Diet

[Dox]

Depends what you’re prepared to eat surely, see things like chuck in the oven pizzas, ready meals etc for £1-£2.

I’m convinced supermarkets were behind ‘five a day’ fruit and veg (I know they’re not your thing) used to be cheap, once they’d come up with that shit they put a big green tick with ‘one of your five a day’ label on and went X10 on the price.
Wankers.

I don’t consider those food.

Food is nutrition - there’s very little in those. Eat it and feel hungry again in 3 hours.

Instead you can get a kilo of chicken thighs for £3 that would be two meals and far more nutritional benefit.

In the west we now treat food as entertainment.
Nutritionists and doctors say we need ‘a balanced diet’ intimating that we should eat a mix of foods. What other animal does that? None. Bears will eat berries when meat or fish isn’t available…that’s about it.
The notion of needing multiple food groups is a made up construct. You’re right about the 5-a-day…it started off as 7 but they thought that’s too many for people to consider manageable.

We need nutrition - meat is the only food group that provides every nutrient humans need. And it comes with the correct elements for us to absorb the nutrients, unlike those from vegs.

 

[Dox]

I try make use of as much wild food as possible, especially in the spring. I pick loads of wild garlic. The manager of our pub has multiple food allergies caused by medication for an illness she had. She loves garlic but can't eat cultivated varieties. But for some reason wild garlic is fine. I pick two stuffed carrier bags every spring for her and one for me. Some gets eaten straight away but most goes into making garlic butter and pesto. Keeps in the freezer till next year.

It surprises me how many people don't know about common wild plants you can eat, like dandelions, plantain, nettles, hawthorn leaves and flowers, chickweed, ground elder, meadowsweet, yarrow etc.
I was speaking to the barmaid in the pub a while back. She's in her late 60's and didn't know that dandelion leaves were edible.
In Mediterranean and eastern European countries they forage for wild greens all the time. We used to here. It's sad we're losing that knowledge.

It’s only taken 2 generations to lose that knowledge.

 

[Loz]

I don’t consider those food.

Food is nutrition - there’s very little in those. Eat it and feel hungry again in 3 hours.

Instead you can get a kilo of chicken thighs for £3 that would be two meals and far more nutritional benefit.

In the west we now treat food as entertainment.
Nutritionists and doctors say we need ‘a balanced diet’ intimating that we should eat a mix of foods. What other animal does that? None. Bears will eat berries when meat or fish isn’t available…that’s about it.
The notion of needing multiple food groups is a made up construct. You’re right about the 5-a-day…it started off as 7 but they thought that’s too many for people to consider manageable.

We need nutrition - meat is the only food group that provides every nutrient humans need. And it comes with the correct elements for us to absorb the nutrients, unlike those from vegs.

I've gone right off chicken in the last couple of years or so. It either looks and tastes disgusting - or it's breast fillets, which barely looks or tastes of anything.

Might just be me though.

 

[The skitz]

I've gone right off chicken in the last couple of years or so. It either looks and tastes disgusting - or it's breast fillets, which barely looks or tastes of anything.

Might just be me though.

Most of it is pumped with water to sell bigger that's why the breast are horribly tasteless

 

[Dukesox]

I've gone right off chicken in the last couple of years or so. It either looks and tastes disgusting - or it's breast fillets, which barely looks or tastes of anything.

Might just be me though.

Legs are the best part IMO but a proper whole free range chicken is great and does several meals including soup from the carcase.
I pour boiling water over the whole chicken then rub a little sea salt into the skin before cooking. Usually tastes delicious but definitely avoid most supermarket chicken which tends to be tasteless slop . Waitrose have some good ones though compared to the rest.

 

[Alan Williams]

I don’t consider those food.

Food is nutrition - there’s very little in those. Eat it and feel hungry again in 3 hours.

Instead you can get a kilo of chicken thighs for £3 that would be two meals and far more nutritional benefit.

In the west we now treat food as entertainment.
Nutritionists and doctors say we need ‘a balanced diet’ intimating that we should eat a mix of foods. What other animal does that? None. Bears will eat berries when meat or fish isn’t available…that’s about it.
The notion of needing multiple food groups is a made up construct. You’re right about the 5-a-day…it started off as 7 but they thought that’s too many for people to consider manageable.

We need nutrition - meat is the only food group that provides every nutrient humans need. And it comes with the correct elements for us to absorb the nutrients, unlike those from vegs.

Yeah. I just seem to remember it was much cheaper to buy fresh food over ready meals etc years ago.