I bow to your superior technique.

It's one of those foods I can never get tired of! And it's so incredibly easy to make. It feels like fast food!

It's possible I'm not cooking them enough. It might also just be what I'm making with them. One of my goto "mains" is a spicy red lentil curry.

I also make a kind of dirty rice by mixing red and green lentils with rice, and that I could probably eat for every meal with no ill effect.

i most often eat them with rice and other things so I can't say I have really loaded up on them but I can kinda eat it every day like I do.

So I recently got huge bag of red lentils and oh my gawd, I didnt know they could smell so good!

I can do them for weeks straight.

How many lentils is too much?

A lenton obviously?

I think I'm just built different because lentils and legumes are just fine but if I decide I'll take the risk and eat some (wheat) dumplings its game over, man.

I wonder if you are cooking them enough? I understand people are more sensitive to fibre than others and people have trouble when they increase their intake rapidly, but I also know cooking breaks down some of the harder to digest stuff as well.

I enjoy a generous portion of legumes with every meal. Some form of lentils, beans etc.

My experience has been that you need to build it up. It takes about 3-6 months and It's important to not take any antibiotics. You need a healthy and well adapted gut microbiome to digest legumes efficiently.

Yup. It's like such basic morality that even kids grok it: don't harm others unnecessarily. Easy.

So many families have to normalise hurting other animals for food when the children realise the facts. There's a weird kind of brainwashing that happens as you bring out the corpse, and you know it's from something that was killed for you to eat, but everyone you love is around you smiling and having a good time and eating pieces of it, and it doesn't taste bad so you join in, and over time justify it you yourself because basically everyone you know is doing it.

It's pretty fucked up when you think about it. Like, it doesn't have to be this way. We choose to keep reproducing this culture in each new family.

My thoughts exactly. We've made so much technological progress, but I feel like we need to reckon with the harm we cause before we can make any ethical progress.

Tldr mostly for my fellow animals, and because I can.

From the first moment I heard about it, veganism always seemed like the more ethically "evolved" position. Like blatantly so.

Not that I'm claiming to be more evolved lol, but it's a relief to have my behavior more in line with what I know to be true.

I'm primarily against "factory farming" which I view as a moral crime on an unfathomable scale. So for years I just bought local from farmers I knew etc.

But then the more I learned about small scale farming and the more animal farms I actually saw (lots of local farms in my area) the more I wondered if any of it was defensible.

Then I realised I could just not partake in any of it and nothing bad would happen to me. Felt off for maybe a week max, but then totally fine.

Once I knew that, I couldn't go back. Partaking in animal farming became a conscious and active decision that I had to choose to pay into, or just as easily, not.

Apt.

Potato.

Today, I just had a chocolate bagel with maple coffee. When I want to eat more healthily, I opt for oats and/or a smoothie ♡

Thanks for the post!

Oh yes, it’s the thing. The nuts especially.

I tend to do overnight oats with oat yogurt (it’s oats all the way down), chia seeds, nuts, and frozen berries or pb&j sandwiches during the week, and fried tofu or seitan with rolls, fresh veggies, and various savory spreads (I currently have lentil and tomato, eggplant and paprika, and oat cream cheese).

I stuck a couple stalks of celery into the peanut butter jar, was more at lunch time.

Breakfast can be whatever you want it to be. A veg soup on a winters morning suits well, for instance

Are your toasted oats + nuts just what they sound like? I frequently will just eat a handful of "raw" whole oats or nuts. It sounds like you've found a way to elevate that.

Yeah leftover dinners are probably my most frequently eaten meal if I'm just going by numbers. So much easier to just make extra while you're at it.

I had an english muffin and a jackfruit sausage patty. Nothing remotely fancy, just easy.

I'm not too keen on traditional breakfast, never has been. I prefer hot meals, ranging from frozen pizza's if I'm lazy, to different made-up ramen recipes, to tofu with rice, or whatever leftovers from dinner the day before.

Rye bread (actual three imgredient rye bread, not whatever the yanks call rye) with cucumber slides on the side. Ran out my self-made toasted oats + nuts that would be called granole if it had maple syrup or the likes.

Oh wow I love jam, and that sounds so simple.