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Hi, to the mods, if my post is invalid, feel free to delete this, I cant find any diet instances sry Yeah, processed refined carbs is really something else. I've been doing IF + lowcarb for the past 2 years and luckily, my body responded to it dropping me from 106kg to 60kg Btw i dont have the intention to demonize carbs, its still a good source of sugar in which our brains love to utilize as energy. Its just man....it really somewhat messes me up. I do still eat processed refined carbs but very rarely and in minimum then one day my mom brought some chocolate brownie cupcakes. My mom handed them over to me and told her its most likely that I'll never eat it. Then its time for my 2nd meal, At first I was reaallly hesitant to consume it because im aware that carbs has something to do with pumping up ghrelin, a hormone that has been studied to trigger hunger, and sadly... I went with "yeah why not give a try, fuck it lets have some" The next 3 days, it really messed my hunger, It usually triggers 8-9hrs after i had a meal and now it triggers 3-4hrs after i had my last meal, Luckily I had this experience before and sorta blamed myself for doing something I find stupid. Sry for venting out
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1465875 > Once a year, everyone I know becomes a farmer. They plan ahead, pack a picnic, grab a hat and head to a farm to pick strawberries. Flats fill up with the sweet fruit you don’t eat in the field, people gain a little appreciation for farm workers after spending the day hunched over, and we all end up making big berry plans and dreaming sweet berry dreams. Mostly though, people go home, gorge on fresh berries and/or make jam. > > I don’t know who eats all that jam, and I hate giving away jars, so I have a raft of ideas for what to make instead, starting with my very popular strawberry vinegar. I’m going to offer two ways to make it—beginner and advanced. > Vinegar-making tools for your vinegar-making needs: > > A vinegar mommy, to make it truly from scratch: Supreme Red Wine Mother of Vinegar > A big ol’ carboy, with an air lock: FastRack 1-gallon Jug with Twin bubble Airlock > Spoilage-preventing tablets: Campden Tablets > > Why is strawberry vinegar such a good idea? You use more vinegar than you think. There’s salad dressing, sure, and marinades, but brightness is a thing your cooking could use more of, and flavored vinegars (good ones) are expensive, so they don’t see as much use as they should. Making it yourself means you’ll have an endless supply, and can afford to pop a little into your soy sauce, add a little to your gazpacho for some sweetness, or toss a bit with your grilled veggies for an instant brightness that illuminates the Maillard effect on the vegetables. You can also use it to add a tangy sweetness to all your potato salads or coleslaw. Next time you sauté some vegetables on the stove, give it a splash of vinegar to make the flavor brighter. Point is, when you’re not thinking about how expensive the pretty bottle was, you’ll find a lot more uses for flavored vinegar in your kitchen. > Quick strawberry vinegar > Ingredients: > > 1 quart of apple cider vinegar > 1 pint of very ripe strawberries > 1 teaspoon of sugar > > Destem the strawberries, and add everything to a blender. Blend for 30-45 seconds (or more), as needed to get the mixture as blended as your blender will allow. Allow the mixture to sit for 6 hours, then pour it through a sieve or strainer into a bowl. Bottle it, and it should be shelf stable, because of the acid content. > > This process produces a vinegar that has a distinct strawberry flavor, but still has the sharpness of the cider vinegar, which is softened a little by the sugar. All we’re doing here is flavoring the apple cider vinegar, instead of making real strawberry vinegar, which I’ll explain how to do below. > Strawberry vinegar, the long way > Ingredients: > > 3 pounds of strawberries > 2 pounds of honey > 1 quart of water > 1 package of wine yeast (You can use any yeast you like, sometimes I use champagne yeast, sometimes I use sour beer yeast, but this is not bread yeast, to be clear.) > 1 vinegar mother > 1/2 campden tablet > 1 gallon carboy or jug, with airlock > > In this case, you’re making strawberry wine, then letting that wine turn to vinegar. To start, you’re going to take clean, de-stemmed strawberries and put them into a heavy stockpot, with the honey and the water. Let it come to a boil, then simmer for 20 minutes. You want to ensure the honey is dissolved. The strawberries will break down, but they don’t have to do so entirely. Let the mixture cool down to room temperature, then crush your ½ campden tablet with the back of a spoon or a mortar and pestle, and add it to the mixture. Give it a good stir, cover it, and walk away for 24 hours. > > When you return, you’ll pitch your yeast into the mixture. Simply open the package and sprinkle the yeast on the top. Give it five minutes, then mix it in. Now it’s time to get this into your carboy so it can ferment. Use a funnel to pour it into the clean carboy, then fasten your airlock on top of it. Set it in a dark and cool space. Within a few days, you’ll see it bubbling, causing the airlock to burp. This will continue for a few days or up to a week. You want to wait for it to stop bubbling entirely. > > If you have a refractometer or a way to measure ABV, now is a good time to check that yours is under 10%, but if you don’t, that’s ok, too. You’re usually in the right range. > > Remove the airlock and add your vinegar mother, then place some cheesecloth on top of the jug, and tie it onto the top. This is so the wine is exposed to air, but bugs can’t get in. Let the wine sit for 3-4 weeks, then give it a taste. You can continue to let it age this way, mellowing out and evaporating along the way. The longer you age it, the better it will taste. I usually let mine sit for about three months. > > Now, you can use it as you’d like, decanting it a little at a time. Making it from scratch is riskier, it could go south because fermentation is risky and this has a lot of steps. If you start to see green or blue mold, it’s gone bad. If you see white mold, that’s just Kahm yeast, which isn’t a problem but doesn’t taste great, so you need to strain, boil and restart from where you left off (boiling gets rid of all yeast, so you’d need to add it back in). But its also a mostly hands off process that is so deeply rewarding, and results, if you do it right, in a far more delicious and smooth vinegar in the end. > > Also, let’s be honest, you were never really serious about making strawberry ice cream.
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TLDR: lots of salt and artificial flavourings. But a lot of interesting chemistry goes into it too. There are annealing steps, and many other processes I don't understand.
I've never tried eating the stems. What's it taste like?
https://fireinabottle.net/introducing-the-croissant-diet/ Bonus: the wine diet https://fireinabottle.net/wine-fasting-tcd-redux-part-2/ The state star codex about all of this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-saturated-fat-diets/
It's great that we can see on packaging if the eggs we buy are from chickens tortured in a [pit of despair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair), or ones better cared for. But consumers' information so still bdly restricted. Imagine the changes shops would have to make if they were forced to show on the label/tag * the profit margin for that item * the date if was made (especially for perishables which are often not as fresh as they look) * whether the price has changed in the last month, and what the price used to be * for meat: what have they been feeding it * for grain: what incecticides have been sprayed on the landscape * how big is the company producing the product (in number of staff, in annual profit, or in land) * etc These are all just example. I wouldn't propose doing all of them. But even a small bit of information, be it hidden or revealed, can make a big difference.
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I go back and forth on this kind of thing. On the one hand, if you're ever using non-whole-wheat flour, you're totally already bought into the idea of processing your flour for a specific result. Breeding more or less protein into wheat--sure! Go for it! On the other hand, I don't like using ingredients when I don't understand how they're made, and a lot of the time when ingredients only have to tell me they're "modified" it skeeves me out that I can't verify exactly how. What do you think?
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Has anyone eaten this or their nugget version? Is it good? A vegetarian chicken nugget is something I could get *real into*. *Dangerously* for my *health* into. I am happy to cook a nice expensive relatively-decent-welfare chicken to roast it or something, but anything breaded seems like a bad effort/outcome ratio. You get me a decent plant-based substitute--especially if it might get decently cheap eventually--and I will go to *town*.
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> If you boil bucatini for 50 percent of the time the box tells you to, cooking it perfectly al dente, you will experience a textural experience like nothing else you have encountered in your natural life. When cooked correctly, bucatini bites back. It is a responsive noodle. It is a self-aware noodle. In these times, when human social interaction carries with it the possible price of illness, bucatini offers an alternative: a social interaction with a pasta.
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People are taking craps in the bathroom and not washing their hands. Or using McDonald's cheap soap