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The zen of boring meals
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Joe2 on August 19, 2025, 12:16 pm
Discipline to eat what does not hurt and avoid what does? Hm. Not sure I see that as discipline.
Looking back and comparing what I eat today is my best form of sorting. I used to eat wide varieties of foods. Especially when I tried vegetarianism. I know I had all sorts of reactions to all sorts of foods. I did not connect any of the reactions to any of the foods back then. Probably because the matrons in my family constantly ranted that all my problems were from a lack of sausages.
Now that I am clear of all these different foods for years and clear of the symptoms, I get to try one at a time. Did tahini last month. Ironic that I am much more skilled at making it taste good than I was 40 years ago. So good with salt and sugar. As one might expect of frosting. Even more ironic since the symptoms I got after 2 weeks of it went away when I stopped and are easily remembered from 40 years ago. I imagine it was not the tahini alone back then. Probably a number of other oxalate laden foods I was slamming at the time.
Clarity is so much more pleasurable than an entertained mouth. Otherwise I would still be eating potato skins with spinach cream sauce chased by a huge chocolate mint ice cream. Oh yeh, and plenty of fried corn chips with avocado heavy with cilantro. Wow. It feels so good to not have eaten all that for so long.
How much discipline is required to not hit my head with a hammer anymore?
Discipline to eat what does not hurt and avoid what does? Hm. Not sure I see that as discipline.
Looking back and comparing what I eat today is my best form of sorting. I used to eat wide varieties of foods. Especially when I tried vegetarianism. I know I had all sorts of reactions to all sorts of foods. I did not connect any of the reactions to any of the foods back then. Probably because the matrons in my family constantly ranted that all my problems were from a lack of sausages.
Now that I am clear of all these different foods for years and clear of the symptoms, I get to try one at a time. Did tahini last month. Ironic that I am much more skilled at making it taste good than I was 40 years ago. So good with salt and sugar. As one might expect of frosting. Even more ironic since the symptoms I got after 2 weeks of it went away when I stopped and are easily remembered from 40 years ago. I imagine it was not the tahini alone back then. Probably a number of other oxalate laden foods I was slamming at the time.
Clarity is so much more pleasurable than an entertained mouth. Otherwise I would still be eating potato skins with spinach cream sauce chased by a huge chocolate mint ice cream. Oh yeh, and plenty of fried corn chips with avocado heavy with cilantro. Wow. It feels so good to not have eaten all that for so long.
How much discipline is required to not hit my head with a hammer anymore?
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lil chick on August 20, 2025, 5:54 am
I'm glad you are here to balance my bad habits, Joe2 haha ...
I think you are here to be Grant's voice while he is off enjoying retirement, as he should be!
I'm glad you are here to balance my bad habits, Joe2 haha ...
I think you are here to be Grant's voice while he is off enjoying retirement, as he should be!
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Joe2 on August 21, 2025, 10:55 pm
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lil chick on August 20, 2025, 5:54 am
I'm glad you are here to balance my bad habits, Joe2 haha ...
I think you are here to be Grant's voice while he is off enjoying retirement, as he should be!
Wow. I am more than a little sure he nor I am good with that description. Appreciate the thought though.
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lil chick on August 20, 2025, 5:54 am
I'm glad you are here to balance my bad habits, Joe2 haha ...
I think you are here to be Grant's voice while he is off enjoying retirement, as he should be!
Wow. I am more than a little sure he nor I am good with that description. Appreciate the thought though.
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Tanveen on August 21, 2025, 11:31 pm
I will write out ‘clarity is so much more pleasurable than an entertained mouth’ and put it in the kitchen. Advertising in reverse! I like the description of ‘entertainment food’ as it’s like that - providing us with more and more low quality, high volume food to appeal to our mind’s desire for newness and override our actual needs, just like the journalism and entertainment industry.
I will write out ‘clarity is so much more pleasurable than an entertained mouth’ and put it in the kitchen. Advertising in reverse! I like the description of ‘entertainment food’ as it’s like that - providing us with more and more low quality, high volume food to appeal to our mind’s desire for newness and override our actual needs, just like the journalism and entertainment industry.
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Joseph on August 24, 2025, 8:38 pm
I still crave extra cheese pizza from Belle Italia sometimes and one that has grown is a craving for a Reuben sandwich; that is corned beef, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut with mustard on rye bread. I might do the sandwich someday but I'll skip the mustard and cheese. It's actually low a in that formulation, but for the next year or so I'm gunning for zero to prove a point (like Grant). I had a grandpa die with dementia, a grandma with alzheimer's, a mother with cancer and a father with multiple strokes. I don't wish to follow the crowd over the cliff, no matter how delicious the fall may be.
I still crave extra cheese pizza from Belle Italia sometimes and one that has grown is a craving for a Reuben sandwich; that is corned beef, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut with mustard on rye bread. I might do the sandwich someday but I'll skip the mustard and cheese. It's actually low a in that formulation, but for the next year or so I'm gunning for zero to prove a point (like Grant). I had a grandpa die with dementia, a grandma with alzheimer's, a mother with cancer and a father with multiple strokes. I don't wish to follow the crowd over the cliff, no matter how delicious the fall may be.
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Joe2 on August 25, 2025, 1:34 am
That reuben does sound good. I imagine it is doable too. Not yet for me though.
That reuben does sound good. I imagine it is doable too. Not yet for me though.
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