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I am really liking HelloFresh.
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@rook said in RL things I love:
I am really liking HelloFresh.
I tried that (or was it BlueApron?) once. If I could afford it on the reg, you bet I'd have a subscription. I think those services are great for people with busy schedules (or those like me who don't have a car and can't go grocery shopping regularly easily).
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice said in RL things I love:
@rook said in RL things I love:
I am really liking HelloFresh.
I tried that (or was it BlueApron?) once. If I could afford it on the reg, you bet I'd have a subscription. I think those services are great for people with busy schedules (or those like me who don't have a car and can't go grocery shopping regularly easily).
David and I got Blue Apron. Man, it was awesome. But alas, I am yet a poor student and cannot afford such things on the regular.
But you can bet this is now my goal.
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@derp That's the kind of wealthy I want to be. Wealthy enough to pay someone else to organise my food.
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@tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@derp That's the kind of wealthy I want to be. Wealthy enough to pay someone else to organise my food.
This.
I can't meal plan worth a shit.
I eat the same general things week-to-week.
Those of you who can meal plan? Mad props. Mad, mad props.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice During the week I get up at like four am, don't get home till eight pm on a good day. Like fuck do I want to cook.
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@tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@auspice During the week I get up at like four am, don't get home till eight pm on a good day. Like fuck do I want to cook.
That, too. I get home around 10pm lately. And after walking a mile home from the bus, I just... do not want to cook. It's been a lot of ramen these days.
I need a house wife. >.>
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice I have one, but his cooking skills extend to pasta with premade sauce.
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@auspice said in RL things I love:
That, too. I get home around 10pm lately. And after walking a mile home from the bus, I just... do not want to cook. It's been a lot of ramen these days.
You could pre-cook and warm up?
I make a killer meatloaf; that heats up well. Chicken breasts that are cut up into cubes are great protein additions to a salad.
Pasta holds up well to re-heating too, and, if you're really bold, you could half-cook your pasta, wash it, put it into portion packages (I like Tupperware, but you could just plastic wrap them) that I can toss into a bowl with some boiling water from a kettle. Then, you can let sit for 5 minutes, strain, and eat with whatever trimmings and/or sauce.
Also, never underestimate the power of Progresso soups.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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Lazy House Meat Option:
Chicken thighs (preferably boneless for lazy factor), rosemary, sea salt, pepper, chicken broth. (Other seasonings if you like -- I forget which others we sometimes add in, it varies.)
Throw in thighs in layers as flat as you can, apply layer of seasonings, continue until mostly full. Pour in broth. Slow cook whilst at work. Come home to a week's worth of awesome protein. (That's with our slow cooker, which is big-ish, but my husband eats like he's trying to power a fusion reactor, so it kinda balances out.)
You will be tempted to use some other cut of chicken for this, because chicken thighs in a big pack are often cheap enough to look seriously shady on principle (they're almost always on sale everywhere). Don't. Seriously. It's just not as good with chicken breasts or a mix, and you will have spent more to get there.
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I kind of go half-way. I have an emeals subscription. They don't buy and send the food to me, but they do give me a regular stream of fresh, yummy, healthy recipes with an organized grocery list and exact amounts delivered right to my phone via my app each week without me having to think. It's totes worth $5/month not to think about food.
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@ganymede said in RL things I love:
Chicken breasts that are cut up into cubes are great protein additions to a salad.
I did this a lot last year. I finally hit the threshold on it and need a break (I can eat the same thing over and over to a point before I have to stop for a while.
I've never been a huge fan of meat loaf, tbh.
The other issue I'm facing is... type 2 diabetes pretty much hits everyone on my dad's side (through his mother) and I am pretty sure it's gotten to me. The past couple years, I've been doing my best to adapt to try to head it off. More exercise, improved diet. Except... carbs are still a thing. Lot of pasta (I'm poor, it helps) and my bread.
Guess... guess the pasta and bread has to go. I mean, I'm not positive that's what it is, but I'll see the doctor in a couple weeks and find out.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice Probably one of the best things about your terrible situation with your commute is that I imagine it is probably a huge help w/ walking back the descent into type 2. I'm really glad you're going to the doctor about it, because knowing where you're at with your numbers and such will be a huge help in 'how much pasta can I keep eating' and such.
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@sunny said in RL things I love:
@auspice Probably one of the best things about your terrible situation with your commute is that I imagine it is probably a huge help w/ walking back the descent into type 2. I'm really glad you're going to the doctor about it, because knowing where you're at with your numbers and such will be a huge help in 'how much pasta can I keep eating' and such.
Maybe. Except the walking is bad for my hip (arthritis) and sucks on my time (being as it's 2+ hours out of my day) and for my fibro.
Right now I just hate the being thirsty all the goddamn time (I basically have been drinking water non-stop the past two weeks) and I'll really, really miss baking bread if I am. Not so much eating it. Baking it. I love the process.
And no, do not anyone suggest, nope- I am not going to start making some 'cauliflower rice flour' bread bullshit. Nope. Real bread or gtfo.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Another lazy option that's good...
Get those frozen vegetables with sauce of some kind. Green Giant, for instance, makes an acceptable broccoli with cheese sauce. Dump it on some pasta. Voila. Creamed spinach also works well.
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@auspice Oh yeah, I wasn't at all claiming it didn't suck, just silver linings and all.
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Work decided no, they do not in fact need me there from 5:30am to 8pm on Saturday.
Halle-fuckin-lujah.
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My boyfriend accidentally left the vacuum plugged in. From two days ago, when we had to clean up from the dog getting into the trashcan and his dog food container while we were at work....
This turned out to be a good thing, because today the dog dragged his dog food container into the dining room and was trying to get it open again. And somehow managed to turn the vacuum on while doing so, terrifying himself. That's what you get for being a shit-stain, doggo! HA.
(Also, it was pretty funny to come home to a dog who -- instead of being gleeful to see us -- was gleeful to see us and immediately hid behind me while wagging his tail.)
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Minor victories:
I can still get to my feet from sitting on the ground without needing to leverage myself using my hands. I'd call that #winning for being in my thirties now.
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...that moment I finally get the css and wiki templates to more or less behave.
Oh, hell, YES!
I now need a cigarette, damn.
( ...four days of wrestling this crap, fuck me to tears.)
Oh fucking well.
