make anything that would require a normal kitchen, just in smaller portions (as in, you aren't cooking a whole turkey or a giant casserole).
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