Just don't eat American junk food and you'll be fine for the most partExcept that buying organic food is expensive and not everyone has enough space to grow vegetables.
No Pringles, no Oreos, no Twinkies, etc.
https://theonion.com/trump-informs-nation-they-better-start-liking-those-little-canned-wieners/Fortunately for me, my diet consists almost entirely on the algae scraped from inside my aquarium.
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WASHINGTONSaying that Americans should anticipate certain lifestyle changes as a result of his newly announced tariffs, President Donald Trump informed the nation Thursday that they better start liking those little canned wieners. Hope you arent too attached to whatever fancy crap you eat now, because those little wiener dogs in the cans are coming back on the menu in a big way, said Trump, adding that if Americans didnt already have a good, long fork for fishing wieners out of the can, they were sure as hell going to need one soon. Youre gonna eat em cold, and youre gonna like em cold. Every meal. Dont even think about trying to gussy them up with pickle relish. The only way you make it through these next few years is filling every shelf in your pantry with little canned wieners and knocking back the leftover hot dog water with a smile on your face. Buckle up, America. You live in the wiener times now. At press time, millions of Americans reportedly realized they could no longer afford the canned wieners.
Just don't eat American junk food and you'll be fine for the most partMy brother in Christ, even our peanut butter and bread has added sugars and high fructose corn syrup. It goes beyond just not eating "junk food". All of our food is junk food!
No Pringles, no Oreos, no Twinkies, etc.
Except that buying organic food is expensive and not everyone has enough space to grow vegetables.Unfortunately you are doomed to just not eat vegetables then.
All of our food is trash anyway. You need 7-10 times the amount of produce from stores just to get a single serving of vegetables because microfarming and mass-producing them strips them of nutrients. We have so much high fructose corn syrup in everything, not to mention the dyes and pesticides that are downright illegal in most other places. Did you know that corn from the US isn't even classified as corn by other countries because of how genetically modified it is? Even our "healthy" food is crap, as well as expensive. The only option is to grow your own produce and make your own bread. Otherwise you'll be eating like crap for the rest of your lives unless you can manage to get out of this backwards ass country and go somewhere better.
PSA for Europeans, Americans do try to eat healthy, but our healthy food is expensive and not even that good for us. Then we get stressed/depressed from our work-culture and medical bills and go eat at Burger King to take the hurt away. That's why we're fat.
Except that buying organic food is expensive and not everyone has enough space to grow vegetables.
I didn't know you could grow Oreos.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-oreos/
Among others. Granted, you probably aren't actually going to be able to grow your own cocoa, sugar cane/beets, and vanilla, even if you can manage the wheat, dairy cows, and chickens, but home-grown Oreos aren't entirely out of the realm of possibility if your climate supports all of those things.
I've been learning about foraging in an attempt to supplement my food supply. Just plants- they tend to be easier than mushrooms. And there are fewer (but certainly not zero) lethal mistakes to be made.The most important thing to remember is that if it looks like onion or garlic, but doesn't smell like onion or garlic, it's probably poisonous.
Like, I've eaten two things I was a little nervous about, but my ID/cooking tech respectively was on-point.
The most important thing to remember is that if it looks like onion or garlic, but doesn't smell like onion or garlic, it's probably poisonous.Well, I know the first one. Foraging some ramps was an incredibly exciting moment and breaking a leaf and taking a whiff was how I was dead certain of my ID.
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(This is autumn crocus, a deadly poison)
Also teach yourself what poison hemlock looks and smells like. The leaves, especially in a young plant, are easily mistaken for wild parsley, and the root can be mistaken for carrot or parsnip. It has a peculiar smell, however, often described as being like mouse urine.
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Luckily hemlock is rarer too.Not around here. It grows just about everywhere. I've even seen it in the city, growing next to a school bus stop. Children are the most common victims of hemlock poisoning, because the stems are hollow and can be used as pea shooters or whistles.
There's nothing wrong with GMOs.Not unless it gets to a point that the food item is so modified that it's lost most of it's nutritional value. Vegetables across the world (but especially in America) are like this thanks to GMOs and monoculture farming (I erroneously used the term microfarming before, sorry).
All of our food is trash anyway. You need 7-10 times the amount of produce from stores just to get a single serving of vegetables because microfarming and mass-producing them strips them of nutrients. We have so much high fructose corn syrup in everything, not to mention the dyes and pesticides that are downright illegal in most other places. Did you know that corn from the US isn't even classified as corn by other countries because of how genetically modified it is? Even our "healthy" food is crap, as well as expensive. The only option is to grow your own produce and make your own bread. Otherwise you'll be eating like crap for the rest of your lives unless you can manage to get out of this backwards ass country and go somewhere better.
PSA for Europeans, Americans do try to eat healthy, but our healthy food is expensive and not even that good for us. Then we get stressed/depressed from our work-culture and medical bills and go eat at Burger King to take the hurt away. That's why we're fat.
I basically agree with all youre saying and yet I still encounter plenty of Americans on this site who are convinced that the US is the best country in the world for food. Its crazy.Not just food. Uncle Sam brainwashes everyone with the illusion of democracy and the notion of liberty and justice for all. Compare us to any one of the other "developed" nations and you'll realize we're lacking in basically every way. The only constistently good thing is that Americans make a lot more money than people in other places, but we also spend a greater percentage of that money on healthcare (our healthcare system sucks), education (our education system also sucks), rent (landlords suck and mortgages suck because of what they're allowed to get away with), and necessities (like food, which sucks here) - meaning that our income in relation to what we must pay is disproportionately inbalanced compared to other places.
why are you the way that you are
Not just food. Uncle Sam brainwashes everyone with the illusion of democracy and the notion of liberty and justice for all. Compare us to any one of the other "developed" nations and you'll realize we're lacking in basically every way. The only constistently good thing is that Americans make a lot more money than people in other places, but we also spend a greater percentage of that money on healthcare (our healthcare system sucks), education (our education system also sucks), rent (landlords suck and mortgages suck because of what they're allowed to get away with), and necessities (like food, which sucks here) - meaning that our income in relation to what we must pay is disproportionately inbalanced compared to other places.
To visualize it, go to ifitweremyhome.com, select any developed democratic nation as your current location then click "United States". It'll show you what will be better or worse in your life if you were to live there. For example, I want to live in New Zealand some day. Here is what it would be like if I were to go from living there, to living here.
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Yet when I complain about something as simple as food here or as complex as labor laws, wealth inequality, women's rights, etc., people I talk to get all 'MURICA about it and pass my thoughts off as pure nonsense. These are the same people who think that America is the oldest nation in the world, accusing me of falling to "anti-american propaganda" when they themselves have fallen for a fool's game in this dystopian hypercapitalist landscape and may or may not be in a cult (MAGA).
Sometimes I feel like I'm downright going insane. That's about the time I go and eat my feelings away at a fast food joint. But it doesn't really make me happy.
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It's pretty easy to cook on a low budget while still being healthy and tasty. You just need to be willing to eat the same thing for multiple meals in a row. Cook a big ol pot of soup/stew/chili/whatever and eat it for 3-4 days straight, then do it again. If you get bored of eating the same thing over and over, it requires more money for variety.
It's pretty easy to cook on a low budget while still being healthy and tasty. You just need to be willing to eat the same thing for multiple meals in a row.You also need to be willing to have a deficiency because human beings need variety in their diet to be healthy. I have eaten chicken and rice pilaf for the sake of saving money so much that I can hear my organs begging for vitamins.
You also need to be willing to have a deficiency because human beings need variety in their diet to be healthy. I have eaten chicken and rice pilaf for the sake of saving money so much that I can hear my organs begging for vitamins.
Most people can't do this due to the price but if possible you could just buy a multivitamin and get most of the vitamin needs back. It depends on your budget and how much you have saved. I haven't been able to buy any in a long time. I get my vitamins through other means.So we live in a society where what we can afford to eat is just the same thing constantly and pills. Great.
So we live in a society where what we can afford to eat is just the same thing constantly and pills. Great.
Wealthiest country on earth but most of us have to live paycheck to paycheck while a few fat zealots sit on top. This place fucking sucks.
You also need to be willing to have a deficiency because human beings need variety in their diet to be healthy. I have eaten chicken and rice pilaf for the sake of saving money so much that I can hear my organs begging for vitamins.
Only thing I'm good on is protein really.Damn :(
Damn :(
Only thing I'm good on is antidepressants and anxiety medication. I have more pharmaceuticals than actual vitamins in my body. 300 milligrams daily of my anxiety medication alone yet I can't even remember the last time I had a decent cantaloupe.
This is no kind of life, my friends.
My new doctor wouldn't give me klonopin which would have stopped my insomnia too. Only medicine I took that actually worked for everything I needed.That sucks, man. Insomnia is horrible. Wish I could help you out. We all need to have each-other's backs and whatever.
That sucks, man. Insomnia is horrible. Wish I could help you out. We all need to have each-other's backs and whatever.
I can't even remember the last time I had a decent cantaloupe.Cantaloupe is just a giant egg. They're both about $5.
Cantaloupe is just a giant egg. They're both about $5.But the ones from stores all taste like shit.
I remember my brother getting very irritated with me because I said my solution to the "Big Mac Index" was just to not eat McDonalds anymore.
Almost every post I've seen from you is about how miserable you are/how horrible America is. I live in America and do think it sucks and is probably the worst developed nation in the world to live in, but at some point you gotta live with what you have. All that thinking about what's wrong with life is counterproductive, and you gotta just do what you can to make it more livable.If you're talking to me then that's solid advice but I've already heard it. I've been dealing with MDD again. Not to say my dislike for America stems from my depression, but my depression certainly makes it harder to deal with. I also recently lost my job and I'm going a bit stir-crazy. I think I need to get off of the internet for a while.
I hope that didn't come off in a "if you're depressed just stop being sad" way. I'm just trying to say don't give up on trying to find some enjoyment out of life, because if you give up you already lost. It is a struggle every day for sure
Edit: Just for clarity I don't mean "give up" in a morbid way but like, never leaving the house, shrinking into bad habits, etc.