I’ve just started with smoothies. Some greek yogurt(has loads of protein), frozen vegetables, honey, and water(to make it a drink) and it’s already goin’ pretty well.
I agree, it’s awful to deal with.
I’ve been making my own yogurt lately a half gallon at a time. It’s dummy easy and comes out a bit thinner than most store yogurt. It works really well as a drink or smoothie base
I’ve heard of this homemade yogurt thing. I may have to give it a go depending on how much I need but for now I don’t mind buying the stuff at the store.
I know you didn’t ask for it but I’m really excited about what I’ve been up to so here’s the process: Heat milk to 180-185f basically right as it starts to foam, let it cool to 110, mix in a spoonful of yogurt (I started with store bought Greek then keep a starter from each batch to make the next), let it sit somewhere warm for 6-24 hours. The oven with the light on works well enough but there are lots of options. Then bam you’ve got more yogurt! I like to whisk mine to make it a bit smoother and I’ve been having a glass every morning with some cherry juice mixed in, 2 parts yogurt to 1 part juice
Hmmm ok that doesn’t sound too bad to do. What vessel does it go in, just a pot? Is wider and shallower better?
I do mine in a half gallon mason jar. I’ve got fermenting lids that help me pull the air out just in case but that shouldn’t be needed. I’d avoid letting it be exposed to too much air though so maybe not a pot for the souring stage
Edit to add, I really like bon appetit videos, here is one about yogurt: https://youtu.be/D6IyyFc1RqI?si=NxZTYsx-2l3ED1e5
Ah ok, sick! Thanks!
smoothies aren’t very healthy or nutritious though. Blending removes a lot of the health benefits of fruit.
Well it’s good thing that not a single source I could find seems to agree with you or maybe I’d worry! The hell do you think chewing is?
Blending a smoothie is perfectly fine and does not hurt the nutrients at all.
it destroys the fiber benefits and makes the fruit essentially a form of processed sugar.
Chewing is different to blending
it also depends - are you making these yourself fresh or are you buying them? If buying them they are likely pasteurized and homogenized which removes nutrients.
Which may be irrelevant for you, but also for a casual reader any given smoothie does not automatically mean healthy. Like how eating a salad is not necessarily healthy if it’s drowned in Bleu cheese, nuts, cheese cubes, dried fruit and croutons.
Do people not eat salads? Like some spinach, a nice vinaigrette, some nuts, and maybe a little sliced baked chicken, with a few raspberries or something?
Can you say it in freedom units?
EAT RABBIT FOOD WITH SOME CHICKEN
New meal ideas: chicken food with rabbit
Paella says what
Do people not eat cheeseburgers? Like some ground beef, a nice condiment, some veg, and maybe a little sliced bacon, with a few fries or something?
Lmao - but if you look at the core ingredients a cheeseburger should be great. I wonder if you could actually make a healthy one if made from scratch.
Do people not eat salads?
What, like a rabbit?
Rabbits aren’t salads, silly. They are second order salads.
Microwaving some leftovers might be an option. You get the great food you put effort into making, without actually having to make the effort at lunchtime.
It’s not even an age thing, but more an economic issue, I never ran into this as an issue when the cost of eating out was affordable. Don’t feel like prepping lunch the night before? Screw it, I’ll pickup something during my lunch break for $3-4. But now that $3-4 is $10+
I find you can’t even get a sandwich anymore for less than $15.
(Fast food may be slightly cheaper. I wouldn’t know because I don’t frequent fast food chains.)
For some reason fast food is even more expensive. You’re not missing out on anything.
my weekly work lunch is a soda and a sandwich with a bag of chips. It’s $20. 5 years ago it was $12.
Grow the fuck up.
This is a first world problem
Well, what do you want to eat? I guess if you don’t want to prepare your own food, those are the only options, whether at work or at home. Otherwise, make whatever you want and take it to work. Cook more food than you need for your dinner and take the leftovers. Make a salad (tons of options for them), make a sandwich. You don’t have to eat canned soup, make some nice homemade soup and freeze a bunch of individual servings to grab and take. The possibilities are endless.
Really? I’ve been an adult for quite a while and I always look forward to lunch (all meals, actually). Plenty of quick, simple, and appealing meals to make.
You can just… not? Having two larger meals a day isn’t that weird.
I have adopted the “Central European” diet:
One large meal a day and then leftovers + bread and toppings.
Occasionally might have more but that’s my daily meal plan and works pretty great.
Bread is a life saver. If you don’t have time to cook just eat some bread. Healthy (depends on the kind of bread) and you don’t have to worry about beeing hungry an hour later.
And honestly, you can make a lot of really good bread quite quickly. Leaving out proofing for a bit, it’s less than watching an episode of a show. Bread it also easy enough that you can totally watch a show while making it, and not worry about chopping off your fingers lol
What does the rest of the world do then? Cook twice or thrice a day? That’s just silly.
Eating is a chore, I watch a video so i dont think about it, instant noodles are real easy to make at work, toss in some broccoli if youre feeling like a but fancy
Sorry to hear you don’t have functioning taste buds
I mostly eat leftovers from last night’s dinner for lunch.
Leftovers gang checking in. Sometimes it tastes even better the next day.
£4 sounds pretty cheap if it’s a decent meal
It’s a sandwich, pocket of crisps or a chocolate bar and a drink.
I would murder my whole family for a $5 sandwich meal deal in the states. Even fast food by my work is double that, and you’re still only getting America-quality food packed with sugars and preservatives.
As an American who spent time living in the UK - ‘sandwich’ is a generous description of what you get in a £4 meal deal. Some meal deals have things made from actual food but good luck finding one of those at that price.
It’s an appropriate amount of food in terms of calories, but it does leave one distinctly dissatisfied.
Yeah I’m usually more interested in nutrients than calories. Otherwise I’d just have a Guinness for lunch
Meal deals are rarely ever decent. They’re enough to get you through the working day if you sit at a desk all day.
So more like £8 or 10
California here. $15 minimum. Less if you give some shitty app all your data.
It’s called a sandwich.
I’m guessing that’s covered by the £4 meal deal, and they’re just too lazy to make their own
Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.
Is this some sort of British joke that I am too Indian to understand?
Start going to Starbucks for lunch, instead of the roadside stall and you’ll understand.
I’m happy with cooking at 13:00Why would you assume I am eating at roadside stalls? Cause I am Indian?? Ignoring that hopefully accidental racism, I do in fact cook lunch when I have the time with mostly rice with one of the premade mixes and quick vegetable stir frys. Shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to make something simple. When I am busy I usually get something either in office or nearby restaurant. A good lunch at normal restaurants usually costs about 100-300₹ per person and could get some light food within 100₹ as well. I don’t count the shit at Starbucks as a meal, maybe a snack but why a sandwich when I can get good Indian food.
₹300 comes at around 4 euros. 4 pounds is ~₹450, so it’s pretty close.
If you check the pricing of one of the shit-listed chains, you get hardly anything filling in that price, vs ₹90 for a full meal in some places (that was somewhere in Bengaluru).But that’s on the high ends tho. I just had a rava dosa and lime soda for 110 in udupi so still very affordable. The term affordable depends on each person but I think you would agree it’s very reasonable.
Exactly why I suggested going to stuff like Starbucks to understand the feelings of OP.
Ah I assumed you were praising Starbucks for some odd reason. Hard to grasp intentions on text.
I don’t even like coffee
I’m betting they didn’t mean it to be racist. I wish I had roadside stalls as options to eat at where I work. A lot of times those end up being better quality and I like the thought of giving money to the people directly making the food instead of a corporate overlord that takes 95% of the money and makes the workers divide the 5% among all of them.
We don’t have roadside stalls around me, but that’s exactly what food trucks are for. When I used to work near a bunch of food trucks, the food was fantastic, always different, and so much better than a chain restaurant
I travel a lot for work so I’ve been to a pretty large number of restaurants and such. I’ve definitely had bad food from food trucks before, but it isn’t very common for it to be abysmal. It’s not like a restaurant that can have other factors like atmosphere, lighting, etc. If the food is bad they won’t last long. Never seen a true roadside stall any of the places I’ve been though unfortunately. I’m honestly so sick of chain restaurants. They completely take over and drive local stuff out a lot of the time.
I didn’t read OP’s statement as racist.
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’
Personally, I’m always looking for the small restaurants that serve food on Styrofoam or paper plates. Bonus points if it’s attached to a gas station or the owner’s little kids are in the dining room or kitchen playing and coloring.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter, it can be a barbecue joint or some sort of Asian culture I’m ignorant of.
You see a little kid quietly coloring in a booth by themselves, you know that shit is going to be good.
The first statement sounded like I am always eating at road side stalls and never had a lunch at a restaurant. Not that I would bother going to a chain like that to begin with. I am obviously not a native speaker so maybe I misunderstood it.
I am not a fan of those road side stalls, I am not a germaphobe but at least my food should be made in a clean Kitchen. Maybe because my mom would never let me try those and I grew up that way.
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’
With my aversion to food made out in the open, right next to running cars and open-coughing people, I stopped eating from roadside stalls by the time I started having enough autonomy.
I tend to prefer non-chain restaurants with viewable kitchens [1], but due to lack of any such desirable place in my area, eating out nearby, usually means subway (which is just, less bad).Then I realise that with the amount of money I would spend to pay for the cheapest local meal place, I can actually cook with Ghee at home. And that topples the equation over its head.
- Morning: Sandwich in Ghee/butter/peanut oil depending upon the mood
- Afternoon: Fried rice in Ghee
- Evening: Gram/Kidney Beans/Lentils in Ghee, with rice
Definitely not going back to outside food with nobody knows which oil they use.
those places tend to hire cooks who actually mind their coughing ↩︎
We try and only eat out as a treat. Almost all of our my meals are eaten at home as we work from home these days. Also, my wife is an amazing cook and her food is better than most restaurants. We usually have leftovers or a sandwich for lunch.
I’m not familiar with your currency symbol? What country do you live in and are the health standards low enough that eating from a stall is a concern? That’s a different situation.
I’m in the US, so food trucks, stalls and gas stations actually have decent standards. (Often, the cleanliness in these places is heads and shoulders above corporate chain places.)
I learned to always check the bathroom of a restaurant. How clean they keep their bathroom tells you a lot about how they keep their kitchen. Small, family run, places tend to have the best food and the cleanest bathrooms, in my experience.
I’m not familiar with your currency symbol
Try
qalc.
Arch:pacman -S libqalculateDebian:apt install qalcRed Hat:yum install qalculateOtherwise: http://qalculate.github.io/It’s got both, a terminal frontend and a Qt GUI one. (Actually 3. Also a GTK one)
You can copy the currency text along with the symbol into it and by default, it will convert it to your Locale’s currency, so you can know the exchange rates at least.
Also, ₹2000 - ₹3000 per 8 hour day tends to be what an engineering fresher would normally expect in a place like Delhi, where a Subway sub will cost around ₹400.
Running stock Android on my phone and use Jerboa for Lemmy, my computer is Windows 10 as Linux still is lacking in CAD/CAM. In particular, CAM at a professional level. My home server is running Linux, however. Been playing with Linux for a long time.
Wish Mastercam worked in Linux and I’d happily make the jump.
