And not only that. The processed food is way more expensive.
I cook and hate to do it after work but one thing I would sacrifice is a little bit of time to make a meal at home, which is by necessity is minimally processed. I don't have time to make fancy sides and salads that involve lots of chopping. What I do is marinate meat a night ahead and then throw it in the oven or rotisserie and some very simple side of couscous or something and salad with lettuce and simple dressing of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Pretty much it. With few variations. This way I know I am not consuming junk they add to the processed food and I have no fetish about food in general. Otherwise it may become pretty scary looking at health problems and weight problems people are having and the money they spend.I mean there were very few overweight people in Russia even when I was a kid but now, at least half are pretty much fat. And unhealthy.
Looks like you are ok with cooking. Man, I hardly ever bother to put cucumbers and tomatoes in my salad. If you have a routine though it should be pretty easy. Planning ahead saves time and energy. I generally like fruit and vegetables as they are. Just plain fresh. Too much work. Although I make an apple cobbler sometimes. I can give you a recipe if you want, super easy and very few ingredients.
Canned food cannot be that healthy I would imagine but microwavable is the worst probably. Added crap is really bad and besides it doesn't fill you up. I would rather fry an egg or something. That's why people can eat two bags of potato chips and be still hungry. I can eat couple eggs for breakfast and feel full even for lunch. So all natural food fills you up and makes you satisfied too besides having no junky ingredients added.
Turning those two into salad is an option that most often occurs to me when there are tomatoes or a cuccumber left and it is about saving them from needing to throw it away because it's starting to catch on mould. I think this is even something that was done in earlier times... Normally it's the same way with me. Too lazy to do anything with them on purpose, just fucking grab and eat them. Don't even need salt for tomatoes or cuccumbers (some people look at you and give you a strange view for that). Only apples it's somehow different, those I cut to waste the least from hollowing out. And prepared fruit stuff I'm totally not to catch for again whereas, strange as it is...
2 bags of potato chips and still hungry? I don't know what sizes these people consume, but I already get troubles with the last bits of a low budget 200g bag. And after that, don't ask about supper... Hunger just isn't there. The stuff keeps the metabolism busy for the rest of the day. Maybe even a little bit until next day.
I could not live without good sleep - I was constantly founding a place and time to sleep on my previous job. To eat healthy is on my second point after breathing fresh air maybe though I don't see that to eat healthy is a difficult task to maintain - just grab the vegetables before the working day, boil, cut them to some pack, take a bottle fresh water with you - what is the problem?
Rings a bell in me... Did that in my past life in school in the upper classes of high school. Whenever and wherever I could. For my understanding, that's not how school, not even to talk about how work should be run like... It also got you burned out mentally, with no will to do anything else anymore over the day than just sleeping and doing some of your own free time stuff.
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I cook and hate to do it after work but one thing I would sacrifice is a little bit of time to make a meal at home, which is by necessity is minimally processed. I don't have time to make fancy sides and salads that involve lots of chopping. What I do is marinate meat a night ahead and then throw it in the oven or rotisserie and some very simple side of couscous or something and salad with lettuce and simple dressing of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Pretty much it. With few variations. This way I know I am not consuming junk they add to the processed food and I have no fetish about food in general. Otherwise it may become pretty scary looking at health problems and weight problems people are having and the money they spend.I mean there were very few overweight people in Russia even when I was a kid but now, at least half are pretty much fat. And unhealthy.
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Canned food cannot be that healthy I would imagine but microwavable is the worst probably. Added crap is really bad and besides it doesn't fill you up. I would rather fry an egg or something. That's why people can eat two bags of potato chips and be still hungry. I can eat couple eggs for breakfast and feel full even for lunch. So all natural food fills you up and makes you satisfied too besides having no junky ingredients added.
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Normally it's the same way with me. Too lazy to do anything with them on purpose, just fucking grab and eat them. Don't even need salt for tomatoes or cuccumbers (some people look at you and give you a strange view for that).
Only apples it's somehow different, those I cut to waste the least from hollowing out. And prepared fruit stuff I'm totally not to catch for again whereas, strange as it is...
2 bags of potato chips and still hungry? I don't know what sizes these people consume, but I already get troubles with the last bits of a low budget 200g bag. And after that, don't ask about supper... Hunger just isn't there. The stuff keeps the metabolism busy for the rest of the day. Maybe even a little bit until next day.
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It also got you burned out mentally, with no will to do anything else anymore over the day than just sleeping and doing some of your own free time stuff.
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