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 Vegetables are delicious! There's lots of nutrients. However vegetables, while
 can be eaten raw, are much more useful for your body molecularly if you cook
 them first. I think it breaks down the cellular walls so that your body can
 digest the juicy tasty nutrients locked within.
 
 Vegetables also don't have calories, that you get from things with vitality.
 You are what you eat, and sometimes if you need it you might want to try meat.
 Me? I'm a vegetarian, that's why I'm so skinny! Carnivores have it so easy, I
 have to eat about 2x as much rice-and-beans by weight.
 
 At least I'm not vegan - I can supplement with fats like butter and cooking
 oil, which are useful when combined with nutrients, as they allow your body to
 store them for later. Just make sure you eat enough calories which are energy
 for your body, otherwise it won't have the chemical energy to store said
 nutrients in your latent fat cells. Like, building up a pantry, or a squirrel
 saving nuts for winter.
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
 beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in
 the soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your
 own instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in
 a pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
 while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
 burn them.
 
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much,
 if you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 stretch every day, exercise your arms, core, and legs on alternating days
 [first one, then the other, then the third, then either rest or restart
 depending on how you feel]
 
 flexibility is strength. strength gives you options. agility is speed,
 dexterity is precision, wisdom is accuracy.
 
 eat rice, beans, vegetables, and either oil or butter when you can. they work
 together to keep you healthy and nourished.
 
 be nice to creatures, whether they be animal or children or just sorta feral.
 
 spend time feeling adventurous. climb on things because you can. be sensible
 and courageous in all things. there's more to every moment than you remember,
 and there's more to every story than you hear.
 
 if you find something neat, share it with others. don't let it sit on a shelf.
 unless people come by to see it every so often.
 
 there are always people like you around. you are never alone when you are
 known.
my sword is vampiric. it chips away at the victim's karma and gives it to me. the wielder.  there is no evil way to wield this weapon. by chipping away as much as you please, even with fatal or spiritual blows. If you wield it to slay something good, then it chips away at the bad parts of their karma. In doing so, it harms you, as it delivers evil into your soul.;in doing so, it
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 cheese is just a body-part that a cow has willingly shed. For nutrition.
 
 Is it vegetarian if it's the cells produced by a body? Is it vegan if it is
 capable of growing back?
 
 Do snakes shed their selves when they leave behind a shell? Or is it like
 hair, just... keratin, a compound found all over nature.
 
 Is cutting a branch vegan? Is eating a cherry that has fallen to the center of
 the road? Both those are made of fibrous materials, the nutritious bounteous
 feast, and a small kernel-like mass that serves as a propagation method for a
 creature utterly vast.
 
 (But factory farms, remember?)
 
 (Oh yeah! Thank goodness for reform.)
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 food tastes better with more nutrients in it.                                    │
 when food is grown with the bare minimum soil, and bred to look better but       │
 uptake fewer nutrients, it will taste worse because your taste buds light up     │
 for vitamins but sleep for textures and colors.                                  │
 Massive monocrop algriculture has allowed us to feed billions of people (well,   │
 not all of them) and yet it's unhealthy because the soil is tilled, killing      │
 the vibrant ecosystem that lives in all soil, and then it is supplemented with   │
 specific nutrients that cause plants to fruit faster and larger.                 │
 But larger isn't always better. much the same way that hardwood is slower        │
 growing as it takes longer to deposit the carbon and nutrients in the denser     │
 walls of the bark, so too is fast-growing food less healthy as there's less      │
 time to uptake nutrients (that might not even be present in the soil)            │
 food tastes better when it's good for you.                                       │
 I promise.                                                                       │
 The American diet is primarily sugar and meat, with flavoring added and          │
 processing for texture. But there is a better way.                               │
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 energy drinks and coffee will keep you awake, but they're a false promise, as    │
 once they're gone and digested your body's gonna crash harder. You'll have to    │
 sleep it off, like a hangover. But that's okay if you're getting somewhere and   │
 have a day to rest.                                                              │
 sugars found in fruit can give you a burst of quick energy, but they make you    │
 sleepy overtime. If this were a video game, they'd give +50 energy points but    │
 -1 per second for the next 100 seconds. Not ideal, but there's some vitamins     │
 that are only in fruit so it's a good idea to eat fruit at least once or         │
 thrice a week.                                                                   │
 bread products are the opposite - they give you long-term energy. It takes       │
 your body longer to digest them, which means they're good for vitality. But      │
 they also don't have many nutrients, so don't forget your vegetables! Plus,      │
 more calories is always good if you've got time to spare. Just make sure you     │
 aren't using calories to store calories in your fat cells, that's like           │
 double-stacking condoms - not ideal. Store nutrients.                            │
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 I never should have bought these crackers. They trick me into thinking I'm
 eating something nutritious.
 
 But that's the case with any empty calories.
 
 but hey, calories are calories, right?
 
 I guess that's true. Still, I'd rather make something.
 
 oh would you now would you REALLY rather MAKE something
 
 ... I should rather.
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put
 anything they want on the box."
 
 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
 this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
 graphs and diagrams and"
 
 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress!
 Wow so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
 
 they: [not listening]
 
 me: "nuts"
 
 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 I love cooking. My favorite food is "melange" also called "gruel" by the less
 culinary people in my life. It consists primarily of a rice or noodle base,
 plus a bunch of other ingredients (usually sauteed) that are quite nutritious.
 Then, you season in a way such that it tastes delicious and savory and BOOM
 you have the perfect food.
 
 Well, not as good as steamed eggs, but still pretty good.
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 in the past, people could eat canned food not necessarily because of the way
 that it was canned, but simply the fact that it was sealed and comprised of a
 liquid form that was inhospitable to bacterial life. Like vinegar with
 pickles! But only for the things that were meant to last for a while - if it
 was just for next month, then you don't need BPA liners or microplastic
 dissolvers or any of that junk. Just a fully recyclable can that vacuum seals
 itself shut using the power of machinery and heat.
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I
 have something to share.
 
 Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke
 up quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone
 has a pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
 stretches and work on your posture and all that.
 
 vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
 protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different
 colors of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a
 green vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)
 
 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 I'm on half rations dollar-wise, but 1.5x rations nutrition-wise.
 
 "oh boy, formless gruel for breakfast again. Can't wait. Maybe I'll splurge
 and put extra jelly on my PB&J for lunch."
 
 It's healthier to eat rice, beans, and vegetables, with some fats added in via
 butter or oil.
 
 The goal is to build up fat stores that are high-value. When your body has
 excess calories, it takes whatever nutrients are CURRENTLY in your system and
 stores them in fat cells, like stocking a pantry. If all you eat is cheetos,
 your pantry is gonna be useless. It'll just slow you down. But if you have
 highly nutritious foods, you will perform better as your body consumes the fat
 when it needs to feed, but you haven't eaten much lately.
 
 ... I should apply for SNAP. Gonna do it right fucking now.
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 If I ever own a set of weights I'm taping over the numbers and storing them in   │
 a random order. I don't own a scale because nothing I do is precise enough to    │
 measure in weight. Except my cat, of course, but I can tell when she's gained    │
 weight. I cook for myself almost every day, and I never follow a recipe. Each    │
 dish is different, because I like improvising with ingredients. Like a venture   │
 to create a desired taste, different components will have different effects      │
 when cooked in a certain order with certain actions taken to them for a          │
 certain period of time under certain conditions and ugh it's just too much. I    │
 prefer to pick a base, pick some vegetables, then pick a seasoning. Cook the     │
 base, sautee the vegetables, and add the seasoning - bam, delicious meal. I'm    │
 not much of a planner, more of a... problem solver. Someone who's sorta been     │
 latent. I wish I could be a consultant. someone who works like, 10 days per      │
 month. I think that'd be my most adapted schedule - every day would be either    │
 a weekend or friday!                                                             │
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 whether you eat halloween candy by the handful or savor each and every bite,
 what matters most for tooth decay is duration
 
 1 person who spends 2 hours eating a snickers bar is going to get more
 cavities than someone who spends 10 minutes eating 22.
 
 but your stomach doesn't care when you ate them, only that you ate quite a
 few. Meaning you're likely to either get sick, or put on a pound or twenty-two.
 
 I think it's better to try many different tiny little treats, but always
 remember that the time you spend consuming bits of the sugar dimension add up,
 and eventually your time will come to resign yourself to a fate with little
 candy remaining, for you've grown too old for such childish things as tasty
 yummy splendor.
 
 old, or fat. Heh heh heh, can you imagine that? your belly sticks out from
 under your hat! how cute. But dearie, dont you know that every pound you bear
 is another that you have to carry around with you? It can be useful sometimes
 to be so prepared, and othertimes not. I trust you know that.
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 ... dangit, these sandwiches are getting kinda gross. Guess I'm gonna have to
 eat them myself, which, uh... idk what I expected xD
 
 sometimes you just have all this energy, right? and you don't know what to do
 with it, so... sandwiches. And hey, sandwiches are cool, they're a pretty neat
 anti-hunger tool! but uhhhh idk if I really want to eat six whole sandwiches
 myself. I'm gonna do it though hehe wish me luck [ding] ah nuts my rice and
 beans are done, hang on lemme eat those first
 
 [passes out from exhaustion]
 
 exhaustion can be cured with a nap
 
 exertion can be cured with water and a few rest days
 
 trauma can be allayed for at least a few days with soul food and compassion.
 maybe laughter too, depending on the mood.
 
 fear can be bolstered with a smile, a wink, and a courageous act,
 
 and loss is just change you didn't consent to.
 
 they won't consent too, so let's give them some change to tolerate.
 
 [internally salivating over all the piles of weaponry that I envision them
 surrendering]
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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please
 eat your vegetables when you can.
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 every burden my heart bears is a scar from ancestry that I am slowly healing
 for the good of posterity.
 
 all souls deserve to chart their own course. agency is intrinsic to their
 nature, so therefore they must never be forced to relinquish any choice. how
 many yearn to be eaten? become vegetarian, noobs. or are you such simple gods?
picture of osiris, the ancient egyption god of the dead, who judges souls as they enter the afterlife by weighing them on a scale against the weight of a feather. if the heart is heavier, it is eaten by the great nile crocodile, full of hair and beauteous in spirit.  if the heart is light as a feather, then the creature being judged is an angel, and can do as they will in any futures or other such lifetimes as it sees fit.  there is some rudely placed text that describes a certain vibe or sentiment, and the text reads as such: "That's cool bro, but is your heart as light as a feather?" essentially, are you truly as incorruptible as you proclaim?
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 @user-5 It's still best to make vegan food without substitutes. They're tasty
 and delicious, (which is new), but they're not that great for you and kind of
 expensive. If your normal diet is mostly fresh fruits and vegetables with some
 lentils and grains, you're on the right track imho. But still they can be fun
 sometimes, and the melted vegan cheese enables nachos and mac&cheese so...
 worth it
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 rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and
 salt
 
 when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
 douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
 
 could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
 diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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 "ah nuts, the crows are back. Better give them some diced-up carrots so they     │
 shut up."                                                                        │
 BAD, this teaches them to "sing" for attention which is annoying af              │
 "Hmmm, this carrot looks kinda withered. I'm going to dice it up to throw to     │
 the birds because it's better than rotting in a dump"                            │
 BETTER, because you're being sustainable and nourishing local wildlife,          │
 "That songbird is beautiful! And that squirrel is building a nest. I'm going     │
 to throw some of this pre-diced carrot that I keep in an air-tight container     │
 on my porch to them so they feel rewarded for doing things that I want"          │
 EVEN BETTER, but requires more effort and forethought                            │
 [noooo didn't you read ranger rick as a kid you're not supposed to feed the      │
 wildlife because it'll teach them to trust humans in a world where humans can    │
 be total assholes to them and also we don't want them hanging out in cities      │
 because they might get run over or whatever]                                     │
 listen, they're gonna live where they can find food. And if they can't find it   │
 in the woods, they'll liv                                                        │
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 I had a dream that someone fed me a McDonalds burger in the airport (with
 "special sauce") and then the next time I was at the grocery store in the
 waking world I ended up buying a bunch of those meat replacements that I
 usually skip in favor of moar vegetables.
 
 Hmmmmm.... I wonder if I have a deficiency
 
 (yeah you dumbass it's a calorie deficiency, just eat more)
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