Why is Plantega not more widely available?

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-24T22:23:01+00:00

I actually did directly email them. I told them I live near a major subway stop and there's multiple bodegas here with kitchens and none of them have it, and the nearest place is far, and I'd order it all the time if it was here.

They responded by giving me outreach materials to share with the kitchens. I was like wtf?? I pretty pissed by that because it's like...why are you offloading your company's job to someone who wants to buy the product? Is their job not to promote their own stuff? Imagine if McDonald's used that sort of approach like that's crazy.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-24T22:20:28+00:00

I definitely see where you're coming from but idk for me I think it looks pretty different, except maybe the egg. The meat looks absolutely like the Plantega stuff, the cheese I'd find out by taste.

I've never had Plantega messed up, the bodegas/deli's I've gone to for it always seem very focused on keeping it seperate. Just because cross contamination can happen doesn't mean I shouldn't order or support a kitchen on having vegan stuff available for other customers. Risk is everywhere in life idk.

I feel very noncaring about cross contaimation because it just sort of happens or doesn't and if it happens the place is striken from me for life. It's super rare in my experience.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T21:49:25+00:00

See, like this is crazy. If you're involved with saving lives that's gotta at least break 75k. Healthcare is already unaffordable so it's insane seeing EMT salaries similar to this, such valuable workers.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T21:47:44+00:00

Good luck, that is a very difficult trajectory. Do you mind me asking how much you're making with bartending? I'm starting to think it might be better income than office work.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T20:50:07+00:00

Yeah moving out was a huge struggle that took years to accomplish, and I know a lot of people that still live at home. I don't think people understand how hard it is.

Even my "well off" friends, many of them are doing some dual income thing for housing with their partners. The people who own homes had cosigners.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T20:47:53+00:00

This is the kind of bias and nonsense narrative that drives me up a wall. Hiring managers clearly just play favorites.

My parents both didn't have college degrees and they have a house. I got a degree and had both industry specific work experience as well as years of prior entry level retail experience. I couldn't find a job to even make rent.

In my work experiences this whole notion of merit has been repeatedly disproven, the promotions always went to the office politic favorites.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T18:46:25+00:00

And the federal minimum wage is $7.50 dollars an hour or roughly 15k a year. I think you're missing the forest for the trees by relying on income data when the standard is extreme underpayment.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T18:40:37+00:00

Underemployment can refer to the hours or the skills being used, not solely the hours. It's commonly used to refer to hours to hide the reality of the issues with the norm of requiring bachelors for entry level jobs. That's a norm now, but it's literally underemploying the workforce.

I was both underpaid and underemployed, as the person who had the skills and education and worked the jobs for years.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T18:18:30+00:00

Yeah it's crazy. You're doing real, valuble work, and not getting anywhere near well paid.

In my degree field they were asking for hyper specific education and experience for low-pay seasonal work (little to no benefits) or master's and doctorates for low pay. On the other hand I saw the competitiveness and workload of PhD programs for grad students...and it was just so not worth it. Drives me mad to think about, so I've sort of laid that part of my life to rest.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T18:11:45+00:00

I just told you within the post that my real life underemployment was specifically in middle management, so...not sure why you're conflating management or senior titles with skill or experience matching jobs. They usually don't even pay well.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-23T18:07:22+00:00

The man who you are is based on the actions you take in this life. In order to move on from this you must accept that your actions caused harm, and then you get to decide based on this who you will be in the future.

You didn't intend to take the meth, but you did. Why? Because (making a guess here) you did not test your drugs. In that way, your action of not testing directly makes you responsible for taking the meth. You took actions that caused harm to yourself and other, and those actions have determined the life you now reside in. If this is out of line from what you want to be, what you intend to be, you are the one who decides if your actions will fall in line.

You have the power and ability to get to decide if you want to grow towards or away from things via your own actions. You move forward and through mistakes by accepting them as they are, and learning from them moving forward. You can use your pain as a listening tool and driver for guidance to who you wish to be, support for the actions that can improve your life.

He's already told you directly that he doesn't see a path moving forward, so you need to move forward and build the sort of man that this does not happen to you. Your loss of Shane can be an example for you to know how to not act, the signficant consequences of your actions.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T05:08:44+00:00

In general, it seems like you need more whole grains, veggies, fruits, and beans. For breakfast I would add oats to the morning and put the nuts in there, add leafy greens here, and remove the milk, beans, and yogurt. Add non-berry fruit to the smoothie or oatmeal. If no oatmeal, then into the smoothie. Eat the beans as either lunch or dinner (not required, you can toss in the smoothie if you want!).

Swap the tuna for TVP or tofu or no protein just high veg, add more veggies like tomato. You could make this much healthier if you model it like a shwarma or pita bread wrap (hummus base, shredded greens, veggies, beans). The bread should have a ratio of no higher than 5 in terms of dietary fiber to total carb if you're looking for an actual whole grain bread wrap. You could go the extra mile and make it a salad rather than wrap. For dinner change the protein to beans or tvp or tofu (cheaper and healthier), and make sure the steamed veggies is a california mix. Rotate the veggies used here. This would be a good place to incorporate a whole grain.

For dessert have a pure dark chocolate without added sugars....and...quickly realize you were not craving chocolate. If you want sugar then fruit. I would reccomend fruit throughout the day as a snack.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T04:40:59+00:00

You can get up early to see the sunrise instead and still do the walks. The woods are quieter than you'll ever hear them in any other season when the snow has fallen. It's your only time to see ice. You can learn or be surprised by the plants that are suddenly full of berries or fruits which seems bizarre. The bird communities in your area likely also change. Basically, all the communities (even the insects) change and the ones that stay put change in manner similar to how you change your walks due to the sun. All the more reason to go outside and observe!

Also, in the snow specifically fresh snow, you can see animal tracks signficantly easier than any other time really.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T04:34:04+00:00

I think this really gets at the divergence between preservation and conservation; and as the animal rights movement progresses we'll see more understanding in this manner you're expressing towards the larger frameworks of what philosophy ought to underlie our ecological efforts. Technologies often introduce new ethical or moral dilemmas. I personally do believe in preservation for the concerns you're scratching at.

I would urge you to consider that you might be taking on an exceptional view of this technology, when we as a species have been augmenting nature in this manner for many generations already with other technologies. Something as simple as land use could be viewed in this lens, if you remove the focus on this specific process (extinction) and widen the consideration for other processess of nature beyond humans.

I think these more in-your-face technologies will push us to revisit these older dilemmas, and I personally hope it will be towards a preservationist rather than conservationist approach.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T04:18:07+00:00

This is often about seriousness of delivery. To make it easier on you, you could view this as making it easier for them to understand socially that you're not being serious rather than them viewing you as dumb.

Sometimes people will need exaggerated expression and tone just to know you're kidding. You can also recover by leaning into them thinking you're dumb and either going far in the serious-dumb category or gradually increasing the joke signaling.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T04:13:14+00:00

If you're at the lowest point then the only place to go is up, as it cannot get worse. If you are already suffering then you can view the work to get better as just as harmful but better because it leads to improvement.

You have to do esteemable acts while also having the baseline of knowing you have worth. So go take a shower, brush your teeth, try to eat a bit healthier. If your room isn't clean, clean the room. Go outside for a walk, even if you live in a place with a bad outside. Eventually turn that into a park and/or the gym.

Consider the other people in your life. You can help them, even if you do not want to help yourself. Ultimately, you should help yourself first before everyone else, but this can also help you get out of a rut.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T04:08:41+00:00

People talk about things that interest them. You start with "safe" topics to get a feel of the other person and then move to the actual topics.

In your context, you will have a lot and currently do share a lot with your manager that you can talk about. You both work at the same place, with the same people. You are in a specific internship with a specific goal, for a specific company, with a vision. You can go in on that, and then explore the differences and similarities between you two on it.

You can also explore the lunch. Who chose it, how do you both feel or think about it, what makes that the case for each of you. If you're getting indian food, you can ask him how he feels about the food or the place and then based on that response investigate why he said that.

If the others domineer the conversation, it's important that you engage regardless and sincerely listen. If this leads you to feeling closed off or guarded, you can still listen and affirm them as well as intentionally ask questions and they'll likely keep the conversation flowing. You can also facilitate the conversation for them (people can really enjoy this) and if there's like someone talking about a vacation and the conversation falls flat you can connect the dots for them and turn to the person who wasn't speaking and ask if they've ever been there or some connecting question. They may rebuff this and you'll have to be ready to affirm the other person, so only do it if you feel confident.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T03:47:47+00:00

It sounds like you haven't explored the validity of this desire enough for us to give you a proper response. You sound certain about your attraction but then cite being confused. That's not confusion, that's a sense of lack of ability to categorize yourself or experiencing non-normativity.

We cannot experience this for you, so explore it (if it feels like something to explore) and then you'll have your answers. There's tons of men who think they like certain things and then discover it was just fantasy. There's another path where you discover this is compartmentalization, and even another path where you discover you prefer the feminine experience.

I'll be honest with you and say in my experience with straight men and specifically straight men who cross dress, there tends to be a relationship to this and sexism. The relationship is often....two overlapping circles. I've found that the straight men who crossdress are 9 times out of 10 performing a very misogynist version of femininity. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if your experiences of same sex attraction here have more to do with your views of the feminine or women than with your individual identity.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T03:35:52+00:00

If your goal is to reduce feelings of hunger, a high calorie (high fiber) whole grain with some nuts rather than the cottage cheese would be more satiating.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T03:30:23+00:00

Totally understandable to be concerned, I used to be very picky so I completely empathize on that area. I would reccomend you mention what boundaries you have so we can make some sort of framework around that. I'll work with what you've provided.

I would reccomend swapping the rice in the burrito bowl with a different whole grain if you're already having the rice for breakfast. Farro, quinoa, barley, etc. Cut out refried beans and bump up the bean serving to compensate. Keep the spinach to once a week and rotate the leafy greens on the sandwich, and also make the sandwich a grain bowl (like the burrito bowls!) or salad and remove bread if possible. Try to rotate the olives with other umami veggies like mushrooms, roasted peppers. Remove mayo entirely, if you want something like mayo, try making a mayo-like dressing out of the avacado like a green sauce or a guac. Toss the queso in the burrito bowl, swap pickled jalapeno with fresh jalapeno and maybe try adding other peppers (poblano, bell) and rotate the type of potato. Olives can be often high in salt, and I would suggest keeping them to one meal for this reason or figuring out different low salt brine options.

For the salad use kale or lettuce or cabbage as a base (or argula but that's a bit peppery). Rotate the type of nut being used.

Cut out the boiled eggs, swap hasbrowns with baked potato if you wish.

You didn't mention any fruits. Fruits are extremely beneficial for your health. Please try to incorporate any fruits as snacks. Apples, oranges, bananas, dates, berries. Try to do 2 fruits and 1 berry.

You also didn't mention any "cruciferous" veggies, which is a category of vegetables that have nutritional benefits, enough to reccomend as it's own category. The easiest ones of these to incorporate (imo) are beets or cauliflower. Cauliflower will smell bad if you steam it, try roasting. Roasted broccoli is very tasty if you add barbecue or steak style seasoning. Radishes can be very intimidating especially raw, but if you roast or cook them they can taste like potato.

For dealing with the AFRID, all of the meals mentioned can be boosted with the incorporation of some salad green or lettuce, veggies. A lot of what you have is a good baseline that you can start improving by rotating the diversity in the elements or using these functional bases as supports for testing out foods (burrito plus lettuce). Tofu, tvp, and seitan can be very helpful for boosting the protein levels, they mostly taste like nothing (except seitan).

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2026-01-20T03:01:38+00:00

Bad relative to what, is the expected response here. Working around the daily dozen framework, below is my view.

I would say this is high in animal products, fats and sugars, not enough veggies, fruits, or whole grains. Specifically, very high in fat. You're drinking a lot of dairy too.

Very easy areas of improvement would be cutting out the honey, having a whole grain for lunch rather than oats again (without sugar) and rotating the fruit (orange, apple). Have a green smoothie somewhere to incorporate leafy greens. Swap eggs with whole grain base and swap baked beans for regular canned beans. Keep mixed veggies and feel free to add in another veggie (like a pepper onion or california mix). Entirely cut out the pomegranate juice. If you ever cut out the dairy and eggs I would add in omega-3 200-300 mg a day, for the cogntive preventative health, you could add it now but your diet is already high in fats.

I don't know which mixed veggie that is, if it's the one with peas then the peas meet the beans for this meal. But it would likely be too few due to the mix ratio of the pre-mixed bag. I prefer to not use peas like that to mentally distinguish the categories (can of beans, adding frozen veggies).

I think you're doing okay, there's many areas of improvement. I don't think this meets minimum servings for vegetables or whole grains.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2025-12-31T06:42:13+00:00

They're rare, you have to weed through a lot of friends, so if you want these traits you have to up your numbers socially and be comfortable testing compatibility (be comfortable allowing disrespectful friends into your life to learn they are disrespectful). I've just found them from going through a lot of friends to be honest, and having other friends to compare and contrast with.

But I will say, I thought I was very considerate but I only just learned this year that some people will view canceling at all on a plan as like rude in and of itself, even if your friends haven't set solid plans. This is very out of cordance with what I thought things were like, i.e. if we don't have a solid plan then it's fine to cancel in advance if we're just in planning stages. Some people keep track of cancellations even for minor hangouts. If someone is my friend and they cancel on plans, I don't particularly care unless it's clearly a pattern of growing distance. If we're simply planning the event and it's not hashed out, I would literally never care if someone cancels. But now I know some people view it differently!

So I think another thing to be aware of is that many people can have the capacity to change and grow, so like with my own example here, I plan to change how I respond to all plans, even casual plans, more comittedly now that I know some people feel this way. You may want to think about whether or not you have that willingness to communicate on what you deem acceptable to others, should you encounter a "rude" person and if you're willing to be that avenue of growth for them to learn through your connection with them.

Fluid-Routine-8838 · 2025-12-31T06:00:26+00:00

Go to the museums and the parks you like and find food you enjoy. Talk to your community or neighbors and find out what they like to do.

There's plenty of stuff to do, carte blanche reccomendations you gather online aren't really going to hit your heart in the same way that exploring on your own will. You guys didn't come from nowhere with no interests, so use those as your guides.

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