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.
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I often do heavy work and still usually skip breakfast, sometimes lunch too, eating just dinner then second dinner in the evening.
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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Is this a bunch of bots or does nobody else have blood sugar.
People that are fit don't have to worry about blood sugar.
You don't get sugar crashes if you don't eat copious amounts of sugar
I get them at around 11 in the morning. I eat wholemeal bread with no sugar crunchy peanut butter for breakfast.
Maybe your trouble is the bread. Wholemeal are carbs and carbs are sugar. The sugarless peanut butter should not be causing any sugar crashes.
Caveat. Not a trained specialist here. Just someone who has been trying to sort my issues out and wanting to share.
Bread and peanut butter are both relatively large sources of sugar…
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
Yeah. Jobs kinda force it on me depending. If I can't eat on the job then I want something in my belly before and I will grab something for lunch and I want to eat when I get back home. When at home I don't like to eat for awhile after waking up and then sometimes eat one more meal as an early dinner and I don't like to eat after 8pm and usually not after 7.
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.
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.
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.
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I'm already on a 1 meal a day over the course of the entire day diet due to poverty. Like not even a big meal. Today my entire days supply of food is going to be a sandwich. I don't think I need to skip my only meal for the day.
I actually am very lucky to do a lot of foraging that when it's a good year, supplement what little foods I can buy so it's not all bad, but I am not eating well. I don't think many people in America are right now.
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.
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.
Yeah I'm on Medicare but I only get like 37 a month or something on ebt. I'm making too much money for most public assistance as I've been on disability for something for decades, but I managed to find a job with decent pay I can actually hold and have been trying to get fully independent. It hasn't been going well. I'm making too much money for help, but not enough to live.
Still a hell of a lot better where I was like a decade ago. I used to be entirely homeless before I got help. I'm barely surviving but at least I'm doing it with a roof over my head. My situation sucks but I'm one of the lucky ones. Most people like me just fall through the cracks and never get back out.
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?
There is but it's not a walk in affair. It has too many people depending on it and not enough food. I'm not exaggerating when I say unless you show up 4 to 5 hours early, there's a solid chance you won't be getting anything. It only runs every first and third Wednesday of a. Month, and you need proof of residency, a utility bill, a photo ID, and proof you're on ebt to get signed up. It's not a reliable source of food. Once or twice a year If there is simply no other way I'll take the gamble and wait and hope I get there early enough to get something good, but I usually try to fend for myself.
I live in a very rual area and they have very limited resources for people who need help. We don't have any public transportation whatsoever. It's not an easily surviveable place for people in poverty, I'm extremely lucky to have a job out here. I just don't have the resources to leave. No family, no real friends, no money or savings. It's a bad situation. I've been in it for years.
I appreciate the help and advice, but I'm not a good target for it.
Well that sucks, I’m sorry to hear that. If only we lived in a country that bothers to take care of its people.
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.
I don't want to talk too much about what's around me just out of data privacy reasons but I appreciate the help. I'll figure it out. I've been living like this for years and I'm fine.
:'-( 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.
I was homeless for just shy of five years a little over a decade ago before I got help and eventually got where I am now. It's not much, it's not a good situation, but it's better than where I was and there's hope of it improving. I'm doing a lot better than the vast majority of the people I knew back then.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
ADHD, I usually eat when i get the shakes.
It's like a built in alarm!
Did not rtfa but unless you are suggesting more than 3, no.
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.
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
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.
So...7 meals instead?
Just as any proper hobbit should.
Exactly.
I usually just kinda snack throughout the day.
Wasn’t the 3 meals a day kinda invented by cereal brands?
I haven't eaten three meals a day since I was in middle school. And not because I couldn't afford to.
I've found that I'm actually less hungry throughout the day, if I skip breakfast. So, even when I then have lunch, I'm satiated much quicker.
My working theory is that my stomach shrinks when empty, in particular throughout the night. So, if I don't shove down breakfast in the morning:
- My stomach can shrink even smaller until lunch.
- There is less empty space in the non-stretched stomach, so less hunger.
- When I do eat lunch, the smaller stomach fills up quicker, meaning I shove down less food for lunch, too, and therefore my stomach doesn't get particularly stretched until dinner either.
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