I have unintentionally become pescatarian recently because I've come to realize that fish have a lot of nutritional value. So far, my meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 slice of Ezekial bread toasted
  • Mixed berry smoothie with banana, peanut powder, collagen peptides, chia, creatine, non-fat greek yogurt, and water

Lunch

  • 2 tin cans of sardines, mashed
  • Non-fat greek yogurt
  • Tzaziki sauce
  • Lemon
  • Black pepper
  • 2 slices of Ezekial bread toast or one ezekial tortilla, depending on my mood

Dinner

  • Shrimp kebabs made with olive oil and veggies
  • 1 corn roll or asparagus

Some days I'll switch out my dinner for a salmon salad / salmon wrap, or I'll change the shrimp kebabs for a shrimp ceasar wrap with a nice avocado oil based dressing. Being pescatarian is really great because it's easier to make, shelf life lasts very long, and it's generally cheaper than buying meats.

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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Bruh I'm just trying to survive out here

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I feel you. People here seem to be so particular about their diets? Wtf is Ezekiel bread, and how do they manage to make it look like the blandest white bread one could imagine? Why is there baby food with added protein now? So many questions???

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Breakfast: Coffee, maybe with milk.
    Lunch: Usually nothing, maybe a salad.
    Dinner: Burritos

    It works for me

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I’m in the UK. Wtf is ‘Ezekial’ bread?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It comes from the Bible, Ezekiel has some stuff of what should be in bread. (It is pronted on the packaging all over) Its sprouted and has like 11 different seeds in it. It is usually in the organic freezer section in stores.
    Even if you don't care for the origin story - it supposedly really good stuff, it tastes good also.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Breakfast: no fucking way you chase me out of bed in time.

    Lunch: leftovers from dinner.

    Dinner: 300g of meat/ fish/ chicken. Salad (usually red onion, lettuce, peppers, feta cheese, cucumber).

    I've got about 80% adherence to this diet. Either my belt has gotten longer or my waist has gotten smaller.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Brunch: pemmican

    Dinner: every now and then pemmican

    Snacks: none

    One to two meals a day is the win

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Heyyyy +1 for pemmican! I almost never hear anyone talk about it nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that would be because the popularity of it peaked in the 1800s. And it contributed to the near extinction of the American Bison.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    It was deliberate action by European settlers that drove bison to near extinction. Amerindians had been making bison pemmican for thousands of years sustainably

    Buffalo Bill wasn't making pemmican, he was trying to destroy the food supply of the natives

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I'd like a recipe for pemmican pretty please ... I've never tried it but imagine it must be tasty and practical

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Ingredients: Meat Rendered fat of the meat

    I use beef and beef tallow

    Method: Dry the meat to bone dry, much drier than jerky Blend, grind, or pound the meat to powder Weigh the meat, with out the same mass of fat Melt the fat Form a well in the meat powder, pour in the fat Stir or mix until all meat is saturated with fat Tip the mix into a mold.

    I make about 3 kilos of pemmican each batch, so my fresh meat is about 5kg, it dries to 1.5kg and I add 1.5kg tallow

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Be warned, you need to be fat adapted to enjoy it. Very low carb or carnivore

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I just try to not eat too much processed food and go to the gym

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I am here reading and snorting a bit about how particular some people are about their food and its protein content, and wondering who can afford all that salmon and greek yoghurt ... although, I'm fussy about my food as well, just in a different way.

    Morning is home made sourdough, butter, cheese, often an egg, sometimes meat. Lunch is the same, if I don't forget. Dinner is either insane amounts of meat and vegetable, all home raised and grown, or something insanely unhealthy, like 1l of custard or a ramen soup or two pieces of cake. Meals I forget are replaced by coffee and a blunt (lots of small meals throughout the day are good for you!).

    It's balanced in the way that very unhealthy things are combined with top quality stuff in a balanced way. 🧐

    Since I often forget to eat I always have to have a quick option available, therefore custard and ramen are the lesser evils. Other than that I try to produce everything myself out of local ingredients and eat really well for really cheap.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Ezekial bread

    I'm not a big bread fan, due to it not being much better than junk food IMO, but that stuff looks great!

    Shrimp kebab

    A good reminder to me that a pescatarian diet includes non-fish seafood. That said, I haven't checked on the nutritional profiles of crustaceans for a long time. Not sure how 'healthy' or not they're currently considered...

    Btw, for my wraps, I like to have these, which are mainly made out of resistant starches and only have about half the typical # of kcals. Altho when I get around to it, I'm going to try another round of making my own oat-flour wraps as a similar health upgrade.

    Anyway, in terms of fish, I have salmon fairly often, and a bit of canned tunafish, and some omega-3 capsules every day. Diet is mostly soup and stew-based in general, with fresh veggies and some low-cal noodles. Air-fryer is also an essential food prep tool, as well as the spiral elements on my oven, great for precision grilling.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Shellfish should be pretty reasonable in a balanced diet but they are so expensive. Want to catch my own though not had a huge amount of success when I have tried. Need to try more places.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Molluscs? I'd be checking online (and wherever else) to see if the local ones are in clean water and/or have any issues like that. Or maybe canned would make sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Crabs, no chance I would go for filter feeders here and there aren't that many places suitable for them to grow anyway. Although there are a few rocky areas for sea defences they mostly have limpets on them. I think limpets would be safe to eat but are very chewy and not something you normally eat when you have other choices.

    I wonder if you could make a seafood stock from them, but it feels a little wasteful to only use them for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Oh, crustaceans, then. I thought "shellfish" referred to molluscs specifically (because of the valves, or "shells"), but I see now that I was mistaken.

    Seafood bisque is a fairly high-end item IIRC, so there's no shame there I should think. If the cooked limpets weren't good for anything else, they might also be good for fertiliser in a garden. *shrug*

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Not sure if limpets are crustaceans, but yeah anything with a shell I would think is shellfish.

    IIRC limpets are not filter feeders, mussels are. So in water that is sometimes polluted they are not as much of a risk while filter feeders are very high risk. Does also depend on the type of pollution though.

    I know people eat crabs from the Thames, pretty sure the Solent isn't quite as bad as that for pollution. As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn't protein recommended against usually? Might be ok if it's only a little but to make a stock I would think you need quite a few of them.

    Quick edit - Could use limpets as bait though. Otherwise likely most suited as a famine food.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Limpets are indeed molluscs. Crustaceans are like underwater insects, with every single part of their bodies typically covered in thin-ish keratin-based plating. That said, they include some oddballs like barnacles, which build shells more like bivalve molluscs do (clams and such).

    You're right about the different feeding methods of limpets and filter-feeders. Limpets are like gastropod molluscs (snails, etc) in that they eat directly from a surface or prey.

    As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually?

    Oh, I'd generally thought that most animal material (and of course waste) makes for good fertiliser, but maybe it depends. In truth, I was thinking back about a garden project in which we used a kind of 'fish guts' solution to help grow produce. The plants loved it!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think the main problem is that it's far more likely to attract things like rats if you are throwing out stuff like that. But it probably also depends on how you compost it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Right, it would need to be blended up with some water such that it quickly sunk in to the soil, like the fish guts liquid fertiliser.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Ok that might work. Getting a blender for that seems a bit excessive though. Maybe diced finely and then spread out among a bunch of other things though.

    That assumes that limpets can even make a stock worth bothering with of course. I think it might be but can't find too much info on them, or many recipes.

    Just remembered Atomic Shrimp tried it, back in the website days - https://atomicshrimp.com/post/2010/08/25/Limpets-Another-Try

    So generally limpets are going to be tough regardless of what you do to them. Not inedible though. But could work for a nice seafood stock. Perhaps if you got a variety of things you could also collect limpets for stock.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    I've been simplifying my routine, after the gym I typically just have 300-600g of very fatty meat plus a coffee or two for lunch - that's it for the whole day. OMAD. I'm lazy, very lazy.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Right now it's oatmeal+cinnamon+maple syrup/honey + raisins with milk or water

    I learned I love oatmeal

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe I'm just tired after a 13 hour construction work day, but what is ezekial bread? Is this a christian bread?! And why? I googled it and it just seems to be whole grain bread?

    I have:

    Breakfast: random toast (peanut butter) or oatmeal (dried fruits)

    Lunch: Apple, cheap superstore granola bar, Sandwiches - Winnipeg rye, lettuce sand which meat, homemade mayo, cheddar, random other ingredients. or Bulk homemade burritos - whole wheat tortillas, black beans, eggs, salsa, cheese, rice, random other ingredients.

    Supper: wild variety of different meals.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ha, can’t comment on the name but it’s a flourless bread, using sprouted grains instead. It has good macros for a bread, too. I’m a convert from 88 cent Aldi loafs.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Wild. It seems like it must be popular, there a bunch of comments here with it! I guess I am really not in the same kind of meal planning world the rest of the commenters are in! These have been really entertaining & educational for me to read.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Hunger. It greeted the man at dawn, and laid down with him at dusk. Sometimes, its gnawing woke him up at night. There's only the hunger, the dead, and a terrible solution.

    But for real, microwaved potatoes with whatever my CSA hooks me up with. I'm vegetarian for economic reasons, most of the time anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I do more of a 5 meal thing lately. I became very regimented over the last couple years.

    Morning is a 2 hour procession of water, protein coffee, regular coffee, and oatmeal.

    Late morning is a piece of Ezekiel toast with a light cream cheese spread and either smoked salmon or sliced chicken breast on it.

    Early afternoon is often a full or half banana. Late afternoon is protein drink and either a banana or a rice cake with honey. These two mini meals bookend my workout.

    Dinner is the wild card. Chicken, salmon, shrimp, scallops, tuna.. all fair game. Usually with a vegetable and a an egg or half avocado.

    Then my night snack is usually Greek yogurt with something mixed in. Mix ins range from Stur to blueberries to peanut butter.. just depends on the day. I’ve also been known to do a hard boiled egg or two instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    For the last 20 years I’ve been eating only once a day (working shifts) so I’m trying to reintroduce a breakfast other than coffee with milk.

    To facilitate it I’m trying the "everything smoothie" with milk, banana, cereal, protein, frozen fruits.

    Lunch: water

    Dinner: The everything rice with vegetables and chicken or fish.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Right now I am on ~ 1000 calorie a day. Still have some weight to loose.

    Breakfast: oatmeal with 1/2 cup of milk 2% + vitamins.

    Lunch: most often a frozen healthy meal ~400cal or salad with meat + fruits.

    Dinner: coffee with 2% 1/2 cup of milk, and usually 2 seeded thin toasts with 1tbs of sour cream / sometimes added some hard boiled eggs.

    Snacks: sometimes crunchy rice rolls with honey, fruits or a tiny tiny bit of sweets (chocolate/cake etc)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    May I recommend very low carb? No need to count calories and the weight just vanishes quickly

    If you do it with high meat and meat fat you won't lose muscle either

    A couple of warnings: it takes up to a few weeks to become used to running on fat instead of sugar (running on fat is how it works), you will need extra salt during the first few weeks; see the keto community for more advice

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I appreciate the advice! My problem is that I just love carb, like crazy.
    And I only need to keep it up for about +60 days more.
    I know very low calories with keto is the way to go if I want it fast, but so far I'm only about 60 days in with 30lbs loss, so that's not too shabby in my books :D and I still can eat a bit of cheesecake. A tiny one, but it is still cheese cake!!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Not sure how old you are but you might want to mind the sodium content of the two tins of sardines. They likely exceed your daily allotment. I know people don't worry about these things when they're young but tge habits you build now will be with you when it does matter, and they will be hard to change.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 months ago*

    I'm 22, and believe it or not, I actually lost 120lbs over the course of 8 years. I have a whole spreadsheet dedicated to my meals which shows me everything (Calories, fats, mono/poly, sodium, fiber, etc.) I try my very best to make sure I'm healthy, tracking everything down to the gram.

    Right now, I'm averaging about 2000mg sodium a day, and the seafood also provides a sufficient amount of Iodine too.

    Thank you for showing concern at least haha, you're right that people need to build these habits early on.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    I checked a can i have of Brunswick brand sardines in olive oil. That has 16% DV or 370mg. If theirs is similar, it looks like they may just get other sodium from the bread or tortilla or when they do caesar and they might be fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Breakfast Cafe con leche, sometimes with toast or oatmeal but always the coffee. Not right away, usually 3 hours after I get up.

    Lunch usually leftovers from last night's supper, if there isn't any then a salad or sandwich or whatever the special is in the work cafe

    Supper I cook so whatever I want. This week I have food to make one spaghetti day, one day steak & tomatoes marinated in preserved lemon and soy sauce, one day shrimp and pineapple skewers, one day halal chicken, one day beans, rice, and greens from the garden. There is no usual. Different stuff all the time.

    Sometimes I bake too, this weekend making sourdough donuts.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Mind if I ask what your recipe is for sourdough donuts?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-leavened-bomboloni-doughnuts/

    It's a weekend project - I change his timeline to get them Sunday morning, so embiggen the starter at midnight on Friday, mix in the morning, bulk rise over day, shape at night, final rise overnight.

    This time I doubled it and will try freezing half un-fried.

    Also if you make sourdough, these cookies are the absolute best chocolate chip cookies in the world. I don't put quite as much chocolate in but no other changes the recipe is perfect

    https://www.theboywhobakes.co.uk/recipes/2020/5/7/sourdough-chocolate-chip-cookie

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I do two meals a day.

    Brunch Most common, probably 2-3x a week: Bacon, egg & cheese biscuit, yogurt with fruit. Next most common: Protein shake, Fruit, Almonds

    Supper Most common: Something high protein I can mean prep in advance. Chilli, Beans with pork, Rotiserie Chicken. All combined with a side of greens. Latest addition: Bowl of homemade peanut butter, banana, coffee.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Breakfast: black coffee

    Lunch: brown rice, cheese, jalapeno, red onion, some protein (usually chicken)

    Dinner: salad (shredded cabbage, cheese, homemade balsamic vinaigrette, carrot, bell pepper, red onion) with something crunchy (currently gluten-free knekkebrød, but I'll be out after my next meal and it's not sold anymore here in Japan (or at least my area thereof)).

    Snack/Dessert: chips and salsa or yogurt or peanuts and chocolate chips

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Main bulk of the meals are the same, of course there is some variation over time, but generally rather similar. Been tracking food for last 3 years with nearly 95% accuracy. And yes i can give any random day within last 3 years and know exactly what i ate, only exclusion is some events. Intake has been correlated to bodyweight changes over time as well.

    Breakfast, always the same: custom mix. 200g of yogurt, 100g of quick oats, 30g of protein powder.

    Lunch depends on a weekday and work.

    Lunch 1: after gym, low fat curd 180-200g, yogurt 150g, protein powder 30g, quick oats 50g.

    Lunch 2: on a workday, usually last nights dinners leftovers.

    Dinner: potatoes/pasta/rice/buckwheat in rotation. Some lean meats and some greens. Usually 1/3 of the plate for each.

    Snacks: that's too random to write down and changes depending on what ohase im in, whatever mass gaining or fat burning.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Lately been eating mostly salads, fajitas (kinda) and pizza.

    The fajitas instead of adding mexican spices to it I add soy sauce and sweet mead. Could maybe call it a stir fry wrap? Although the cooking is a bit slower than a typical stir fry.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Breakfast: cereal bar

    Break: toast

    Lunch: Ham sandwich

    Dinner: chicken dinner; mash, chicken breast, peas, Yorkshire puddings, gravy.

    I don't really tend to eat snacks very often.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago
    • Breakfast: None.
    • Lunch: Cereal if I feel like eating, otherwise I skip.
    • Dinner: Chicken wraps, with tomato, lettuce, and Mayo.

    I'll eat a snack later in the evening if I'm still hungry.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I have a weird diet that works well for me.

    I don't like fish. So it's chicken thighs for me. I get the organic ones to avoid antibiotics. I take omega-3 supplements. Sardines are supposed to be very good for us, but I just can't do it.

    Breakfast: some baby carrots, and a handful of roasted cashews, plus coffee.

    Main meal at lunchtime: spinach, brussel sprouts, broccoli, tomato, and onion heated up in the microwave, while the chicken pan-fries in olive oil. Topped with a simple Parmesan cheese sauce. Plus an apple.

    Evening meal: frozen blueberries with a bit of instant coffee, cinnamon, sugar, and milk. A square of 85% dark chocolate.

    I snack on nuts and drink decaf coffee throughout the day.

    This has been my routine for over three years now. This is everything I eat, I don't go out. The meals have varied only slightly over the years. For instance, I'm currently experimenting with replacing the chicken with lentils once or twice a week, to save some money and get a bit more fiber and reduce the calories, but it might be too much fiber.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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    Breakfast, depends a lot on the day but a good one would generally have:

    • Just Egg folded (vegan egg)
    • Bread with butter and a slice of melty (vegan) cheese
    • 2.5 or 3 breakfast sausage patties from Gardein
    • Avocado
    • Sprouts or cherry tomatoes

    Some days it's Soylent. I take B12 and D on a gummy.

    Lunch my easy go-to I can eat almost any time:

    • Gardein Supreme Chick'n nuggets (10)
    • Fries
    • Cheeze mozarella sticks (3 - 4)
    • Avocado
    • Microwaved broccoli

    Dinner:

    • Udon noodles
    • Firm tofu
    • Chinese chilli oil with flakes and peanuts
    • Baby bok choy

    Today I had:

    • Swap chick'n inside
    • 3 corn quesadillas with
    • avocado
    • Chinese chilli oil with flakes and peanuts

    (Yes, I love avocado, I'm Mexican) While fish does have a lot of nutrients it's quite easy to get them from other plant sources too :p

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Mediterranean diet, more or less.

    Breakfast: toasts with grated tomatoes and olive oil, smoked salmon spread or some pate

    Lunch: lentils, beans or chickpeas twice a week, pasta, tortilla, croquetas, stuff like that

    Dinner: salad, fish, chicken or some omelette. some vegetables + bit of wine

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Breakfast: a couple peanut butter sandwiches or quesadillas (just tortilla and shredded cheese, maybe a little hot sauce.) Sometimes I'll add an egg to the quesadillas if I have time.

    Lunch: none

    Dinner: Beans and rice or maybe rice or ramen with some mixed frozen veg and furikake. Or just more peanut butter or coldcut sandwiches.

    Being poor and too stressed/tired to give a fuck sucks. Just gotta make it a couple more months and I'll be able to fix it all. That's what I keep telling myself anyhow. Gonna try to scrape together some spare change this coming month for a bucket of Orgain or something. Extra protein, fiber, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    mostly food

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