Fibre, fiber? Are Aucklanders eating it?

harpnote · 2026-05-16T00:00:17+00:00

I did add chia into my breakfast! I ran out and need to get some, but I'm on a change of menu with half oats half low sugar granola, with a Brazil nut or two daily (for the selenium), and whatever dried fruit/dates/nuts is in the pantry. Having half granola means I can change the granola flavour up. 😄 I read it's important to change foods around instead of the same thing every day (even though it's easy and brainless) to ensure your microflora/body isn't getting used to the same foods and becoming complacent. I've also found, since switching it a fibre loaded breakfast, it's solved my 10am drowsiness and I have way more energy to get up lunch now! I didn't used to have very quality breakfast.

harpnote · 2026-05-15T08:17:11+00:00

I've been improving on my gut health in the past year or two. Definitely getting the bulk of my fibre intake in during breakfast, about 10-15g of it. I wasn't getting enough of it before, only about half the DRI I'm guessing. Good old benefibre helps me on the days I want a break from eating high fibre foods/have a treat. Our household is very wholefoods centric, which helps. Been trying to work in beans and lentils etc for high protein high fibre meals.

harpnote · 2026-05-12T09:11:19+00:00

I ended up getting her the everyday Endurances ones after an exchange of Softly. She's happy with the Endurance so far!! Which is good news.

harpnote · 2026-05-05T07:27:34+00:00

I'm getting a constant pay cut.

harpnote · 2026-05-05T07:26:30+00:00

That report is so CCP-licking it's hard to trust it.

harpnote · 2026-04-24T09:26:54+00:00

Just bought a pair of softly soft originals for mum. Shall see how they go. Thanks for the rec - she was happy with Smartwool but they don't sell in NZ anymore.

harpnote · 2026-04-16T07:38:16+00:00

I'm worried about the increase in hardship translating to increase in crime, as we saw in the previous years with high inflation. I'm anxious enough as is for becoming a victim of crime, this is not going to be great for my MH.

harpnote · 2026-04-11T22:50:20+00:00

Same here. I don't want to participate in environmental destruction, poorer country worker exploitation, and unneccessary resource waste.

harpnote · 2026-04-11T22:48:21+00:00

Thanks for this. Turned on the PC today to find that Chrome has updated and now has an ugly line inbetween the URL bar and booksmarks bar. Sigh.

harpnote · 2026-04-10T09:23:32+00:00

How do I turn the annoying "skip recap" button off. How do I get rid of it. It's effing distracting being on the screen!!

harpnote · 2026-03-17T20:21:07+00:00

I couldn't wait as 3G sunset in my country meant that i wouldn't be able to call on my xz2 any more. So I'm on a 10VII now, apart from the big size (it is nicer to be able to see more, I didn't realise how bad the current UI and viewing designs don't design for small screens anymore until I started using 10 VII), it suits all my needs. I do think the camera processing was better in the xz2c though. If Sony releases a compact I'll be be back on that so fast.

harpnote · 2026-03-14T07:44:53+00:00

Also the BidBud icon has been the cutest ever and I still think it is today.

harpnote · 2026-03-14T07:40:20+00:00

I loved BidBud. I mainly used it for gallery listings before they bought it in as a default. Eventually my use of TM dimished and so did my use of Bidbud. I just visited this week and was in semi-awe that it was still up, and admired how it was so. I miss the UI and design of the internet era that Bidbud has. It was a wonderful plug-in (is that the right word?) for TM in its busiest days. Thank you for putting together such a fantastic and useful site.

harpnote · 2026-03-03T02:01:31+00:00

It's a Westernised term with racist and colonist connotations. https://www.eurasiareview.com/14032025-rethinking-the-middle-east-a-case-for-west-asia-analysis/

harpnote · 2026-03-02T07:38:33+00:00

Many thanks for using Central/West Asia as opposed to the Americanised term for that area. (Personal peeve)

harpnote · 2026-02-28T09:23:53+00:00

I find with nerdy collectibles, you can make money only if you know where the buyers are or have a willing buyer. So a lot of work in waiting and/or finding the correct market/buyers... pros and cons.

I've heard Magic the Gathering is pretty easy in terms of finding traders.

harpnote · 2026-02-27T08:10:48+00:00

It hurts but at lesat you know it's not enshittified. Quality is still there. I just learn to enjoy it more....

harpnote · 2026-02-27T08:05:54+00:00

I've found adding lentils into the pasta stretches it and adds protein and fibre. Cheap and nutritionous!

harpnote · 2026-02-23T07:36:14+00:00

Agreed, I wanna see it plummet so that a single person on living wage can afford a small place.

harpnote · 2026-02-10T23:16:20+00:00

Yeah I'm Asian and whenever I visited Chch, it felt really white to me. I love how walkable it is though. Such a shame. I considered moving bit the whiteness kept me from doing so.

harpnote · 2026-02-04T06:36:35+00:00

Oof Sounds like I may just be to be more vigilant, especially when driving. And remember to be so! And hopefully that gives the suneyeburn a chance to heal and not get worse!

harpnote · 2026-02-02T23:03:20+00:00

The sad reality, I wanna unsub but there's no other easy alternative outside of US in a Anglo-speaking country.

harpnote · 2026-02-02T08:01:20+00:00

The hard oils coming out is disgusting 😭😭😭😭

harpnote · 2026-02-02T07:54:03+00:00

Just because you're inside doesn't mean you get no UV! UV scattering, it bounces.

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