FUCK eating "DELICIOUS" food. I'm DONE eating delicious food.
What has delicious food ever done for me? Only made me want to eat more of it.
From now on I am only eating BORING-ASS GRUELS that I can eat as much as I want of which will not be much because they are BORING
Exceptions: visiting friends and family and going on dates. I will be allowed to eat non-gruels, to be social.
Fresh fruit, vegetables, and more rarely nuts and baking chocolate are also permitted in unlimited quantities.
I made a blogpost: "The Beginning of A Grueling Diet", laying out the rules by which I will hold myself
https://dustycloud.org/blog/a-grueling-diet/
I am totally serious about this and I think it will even be a good idea.
@cwebber I'm remembering the Food Pill sketch from MST3k now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81eKLe_j7sc
@cwebber oh you mean British food?
@cwebber while I understand why you'd go with boring food. My preference would be food with so much flavour that one can only eat a little bit without it being overwhelming.
" - the inventor of Soylent, circa 2014
@timorl " - Mr. Woodhouse, circa 1815
@cwebber that's been my strategy for the last ten years and I cannot recommend it enough
@kuba What do you make? The more boring, the more interested I am
@cwebber millet groats, couscous, steamed vegetables with olive oil, boiled potatoes
@cwebber all veeeery easy to make
exceptionposting
Exceptions: visiting friends and family and going on dates.
for a moment I thought you likened the programming mechanism of throwing exceptions to the processes of visiting relatives and dating people
the worst thing is that I kinda understood the reference before going "no wait I parsed it wrong"
@cwebber if I did this I'm sure I'd just end up with delicious pottage recipes..
@joeyh sounds like a win
@cwebber Still,you can make Chocolate Fruit or even Ganache with this...
@cwebber You might wish to add an exception for being sick, too.
@cwebber I misread that as "GRUES" and I thought -- hang on, surely it's the other way round, you don't eat them, they eat you? 😋
@cwebber I have a cookbook, somewhere, with an entire section... but they are not very boring ones.
@cwebber Come to denmark - we have a gruel restaurant chain
@Tak I am happy someone did this since I do not have a spare life to do it
@hankg Hey that's a great post, and actually exactly the kind of food I'm talkin' bout here :)
@cwebber This is how Soylent started.
@cwebber that sounds "grueling" (pun fully intended). Godspeed!
@cwebber Boredom is good for you: vacant time is needed for learning and creativity... (They say):
> Boredom as a factor in human behaviour has received, in my opinion, far less attention than it deserves.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/HA14-010.HTM
Bertrand Russell!!!
I am making a commitment: I will be eating nothing but boring GRUELS until the end of 2022.
Hold me to it.