• spaduf@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Ok but for real tho. The average American severely underestimates how far you can get on rice, beans, lentils and chickpeas.

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      3 months ago

      Serious question, if I live off just that, I end up feeling like absolute garbage. That’s even with supplementing it with greens like spinach and some other veggies and vitamin supplements. What am I missing?

      Like, macro-wise, I can replace meat and other things, but it doesn’t seem to hit the same?

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        3 months ago

        Get a blood test. You could have a micronutrient deficiency. It is common to develop either vitamin D, B or iron deficiencies when you cut meat since they just aren’t as abundant outside of red meat and organ meat.

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        3 months ago

        Would you care to elaborate on what you feel like when you try living on plants? What do you tend to eat? How long does it take before you start feeling like shit?

        Judging by your last comment about it “not hitting the same” my initial thought is that the issue might not even be nutritional, possibly more psychological/subjective.

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        3 months ago

        I end up feeling like absolute garbage.

        Maybe, not cooking it well enough? Try changing your recipes, perhaps? Maybe more variety in spices?
        Gram, pulses and dried beans (rehydrated before eating) with rice, tend to make my favourite recipes
        and even though I use milk products, I feel pretty good even if it is lemonade with black-salt instead.

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          3 months ago

          Oh, it tastes fine, I’m saying like…energy-wise and sugar-crash-wise I feel bad. Just wondering if I’m missing something.

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            3 months ago

            You probably need a fattier diet for your nutrition needs, since the diet listed is a carbs-and-protein diet. Try having way more nut butters / olive oil / other healthy fats

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            3 months ago

            sugar-crash-wise

            I meant the same thing. Spices are more than just taste.

            And I seldom put sugar in my lemonade.

            The rice seems to do the job

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            3 months ago

            I’ve started eating a fruit (usually apple) after breakfast, and sometimes as an afternoon snack, and that keeps my energy up, personally.

            If this is a new regimen for you it might just be an adjustment period. But I’m not a nutritionist. Just some random bean fan.

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        3 months ago

        Don’t know what you’re missing because we don’t know everything you eat

        Spinach gives iron so based off the information it’s not that

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        Every plant is trying to kill you. It doesn’t want to be eaten. It especially doesn’t want you to eat its seeds. We can detoxify most of the ones that people eat, but it costs

        Eating the same plants over again can make you sick

        You may not be as good at detoxifying those plants as the people who do well eating them

        I know I’m a lot healthier with no plants in my diet than I have been with lots of plants

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      3 months ago

      If I could get us all to protest grocery store prices by eating nothing but staples whenever there is a random price increase I would die happy XD

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      3 months ago

      Rice amd beans is the most important thing on my region’s diet. You just can’t live without eating it at least once.

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        3 months ago

        Capitalism demands you eat legumes or go into debt.

        The rebellion demands you stay alive how you need to and organize, which in the US means eating cheap proteins as you gotta.