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Liberal_L33t posted:I am perfectly aware of how to cook. I grew up with a (mostly) stay-at-home dad who was downright obsessed with gourmet cooking and made drat sure I knew how to do it, to the point that he eventually trained me into doing most of it. Risotto, fried chicken from scratch, casseroles, brussels sprouts in vinaigrette, vegetable stew, shrimp with panko breadcrumbs, spaghetti with homemade cream sauce, home-made pizza (making even the loving dough from scratch), oven baked carrots with herb du provence, and a dozen other frou-frou things he saw watching the cooking channel. Hahaha too good for leftovers. Its funny you guys are taking Liberal_L33t seriously, and only gradually learning that he's possibly the worst poster in D+D, and that is loving saying something. Anyway, as far as food waste goes, I was surprised to see in the OP that 2/3rds of waste came from consumers. This was in France, I wonder how that number changes in other countries, or in urban vs rural areas. For myself, I try to not waste, though I could try harder. Its true that being single makes it easier to waste food. It certainly isn't impossible though. I get my bread from a local bakery. Made that day, good quality, no preservatives (and pretty cheap too, like 3-4 bucks a loaf). Anyway, stuff goes bad fast. My solution is to wrap the loaf in a plastic grocery bag (to prevent it going stale) and to put the bag in the fridge, to prevent mold. Lasts a week, easily, when left on the counter it would go bad in 2 days. Vegetables I'm not as good with these days, I get distracted by the noodle place nearby and don't cook as much as I should. When I do cook I don't worry much if the veg looks a bit diminished. It'll usually still cook up ok, especially if its in something like a pasta sauce. I don't want to cook everyday, so I'm trying to get myself back into the habit of making bulk meals (chilli, pasta, soup) and storing them in the freezer for a few weeks. I'm a bit lazy, but this is extremely cost effective and very healthy. I can spend 20 bucks and a a few hours of work (including shopping and cleaning up) to make 15 meals that keep a long time. Rice is your friend. When I was very poor I lived largely off rice and assorted cheap or discarded veggies from a local market. Cream of mushroom soup as a sauce. I don't know how many times I had that meal. Not glamorous nor especially delicious, but cheap as dirt and really quite healthy. I never got into bulk beans/peas but these are ultra cost effective as well. I understand the feeling of getting home and not wanting to work anymore, just to flop down, eat something tastey and bake in front of a screen, with some beer. This is a lifestyle thing I know, but even when I do this I don't usually feel better, or satisfied by the end of the night. I just shuffle off to bed, still feeling beat. I do feel better if I get exercise or eat something like good food. Its a discipline thing, and often hard to do if you're living alone.
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Discendo Vox posted:I've given you three different links to contemporary nutrition standards. "Processed" is not a valid heuristic for the health impact of food, and neither is "junk". The primary cause of negative dietary outcomes is excess calories in comparison with exercise. The breadth of safe and nutritious diets is broader than you are comfortable acknowledging. You've fetishized home cooking and constructed a mental image of others in the thread as incompetent man-children eating Twinkies on the couch. Brazil has a good fit for that talks ask about processed foods, and that they should be minimised. No, they don't give an airtight definition of processed. It's vague, because when buying stuff is all very areas, and as a health guide is important to give broad advice that is easy to understand. And yes, junk food is a fine term to use when discussing diets, and yes it is bad for you. You say yourself that the science in this field is very young it changes frequently. This doesn't mean we should give the benefit of the doubt to chips and pop and big mac's.
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Mar 26, 2016 20:40
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PT6A posted:Why not? I eat all those things occasionally, and I'm in good health and not overweight. We need to focus on why people are eating those things in such amounts, or with such frequency, that it becomes unhealthy. Yes you eat then occasionally. I occasionally eat lovely food too, and I don't feel unhealthy. How's about this. When I say something is "bad" for you, I mean that on a spectrum of "rarely eat" to "eat frequently if you want", it would sit near "rarely eat". Broccoli would go on the other side of the spectrum- maybe eating broccoli ask the time of bad for you I'm not sure- but hey it's not absolutely good or bad, just at a different part of the frequency spectrum. I think saying that frequently eating broccoli is better for you than frequently eating big macs is something we can agree on.
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Mar 27, 2016 15:27
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Magic Hate Ball posted:"I'm poor and tired and I was never provided with healthy life management skills because my parents were also poor and tired, but when I eat McDonald's I feel okay for a while" Pretty much this.
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Mar 27, 2016 21:35
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Obdicut posted:And 'plants' is a silly thing to say: wheat is a plant and eating bread does not produce satiety. I think you mean 'vegetables'. Good thing you pointed this out. No more will I think of bread when somebody says "plants".
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Mar 30, 2016 18:38
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Helsing posted:
My guess is there is a lot of this. Even among friends of mine who are typically employed, albeit minimally, they will spend every cent they have with little thought put to planning. If they run out of money they get "cheap" things like small chocolate bars or bags of chips, even though these are actually super expensive compared to what an equivalent amount of rice would cost. I'm really not sure why they do this as its not how I operate. They live pay-cheque to pay cheque and are constantly poor. By changing their buying habits they could, by their own admission, have plenty of money with no change to their quality of life. Its baffling.
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Mar 31, 2016 21:18
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Alright, well done.