It's time to stop spending.
I've cut back on everything, not just because its expensive but because I want to send a message.
If even 10% did this, the corps would shit themselves bloody.
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100% agree. I have personally stopped eating fast food months ago. The quality is the worst it has ever been and it is outrageously priced. Same goes for soda, chips, and other junk food. Junk food was supposed to be cheap. When you stop making it cheap....you don't have a consumer base.
It is "insane" over here in the Netherlands also;
- MC donalds "standard" menu; +-/ 15 Euros (used to be around 8-10 euros)
- Dominos Pizza medium "special"; 15+ Euros (used to be around 10 euros for the same pizza)
It's already close to a price hike of 50+ percent.
Went out to dinner with a few friends to a Korean BBQ place; 40 euros for all you can eat per person. It was nice but the amount of food that one should eat to get to the 40 euro treshhold is insane. I think I ate for a maximum of 15 euros of food.
Other places also aggressively jacked up their prices for the exact same menu and quality (or lack of). I just cannot be arsed anymore to eat out.
The new fastfood prices are getting closer to the restaurant prices pre inflation. I don't see any incentive to actually pay those prices for the lack of quality of the food.
I also see that the same fastfood chains 'quietly' implemented shrinkflation in regards of toppings or portion sizes so one gets screwed over double.
I liked to get some fastfood once or twice every 2 weeks, but I just cannot be bothered anymore.
the kicker is that for that 15 euros worth of fastfood I can get close to a weeks of selfcooked dinner.
I already see some grocery stores actually lowering the prices of certain items and aggressively put items on huge discounts.
I was actually thinking the other day I don't actually like McDonald's food, except the milkshakes, I just go there all the time.
I would genuinely rather just go to pizza hut, it's basically the same price these days and at least you get more food for your money.
Chickpeas, soyflakes, rice, hemp & chia seeds, quinoa, tofu, lentils, flour. Most of the dried goods have a shelf life of 1-2 years. The cost of them is sinking in germany. I'm fine with people complaining about rising cost of meat, eggs and dairy and ignoring that fine sources of protein, minerals and vitamins. More for me.
Do lentils have much taste?
Not really, but that can be a positive if you know how to spice food properly. I make a lentil taco recipe in the instant pot and it comes out pretty good as long as I don't forget any of my spices.
Most of the listed foods don't have much taste on its own. And nobody should eat them unprepared. RememberTheApollo_ described it well. But spices are a thing. With them you can transform them into culinary experiences.
Combine chickpeas with cumin, lemon juice, olive oil, tahini/peanut butter and garlic: delicious nurturing Hummus.
Combine chickpeas with parsley, onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, pepper and sesame seeds: mouth watering falafel.
Combine tomatopaste, oliveoil and spices to get a nice base for frying crumbled tofu (a complete protein) to emulate ground meat.
With all the dried food it's important to prepare them correctly (rinse, soak, cook) to get rid of plant toxins like phasin, solanin, oxalates or arsenic.
E.g. a study found out the best way to prepare natural rice. Peeled rice doesn't contain much arsenic but natural/brown rice may contain it in its shell (amounts vary by its country of origin).
They’re like beans.
While having them home cooked is better, try some prepackaged Indian or Middle Eastern foods that might have them from a local health food store. Regular grocery stores might have them in some canned soups.
I’m personally not a fan of lentils, I find them somewhat dry/mealy in consistency, but I’m not going to turn down a good dish with them in it.
I honestly have never had beans. The only vegetable I'm good with is hummus, but I'm super curious about vegan/vegetarian proteins. I won't start with lentils, though. Sounds unpleasant for someone with texture issues. Thank you.
Protein is made up of about 20 amino acids. Your body can produce 11 of them itself. You need to ingest 9 of them, the so called essential amino acids.
Meat usually contains the complete protein, as well as soy (tofu, edamame, tvp) does. But there are others like quinoa or hemp seeds.
Other plant based protein sources like legumes, beans, peas, grains, seeds & nuts need to be combined to get the 9 EAA because they all are a bit deficient in mostly one amino acid (but they too contain all of them). That's why beans and rice are often eaten together:
https://www.piedmont.org/living-real-change/what-is-a-complete-protein
I would look into tofu and TVP (textured vegetable protein). The latter is made up of soy but comes in the form of crumbs of varying sizes. It's dirt cheap here and high protein. If you get the finer grained, you can process them into stuff that resembles ground meat. You can make bolognese, casseroles or burger-patties (in combination with a binding agent like aquafaba or linseeds, onions, mushroom) out of it.
If you don't want to cook you could make shakes with a food processor or smothie mixer. Plantbased protein powder (pea/rice/soy) + fruits, seeds cocosmilk etc.
I'd install the app cronometer and get a kitchen scale if you don't have it.
Cronometer contains a gigantic database of products you can easily enter by scanning the barcode. The database is contributed to by users. I can tell they seem to be strict with the quality-control of the contributed products. I contributed one 3 weeks ago and it's still not in the DB although I looked at pretty in depth websites for the micro nutrients and triple checked the units and numbers.
So you enter your body data and it tells you what your goals are. You can set individual targets, e.g. protein according to your level of activity. You can track workouts too which then modify your macro goals accordingly. You can enter the ingredients of a recipe, save it and restore it when you cook it again. I made myself one e.g. for morning cereals which let me meet my overall daily protein and overall target of 30-40% already. With a daily report it tells you down to the individual vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids what you need. All in the free version.
What you need to do yourself is to find out what micro and macro nutrient is in what product. Cronometer gives you hints if you click on them in the daily report. You don't need to track forever as it's sure cumbersome but to get a feeling for proper nutrition it's an eyeopener.
In forgot vital wheat gluten alias seitan which a bite of would probably obliterate a gluten sensitive person. It's often used in convenience food.
It's made out of flour and nothing much else and it happens to have the highest amount protein per gram among the plant based products and even higher than some meat products. The problem is the amino acid profile:
Hummus is made with beans.
My brother in christ, it's garlic and chickpeas. I'm choosing not to call them garbanzo beans but specifically peas. Tho, yes, but it's all blended and shit.
Peas and beans are both legumes and there's no reason to separate them biologically into two types the way we do it.
Fuck retailers. Have less shareholder profit and get over it. They want profit to be fixed or increasing. They view it in an accounting sense as something they cannot have decrease, ever. This is unrealistic and makes them do stupid things.
There is no sin greater in capitalism than uncaptured profit, none.
Fuck capitalism and the barbaric world it creates. We are better than this but the sociopaths like to count big numbers.
Only stupid to those not benefitting from it. Like most of us.
If its stupid to most people then the ones continuing to promote it have mental illness.
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