/hb/ - Health & Beauty

egg bites (eggs, veggies, cheese, etc in a muffin pan) are super easy to toss on bread and toast, pre-made salads, fruit & nut bites (date bites, power bites, etc), microwave rice bowls (you can buy packs of these at most grocery stores, just add a protein & veggies (maybe pre-chopped?)), frozen baos/steamed buns, frozen dumplings, potato/sweet potato (microwave for 5 minutes, cut open, add toppings), pre-made pasta salads

if your grocery has a deli area with pre-made options, explore those; sometimes you can find great deals and/or sometimes it's worth the cost to save the time/headache

hope this helps!!

>>20611
I work so much I'm the laziest bitch alive when I'm at home, so RICE is my friend. I make a big pot of it and keep it ready in a sealed container in the fridge. You can put ANY canned soup, cheese, meat , canned veggies or anything on top of that rice in a metal or glass baking dish for about 20 mins at 350. My favorite comfort edition is the chicken pot pie soup over the rice, or broccoli cheese. If you put a layer of cheese over the top of it, it's like a big crunchy chip. Hope this helps, and I hope you get some good meals on you. Eating can be stressful when you're low on energy, please take care.

>>20611
>Do any nonas have some nutritious, safe, and easy go-to meals and snacks that they’d care to share? Any foods/drinks/activities that you use specifically to help keep your weight up?

i'd try peanutbutter but i noticed it kind of digests slowly /clogs a bit so i wouldn't eat it with bread (don't eat bread, it sucks); i'd stir a big spoon full of it into sauces, soups and stews. have you ever had asian rice dishes where they made peanut sauce? they most often used powdered instant peanut packages yet it still tastes amazing. when you make your own with real peanut butter, it comes out even better and it helps with keeping weight up because the peanut butter is heavy.

coconut milk is also amazing for this. just put some tomato paste with spices you like (curry, rosemary, oregano, whatever you fancy) into a pan, lightly toast everything and then drown it in (half a) can of coconut milk and you have an amazing sauce.

i'd also try dried olives (if you can find any, i currently can't) and dried tomato pieces. sprinkle them on a light meal to make it a bit heavier last minute. same with nuts. when i eat raw cabbage salad in the summer, i often put cashews or walnuts on it.

to make it easy and go-to (meaning both easy to make and also easy to clean afterwards), consider using a small rice cooker with a steaming basket. i have one where i can either put the lid on the rice cooker (when it only makes rice) or i can put the steaming basket on top and then put the lid on. it sits in between the lid and the rice bowl. i love it because it makes rice and it steams vegetables at the same time. steaming is so much better then cooking or frying because it doesn't destroy the food as hard.

>>20611
grapes and cottage cheese

>>20660
Pretty much any fruit and cottage cheese. Accept pineapple. Pineapple has some chemical in it that turns bitter when it comes in contact with dairy.

>>20662
canned pineapple works fine

I love Nutella, what do I pair with it? Need breakfast and snack ideas. So far I have

>Nutella and apple slices
>Nutella and cream cheese on plain bagel
>Nutella filling banana muffins
>Nutella pancakes
>Nutella thumbprint cookies
>Nutella on sourdough toast
>Nutella with crackers

Maybe a tablespoon in oatmeal so it tastes like an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie but healthy?

>>20872
>Maybe a tablespoon in oatmeal so it tastes like an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie but healthy?

nutella is candy unfortunately, it will never be healthy.

if you want healthy nutella, you can make your own though in a high powered blender. is a bit of work but not that much work.

you need some nuts that you like, some chocolate, something you can use instead of milk and something sweet.

i'd go for roasted hazelnuts, coco powder, some thick coconutmilk and dates.

>>20873
Oh sorry I bought this fancy bougie healthy hazelnut butter with cocoa powder ($18 for 4 cups of this stuff!!!) and it is sweetened with maple syrup, not corn syrup and other bad stuffs. No soybean oils or anything either. I just said Nutella because I thought it was the universal descriptor for hazelnut chocolate butter lol

>>20874

>sweetened with maple syrup

that's a bit better but not if you combine it with so many different foods. think of your digestion as a washing machine and you can only do one load at a time and some clothes you can't wash with other clothes.

ideally you would eat similar stuff and then wait a few hours to digest it; which does take a bit of the fun and spontaneity of eating. you have to decide if you want food to be entertainment (in which case it will make you sick) or fuel that keeps you running smoothly.

modern industrial food is contrary to what animals and wild humans ate to successfully made it to today. restaurants want to advertise you complicated gourmet meals with many different side orders and many ingredients (koreans lost their mind with how many side dishes they eat for example). if you want to do yourself a favor, try simply meals with few ingredients, reasonably spaced apart as to give yourself time to digest.

here is what i do currently: nothing but a few apples from morning till late in the evening, coconut water (from the box unfortunately) mixed with grapefruit and limejuice for when i am thirsty (yes fresh squeezed from real fruit!), gigantic serving of soup with vegetables (and sometimes rice noodles) as the big evening meal of the day. i barely cook the vegetables, i just load a huge bowl full of spices, pour boiling water over and then throw vegetables in and i call this soup but i am not getting out a big pot and start cooking the vegetables till they are dead, that'd be too complicated. is more like a broth with vegetables in. love it. gives me energy to go hard every day, if i could give you a spoon full through the screen so you can try how good something this simple tastes, i would.

>>20875
Nona are you underweight by chance? Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy. There is barely any protein in your day. Wheres the meat? Or if you are vegan, the nuts, the chickpeas, the beans?

>>20872

nutella popcorn is sooooo yummy. messy tho

>>20880
>Nona are you underweight by chance?

i have done quite a few experiments with fasting, the lowest i experienced was like bmi 18. when i was this light, my bones actually kind of stuck out of my skin, which was awkward and also i instantly noticed that i can no longer lean against stuff because it would hurt my bones since they did not have their cushion at that time. that was too light.

now in the colder part of the year you find me at bmi 21 because i do still like complicated lavish (mostly raw vegan) meals but the meals can not settle in my body because i am very active, i exercise and i also don't sit around all day, i am constantly doing stuff. eating raw vegan and then sitting around in front of a screen, that is it's own form of torture because it releases so much energy which then wants to be turned into something.

in the warm part of the year i eat even more fruit and i go down to bmi 20, which is my favorite weight. i have tried a few different weights and bmi 20 is my favorite. it is not what you would call underweight, it is being light as a feather and having enough muscle mass to be active all day every day. when i am active all day, not having excess weight to carry around turns life from a boring dystopian chore into an exciting wonderful life-affirming dance full of twirls and dance moves. there is nothing like it, can nobody tell me shit about how being heavy feels good, no. being slim without starving is the best for everything.

>Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy.
then how come i have so much energy and do so much all day? you see how much i type? that's me having energy for anything easily available.

>There is barely any protein in your day.
protein is a big myth. the body does not use protein, the protein is cracked into smaller amino acids, which strains the body a lot. i don's strain my body, my food contains all the amino acids directly. think of protein as a box that your body still has to unwrap, why would i do that to myself. that's you just being a follower and looking around to other people on what to imitate in your quest for being normal.

>Wheres the meat? Or if you are vegan, the nuts, the chickpeas, the beans?
you have a very narrow understanding on what is possible for a human and the close and distant ancestors of humans i do eat nuts in the winter, beans i don't eat, chickpeas occasionally as candy.

what about the cruelty of your meat consumption, narrowmind? you don't think considering animals as food makes your relation to nature and animal toxic? you don't think you believing you are superior to animals fucks up your ability to relate to the natural world that created you and forces you to participate in the toxic human mindsets of hierarchy and competition despite being the strongest species of this planet? you don't feel dumb acting like life is still law of the jungle and you are a wild predator while in reality you eat pre-killed factory-farmed meat from plastic trays out of the supermarket? you don't feel like a pretender and traitor deep down? because i would. i can not live in denial and play dumb; i don't want the psychological disadvantages and blindspots that an apex plastic predator like you have.