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I 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.
You will miss a lot of sensory sensations with that. You may treat your body as a brain-riding bipedal machine, but it is not a healthy approach.
When It's really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die. My "I cant be bothered" template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category * 1/2 LB (225g) veggies * 1/2 LB or 1 fruit * 1 protein * Caloric l…
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We meal plan every week, but when I'm feeling less bothered I lean on a few dishes. They're not quite as simple as pasta plus jarred sauce, but from practice I can go from knife to table in 30 minutes, with basically no dishes. [0] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021485-one-pan-orzo-wit... [1] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020291-vegetarian-mushr...
These links are paywalled, "This is a subscriber-only recipe." For curious folks, the URL says they are one-pan orzo with spinach and feta, and vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas.
Making your life more miserable by giving you instructions on how to eat an apple or store-bought Mac & Cheese. If it at least had some high quality photographs of the end result maybe it could push you towards saying "Ok, I'll eat". Because if you're really hungry, you're going to eat anyway, even if it's just an apple. But one does not need such a book for that. I'm sorry, but stuff like this doesn't excite me.
Maybe that's true for you and that's great, but you are wrong if you think that applies to everyone.
Really funny, but a lot of those contain more carbs than fiber, so they cannot be used every day.
Just to be shockingly pedantic -- Dietary fiber are carbs so containing more fibre than carbs is technically impossible. Ok, but I think your point means like refined starchy foods, and not fibrous vegetables and grains?
Just like when people say "sugar", they usually mean the white stuff, or fructose syrup, not carbs in general nor fructose in fruits.
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Just want to second this. My family of four have been waiting for more than a year for our new kitchen (long and boring story) and we’ve managed fine after buying two of these to get by. And we enjoy cooking. So if you’re just starting out this is a great buy. A full size stove will have a larger element and better heat control but you won’t notice. And they are way better than a gas camp stove.
If you upgrade to a Breville Control Freak (not cheap, but cheaper than your new kitchen) and you get used to it (it require recalibrating your concept of how to use a stove a bit), you might find that you never use your new stove in your new kitchen. The Control Freak has: Better heat control. (That’s the entire point. It smokes essentially everything else in the market.) Painless preheating. Put on your pan, turn i…
Any non-wealthy single person faces an uphill battle to both 1. earn a living 2. take proper care of themselves. In the Middle Ages people invented a rather neat solution for this problem: go live together in a big building, work together, pray together, cook together and call it a monastery.
How so? As a single person, one of my best purchases was an instant-pot type appliance (not the actual one, but one probably inspired by it, with less control over the temperature and especially the pressure release). In less than one hour from start to finish, I can chop the vegetables, cook, clean the kitchen utensils while cooking, move the finished food into a big container for storage (or one per serving if you…
When It's really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die. My "I cant be bothered" template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category * 1/2 LB (225g) veggies * 1/2 LB or 1 fruit * 1 protein * Caloric l…
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I’ve heard that before, it always blows my mind as food is probably ~half of all enjoyment I get from life. I don’t have a particularly developed palate or anything, I wonder if this difference in appreciation is physical or psychological
The world would be a boring place if we were all the same. I’m glad there are people like you who care so much, and I’m also glad there are people like me :) Be glad you have something you can enjoy so much every day!
Making your life more miserable by giving you instructions on how to eat an apple or store-bought Mac & Cheese. If it at least had some high quality photographs of the end result maybe it could push you towards saying "Ok, I'll eat". Because if you're really hungry, you're going to eat anyway, even if it's just an apple. But one does not need such a book for that. I'm sorry, but stuff like this doesn't excite me.