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Anyway, they're just beans. Substitute almost any other kind of canned bean, or even chickpeas, for similar results. If you don't have broccolini use broccoli, asparagus, bok choi, kale etc.
I could go to the Moon, too... :) IOW - Sure, I could consult a professional. But, that's not quite as fun as getting random suggestions, is it? Plus, I could get some decent ideas from such replies. It could happen.
"Professionals" are also likely to make similar suggestions to the above. The first entries in that were taken from an example of the Mayo Clinic's own dietary program, created by real medical scientist food peoples and stuff. I'm not quite sure about the Yeti's, though.
Wassa "bok choi?"
I know what it is, in reality. But, I do not have the necessary equipment to prepare "bok choi"... probably. (I do, but really? Bok Choi? What about "grits?" Can I substitute grits for bok choi?)
The point - I don't normally consume or have the occasion to buy Tuscan White Beans. Sure, I could probably find them. But, maybe there's some generic "It's probably a bean" bean on the shelf I pass every day?
And, no... to chickpeas.
I like 'em. I don't have an issue with them. But, they're also what humus is made out of and I can't stand humus or some reason. It's just "nasty." If I was in a prison camp, I guess I'd eat it if that's all there was.
PS: It's half for fun, half serious. There's no dire need or anything, but it's an elusive McGuffin I've long wondered about. If Eskimos can survive just eating mostly meats, then... what is it with this whole "nutrition" thing, really?
(I know... But, still, I'm sure there's stuff I know of in the grocery store that I could probably make a series of nutritious meals out of that didn't include strange stuff or extended preparation.)
Or, you know, you could just find some places that do good take out.
Yeah, "take out."
I had a regular check-up the other day and my doctor said to stop eating fast-food, take-out, restaurant-food, etc...
I don't eat any of those things.
This was in response to a "borderline" cholesterol issue, which is likely due to issues other than diet. But, I don't think my doc reads my chart. To them, I am a "generic mouth-breathing unibrow patient who probably uses Facebook for all their life advice." (I find that to be a common issue with professionals in healthcare - Every patient that doesn't stay quiet is immediately classified as having a Facebook or Google degree.)
And, that really ticked-me-the-heck-off. It is part of the inspiration for this post, to be honest. :)
I had one burger and a shake a few months ago when I was on a road trip and that was the only "fast food" I've had in something like five years. I had some restaurant food when I was out of town awhile back and maybe once or twice before Covid hit. None, after that.
But, here they were, jabbering at me like I was a terrible health-sinner gobbling down buckets of fried chicken and sneaking shots of used french-fry grease.
"Thank you for coming to your appointment. You suck and it's your fault. That'll be $300.00."
I can come to Off-Topic and be told that and it doesn't cost me anything!
Nutritional availability and absorption is an issue. So, those "weird" foods may have resources that are easier for our bodies to access than their well-known cousins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccolini
Appears to be a hybrid between broccoli and gai lan (a.k.a. "Chinese broccoli"). They're actually both just different varieties of the same species, Brassica oleracea, whose varieties include a giant crapton of different vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, collard greens, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc.). So, crossing these two varieties just gets you another variety.
Basically think of it as yet another dog or cat breed. Except it's a vegetable, and you eat it, unlike cats and dogs.
> WTF is overnight oats?
If you've ever had oats you'd know you have to boil them in water for a while for them to become something edible rather than just the dry grains in cardboard box.
Overnight oats is basically, instead of boiling them, you submerge them in something wet, and leave that overnight. So, for example, you can fill a jar with oats and milk and put that in your fridge overnight. Still makes them edible, but you don't have to cook them in the morning. People usually put more than just milk; for example, it could be a mixture of fruits and milk and whatever other else you want.
> Tuscan white beans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_bean
They're just from Tuscany, I guess, which basically doesn't matter except for sounding fancy. Seems like this is otherwise a synonym for the navy bean, which itself is just one of a giant crapton of different varieties of the common bean (other varieties include kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, etc.).
So, it's basically just beans.
There is so much variety out there if you are able to get even a small garden going for yourself, and there are things you can grow even in limited-space conditions.
I started with herbs like rosemary, thyme, sage, and oregano - since they go with many dishes, improving the flavour of cheaper foods. For some reason they are quite expensive to buy, but are very easy to grow - saving a ton of money not having to buy them, and they thrive on being neglected - barely needed to water or look after them and they are growing strong. You can also grow them in containers to save space or if you don't have a garden.
Leafy greens grow fast and easy, and are healthy - lettuce, spinach, bok-choy all grow very fast and easily. (and most can be eaten uncooked or cooked)
Find something that you can't buy, grow it and see if you like it - if you do then grow more.
The variety in most dishes comes from how they are cooked and prepared - fish, pork, beef, lamb, eggs, ect - if you really think about it there aren't many different animals that we eat, but the dishes we can prepare are plentiful if we use different ingredients, seasonings, and cooking methods. If you have the basic herbs and spices with you, then all you need if the cut of meat and you can create anything.
Currently I grow: Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Oregano, Basil, Apples, Oranges, Mandarins, Figs, Lemons, Limes, Feijoa, Mulberry, Loganberry, Passionfruit, Beans, Carrots, spinach, Potatoes, Bok-Choy, Garlic, Ginger, Sweet Potato, and a few other things I can't remember right now.
(I like Rosemary a lot, so I have about 15 plants of different varieties of it)
I did collect a bunch of seeds for safe keeping but I doubt I'll ever use them at this rate.
This is not possible unless I can obtain some Warhammer Spess Mehreens... In my backyard, every day, I have rabbits, chipmunks, groundhogs, deer, an occasional fox, and sometimes a coyote or bear may wonder by. There's a rabbit warren under an oak in my backyard, just like Watership Down! And, on the other side of the yard, there's a pockmarked collection of chipmunk burrows that looks like a crazy golfcourse. And, little chipmunk sized piles of coyote scat...
A bunch of neighbors got together and put in a community garden in the field behind my house. They tried for years to keep it up. In fact, one topic of conversation whenever neighbors happened across each other outside was "So, what did you feed the deer this week."
They put up some netting in an effort to keep out the deer. I don't know, but maybe deer have super-ghost powers or something because they still got through. They set up a better net with steel posts and wires and stuff, but I think the rabbits just used it as a playset. Fat rabbits. I think one neighbor put up some chicken-wire around some plants, but that was just a filter. Maybe chipmunks used it as a jungle-gym? (Oh, and groundhogs (woodchucks)? They're little bartards and will pull a switchblade on a cat and take its lunch-money in a heartbeat.)
The community garden has largely been abandoned. It looks like the ruins of an old concentration camp. All it needs are some guard towers and searchlights then we can do us an "Escape from Stalag Wilderness" movie out there.
If I plant anything outside, something will come by to eat it. I consider myself lucky to be able to look out the window and see all these critters, so I'd never try to get rid of them. I have a grocery store and they don't, so it's as simple as that.
PS: All that stuff that wise ol' gardeners say that deer, rabbits, chipmunks and groundhogs "don't eat?" It's a lie. If any plant out there stands still too long, something takes a bite out of it. I do worry a bit about the coyotes, though. There are a lot of little kids around here. I keep an eye out whenever I see them playing in the field. Paranoid, I guess. /shrug
My ex-mother-in-law, "she of the shadowed soul," used to make something like that. It was some fad years ago with a diet that included a "cabbage soup" kind of thing that, according to this "diet," they could eat as much of it as they wanted, 'cause science. So, she and her husband were really proud of being able to "cheat" and have as much magic soup as they wanted. They never lost any weight, though.
That does remind me - Crock pots are excellent. And, it's something one could use to easily make a soup/stew with that'd last all week. I could even change it up every once in awhile. I'm going to keep that in mind, thanks!
It’s a metaphor for UK labor market manipulation.
Avoid salmon, most of its sources come from substandard farm fisheries because posh nobles wanted sammies for the prices they were used to. So they invested in garbage industries where the salmon eat literal ♥♥♥♥ and get died pink again.
Extremely difficult to find good salmon if you aren’t a fishlord yourself, although it can be done sort of maybe.
They also have a type of fat associated with brain degeneration that’s become increasingly common due to ocean pollution. Most of which is due to UK-style industry they actively sabotage all attempts to change.
Fish in general are a questionable food source right now.
I've never abused a crock-pot to the point where it burned the contents. Though, I've only used recipes that would likely not go past six hours or so, certainly not up to 10. But, I'm in the U.S. I don't know if there are any significantly different standards. What you mention sounds like an old "glazing" standard for cookware that prohibited the use of toxic metals (made pretty colors in pottery glaze once fired) in high-temp use.
I get "wild caught" salmon. Though, I do admit that advertising standards may allow some companies to make a claim that isn't exactly true. "Wild Caught" could just mean "homeless salmon." /shrug
I do agree that fish foodsources are a bit worrisome right now. For instance, there was very recent study on microplastics that confirmed it can be found in fish. It also appears we may be starting to accumulate it, ourselves. (Very ungood, but effects unkown atm.)
Fish can also act as accumulators for toxic heavy metals that can't be biologically processed, like mercury, lead, etc. That's what it sounds like you're describing when you wrote about the " fat associated with brain degeneration." Lead interferes with brain development and mercury poisoning can cause neurological issues. Both of these are toxic accumulators in fish as well as "filter feeders" like shellfish.
Note: Incidentally, before the ban on leaded gasoline, a bunch of lead in the form of car exhaust, was discharged in every major industrialized city on the planet. Much of those tiny little bits of lead are still there, hanging out in the dust, dirt, and surrounds. And, it can not be processed/digested/used by the human body, so it can accumulate. It can "pass" if it gets that far, but that's just physical, not because it's being "digested." There are efforts in some major urban areas that are ongoing in terms of "cleanup."
I know of no animal fat that could be accused of such activity when eaten by humans, so I'm thinking you're speaking about these toxic metals accumulating in fish fat/biology.