Ease of prep, long term storage, availability.
Notably, reservations get food from gubmint programs, or we used to. So lots of cheese, powdered milk, instant mashed potatoes, powdered eggs, canned vegetables, canned apples and peaches, and shelf-stable fats.
Excepting the shelf-stable fats, it’s all pretty good stuff, actually.
One of the supermarkets here (I think it was Sainsburys, I forget) used to sell frozen blocks of really finely chopped spinach. You could mix it into anything and it just disappeared. Awesome way to trick kids (and adult sized kids) into getting some green in them.
If I’m on a serious cut I add blended broccoli to mince as a calorie free filler.
Also kids like green veg. Well my kids do.
I’ve recently discovered mushrooms serving a very similar purpose. Takes on something of a meaty texture: blends well with chopped up chicken or other meats.
Adding riced cauliflower to ground beef is another solid option. Maintains a similar consistency and you can bump of the volume of food with minimal calories.
That’s been huge for me. Rice cauliflower is a great “food amplifier” Thickens a lot of otherwise weak recipes.
Credit to you man, can’t say I’d have ever tried it without seeing your posts. Made from some great “healthy sloppy joes”.
we were poor as a young’un, and we ate ALOT of instant mashed potatoes.
I really didnt mind, enough butter (correction, margarine), and it tasted fine.
Speaking of that…When I was a kid, butter was bad for you, so we would use margarine by the tubfulls - wonder what long term effect THAT will have on me…so glad butter had a comeback - feel bad for margarine tho - lol
Oh well.
Grated / finely chopped veggies are great for filling out a dish and adding a healthy/low calorie component. We use (load of) carrots, celery, lentils etc. Sometimes my chilli con carne is really more of a chilli con veggie these days.
I miss the old commercials for that. Fabio made me imagine other uses for margarine.
Guy just sold me life insurance. He was laughing at the tension between “wanting to take care of your wife and kids” and “incentivizing your wife and having Fabio and your wife in your bed toasting you with Champaign for having been such a great guy.”
I had to look up Fabio.
That darn Fabio…
Is butter bad again? I notice a few nutrition gurus I follow have dropped it off their recommended cooking fats…
uh - oh. Did not know that. Dammit!!
I’ve lived long enough to see eggs go from good to bad to good to bad to good again, so mebbe it can happen for my old friend butter too?
I am going for a two-fold long ass rant here, I’ll forgive you guys if you just skip ahead. I’m just not in a good place at all at the minute.
First things first: as some of you might know from my log, I was put into quarantine last Tuesday because my father tested positive to covid. I am pretty pissed off, but I realized this is just the standard procedure. Meanwhile, I was tested and I tested negative. My quarantine was supposed to end on the 20th: twelve days after my father tested positive. Today we got the news that in two days I’ll get tested again, and if I’m negative, if I’m negative, I’ll be locked down until the 27th because “they need to make sure I wasn’t infected meanwhile.” Then why the fuck am I getting tested at all if my quarantine is being extended unconditionally?
Look, if I didn’t get it from him before we found out he had it, how did I get it now that:
There is no way I got infected now. The most ridiculous thing is that, if I test negative again, I’ll still end up being quarantined for more than my father! And he’s freaking positive, whereas I will have tested negative twice!
So here’s the thing: on the 21st, I’ll go out, I’ll get in my car, I’ll drive to the gym and I’ll train. And so on the 22nd. And the following days. If I get stop, I might get arrested or cited or charged or whatever. I’ll face it. I’ll say what I have to say and face the consequences, but at this point, I’d rather end up in court than have my personal freedom taken away from me for any longer for no reason.
Second part! I am pissed off at my father so much. Why you might ask? Because ever since this whole thing started in February, he absolutely paid no attention whatsoever to safety measures. He’s a cop, he gets exposed to lots of people, so he would be even more aware of the risks and take appopriate measures. I saw him, during the lockdown, talk inches away from people, even strangers, without a mask. I once drove by him making a traffic stop at work, and he was bent over and speaking to the passenger with his head inside the car through the window. Why would you do that?!
I have seen him act like this, and even worse, in so many occasions. He would argue with me when I would tell him to keep distance from each other saying that “he’s my father,” and when called out for inattentive acting he would use arguments like "I know that person, he doesn’t have the virus so I can speak to their face, " or “I keep my mask on at work, not outside of work, that’s enough,” or even worse, something I heard him say the other day, “I don’t know how I got infected. I always kept my mask on when dealing with homeless or suspicious people. The ones I kept it off near were good.” And other bullshit like that. He’s demonstrated so, so much irresponsibility over this, putting at risk me (okay) and his mother, 80yo, never adopting any measures with her either.
And now I see him being so careful with everything that it makes me even more mad because had he done 40% of what he has to do now, nobody would be in this situation.
The icing on the cake? He organized a dinner tonight! Four people came over and had pizza with him, dining on the table on the balcony, everybody sitting close, zero masks. I stayed in of course. I have no words that can possibly come close to commenting this. I went out for a second to get some air, wearing a mask, and I was called out by a guy sitting NEXT TO MY COVID-POSITIVE FATHER, “you might as well take it off, it does nothing.”
I answered, “Okay, I’m not going to argue with you.” He said, “no, no arguing, I just want to explain to you that…” and I went inside. I’m feeling like an alien honestly. I heard so much bullshit from those people tonight that it makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with humanity, and why I am the one different seeing as so many people disregard stuff so simple and common sense like “don’t go to dinner at somebody’s place if they have covid.”
What country are you in?
If you are in the USA, you can probably disregard the detention described as unreasonable.
There is a great federal court case that just came out on that out of PA.
I’m in Italy
I’m unaware that Italians are normally restrained by even reasonable laws.
Or so I learned driving there.
Seriously, if there is no reasonable chance you are infectious, just go about your business quietly. Don’t post stupid crap on Facebook. Or here, even. Just go do what you have to do.
It’s the passive aggressive response to fascism.
This is generally the case, in fact. The notable exception is the way our government is handling this emergency.
All I can say is the response is less than professional, less than appropriate, and less than effective in my opinion.
I am 100% certain there is no chance of me being infectious, for the reasons listed above. Notably, I don’t have the virus to begin with, and secondly, I always take all the appropriate measures to ensure that, if I unknowingly had it, I wouldn’t risk infecting anybody. Unlike my dad has done up to now.
I don’t even have Facebook.
As an antifascist, this has nothing to do with fascism. The current Italian government is left oriented, actually. This is more a byproduct of inefficiency and incompetency.
I was under the distinct impression that there were no driving laws of any kind, particularly near Rome. Except that no gas stations are open on a Sunday. Best of luck returning that rental car before your flight buddy.