You gonna lecture me now on household expenditures?
I have a house, car, wife & son that I feed cloth and shelter with money I make welding after having a massive heart attack and losing about 90% of my work capacity.
Go ahead. Tell me all about these things!
You said:
After I said:
Because:
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Anyways, its all above, time stamped and dated.
Doctor warned me about shoveling snow, so I can’t be around for your avalanche of excuses.
Once again, good luck.
Wow, we’ve had a couple of these the last few days.
This one even included @SkyzykS just casually dropping pics of giant breasts!
It is crazy how truly addictive these processed foods are for people. If nothing else, it validates taking the time and money to actually cook for our kids.
Hmm not the kind of breast I was expecting. I am quite disappointed.
Fack you @SkyzykS
Damn, that looks good.
Where’s the ranch swirl?
. Not familiar with the nomenclature my good man.
Is that the hand gesture the Hawk Tuah girl got famous for?
Indeed
Ok. Since we were originally talking about switching from crap to good food and I kinda veered off into something else, how bout this-
My best suggestion for not eating crap was “learn to cook”. Thats 3 words that can take a lifetime though, and I’m not sure how far along you are on this.
If I had to choose a couple bare essentials to cook good food with I’d go with they would be:
My go to spices & flavorerses.:
Pepper, Oregano, Basil, Paprika, Cumin, Chili Powder (garlic, onion, & ginger are kinda in their own realm as food/flavorizer roots).
Various acids: Lemon Juice, Balsamic, Prosseco.
You can cover a lot of ground and keep things pretty interesting for quite a while with those.
@Brant_Drake may also have some great suggestions. He has helped me a ton!
Great list, although I gave up on wok cooking for now. I’ll never be satisfied unless I can properly wreathe it in flame, which I can’t on my glass top stove.
I still use my cast iron almost every day but I’m now a huge, huge fan of my carbon steel pan. I normally try to buy USA made stuff, especially lifetime type of items, but I went French for this one for welding-related reasons I’m sure you can appreciate. The lack of rivets on the cooking surface is awesome for use and maintenance.
I followed the manufacturer’s recommendations for seasoning and it is really starting to work beautifully after a few months of daily use. I prefer it over cast iron for most searing jobs, sautee’ing veggies, caramelizing onions, and frying or scrambling eggs. It both heats and cools faster while also retaining adequate heat for most searing jobs just as well as cast iron.
Cast iron gets used for larger steaks like a 2lb sirloin, where the extra heat retention starts to matter.
I’ll chime in and echo what the others have said about cooking your own food. It’s cheaper per meal and gives you better control. You mentioned butter chicken - batch cook some chicken, some rice instead of naan, and sauce so when the craving hits you can just combine it and you’re good to go.
Beef has 25.4g of protein per 100 grams and milk has 3.3g of protein, so while milk is great, I’d hesitate to put it in the same category as meat. You can do a lot of things with ground beef, earlier you mentioned Mexican food, and everything is a tortilla with meat, cheese, and vegetables you have plenty of cheap options to keep from being bored.
Since you said you usually break after 4 days, set mini goals. If you start on Wendesday, you only have to make it to the weekend. Good job, now get through the weekend. Mission accomplished, just a couple of days to the 1 week mark. Repeat.
Or set a goal (move the scale 5 lbs, hit a PR, whatever,) then have a meal that’s what you’ve been craving. As far as chipmunk cheeks, if you’re eating salty sugary food to gain weight, I wouldn’t be surprised if you retain some water and get a lil’ puffy.
Also calm down and enjoy the shit-talk thrown your way. It’s half the fun.
And now I am too! Those are elegant.
I have a decent sized sheet of mild steel that has kitchen device written all over it. Its a little small for a wok, but it will work for a nice pan. I have a ton of “hey! I should make a…” things.
If I had to pare it down, the wok could go. The cast iron pan has to stay though.
Find a way that you can eat healthy and still be satisfied. I personally can’t count calories. It just doesn’t work and im always hungry. When i want to lose weight i cut out carbs. It still takes a week or so to adjust and lose most of the cravings, but you can eat meat, eggs, dairy (watch the hidden sugar) and be totally full. Salads with meats and cheese. Pork rinds are a great substitute for potato chips. Best method ive found.
The Matfer 9" carbon steel pan in action tonight. Simple and delicious.
@Desparate_for_gains This is a 1.2 lb USDA Prime-grade strip steak that costs the same as one takeout meal and an extra side, about $20. It was a once per week or so indulgence for me, cost-wise. Sirloin can often be found at less than half of that and still makes a fantastic pan steak.
If you learn how to cook with simple methods like this you can eat steak, pork, chicken, fish, eggs, vegetables you-name-it for much less than that. I also have 80/20 ground beef that will look and even taste similarly when I cook it into thick smash burger patties tomorrow. It will cost me $4 for 1000 calories of beef plus a few cents for the onions.
This takes about 10-15 minutes, depending on how fast I heat up the pan and get to cooking, plus a few more minutes of patiently waiting at least 1/2 as long as you cook your steak before cutting into it. I also leave the steak out on a wire rack with salt at room temperature for at least an hour beforehand, but that’s all about as easy as easy can get.
That is a thing of beauty! 
Awesome technique.
All of this in addition to an airfryer and you’re golden. Bag of rice, quinoa or potato’s, with some meat. Cheap, healthy and fully of good calories.
No joke, if I had an instant pot and a Ninja 7-in-1 airfyer combo when I started this whole game, I’d have been in SUCH a good position.
There is legit no reason to eat badly anymore, except that you just want to. Cooking and eating at home is faster AND cheaper than going out.
I’ll also second the notion (third at this point?) that eating well doesn’t have to be martyrdom. Goddamn do I love what I eat.
Dinner for 3.
25 min. of listening to tunes & playing with my food. Like, $8-10 cuz I like the 94% lean stuff. Tomatoes, basil & oregano from the outside pantry.
Thanks. I’m a complete sucker for cheeseburgers of all kinds and those look great. I still have them, just with no or very low carbs like jalapeno.
A steak like that is no more difficult than cooking anything else for me at this point, and has been for over a decade with cast iron. Learning the carbon steel pan had a few fails, but luckily none with prime or good grass-fed steaks.
If anyone is curious, using avocado oil has been building up the seasoning in that pan very nicely. It also sees butter and animal fats, but not much else. I used avocado oil for the steak, purchased in bulk for a reasonable price at BJ’s.
“Explain” in the context you use is equivalent to “making excuses”.
You can keep being a bitch and making excuses about the work needed to complete your goals, or you can just do the shit you know you need to do.
“My addiction”
“I cant”
“Its impossible”
Shut the fuck up.
You want exceptional results? Then put in exceptional work.
All your excuses would start disappearing if you stopped pushing off the shit you need to do.
You’re a man, right?
Then you dont need therapy, or sympathy, or a shoulder to lean on. I’m sure as fuck but going to give you any, and the temperature of this thread seems to agree.
You need results.
Start fucking working towards that shit and you’ll realize you feel better.
You’ll stop saying bullshit like “My addiction”, “I cant”, and “Its impossible”, and you’ll start earning the respect of the people around you. That’s what you want, right? Men wanting to be you and women wanting to fuck you?
So does everyone else.
The ones getting respect and laid aren’t finding excuses why they can’t do shit.
Now fuck off and go make shit happen. Its what men are meant to do.
Come back when you’ve made something of yourself.
Strength 
