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Costra De Frijoles Negro anyone? Made with black beans, cabbage, tomato, habanero salsa, onion, cilantro, and a scrumptious grilled cheese shell. A delicious vegetarian choice! Open Tuesday at 4pm. Reposted @diegosstl #stlfood #stlfoodie #stlfoodscene #flexatarian #stlvegan #vegetarian (at Diego’s Cantina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpa6VpBuUN_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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i hate today i legit only ate a jello cup for breakfast and now i’m starving because i forgot my wallet and my school doesn’t offer many vegetarian options except for fucking fruits and vegetables and how the hell is that supposed to fill me?? this is actually bullshit i hate america and i hate their schools.
#ararexic#im flexatarian but i’m trying to eat meat as little as i can#which is why i’d want a vegetarian option#but the school lunch is bad already im not surprised they don’t give vegetarian or vegan options lmfao
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I've been a vegetarian for 7+ years but for some reason I've been craving meat a lot lately, I don't think I'm any more anemic than I have been this whole time???
#ive always been flexatarian dor traveling or special events like im not strict about it#but lately i just want to eat like a legimate hamburger so who knows
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heating up water for TVP so i can have my 2nd burger of the day
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Y'know, the Red Portrait saddens me more than anything else? Because we're never going to know Prince Charles as more than just the successor to his mom. I'm told he's some kind of vegetarian (flexatarian?), and that he's put a lot of effort into campaigning for environmental justice.
But the Prince Charles we're seeing in that portrait? The inheritor of a tainted legacy. Of the unforgivable sins wrought by his ancestors. Someone who inherited too late in life to be able to try setting things right. Facing demands that *no one* be able to set things right, and to just abandon the Crown entirely.
His face really shows it.
The butterfly, I guess, is showing that he was in fact monarch at some point. That yes, at long last, he did get the throne. But like a butterfly's life, it's probably going to be too short for him to make a mark on anything.
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Chapter 50 is Here!
This month's Tsukutabe update was a pretty sweet one. And also informative, especially for the original audience over in Japan!
Summary of the chapter under the cut:
Basically, Nagumo gets invited by Yako to sit down at a vegan restaurant for a Meat-Free Monday.
Nagumo gets to learn about veganism, mostly, but we also learn that Yako is a pescatarian (and I learned briefly about "flexatarians" oooh~). From the context I could gather, it seems Japan also has a big tendency to scoff at the idea of veganism but there are places that are slowly offering such dietary needs for those that practice it, for their own reasons (as Yako tells Nagumo).
There's definitely some love for food in this chapter. Yako goes on and hypes up the dishes this place offers (which, by the way, is a real place! The official Twitter posted a link to the restaurant and they confirmed that they interviewed the place for research in making this chapter)
They enjoy some food/drinks but then Nagumo brings up something since all this learning is reminding her of the time Yako was explaining about...iirc, labels? It was a few chapters ago, but it's no longer online so I can't remember what it was about exactly. But Nagumo reveals a bit more about her past to Yako, how her family really REALLY pushed her to fit into this mold of a feminine, well-fed woman so she can get married and have kids and she hated it. This is why she looks the way she does now - she was going against all that. But, as a result, she doesn't really know what mold she fits in, her label(s). Yako reassures her she knows that feeling. She went through this before, too! And while it can feel amazing to find a label, there's no pressure to do so for anyone. But Nagumo doesn't have to fit into any mold if she doesn't have to. Just be you! (cue the comic ending with Yako having one of her passionately angry moments about how society forces people into molds, but Nagumo is chill with it lol)
Nagumo loves when her world expands when listening to Yako and Yako loves when people accept/are curious about her personal world (which Nagumo basically told her in this chapter). Anyway, next one comes out just a few days before we finally get volume 4! Excitement!!
Oh, and if you were sad that there was no Kasuga and Nomoto this chapter, don't worry. Sensei got us covered lol
who knew washing dishes could look so adorable??
#funari's texts#tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna#she loves to cook and she loves to eat#tsukutabe#spoilers
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snow day! ❄️
welfare Wednesday/Thursday morning middle of the night catch-up on life blog post:
Met up with a friend on Wednesday morning and went to a thrift store and then tried a coca leaf drink for the first time; a maple cocaccino. It was tasty and it made me feel energized and uplifted for a couple hours. I bought a new winter jacket, a pink blazer that looks like a short wrap trench coat that will look cute for spring/summer with light layers underneath, a pair of comfy pink fleece sweatpants, and a beautiful satin light lemon yellow tank top and a vintage longsleeve shirt with a gorgeous sparkly purple fabric that I intend to redesign and sew into something a little more modern. The fabric is absolutely stunning and the colour and silver sparkle woven through lights up my face beautifully.
I only spent $100 total which is a fucking steal considering the jacket, blazer and tank top were all brand new Aritzia items and the pants and vintage top were both $7 each. Walking through the snow is definitely a good workout if you didn’t know, but you need to have the right shoes or you’re fucked. I wore a pair of hunter rain boots and they were feeling slippery and tight, not feeling like my feet were gripping the snow properly. Walking is the most underrated exercise - like seriously did you know how much weight I’ve lost by simply just increasing the number of steps I take per day? It’s like the slacker approach to fitness and weight loss. I want to start walking around my neighborhood more when I am not working during the daytime. I want to get out in the world and take in the sights and surroundings instead of being so in my head and glued to my phone and heating pad, laying in bed. I went for a walk in Chinatown after getting the cocaccino with my friend. I had walked in a circle down pender, up main, and back up keefer, and started feeling the most wicked gas in my stomach and intestines. I braced myself and walked home and asked my friend if this was a normal side effect of the coca leaf? She said yes, that it can get things moving. I had ran home because I had formerly had IBS accidents as a symptom of fibro and I knew how scary it was to feel like you’re about to lose control of your bowels in public. I’m also in a state of mild withdrawal as I’ve cut my opiate meds down 75% and 46% in the last month. I ran home as I farted loudly and sat on the toilet and realized it was just a false alarm, it was just some scary gas. I laughed at myself and went back outside and went to walk to a grocery store I mentioned in a previous post but found it was closed due to the snow. I walked back to a grocery shop that I noticed was open that I’d earlier walked by and grabbed a few things but then realized it was cash only and I didn’t have any cash on me. I went to grab cash at an atm, ordered some takeout, and returned and was pleasantly surprised to see that my grocery basket was only $20ish total. I walked back to grab takeout, which was not vegan, as I’m not fully vegan anymore, I would say I’m a flexatarian that just eats whatever my body feels like now. But anyways I walked into vegan supply to get coconut milk for a recipe I was planning on making with a bag of non vegan takeout food, likely smelling offensively like dead animal, and tried to get out of there as fast as possible and escape the manager’s confused facial expression and judgment. Kinda laughing at myself and how awkward that situation made me feel, but at the same time I feel that people have the right to change their diet as they grow and change and it might not always mean eating one way but a learning process. When I was fully vegan, most of the time I was definitely not getting enough nutrients and was eating a lot of “processed vegan junk food” and thinking that was somehow not equivalent to glorified corner store munchies. Because really? When I am eating a vegan copy of a twix bar, called a “no tricks” bar (I like to enjoy them on a night off work) it’s literally still eating a chocolate bar. It’s fooling myself to think that it’s somehow so much better for me because the ingredients might be slightly healthier. Like it’s still a chocolate bar babe not a protein bar?! It’s candy. Just cuz it’s vegan doesn’t make it not candy.
I went home and ate, put away groceries and laid down to take a nap, as it was still snowing. My room felt cold and I grabbed another blanket and I started feeling sleepy. I napped all afternoon till 9pm and then realized I’d forgot to take my meds earlier and was sweating buckets and shivering from withdrawal. I ate some leftovers and took my meds and stared feeling normal again. I had such a good nap. It felt so nice to rest while it was snowing, knowing there was no point in attempting to go to work or go anywhere or do anything. I had planned to do some more cleaning and maybe some baking on Wednesday afternoon but that’s okay, I can do that today? I’m going to make some weird purple sweet potato brownies. I haven’t baked anything the whole time I’ve lived here. That’s gotta change. I have a mini convection oven that a client bought me when I first moved in. Shoutout to J, who was one of my first outdoor clients to pick me up, but is no longer a part of my life. I’m forever grateful that he bought me literally everything I needed to set up my kitchen here when I first moved in back when I was new to outdoor work. That was legit one of the most underrated but appreciated practical gifts a client had ever given me, knowing I had gone no contact with my parents at that point in time and didn’t have someone to help me with furnishing my place. That was sweet. However it was lovebombing and just a red flag of his Narc personality so he later became pretty problematic. But still legit so helpful because my place required a fancy induction hotplate that was much more expensive than the usual $15 army and navy single burner hotplate special I had become used to with SRO living. He got me an induction hotplate and a mini convection oven plus this huge ass box of dollar store kitchen utensils , there’s no way that I would have been able to buy all that for myself as a babyswer just starting out with no savings. Or I would have rather spent the money at lululemon lab back then and wouldn’t have been as responsible as I am now. I really want to start cooking more and using my kitchen more. Fibro, chronic fatigue and executive dysfunction made cooking and cleaning really hard for the last couple years and I really want to start changing my eating habits and start cooking more for myself and buying takeout and packaged/prepared/processed foods less. The relationship I left made me realize that I’ve been kinda addicted to sugar for awhile but it wasn’t as bad as my former partner who kind of scared me with how much sugar I would see him consume.
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Weird tastes
I’ve always had a unique palette. I’ve always been drawn to unconventional things. While kids love chicken nuggets and French fries (not to say I didn’t like McDonald’s chicken nuggets but I don’t really like French fries or anything potato related in general, but that’s a whole other story), I love chicken livers or chicken feet for that matter (which I still love to this day).
Kids would make fun of me for drinking juices that were pretty much the norm in my house. I didn’t really like soda, I found it tasted just like flavored sugar. I prefer unflavored seltzer water for carbonation. Don’t get me wrong, I like your Coca Colas and Pepsi ( depending on the flavor) but that was pretty much a taboo in my childhood household. I didn’t really even drink that until I was in college.
I knew about sea moss, hibiscus drink and all the other fads of healthy drinking and eating way back. I didn’t mind after time not going with the norms of what I can guess is American cuisine.
I’m drawn to anything that has strong umami. Anyone that knows me, knows that I have to have something spicy, expertly seasoned or sour in anything I eat. Kimichi was like an experience for me when I first ate it. Sauerkraut was the alternative before that.
I remember talking to a guy that I didn’t know at first was a hard core vegan and telling him that I was an offal lover. He thought I was insane. Needless to say we didn’t get further from there, but it made me question if I was weird expressing my preferences of food that wasn’t so accepted not only with vegans but with flexatarians alike. Now I don’t care, I see it as me being open minded and willing to try different things.
Some of my favorite foods not mentioned:
Pork blood
Frog legs
Pig ears
Beef tripe
Chicken gizzards (especially fried)
Chicken hearts and blood
Duck tongue
Cow tongue
Pork kidney and liver
Cow and pig feet
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W2 Research
Notes on Academic Paper
Using environmental imperatives to reduce meat consumption: perspectives from New Zealand
By Corina Tucker
KEYWORD: 'flexatarianism' - a diet where meat is able to be consumed, but at a considerably and purposefully reduced amount
New Zealand has quite a high level of meat consumption per capita - in 2014 data shows that consumption levels (excluding fish and seafood) are over 72kg per person per year. This is three to four and a half times the total protein needed for women and men.
The production of agricultural goods is also pivotal to our economy in New Zealand - with meat exports reaching 6.8 billion dollars in the year ending in June 2015.
Agriculture was responsible for 49% of our country's greenhouse gas emissions in 2014, and agricultural farming is part responsible (alongside dairy farming) for the worsening state of NZ waterways.
While we raise sheep and beef on pasture, compared to grain fed like is more common internationally, that does not make it more environmentally friendly. Methane is still produced and large areas of land have to be used for grazing. We also still need to use a lot of water, especially for beef, in order to produce these meat products alongside various chemicals to ensure good pasture is available.
"There is some willingness in Westernised nations to reduce meat consumption, but individuals do not necessarily put their attitudes or values into practice when it comes to making consumption devisions." p.101 I believe that there has been an increase in media coverage about the meat industry - discussions about the different ways it pollutes our planet and fosters a cruel environment for animals however ultimately after a few moments of outrage individuals return back to their usual dietary habits. "Reducing meat consumption as part of consumer decision making is also a low priority, as factors such s affordability and taste take priority in food choices." p.101
Drivers of meat consumption can be classified into three main areas: economic, legal, and social
"Educating people about how to prepare meat-reduced/less meals, changing perceptions regarding barriers to cooking such meals, increasing familiarity with meat-alternatives and ensuring food items have sensory appeal are all important considerations for social mechanism strategies"
"Emphasis in any educational campaign would additionally profit from a focus on human health benefits of dietary change."
Tucker gathered a total of 69 participants for a study which included slightly more females (37) than males (32.) They were a range of ages and most participants were in city locations, followed by towns, then rural locations. The majority of these participants (45) ate meat at least 4 times week while 17 ate meat three days or less per week. The remaining 7 participants did not eat meat. The study was formed in order to answer the question: In what ways might meat consumption be reduced in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Participants were offered a series of hand-outs which included colour images related to seven different areas areas that formed the focus of the research ( Conventional farming, alternative lower resource farming, genetic modification in agriculture, in vitro/cultured meet,, nose-to-tail eating, other living proteins, and meat-less meals to signify reduced meat consumption) Participants were asked to consider and discuss each of the image sets in turn after a brief introduction from the facilitator. Key prompts were used - whether they liked the practice or not, and why or why not and also whether the participants would consume any of the foods being depicted and why or why not.
The results showed that participants often leaned towards the alternative ways of farming over the conventional ways given their characterisation as less environmentally harmful.
Nine participants expressed concern about environmental implications of intensive forms of agriculture - and mentioned the over consumption of water and river pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions as their reasoning.
The study concluded that "environmental factors should not be drawn on in isolation in an attempt to encourage meat consumption reduction, but should rather be introduced more determinately in conjunction with those areas most likely to motivate changes in consumption: economic, sensory/aesthetic appeal as well as health."
However, there are environmental factors that could be used in the promotion of switching to a plant-based diet, including how a product is beneficial to the environment, is 'natural' and will help deliver an aesthetically pleasing environment (less wasteful)
"Given the myriad of factors that influence consumer choice, an extensive campaign that can appeal to a range of people is needed"
This would do best if promoted or supported by the New Zealand government, however, this is an unlikely scenario as agricultural production is an important source of our country's economic growth.
It is also important to consider that a campaign of this nature would place an unfair burden on the individual consumer - when comparing the emissions we are producing to that of factories and large companies which create the overwhelming majority. However, Tucker argues that "consumer attitudes and hence practices shift through being better informed, in order for widespread change to ultimately occur."
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Vegan Pizza 😍
~Been making a lot of vegan pizza at home lately, and my new favorite thing to add on top is this vegan Parmesan my sister showed me!
As always,
Dough ball (we get ours from winco)
Newman’s Own Marinara
Daiya cheese shreds
Tomato’s
Smart Balance butter on the crust
#vegan pizza#vegan eats#vegan versions of nonvegan stuff#marinara sauce#marinara#daiya#daiya cheese#vegan cheese#non-dairy#dairy free ice cream#tomato#smart balance#butter#vegan butter#vegan#pizza#vegetarian#pescatarian#flexatarian#veganism#vegan parmesan#parma!#yummy#vegan meals#vegan food#plant-based pizza#herbivore
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Our scrumptious chicken burrito is stuffed with tomatillo braised chicken, rice, cheese, tomato, onion, cilantro, salsa roja and creama. Delish! Reposted from @diegosstl stlfood #stlfoodie #stlfoodscene #flexatarian #stlvegan (at Diego’s Cantina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2YnaWucry/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Meatless Wednesday every Wednesday At Noo Moo Foods Every $17 Burger is only $12 in-store only from 12pm SAVE $5 #flexatarian #vegan #vegancheese #crueltyfree #meatless (at Noo Moo Foods) https://www.instagram.com/p/B72FoqkHG3a/?igshid=9yebqnscvjm7
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I used Ready-to-eat Pad Thai from @miraclenoodle to make this #vegan dish with fresh mushrooms, green onion and sugar snap peas. Swipe left to see products used! . . . . . #easydinners #veganrecipes #foodporn #fitfoodie #plantbased #veggies #fitspiration #nutrition #ramen #custommealplans #fitnessmotivation #transformation #thisis59 #flexatarian https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPyACPFwTL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=swxnl2nwwuwh
#vegan#easydinners#veganrecipes#foodporn#fitfoodie#plantbased#veggies#fitspiration#nutrition#ramen#custommealplans#fitnessmotivation#transformation#thisis59#flexatarian
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The beans are asparagus bean/yardlong with purple and green strung beans. The greens are romanesco leaves since they never put out heads. Grew everything but the chicken! Enjoy! #lowcarb #glutenfree #keto #flexatarian #cooking #cookery #eatmoreplants #eatwhatyougrow #organic #chicken #chickenbreast #sexy #clean #lean #homecooked #begoodtoyourbody #homemade #homegrown #homechef #adobo #everythingbagelseasoning #paprika #garlic #broccoli #romanesco #greens #broccoligreens #PixielandFarm #nafldfoods #metabolicsyndrome (at Pixieland Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZ4YzfH4I2/?utm_medium=tumblr
#lowcarb#glutenfree#keto#flexatarian#cooking#cookery#eatmoreplants#eatwhatyougrow#organic#chicken#chickenbreast#sexy#clean#lean#homecooked#begoodtoyourbody#homemade#homegrown#homechef#adobo#everythingbagelseasoning#paprika#garlic#broccoli#romanesco#greens#broccoligreens#pixielandfarm#nafldfoods#metabolicsyndrome
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If you’re interested
I just saw this amazing documentary on Netflix dealing with diseases linked to our everyday diet in the Usa. If you’re interested its called:
“What The Health“
I’ve never been the type to really watch food documentaries just because I knew whatever I saw would make me change my diet but honestly this was an amazing decision and I cant wait to start something new in my life
possibly vegan? maybe flexatarian??
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