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So you're eating 4-5 meals a day, I suppose? Eat two meals and you will lose weight. Simple as that.
I'm usually two or three meals. Just hard to control portion consistently.
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What about saving for the next day, composting or donating? As a former professional cook it burns me to see such a casual suggestion to waste food. I’ve worked for people who would weigh the food you swept up off the floor at the end of the day to illustrate waste.
You’re a professional cook, and personal food waste bothers you? That’s surprising to me given my own experience behind the scenes with institutional food service, which involved massive amounts of waste.
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What about saving for the next day, composting or donating? As a former professional cook it burns me to see such a casual suggestion to waste food. I’ve worked for people who would weigh the food you swept up off the floor at the end of the day to illustrate waste.
It's not just the cooked food you're throwing away, it's also the parts of the vegetables that you're dumping. For years I had been throwing the stem of the broccoli into the compost only to find out that it's not only edible but it's really tasty. Then I hear that the leaves of radish is also edible, so that gets thrown into a stir-fry / omelette / stamppot / salad for another meal..
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What about saving for the next day, composting or donating? As a former professional cook it burns me to see such a casual suggestion to waste food. I’ve worked for people who would weigh the food you swept up off the floor at the end of the day to illustrate waste.
Composting is just one (preferred) way to throw away food. Saving for the next day and especially donating isn't practical in the small amounts we're talking about. Personal home cooking is very different from large scale professional kitchens / dining.
You might be surprised though how leftovers are recombined to form new dishes, even in large scale operations. Working with what you got can be just as important as food safety, foundational knowledge or technique.
It helps to have a few go-to recipes that can accept a wide variety of ingredients in small portions. For me, I usually go to either omelettes, veggie burgers or fried rice / stir fry.
Donating is the hardest one for sure due to laws and logistics. I’ve taken to giving out my extra sourdough bread or cinnamon rolls to friends and neighbors, or have my wife take them to the office; there’s always one or two that we know we won’t get to before they go bad (if we want to maintain our physiques anyways).
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Do you have kids? Some of the little kids I've known would literally not want to eat anything all day. I don't know if they didn't feel hunger or just didn't yet associate it with eating. And plenty of kids (and adults!) will refuse food they don't like even if they are 'hungry', because during a normal western life they don't actually get that hungry. Because parents don't want to starve their kid into eating vegeta…
That is not the case being talked about, and even in your case, this is still not how I would teach my kid to be grateful. I never said I would let them go hungry, I am really not sure from where you got that. I assume you are only responding to "the kid would not need any reasons to be told if s/he is hungry.". It is true in most cases, I was not accounting for depression and so on, but that in itself might dissipat…
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I always feel bad when asking to pack the leftovers at the restaurant. is it rude or a sign of being poor? I'm unsure.
> Is it rude or a sign of being poor? Thinking about wether or not it is a sign of being poor is a sign of being poor. What would Scrooge McDuck do?
Whatever the f* he wants.
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That is not the case being talked about, and even in your case, this is still not how I would teach my kid to be grateful. I never said I would let them go hungry, I am really not sure from where you got that. I assume you are only responding to "the kid would not need any reasons to be told if s/he is hungry.". It is true in most cases, I was not accounting for depression and so on, but that in itself might dissipat…
Yes, if you simplified it to the point of triviality then every comment on the topic is silly. That's basically how parenting works.