Thread 21560064

Please help me /ck/ I was raised with shitty eating habits help me write my grocery list for this weekend. I just ate pizza rolls it tasted terrible and made me feel like garbage I want to eat better. How to form healthy eating habits?

>>21560064 (OP)
Eat more vegetables

>>21560064 (OP)
Try eating nothing aside from melted butter + salt and pepper on vegetables and rice for a few days and be amazed at how much better you feel in general.

>>21560064 (OP)
How much cooking have you done, and what cooking utensils do you have?

>>21560064 (OP)
mixed frozen veg steamed then drizzled with olive oil or butter, with a lean protein and a carb of your choice

Same here, I eat like shit. At least I lift weights every other day so I'm in pretty decent shape. I'm too young to give up good food!

>>21560064 (OP)
I think the hardest part for people is actually cooking food. If /ck/ isnt your hobby, having to cook every night sucks.

Look into mealprepping, only cook a few times a week.
Microwaving pizza rolls is easy, which is why you do it. Microwaving your prepped meal is also easy but doesnt make you feel like your chest is caving in.

"Meat and potatoes" cliche isnt all that bad.

>>21560064 (OP)
You just want to feel better?
Begin dinner with a small side salad. Vary your dressing or toppings for crunch and prevent boredom.
Grill choice of meat, add 1 or 2 steam-in-bag veggie sides.

Cook once, eat twice mentality, should help you reduce shopping waste and cooking efforts. Since you are a newb get creative by morphing your leftovers on night 2 to be different. You'll get better at it over time. For the last 2 days of my shopping week, I'll have a couple items I can cook from the freezer or were smoked meats that last longer in the fridge. For my most tired days, I'll consider skillet w/rice dinners, or a sheet pan creation. Prep, get it cooking, clean kitchen, sit down to completely done work. Sunday might be a seasonal roast in the oven, that goes into 2 meals, or sliced into lunch sandwiches or as salad topping.

Right now, in my grocery, the t-bone steaks are on sale for a good grillin' night, and whole pork loins for roasting (some of them are premarinated bleh). I'll add a package of smoked pork chops. ham steak, or andoille sausage to my cart, for a kind of sourthern or cajun night. I might pull out some frozen chicken breasts for one night, if needed (should I not dine out). There are at least 12 veggies in my freezer, but seasonally, there's a lot of sale yellow squash which is good grilled, or tucked into a creamy cracker crusted casserole side.

>>21560064 (OP)
Start with vegetable-heavy soups and stews and go from there

Thanks for the advice. Does brand matter with frozen veg, or have I been prepping it wrong? I hate the texture, but fresh veg ends up wasted in the trash because I don't get to it in time. I'd rather nut up and eat frozen than waste food.

>>21560244
How do you usually cook your frozen vegetables?
I find that they come out best when used in a stir-fry, roasted or used in quick pasta dishes (not baked, too much water)

>>21560244
So i despise the texture of steamed veggies, which is what apparently 90% of people do. Ill eat cucumbers, carrots, and celery raw aside a regular meal. Also cabbage, carrot, onions, and celery are great for cooking in a pan and adding to a stew or curry like meal. they dont end up mushy I can stomach them

>>21560251
I don't eat it often. Usually in the bag. Some do better than others, steamed broccoli isn't bad but peas and carrots never turn out well.

>>21560244
>I'd rather nut up and eat frozen than waste food.
poorfag mentality which will kill your health
You will inevitably waste food until you really figure out how you are going to cook going forward.

Cook vegtable beef soup with fresh veggies that are getting old, then eat that shit for the next 3 meals.

>>21560264
Ah ok. The steam-in-a-bag vegetables arent too bad for a quick meal or snack.

I really like roasted Brussels sprouts and theyre pretty easy to make. Just buy a package of em raw, cut them all in half, remove any dirty outer leaves and toss them in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper. Put them on a flat pan and make sure its not too crowded. Then roast at 425 degrees for about 20-25 minutes or until you see them start to brown and crisp up.
Remove from the oven and enjoy. I can usually kill a whole tray on my own within a day or two. Easy to do as well.

>>21560064 (OP)
Stick to the produce section and meat section. Do not buy boxed items. Do not buy processed items. Do not open the freezer section. Limit the breads. There you go anon, easy.

>>21560064 (OP)
I buy a large thing of frozen chicken breast in bulk (you can do normal chicken and freeze those if you'd like)
and boil the chicken from frozen until fully cooked.
You can do a lot of stuff with boiled chicken. Eat it plain with rice and vege on the side. Put it in a wrap with spinach, vege and mustard. Eat it over pasta. Other stuff too I guess.
I tend to prefer frozen vege over anything else unless I know I'm going to eat something fast. Tomato, Spinach, and Onions I can go through before they go bad so I always get those fresh.

>>21560323
I'll add that to my list, thank you
>>21560328
The produce selection where I live is terrible. That's an excuse but it does make it more difficult to change my habits.

Oh, carrots covered in olive oil, salt and pepper inside the air fryer for a bit is pretty good. Roast vege in general is always a good choice for vege.

>>21560349
You got farmers markets?

ONE STEP AT A TIME
Seriously, swap 1 bad habbit for a good one. Do it for a while till it became routine then swap the next bad thing.
I replaced smoking by walking, soda by thee, cookies by apples, and so on.. over the course of years, 1 by 1.

>>21560349
No problem anon. I forgot to mention, make sure to wash them once youve gotten rid of the dead outer leaves. Make sure there's no dirt in em.
Brussels sprouts hold up great with sauces too so if you like ranch or blue cheese you can dip them in that. If you wanna go a bit fancier, coat the Brussels in a sweet BBQ sauce or soy sauce before roasting.

>>21560093
dino

>>21560417
Yeah, it's more crafts and bakery sweets than produce though. Kinda sucks.

>>21560064 (OP)
Stay away from the bad aisles and fill up your basket on the "good" aisles. Voila, problem solved!

>>21560064 (OP)
Learn to start cooking for yourself. If you like chili for example, learn to make it yourself. It's very easy to make and it will turn out way better than the canned crap. It's incredibly easy to make. You just throw everything into one pot and slow simmer it.

>>21560064 (OP)
Eliminate frozen food from your diet entirely. If that leaves you with very little options then your store sucks; go to another one.

Sausage (not processed shit)
Steamed broccoli

Thats all I eat during the week, go to an actual butcher.

When I cbf cooking I just cut a potato into chunks then microwave it for 5 minutes, then add some salt and pepper, cheese, garlic, Italian herbs, maybe some hot sauce. If I'm really hungry I'll eat two. It's super low effort cooking

>>21560064 (OP)
>>21560244
>Please help me /ck/ I was raised with shitty eating habits help me write my grocery list for this weekend. I just ate pizza rolls it tasted terrible and made me feel like garbage I want to eat better. How to form healthy eating habits?
I'll bite whats your budget? BTW frozen foods aren't inherently "bad", it's just most of them are made with cheap ingredients (that IS bad!)
>How to form healthy eating habits?
I'd say your first step is to start buying healthy frozen slop from Trader Joe's or Aldi.

Right now you have 2 problems:
1. you have learned to only buy slop
2. probably can't cook well enough to buy raw ingredients yet

>>21560983
>>21560349
>The produce selection where I live is terrible. That's an excuse but it does make it more difficult to change my habits.
Where do you live m8

Because personally I would simply drive to the nearest Trader Joe's/Aldi and load up on healthy frozen sloppa. Slowly you can introduce more vegetables as your body gets used to the healthy foods and stops spamming you with cravings for total junkfood.

>>21560873
Frozen vegetables are not harmeful

>>21560064 (OP)
Start intermittent fasting, stop eating ultra processed food and seed oils, eat more veggies, fruits, seafood and lean protein, only use extra virgin olive oil, butter and avocado oil for cooking. Consider skipping breakfast, if you must eat in the morning consider only a light meals like a few boiled eggs and a cup of black tea. Change your relationship with food and this begins by understand where your food comes from and the minds and motivations of the people who own the food companies. Pro tip: They hate you and want to make you sick so their friends in the pharmaceutical industry can make even more money of your treatments and pills. It's a big fucking racket, and if you want to form healthy eating habits you need to first form a positive self image and realize that you deserve better than to be poisoned by psychopaths who want you consuming carcinogens and micro plastics for every meal. Call me schizo all you want, I am 100% correct.

Learn to enjoy fruits and vegetables, OP.

>>21561214

They're actually safer due to the blanching process and selection. But there are veges you'll never find frozen like green onions.

>>21560064 (OP)
>How to form healthy eating habits?

How to form proper sentences?

Did you actually learn to write from youtube thumbnails or something?

>>21560982
cbf cooking?

>>21560988
Embarrassing. You laid all that stuff out because you're proud of purchasing it and you want us to see it all.
Wrong move. You should be ashamed and hide that shit.

>>21561239
You can be fat and still be super active and mobile, but you'll literally be weighed-down and spend more on clothing by having to seek "big & tall" sizes.

>>21561237
>How is babby formed? How girl get pragnit?

>>21560984
>Where do you live m8
Very rural area. There is an aldis but it's 40 minutes away.
>>21561235
I believe you, this is good motivation
>>21561237
Pizza rolls make brain not work gud

>>21562341
>There is an aldis but it's 40 minutes away.
OK so you're going to want to get a cooler or something and drive out there once a month or so and LOAD UP.
Simple as: Get a bunch of the frozen meals, (shepard's pie, lasagna, etc.) vegetables, fruits, whatever.
Whenever you cook a meal, also make some vegetables and eat them.
Cook the vegetables like a pizza on a tray, it's that easy.

>>21562461
>OK so you're going to want to get a cooler or something and drive out there once a month or so and LOAD UP.
Yup, it's what I do for the closest Costco. Cooler, and load up runs. I'll get the pallets of drinks and everything else. I take it easy on the freezer stuff which hurts my soul, but the rest makes it worth the run.
TJs, for me, is near one specialist doctor 1.5 hours away, that I only see yearly, so I do the same thing, cooler. Tons of nuts, breads, and favorite items.

I have a garage fridge/freezer. The single person absolutely can stock up too, even at big box stores. Stop buying crap you don't absolutely love. See, I wouldn't even buy pizza rolls. I learned that pro tip like 25 years ago. They were never good, you see.

>>21562341
>>21562461
The bonus to ALDI is that it's CHEAP AS FUCK as well.
>>21562341
>>21561235
This dude is a mouth-breathing retard, don't listen to them.
>only use extra virgin olive oil, butter and avocado oil for cooking
Literal nonsense. Avocado oil is a shit oil too.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/study-finds-82-percent-avocado-oil-rancid-or-mixed-other-oils
>Study Finds 82 Percent of Avocado Oil Rancid or Mixed With Other Oils
"Eat the rancid oil I'm very smart", said Anon. However, in reality, Anon was a dumbass.
Don't listen to people like this.

The #1 thing for losing weight is tracking calories.
The #1 thing for being healthy is giving your gut bacteria things to consume while also giving your brain all the protein/fat/carbs it wants. Basically, think of the fruits/vegetables as a way to -help deliver- the protein/fat/carbs to your brain and you will need less of them overall, which is also less calories.

Balance is the key to health, and not being a fucking nutjob is another one.
You can have ice cream, you can eat soybean oil, whatever. But have those things in moderation. If you eat all goyslop for a day, eat a bunch of yogurt, vegetables, fruit, etc. for the next few.

>>21562471
>Stop buying crap you don't absolutely love.
This is good advice, OP. Another bit of good advice is not to eat because you're amusing yourself or want to "snack". Snacks are the devil.
Just cook a meal instead.

>>21560093
Don’t do that if you’re in America as they are nutritionally worthless as all of our are soils are without nutrients and full of petrochemicals.

>>21562472
Kill yourself you corporate brainwashed shill. I would say you ought to be strung up the reality if you will just get sick prematurely and probably die of cancer, enjoy faggot!

>>21560110
your habits will stay when you get older and u get fat mode brudda

>>21560064 (OP)
My typical haul:
2 whole chickens ( roast)
Large bag whole carrots
Large bag celery
Cabbage
Onions
Whole garlic
Eggs
Great northern beans
Cottage cheese
Greek yogurt
Berries
Deenz/tuna/mackerel
Random other veg
Random wildcard protiens ( pork loins. Beef roast. Ect)


My diet through the week is mostly
chicken soup, Bean stew, chicken stock, roasted chicken with cooked veg, cold chicken with raw veg and cottage cheese, greek yogurt with berries. Hard-boiled eggs, cabbage soup, some occasional canned fish,Varied protiens like steak, chops, shrimp ect. Also meat Veggie and egg stir fry, omelets , chicken salad, chili.

I do not buy :
Pre-made dinners or food items
Bread
Crackers
Chips
Snacks of any kind
Canned soups
Sweets
Nuts
Jam/jelly
Salad dressing/ sauces ( excepting basics like soy sauce, hot sauce, mustard ect)
Rice
Potatoes
Tortillas
Pasta
Noodles
Cheese ( save for real parm or occasional fresh mozz)

You will save a ton of money, lean up, and feel better if you do this.