Having to eat every day is a Chore. Though rarely hungry, I've learned that I do much better in general when I do eat. Particularly, when I eat good things like fruit and granola. But I just don't feel like eating. When I was a Drunk I never had problems eating... when I was drunk at least. The mornings were Hell, what with the puking and diarrhea, etc. But anyways. Now I have to face food alone, consistently, and deal with it. It's really not that easy for me.
Everywhere I look I see horrible "fast-food": McDonald's, Carl's Jr, Subway, KFC, etc. "Fast-food," which these days is neither fast, nor is it cheap, nor is it really food. But it calls to me. Looks so good, so easy, so edible, so tasty, It never is though.
I buy fruit on the cheap in the Mission, bagels and bread at Safeway, a Jamba-Juice when I want to splurge, and trail-mix. This works okay for a while, but going to Safeway every day gets old, and I need more diversity in my diet.
The best of food is just too expensive, I'm left to my own devices. I'll learn what I can, what choice do I have? When fasting makes me weak and low blood sugar makes me angry. What I consume is every bit as important as the quality of the air I breathe (not that good lately), the type of audio/visual media I input to my nervous system, the people I spend time with, the space I live in, the medicines I take, and the very words i speak.
So I leave it to you all! Help me with your ideas and recipes for Eating good, please! The cheaper and easier the better. Remember; I can barely boil water.
As for cheap. . . I'm not sure what the dumpsters are like in sf (yes dumpsters) but the Trader Joe's around here throw out perfectly good cosmetically damaged food. If one egg breaks, the whole pack goes in the dumpster, bread, milk, juice on or pre expiration dates. Last Christmas we spent 3 months eating dark chocolate almond bark because the boxes were crushed but the plastic was still sealed. They carry prepackaged produce and if one zucchini or one green bean looks bad, they throw it all out. Again I'm not sure what the availability of Freeganing is in SF but its really an eye opening experience to the extent of food waste in this country. And seriously, we can afford to eat better food.
ReplyDeleteRice, and eggs, some butter and frozen veggies. . . egg fried rice! Cheap and it goes far.
Hey silkfetus, thanks for the thoughts <3 But where's the recipeies?
ReplyDeleteAnd LittleFish, you are too kind. The only person to actually reply with suggestions so far.
Yes, dumpsters are good, the "dumpster heaven" district of San Francisco is out in Bayview, near 3rd Ave. Plenty of great dumpsters out there, but I am too disabled and lazy for that (also it's too far away). Rice is interesting, I'm still working on making it work. I have no fridge now, so frozen is a no go, but thanks for all the thoughts... I think the worst part is th pain in my stomach telling me not to eat even when I nee to.