Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> writes:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 13:44:51 -0500, Jill McQuown
<j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
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On 2/1/2025 1:15 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-02-01 10:31 a.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
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Anything cooking at your house this Friday evening?

Only heated up what was left over from lunch. :)

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I'm not worried about gluten.  I don't know what you had for lunch.

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Pretty much nobody is.
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I know there are some people who are gluten intolerant.  Celiac
Disease.   I'm not one of those people.

 
Last summer my son was diagnosed with celiac disease. He has issues that
cleared up within days of giving up gluten.  Then there are people who
are convinced that gluten is bad for you even if they aren't gluten
intolerant.  Get a group of young people together and you are bound to
get several vegetarians, a vegan or two, some who are  gluten intolerant
and some who are lactose intolerant.
 
 
 

Of course there are people like that.  But don't get me started on
Vegans who believe eating honey is harmful to the bees and one shouldn't
milk cows (for some silly reason) because it's somehow harmful to them.

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The dairy industry's a very nasty industry, and not because of the
milking. I'm not a vegan but I understand why people are.

Yeah.  I don't think we treat these animals properly.  If you go back in
time, the way small farmers used to treat animals decades ago, I think
it's all good.  Animals kill other animals for food, too.

I don't quite buy the whole idea that we don't need meat.  I've been a
vegan for half a year to try it out and---perhaps I couldn't design my
diet properly---I felt very, very weak.  Possibly because I was so
hungry at meals that I ate too much.  I don't think large quantities of
vegetables are good for me.  Perhaps merely because of the quantity.
One thing I do these days is just eat very little---I feel great!  A
little hungry sometimes when I leave the table, but it goes away
quickly.  So maybe I made some mistakes, but as soon as I started eating
meat again, I didn't have to eat so much anymore and felt good again.
So I started thinking that the whole vegan, vegetarian programs are just
wrong.  Some experts preach we should eat the whole animal.  I do think
that's a good idea, so today I also try to have a lot of variety in
meat.

But I am eating no fish, though.  Concerned with plastic in the oceans.
I think experts are finding plastic everywhere, and they're easily found
in the fish.

Don't want to hear about any fad diet
trends, either.  I eat what I want, when I want. Moderation is the key.

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Fad diets are for people who can't control how much they eat. It's
their only way not to become overweight. In an ideal world, they'd
simply eat a lot less, but not everybody has that kind of self
control.

Self control might be a fad too.  I don't think nature uses much of self
control.  Nature lives its balance.  If we need so-called self control,
that's because we're out of control. :) Fix the root cause.  Of course,
nobody is saying that's easy to do.