/ck/ - Food & Cooking

We were poor as all hell, but I was relatively fortunate that my parents could at least cook basic stuff, and we had a deep fryer which they very rarely if ever changed the oil in, homefries were a staple.
a lot of home made pizza, with sliced up dill pickles and sliced up hot dogs on them.
for lunch we'd eat dill pickles with cheese whiz on white or cheese whiz and bananas on white.
We ate a lot of bread, and even kept a garden where we'd grow fresh peas and corn, tiny tim tomatoes and otherstuff I can't remember too well, but those peas were the best peas i've ever had and likely ever will. We were on a well so we didn't water the garden, which while the yields were lower, honestly, we didn't have to weed them at all.
But we didn't have much meat in the house, just cold meat at most which reserved for school lunches, no chicken, no pork aside from hot dogs, but sloppy joes or chili with ground beef was fairly rare, usually when my father wasnt home.
My father has some weird enzyme issue with meats, probably lyme disease but i dunno, but he'd insist on getting his bacon so he'd eat it absolutely charred black, there was no meat left to it, it was far beyond what most people would consider ruined, it was bitter as all hell and didn't even taste like bacon, a total fucking waste.
he also ate canned peas with ketchup on toast, and a bunch of other weird stupid shit that didn't taste good and clearly had no particular amount of nutritional value.
honestly I had it pretty rough as a kid, but food was one of the few pleasures we could expect, because we'd be taking part in making it for a lot of it, and my mother did try very hard.
well as long as you can look past the fries fried in ancient rancid oil, but what can ya do
I also remember having salad dressings in that fridge for many years in a row which never got cleared out because we never ate salads, so when they would get used you'd have a hell of a choice selection but you'd have to sniff them to make sure.

burn out sucks but it's luckily pretty easy to solve, in theory, just sort of depends on you and how you think about things
don't worry about using recipes so much, theres nothing wrong with using a recipe but you don't need to limit yourself to that sort of thinking

you can make a good enough meal without really putting in any effort, or thinking for that matter
pour some frozen vegetables onto the tendies tray in a pile and bake them for the tendies time
the wad of veggies will take the same amount of time to cook as the tendies more or less
end result is a balanced dinner with better quality than frozen meals
a deep freezer helps with selection immensely if you don't own one
I bought some 2 kg bags of precut fajita mix, it's full of peppers and onions and everything else, these ones are cut a little big but I don't mind, but thats also probably why each bag was only 5 cad at the food thrift shop. (great place to get precut frozen vegetables in bulk, and cheap)

I don't mind eating like this every day honestly, and I still cook things because it interests me, instead of being burnt out constantly and avoiding making anything new because it takes effort, but these ingredients can also be used in more 'proper' food or soups if you feel a bit dehydrated that day
at this point it changes your decision to 'do I want something dense, regular, or light'
when I want something dense I can just boil up a bunch of premade ravioli/tortellini and do a simple garlic butter sauce, 90% of the effort involved is chopping up a couple cloves of garlic but you could even just sling butter onto them alone if its cheese or spinach ravioli/tortellini

a tasty meal can be at your figure tips at any point in time with 0 effort and lower than normal cost once you stop forcing yourself to think you need to be willing to buy what you're eating for 15 dollars in an average restaurant, because I can promise you they're putting in even less effort than I described here

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i've not looked into what the stupid meme burgers are made of yet but chances are yeah, since cows need water as well as the fodder they eat.
it's just more a matter of which one they need to deliver water and fertilizer to, most cattle corn doesn't even need to be fertilized and watered unless planted in absolutely horrendous fields and locations without rain.

but now that i'm looking at the ingredients, all these isolates used in the beyond burger would be used with processing equipment that needs to be washed daily just the manufacturing of the pea protein would be enough to justify real meat if it wasn't also an ingredient in making real meat since it's literally a fodder additive.

so yeah probably, since the people eating these are literally just eating cattle fodder while paying extra for it

brilliant move by the industry honestly