{"id":278926,"date":"2018-11-03T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/03\/a-girl-i-know-told-me-how-a-guy-she-knows-once\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T11:34:44","slug":"a-girl-i-know-told-me-how-a-guy-she-knows-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/03\/a-girl-i-know-told-me-how-a-guy-she-knows-once\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ignescent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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lentilswitheverything<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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aquarianconstellations<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor\u2019s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE\u2026. THATS SCURVY\u2026. in this day and age<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

this is turning into a\u00a0\u201chow a person i know got scurvy\u201d thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r\/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read \u2018i don\u2019t want to start the vitamin C debate again but\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

THE VITAMIN C DEBATE<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it\u2019s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying. Go for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think part of the problem for people moving out for the first time, is they have this idea that eating vegetables means sticking some overcooked brocolli on the plate next to whatever they\u2019re eating, because that\u2019s how a lot of parents raised in the 50s and 60s learned to cook. But my dudes, it doesn\u2019t have to be like that.<\/p>\n

1. Invisible Vegetables. This is one that parents of fussy kids have been using for decades. Fucking chop that shit up real tiny and you won\u2019t know it\u2019s there but you\u2019ll still get the nutrition! Buy a grater. Grate everything. Grate carrots. Grate courgettes. Grate sweet potatoes. Hell, grate onions if your eyes can take it. Also spinach. Spinach disolves a lot of the time so you won\u2019t even know it\u2019s there. I make a lasagne with a spinach and cream cheese topping instead of white sauce and I swear to god you would never know the spinach was there.<\/p>\n

2. Think you\u2019ve got enough veg? Wrong, add more. Any stew, casserole, pasta sauce, curry, pasta bake, etc. can have more veg in it. I make bolognese and chilli that\u2019s 4 or 5 portions of veg. Making a stew? Try sticking lentils in it. Literally anything Italian? Make sure you start with your carrot\/celery\/onion\/garlic\/tomato base. Making Indian style curry? Unless it\u2019s a yoghurt sauce, stick some spinach in that fucker. In fact, stick spinach in everything. I don\u2019t even like spinach, but bags of frozen chopped spinach are cheap and unless you put like half a bag in, you won\u2019t even taste that it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

3. Find Vegetable you like. This one seems obvious, but so many people just force themselves to eat the same veg that they hate over and over because their parents made them eat it. Well I\u2019ve got good news for you my dudes – there is literally no law saying you have to eat veg you hate! Don\u2019t like carrots? Try brocolli? Hate brocolli? Have a leek my dude! Hate leeks? Boiled cabbage is actually really good if you don\u2019t overcook it! Hell, just have frozen peas with every meal if you like, they\u2019re cheap, nutricious and you can cook them in the microwave!<\/p>\n

4. Experiment with vegetable substitutes for things. Try root-veg mashes. Swap out normal potatoes for sweet potatoes. Try making vegetable noodles instead of spaghetti or egg-noodles. Try swapping out pasta or potatoes in a layered bake for slices of aubergine or courgette. Put lentils in everything. I picked this URL for a reason. Lentils are great.<\/p>\n

5. Learn to make good soup. Good vegetable soup is amazing – you can eat it for literally any meal, it can be ready in half an hour, it freezes\u2026 Soup is the best. And it doesn\u2019t have to be vegetarian to be good vegetable based soup. Pea and Ham, cock-a-leekie, french onion, muligatawny, minestrone\u2026 they all have a little bit of meat or meat stock for flavour, but they\u2019re still 90% vegetable. And you can put anything in soup (and you\u2019re not a coward, you can also put soup in anything – I made soup pie once, using leftover soup as the sauce for chicken and veg, and it was damn good!). Also you can put lentils in it. Yay lentils!<\/p>\n

6. Cut out prep. If you avoid veg because it takes so long, I feel you my dude, I absolutely do, and there is nothing wrong with buying pre-prepared veg. And if you buy the frozen stuff it\u2019s not even that expensive. Just don\u2019t buy frozen mushrooms. The person who first decided to freeze mushrooms was some kind of evil super-villain trying to trick you into eating shit mushrooms.<\/p>\n

7. Fruit! You shouldn\u2019t rely of fruit for all your 5 a day, but if you hate veg and love fruit, that\u2019s still going to be better for you than nothing! Have a smoothie, grab an apple or a banana, eat a handful of any dried fruit you like. Hell, do what I do and make a fruit-cake or tea bread, because if you jam enough dried fruit into that thing, it counts! It absolutely counts. My christmas pudding recipe is like 2 of your 5 a day per serving. Also you can put veg in sweet things too! Carrot cake! Courgette cake! Anything is good with icing and spices!<\/p>\n

Moving out and cooking for yourself means you can cut out the veg you hate (I have eaten lettuce about 3 times since I left home a decade ago, because fuck lettuce) but it shouldn\u2019t mean you cut out all<\/i> veg. I aim to get a minimum of 7 portions of fruit and veg into my body each day, and when depression isn\u2019t kicking my ass I manage it. And I mostly managed it when I was unemployed and couldn\u2019t afford to buy fancy veg like what I do now too.<\/p>\n

(If anyone wants recipes or tips, hit me up. I\u2019m not a cooking blog, I\u2019m just very passionate about food, but I\u2019ve taught a lot of people to cook and I am absolutely prepared to do the same for you scurvy knaves.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also, and it amuses me I have to mention this, but take vitamins. I mean, it\u2019s a 100% better to get your vitamins from food, but a lot of us aren\u2019t good at it, either due to money, time, or taste constraints. So, trick yourself into as much extra vegetable matter as you can, and then, if that\u2019s not enough, pick up a bottle of flinstones chewables (or whatever) and take one a day. (You probably need the vitamin d anyway)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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