Wait until you hear about fruit!
Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m unemployed and involuntarily vegan for health reasons. Dried mixed beans, brown rice, and frozen vegetables are keeping me alive.
robocall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 month ago
I’m a scientist. Beans are a fruit, of the musical variety.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
The “unemployed” part of his comment suggests he has a low food budget, in which case fruit is a terrible choice. Beans have way more calories per dollar
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It is harvest time for fruit trees in many areas. My area has apple trees and a lot have fallen due to a drought. I can look on the ground within a 100yd radius of my place and probably rustle up a pie’s worth of decent fruits. Further south the paw paws are coming in. And later in the season, walnuts and hickory nuts will come in. I know not everyone is so lucky to live in a forageable area, but you also might be surprised what’s around.
fallingfruit.org is a fantastic resource if you’re looking for sources of free food. They have mobile apps as well.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are correct. I’m wretched.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I miss fruit.
Plum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dollar store spices will help you thrive.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Solid advice, I highly endorse it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Careful though, they recently recalled dollar store cinnamon because it had lead in it
fujiwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 1 month ago
Dirt is really expensive if you’re unemployed. Some herbs and veg are quite happily grown kratky style, but that also comes with its own challenges
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Be careful with cheap spices. If it’s from a trusted brand, sure, go for it. Whole spices tend to be more trustworthy than powders (and sometimes cheaper). But there have been some instances of heavy metal contamination of cheap powdered spices.
Cheap cinnamon is usually Cassia cinnamon, which contains high levels of coumarin, a blood thinner. Real cinnamon is Ceylon, and has much lower levels.
I like getting spices from stores with a bulk spices section. If e.g., you need a tbsp of cinnamon, or a single star anise, etc… you put only what you need in a little container. it will be super cheap compared to a whole prepackaged container and you’ll always have a fresh product with no waste. You can even bring/reuse your own containers! A lot of local food co-ops have a bulk area with spices. Frontier is a popular vendor for these, and their stuff is vetted and super high quality. Best of both worlds IMO.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The first week of vegan is brutal. But it gets better.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been like this since December. I’m miserable. I’m a vegetarian because I hate animals. I have high blood pressure so I cut out animal fat and booze.
robocall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m a vegetarian because I hate animals
If you hate animals, I don’t think you’re doing this right.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nope I know what I’m doing. Animals are made of blood and guts which I find gross. They’re also annoying. I don’t want them to be a part of me.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Cook mushrooms in rice or beans. Add wallnuts. Supposedly walnut and no other but has shown to help lower blood pressure.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Interesting I’m vegetarian because I love animals
gilokee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
not really. Especially if you have access to vegan chick’n nuggies and corn dogs and junk.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The moment you stop eating meat you’ll notice just how hard society wants you to chew on dead animals. Your friends, your family, the TV commercials, the radio. They never talk about a juicy mushroom taco. It just Burger this and pork that everywhere you go. That’s what I mean by brutal. And its always an inconvenience for the cook to not add dead animal or smear your food with animal milk products.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I was on a work crew once when I was vegan. We cut trees and all rode to the locations in the same work van. One day we stopped for Ice Cream at a really popular place before calling it the day. Yay on the clock shenanigans, boo, it’s ice cream. They asked if I was cool with it, and of course I said I didnt mind, and just waited in the van.
I almost cried when my supervisor brought me out a slushy. I didn’t know they had them. It was very kind of my supervisor. No one ever made fun of me, but it was definitely obvious to everyone in day to day talk/life I had the dietary restriction.
gilokee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was a vegan in the US and now I’m a vegetarian in Japan. Trust me, I know lol.
elephantium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose…), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.
dickalan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love mushroom derived flavors, but eating actual mushrooms, it’s always about texture never the taste
finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 month ago
GAS GAS GAS
foggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He barely has to wipe.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Watch out for low-flying brown missiles!
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s had the same roll of one-ply all summer
gilokee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Doesn’t the body get used to eating that many beans? Like, Mexicans eat them all the time. Also I eat them as often as I can and I don’t think they really affect me that much.
finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 month ago
I like to think it has more to do with the dried or dehydrated foods suddenly becoming rehydrated causing a mix of bacterial bloom within the previously barren food and difficulty digesting/passing the food resulting in the carbohydrate fermentation and flatulence as a means of pushing it through, but idk I'm not a butt engineer.
gilokee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I soak all my own beans and I don’t have the issue. As someone else said, it may have to do with our individual gut flora or something.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes. You basically have to keep eating that way and your gut flora adjust to compensate. It’s still a pretty windy diet since you rely on those gut-bugs to break down a lot of the sugars in beans.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 month ago
this. But also soak and discard the soaking water. And use kombu. There’s ways to get rid of the anti nutrients that cause gas before you cook it
Chev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your body gets used to it. That’s not a problem.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
TONIIIIIIIIIGHT I’LL FLYYYY