Who Eats Healthy?

its easy to eat less., when you cant afford food..

 

i eat tuna

yeah, you heard me. it's ominous.

 

Tuna is in fact the most commonly consumed fish in the world.

I hate how tuna never stays in the sandwich when eating your sandwich unless you mash it down like hell before putting it on the bread.

 

when i first cut out meet, i ate fish for two years.mostly tuna, cod and a few other sea aminals.

indeed

 

I recently decided to cut back on meat, junk foods and unnecessary sugars, sodas, and whatnot. I've been eating fruits and vegetables mostly. I feel good about it and I think I'm going to limit my shit even further. Oh and organic milk now too. I can no longer stand the thought of the hormones and antibiotics in shitty milk.

And for the record I love tuna sandwiches. Mix 'em with mayo and pickles. Really good.

 

i need to start doing this to. im addicted to fast food. i literally cant go two days without it. ill start eating fruit for like 3 days but fall back into my junk food addiction do they have rehab for this kida stuff?

 

i cut back on meat for budget reasons. i can stretch a kielbasa for a week, week and a half. pound of ground beef? 2-3 meals, depending on what i make. i can make one chicken leg quarter feed three people, twice. in fact, now when i am faced with a burger i just cut it in half first. a whole chicken breast is too much for me. that may change when i have my own chickens, since they are smaller than the commercial birds.

if you are hooked on fast food, i recommend learning to make those foods at home. what makes fast food so unhealthy is the way its prepared, and the 'stuff' they add to it to make it easy/fast/cheap to prepare. you can make chicken fingers at home, spritz them with some oil and bake them. you can pre-freeze homemade burger patties (between wax paper, then ziploc bag them when frozen) my dad makes killer burgers, and all he has to do is pull the number he needs out and defrost them. for meatballs he cooks, then freezes them. he makes huge batches, so he has it easier later.

you can make just about anything healthier by making it at home, and using common sense. you can make your own rolls and breads, ive been playing with biscuits lately, the altitude makes it a challenge. kitchen rehab is the best rehab ever.

 

Cajun people don't usually eat healthy but I have a physically demanding job.

 

but you have to understand that i usually eat fast food when high because im to lazy to make food myself. soooooo i might stop smoking or just try and use all my willpower not to buy fast food. i waste to much dam money on it. god dammit

 

get fruit for munchies when youre high - juicy ripe fruit is sooooo good when youre high and all it takes is a quick rinse

 

all the more reason to go on a cooking spree and freeze the extras. frozen burritos, lasagna, hell just cook something big (like a ham, or turkey) break it down and freeze it. i still have a hunk of ham in my freezer from november. its destined for baked mac and cheese and breakfast scrambles.

and definitely have already ready munchie foods on hand prior to smoking. but something filling that can be microwaved is always awesome. like meatball subs. pain in the ass if you have to make the meatballs first, but if they are already cooked and in the freezer, just toss a couple in a bowl with some red sauce.
next time you are tempted by fast food, hit a grocery store, and see what you can get for cheaper. manager special meat dictates our menu. i try not to spend more than $2/lb for meat. i am a really lazy cook, and im always in a hurry. by the time im cooking i am starving and have no patience. pasta takes 15 minutes, max. instant mashed potatoes make great potato soup. you just gotta play.
you can do it. i believe in you

 

Cutting back on meat- particularly red meat, is a great idea.... my diet includes copious amounts of chicken and tuna so my primary protein sources aren't vegetarian. It really began to sink in a number of years ago- when I found myself absently scanning the ingredients list of a box of crackers and being struck by the sheer number of ingredients that were simply not food items... things that were present merely to enhance the flavor, texture, appearance, and shelf life of something that was not created to sustain me- but to make money for its manufacturer.

We hear all about the epidemic of diabetes and obesity- and a good number of people who are my age require prescription medication- either to survive or to slow the progression of what's usually associated with accumulating some years. Drugs should be strictly recreational. You're young - likely with a very fast metabolism, so the marginal sins in the form of manufactured sugars (big fat no-no unless you aspire to be dependent on insulin), FD&C food colorings, sodium, his brother sodium, and his other brother sodium, trans fats, but these most likely have cumulative effects that begin showing up before many folks hit 30. There's possibly a push now to demonize artificial food colorings- and while I believe that it is deserved, there are innumerable things in the commercial food supply that can be mortal sins for the body- like dairy... something I initially had difficulty giving up (love ice cream, cheese, and used to ALWAYS cook in butter... the thing is that when I ditched it my borderline high cholesterol dropped to normal- within months- and has stayed there in the five years since.

Milk is intended for growing offspring and not adults. in general, the older you get the less you burn and the more you store. I think if one attempts to mimic as much as possible the type of diet we'd follow if we had to fend for ourselves- if there were no such thing as a food supply industry or groceries then one may well find minor problems and possible precursors to chronic ailments would tend to resolve. I think gardening as a means of feeding ourselves is a skill that should be taught. Meal preparation is another one.

Much of the food supply by and large is little more than low grade poison. Going organic with anything is a good idea. I was VERY happy a couple years ago to have finally scored some very tasty organic bread that isn't quite as ridiculously high in price. Bread is tough to find if you actually want tom LIKE what you're eating. Even the better brands contain bad sugars and preservatives.

I've heard that if you don't exercise but eat a perfectly healthy and balanced diet you're in far worse shape than if you exercise regularly but ate like crap.

 

i wish i had a shock collar on so every time i tried to buy fast food it zapped the shit out of me to the point where i would cry. then i wouldnt buy fast food and id go to the grocery store :love:

 

I don't want to eat meat because I don't think it's healthy in the quantities we consume and because the meat is just so low quality from mutant chickens and such.

 

why do you think my goal is a farm? lol. the turkeys we nom on for thanksgiving cant even breed naturally. i want to get some heritage turkeys, that can still make baby turkeys for me. and chickens, who get to forage. and maybe ducks. and rabbits and goats. i like my dairy, and while ive never had goats milk i am not afraid. and its better for you than cows milk anyway. maybe sheep at some point, but that would be for fiber and mutton. from what i understand sheep are really stupid. ive heard they are the only animal who will find a way to die twice. or something to that effect.

 

it makes me wish food wasn't such a big part of our lives

 

well, your options are eat or starve right?
i think the way people think about food is lamentable. food nourishes, it fuels you. when someone cooks for you, feeds you, its an expression of love. they want you to live, so they make you eat. when you cook for yourself its the same thing. when you eat crappy things its not loving yourself.
have you watched the documentary "Did Cooking Make Us Human"? everything that is alive requires sustenance.

 

yeah, i'm just saying I wish we could eat less and weren't so dependent on it.

and no I have not, but I just added it to my favorites on youtube.

 

It really isn't a complicated matter. Just try to eat as much food as you can that doesn't have an ingredients list.

Example;

Canned soup countains tons of salt, dehydrated milk product, and about 5-7 other ingredients.

Beets - Contains nothing but beet.

French fries, same deal as canned soup. Artificial sugar, salt, colouring, dehyrdated milk product, etc.

Potatos - Contains potato.

As for meat. It is the more irritating aspect of diet (for those who eat meat). About a year ago I noticed the chicken at the grocery store I'd always go to. The cuts of chicken were getting yellower and yellower every two weeks.

Either they're feeding the public chickens who suffered from liver failure, or the chickens were eating weird shit. I can't be sure what exactly causes it, but I'm not eating yellow chicken.

Pork can be just as nutritionally beneficial as chicken if you buy the right cuts.

Fish - We now have to worry about mercury and chemicals in the sea affecting the fish we eat. But it's still the best meat to eat nutritionally speaking.

You can't really avoid every problem that comes along with food. As long as man has been here, there's been problems with food. But you can do your best to understand what makes bad food bad, and you can do your best to eat good foods - foods that don't have 10 commas in the ingredients list. Or any ingredients list.

If it was manufactured in a production plant, you don't want to eat it. If it came from the earth, a tree, a field, you're probably good. Do your best to stick to whole foods.

 

If you really start to cut back on junk food you'll find it doesn't taste as good after awhile and that you don't 'feel' as well after awhile.

Start by eating a better quality junk food. Burger King is better than McDonalds. People who stop eating McDonalds for a few months-find it tastes terrible later.

Eat triscuits, granola, pop corn for munchie foods. Don't keep the bad junk food around. You can put stuff on Pop Corn that gives it amazing tastes-soy sauce, Old Bay Seasoning, Bacos- all really good on Pop Corn.

It's going to take time to ween yourself off of junk food. But once you do it's amazing how bad it tastes.