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From my more recent experiences it's been mostly meat that's been a struggle to buy (canned fish as an exception). Fruit and veggies are pretty cheap if you buy them whole rather than buying precut fruit salads or going organic. Breads, rice, and noodles aren't too costly either, and if you press the fruit yourself it both tastes better and saves a surprising amount of money. Even sauces are pretty cheap, whether basic like tomato sauce or specific like a Campbell's Condensed soup.
Yeah sauces are cheap, but I usually get fruits and vegetables whole. Weird. I spend like 200 USD per week on food. If I went with frozen pizzas and ice cream, it'd probably be closer to 70 USD per week. I think I'm probably spending most of it on something really expensive. I usually don't eat too much rice/bread/noodles, though, so I tend to eat more fruits/vegetables.
But yeah, meat is also expensive. I usually eat salmon. Chicken because it's healthy. We did try to bbq some wagyu beef recently, but that's not something I can afford every day.
Hah, avacados? Avocados are a rich person/hipster meme and somehow still trending this far along depending on where you live (and barely resemble the original made from nature apparently).
They taste amazing. But yeah, they're great at destroying nature. I just really love the taste and texture.
Frozen pizza was a racket I was doing for a bit too to save money, but I wouldn't go as far as to say 1/10th. Past a point I got sick of it and the nutrient balances didn't feel too great in the long run. Even adding spices did nothing for it.
It makes you feel horrible after a month. I was eating some crap food for like a year and my doctor told me that I may have diabetes. lol. That's when I started eating healthy.
Just look online on a grocery website and try to arrange a cart. Most of what I've seen isn't too pricey, but if you're going for Jackfruit instead of Bananas then of course you're going to see a price spike. Don't get anything that took any more human labor than moving it around and the price tends to be on the more affordable side, otherwise try to pay attention to what is and isn't in season for sales.
Yeah I know what you're getting at. However, I absolutely love blueberries. They're so amazing af. I feel sort of depressed if I have to limit the food that I eat to specific seasons. I think it's nice to have options. Except, it tends to be expensive.
It's the better way to be, allowing it to taste good while making the labor equate to something more practical than one night of food.
That's true; mostly it's a matter of convenience for me. For me it's health>convenience>fads>taste. Taste isn't a big thing for me.
Ideally both, but what started as being about health became more about flavor overtime.
Calorie counting and nutrient calculators were where most of this started for me, as well as trying to find ways to save money as a college student.
Calorie counting? Ooof, I never tried to do that. I've in the past tried to reduce the amount of food I eat but never counted calories. I'd probably feel stressed out if I did that.
Do you like spicy food?
I cook healthy food. There's no seasoning in my food.
What's wrong with seasoning?
I feel like it makes me mentally weaker if I enjoy food. Also, some spices are unhealthy. Better get rid of them.
I've only been starting to realize how delicious onion grease is as I get older, but the texture of onion itself is still weird to me. It awakens a surprising amount of flavor.
Yes it does. I love onions. They go with literally anything.
If you're into that kind of stuff, apparently garlic makes you smell better. They had an experiment with some college guys eating garlic capsules and working out, and then they made a bunch of college girls smell their sweaty shirts and rate the attractiveness of the smell (I'm not kidding). Apparently garlic smelled nice.
My case is closer to needing more weight usually, not less. I lose weight too quickly to build muscle and go through my energy reserves too quickly, so I have to work twice as hard to gain any sense of longevity and lose it quickly when I stop.
Riding a bike helps for building it up to a point of jogging anyway, but I tend to just stick with the bike over a sense of impatience with the slow sense of movement.
Beef and white rice usually builds weight if you wanted to. But I guess you don't want to?
I'm very envious. I used to play video games all the time, but I somehow managed to escape my addiction when I was 20 after I sold my gaming computer. Now I'm afraid of going anywhere near a video game.
As long as you've found other things to do I don't really see the problem with that.
Yeah, well, sometimes I miss gaming. There was a lot of excitement, but also some frustration. I was horrible at losing when I was a kid. Like if you ever watched the "angry german guy" youtube clip, that came close to how I was acting when I lost in star wars: jedi academy.
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