IT’S STARTED. THE POWERS THAT BE ARE PREPARING THEIR “JUST DON’T EAT, CITIZEN” PROPAGANDA BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN.
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Wasn’t the 3 meals a day kinda invented by cereal brands?
From what I’ve read you’re probably thinking of the “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” slogan
3 meals a day are fine. So are two meals a day or five. That was precisely MFK Fisher’s point, paraphrased in the article’s introduction. What you eat and how much are far the more important concerns.
I haven’t eaten three meals a day since I was in middle school. And not because I couldn’t afford to.
So…7 meals instead?
Just as any proper hobbit should.
Exactly.
I just eat whenever I feel hungry on no particular schedule. It is 6:43 PM where I am at and I only ate two hard-boiled eggs ten minutes ago all day. Lololol.
Now try feeding an entire family a healthy diet.
Easy. Pot of seasoned beans.
Bowls of Rae-Juusto with tomatoes in vinegar on the side.
Caprese Salad.
1.5kg of blueberries.
Bunch of boiled eggs with some seasoned broccoli.
(These are all separate meals btw)
Spinach, tomato, feta, olive salad with a bit of olive oil.
A wok of stir fried Bok Choy with garlic and shiitake mushrooms.
Stir fried portabello Mushrooms, bellpeppers and onions with oyster sauce.
Baked potato that’s mashed into with chuncks of sausage.
Chickpeas with fried eggs and curry.
Lentil, potato, and carrot paste boiled with chicken stock and mashed together with a touch of butter and eaten as a sandwich with some fried eggplant slices.
And on weekends, for something fancier, maybe a kilo of smoked salmon with bread, or some whole pork neck I cut from a bulk package and marinaded earlier in the week with broccolinni on the side, or some grilled pork chops with grilled spring onions and steamed sugarsnaps 🫛
I don’t have kids but I do have 2 (maybe 3 soon?) partners to feed, and adults eat more than kids 😅
So I can say these feeds 3-4 adults
Brave of you to assume we all eat 3 a day.
I haven’t eaten three meals a day in probably 20 years.
I’m always surprised when people say they eat breakfast before work. How do they have time for that? I usually have something around 10 or 11, then an apple or cheese stick or cookie or whatever i can find when i get home around 5, then dinner around 7 or 8. I guess that counts as 3.
I wake up early enough to make time. Usually up around 6, do some chores, eat some breakfast, get ready for work, and do the hour drive to work.
I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.
It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.
Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.
I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.
Apparently a lot of people don’t eat breakfast when they first wake up. I don’t, because my body isn’t hungry when I first wake up; it takes an hour or two before I can actually feel like I’m ready to eat something. And I don’t like forcing myself to eat when I’m not hungry because I just feel like shit.
Also I’ve been working on eating slower so I’m not just wolfing everything down and taking massive bites. It can take me upwards of 30 minutes to eat a bowl of cereal.
Same. When my husband is home he makes me a coffee in the morning. Otherwise i just have a water. Nothing sounds good until I’ve been up for a couple of hours.
only you know for sure what timing works for you
I don’t. I just eat when hungry.
Well if only eating when you’re hungry isn’t working for you, I recommend experimenting with specific times to eat a specific amount. That way you can find what does work for you.
Just get up early enough? You can eat breakfast during a train or bus ride if you choose food suitable for that…
In fact I generally eat breakfast only on workdays, not usually weekends, because I don’t need any energy in the morning yet when I’m not working.
How do they have time for that?
I get up at 5:45, bathroom, get dressed until about 6:15, eat breakfast (sandwich and coffee) until 6:40, commute 20 minutes, start work at 7.
Before work, my meals consist of ready to eat options that don’t require preparation. Including eating and dicking around on the computer, I am usually finished within ten minutes.
Unless you’re walking up, immediately getting dressed, then going to work/school, you should have time for something like that.
grab a banana on your way out, it doesn’t take time as you can eat it in the public transport, is better than not eating anything at all. oh and also a portable coffee makes the day.
i haven’t had 3 meals in a day in years
i eat when i feel like it, which is more like 1 meal plus a few snacks per day
ADHD, I usually eat when i get the shakes.
It’s like a built in alarm!
most people in the states actually think they’re going to die immediately if they skip a meal, let alone two.
the “never don’t eat, for any reason, ever–or you will DIE” mindset is one of the things we’re most force-fed from birth onwards.
it’s becase if you skip a meal, that’s money that wasn’t spent. if everyone skipped a meal, that’s a lot of money that wasn’t spent. we can’t have that in capitalism. therefore, eat abundantly and often. it doesn’t matter what, as long as it’s something you bought
so you just want people to ignore it?
It just seems unnecessary to bring it up in every barely-related thread. We’re all aware of serious problems but not every discussion has to be taken over by the doomer mindset. I subscribe to the fun little communities to get a break from the serious shit, we don’t all need to be talking about the bad stuff all the time!
I’ve found the opposite. I find that a lot of the traditions regarding food don’t stem from capitalism, but from vestiges of poverty and food insecurity no matter the economic system that poverty came from.
Grandma is a lot more likely to use food as a way to communicate love if she went through food insecurity as a child.
true, grandma would be absolutely horrified to hear anyone ate just one meal yesterday, on purpose, and plans to do it every day this week. it’s almost blasphemy
but also the corporations selling everyone quick easy cheap (and disgustingly unhealthy) food-like substances at the drive thru and breakfast aisle certainly don’t want anyone skipping any meals either. in fact they want you to be eating all day every day
the difference is grandma doesn’t want anyone to feel like they felt in the depression, not knowing when they’ll eat again, and corporations just want your money
Capitalism will sell what people buy. Capitalism will sell high calorie food. Capitalism will also still weight loss systems and drugs.
Who is ‘we’ exactly? Did I need someone’s permission?
I’m not reading the article because I’m lazy.
My mother. We had a strict 3 meals a day and were always hungry.
We? 3 meals a day is warranted for manual labor-heavy jobs (like farmer, construction). I, in IT&tech, eat breakfast, maybe a snack if it’s long inbetween and cook something at evening.
I often do heavy work and still usually skip breakfast, sometimes lunch too, eating just dinner then second dinner in the evening.
Same here, I eat when I need to. Breakfast often doesn’t agree with me.
This is the way.
yeah i can confirm, my calorie intake like doubled when i worked in agriculture for a few weeks
You are not supposed to eat the agriculture
This kills the agriculture
eh it boosts morale to eat the literal fruits of one’s labor
Shit, I just eat when I’m hungry, which is usually just once a day sometime in the evening. Occasionally I’ll also eat midday around lunchtime too, but not often. To hell with that 3 meals a day shit though, I think my belly would explode if I ate that much.
yeah same. usually my midday food is just a liter of milk. which btw has 500 kcal = 2000 kJ
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Have you applied to SNAP and checked out local food pantries? If you’re down to a sandwich a day I promise that’s what they’re there for! I know availability for services is locally dependent, but I hope you can find something.
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There’s a food bank in my town (we donate to it) where you can walk in and take food, no questions asked. I have to think there’s something like that near you?
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Are there churches that do stuff? Or a Sikh community? My church has a free meal after the last Sunday service and they have a fridge sitting outside their hall where you can leave and take meals.
Well that sucks, I’m sorry to hear that. If only we lived in a country that bothers to take care of its people.
I grew up in childhood on one meal a day (or one meal every two days often as not) due to poverty, and I guess it set up a pattern - I very rarely eat three meals a day in adulthood. I used to always skip breakfast (nowadays I tend to just have a yoghurt with my coffee mostly because I tell myself it’ll be healthy, not because I’m hungry), and then I usually have lunch OR dinner, but very rarely both.
Of course, when I was young I was horribly thin (6’3" and 110lbs when I left home at 18), now I eat considerably more, so that changed - but the meal habits didn’t.
:'-( hard for me to understand that most don’t see food as a right. Most especially in Canada / USA / Europe will never understand true hunger and poverty. I see this as good and bad. Would be best if no one ever had to know.
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Do what you need for your body to function properly. If that’s the 3 meals a day deal then fine. If you eat small items throughout the day to maintain energy levels for health reasons or because that’s how your body operates best is fine as well. We are seriously hitched up on this stupid concept of “normality” in society.
