Food thread

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Re: Food thread

Post by Luna » Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:16 pm

Ashenai wrote:
You can get delicious healthy food
like what? the fruits and vegetables? the meat department?

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Re: Food thread

Post by Doug » Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:19 pm

Ashenai wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:13 pm technically not an apple. the bible just says "fruit". could have been a watermelon
It was a quince
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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:22 pm

Luna wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:16 pm
Ashenai wrote:
You can get delicious healthy food
like what? the fruits and vegetables? the meat department?
There's lots of great food! You just have to be good at cooking, which I am very not.

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Re: Food thread

Post by Crunchums » Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:37 pm

god: which one of you ate from the tree of forbidden knowledge?!?
*eve licking cool ranch dorito dust off of her fingers*
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Re: Food thread

Post by pterrus » Wed Aug 17, 2022 2:48 pm

If you were a benevolent God and didn't want me to eat from the tree, why did you make it hyperpalatable?

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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:04 pm

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Re: Food thread

Post by Rylinks » Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:20 pm

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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:26 pm

unconsciously reaching for the pizza delivery is a common pitfall

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Re: Food thread

Post by Crunchums » Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:42 am

i'm used to throwing banana peels in the trash, but a couple times recently I've ended up with fruit flies breeding in the trash and i have to throw out the trash bag way before it's full
what's the best way to avoid this problem? putting the peels in a bag that i keep in the fridge and periodically throwing that out doesn't sound very appealing. neither does walking outside to the trash area to throw away just the peel every time i eat a banana. annoying
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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:46 am

I have the same problem, I usually just make separate airtight packages for them out of plastic bags I have lying around.

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Re: Food thread

Post by pterrus » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:11 pm

I knew bananas were dumpster tier, but I didn't know how literal it was.

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Re: Food thread

Post by Luna » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:42 pm

Crunchums wrote:i'm used to throwing banana peels in the trash, but a couple times recently I've ended up with fruit flies breeding in the trash and i have to throw out the trash bag way before it's full
what's the best way to avoid this problem? putting the peels in a bag that i keep in the fridge and periodically throwing that out doesn't sound very appealing. neither does walking outside to the trash area to throw away just the peel every time i eat a banana. annoying
is it an open trash?

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Re: Food thread

Post by Crunchums » Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:59 pm

Luna wrote: is it an open trash?
no
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Re: Food thread

Post by Doug » Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:57 pm

There's bug spray that's especially for flies
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Re: Food thread

Post by mindwarped » Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:12 am

does it work on other flies

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Re: Food thread

Post by Doug » Sun Aug 28, 2022 2:12 am

It definitely doesn't work on roaches
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Re: Food thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Sun Aug 28, 2022 2:26 am

I used to have this problem and I solved it by moving to the desert

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Re: Food thread

Post by Khaos » Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:48 pm

we have a bunch of fruit flys that hang out in our plants so i got some bug traps (basically just bright yellow sticky-tape) that seems to be pretty effective.

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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:43 am

Ashenai wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:33 am Hey is intermittent fasting a thing? I've heard good things about it and I'm gonna try out the 16/8 method, but if Rylinks or anyone can reliably poohpooh it then I wanna hear it
Still doing this BTW, coming up on a month. It's not hard to do, I'm hungry every day for about six hours, but it's an ignorable level of hunger.

I like this system because I've always been better with strict rules (no eating between midnight and 4 pm) than general guidelines (eat less).

The trick is that this method is still ultimately about caloric restriction, so you still shouldn't massively pig out in the 8 hours when you can eat. But if you eat reasonable amounts, and stop when you're not hungry, you'll end up eating fewer calories per day. At least, that's my experience.

Anyway, it feels like a sustainable diet, I haven't noticed any negative effects (although the positive effects seem to be pretty minor too), so I'll keep going!

Pretty hungry right now

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Re: Food thread

Post by Dantes » Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:08 pm

Ashenai wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:43 am I like this system because I've always been better with strict rules (no eating between midnight and 4 pm) than general guidelines (eat less).
Is there anything else we need to know about you? Maybe about bright lights or getting you wet?
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Re: Food thread

Post by Ashenai » Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:20 pm

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Re: Food thread

Post by Doug » Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:49 pm

We're not yet responsible enough to take care of Ashenai
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Re: Food thread

Post by Crunchums » Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:03 pm

does anyone have any recommendations for easy / very easy ways of cooking chicken?
my go-to for a while was to put it (usually thighs) into a baking tray, apply sauce (usually bbq), and then bake for 30 minutes, but now whenever i do that i am grossed out by the result
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Re: Food thread

Post by Rylinks » Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:21 pm

maybe this is more 'fast' than 'easy', but cut into small bits and stir fry

if you are more specific about how it grosses you out there might be an easy solution, that is not super different from Actual Cooking Techniques

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Re: Food thread

Post by Crunchums » Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:03 pm

just something about the way that it turns out - there's like this gloppy stuff (the fat?) and it tastes kinda gross, especially as leftovers

stir frying is a good suggestion (though chopping into smaller bits is more effort :robert: )
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Re: Food thread

Post by Rylinks » Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:22 pm

try adding some liquid, such as chicken stock or water with chicken boullion if you don't want to deal with stock going bad

maybe 1/2 the way up the chicken or so

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Re: Food thread

Post by Rylinks » Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:34 pm

i guess this might also make the chicken take a bit longer to cook so yknow, don't eat raw chicken

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Re: Food thread

Post by Skeletor » Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:03 pm

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wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: Food thread

Post by Doug » Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:59 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:03 pm does anyone have any recommendations for easy / very easy ways of cooking chicken?
Yeah in a grill pan

Butterfly it so that it's less than an inch thick, slice through it again if you have to

Get it just a little wet and completely coat it in a seasoning like Badia Sazon Complete or something like that

Grill pan medium heat, six minutes on a side



Now if you had had more time to prepare, instead of seasoning, marinate it for three hours in a mojo criollo marinade
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Re: Food thread

Post by Dantes » Tue Sep 20, 2022 12:27 am

Doug wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:59 pm Now if you had had more time to prepare, instead of seasoning, marinate it for three hours in a mojo criollo marinade
Recipe?
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