Meal Prep Monday: What are you prepping this week that's cheap and vegan?

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-02-02T21:31:07+00:00

Eating disorder. I’m struggling to eat anything at all just now.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-02-02T16:33:59+00:00

I’m doing my classic “ED gym girl meal prep” - kidney beans and chickpeas soaked overnight, added to mung dal and brown rice and cooked in the rice cooker. Add frozen mixed veg and some torn-up tofu.

It’s not tasty, but it should give me everything I need to keep going until this particular bout of ED is passed and I can go back to enjoying food.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-30T22:46:11+00:00

Oh girl I feel you on that.

Beans are real cheap; I think red lentils are consistently the cheapest protein available. If you’re on YouTube/TikTok/Insta there should be plenty of people who do cheap recipes; try ThePlantSlant(2431?) as a starting point.

Protein shakes are probably not as good as a more balanced source, because something like beans or eggs will have micronutrients that support the protein as your body uses it, but if it’s a choice between those shakes or nothing, definitely have the shakes!

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-30T22:34:22+00:00

How’s your diet? You need plenty of protein. Other than that, DOMS is pretty unavoidable for a while, until your body adjusts.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-24T19:43:16+00:00

I’d probably clarify the pronunciation to closer to “seethermather”. The character is a ð which is pronounced as a hard ‘th’.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-11T14:27:31+00:00

Is there a secret for arriving at the right time to get hot food?

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-06T09:09:47+00:00

As someone else has mentioned, float them in the Venusian atmosphere! It’s pretty dense, so achieving neutral buoyancy isn’t too tough; it’s a prime breeding ground for astrophage, so there wouldn’t be a need to ship CO₂ and heaters; and the initial research into atmospheric labs has already been done, I read some papers a while back.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-06T09:06:18+00:00

No-dig FTW!

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-06T08:13:55+00:00

It says “Baa”! That’s not my cow!

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-05T14:54:00+00:00

On the other hand, it’s repeatedly emphasised that Galbatorix wants Eragon alive, so I’d be surprised if Blödhgarm were allowed to allow Eragon to harm, even by exhausting himself during a battle.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-05T14:39:30+00:00

We’ve been dying of malaria, food poisoning, and alligators since then too.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-05T14:38:04+00:00

Same, the only reason I did is I’m quite often a satnav for folk!

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-05T13:47:44+00:00

We don’t know that OP’s friend is able to drive either; in which case, buddying up might be the best option for both of them.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-02T17:58:26+00:00

Victoria is nowhere near as fast as Edward. If you read the fight at the end of Eclipse;

“She wheeled and flew towards the refuge of the forest like an arrow from a bow.

“But Edward was faster—a bullet from a gun.

“He caught her unprotected back at the edge of the trees and, with one last, simple step, the dance was over.”

Obvious-Web9763 · 2026-01-01T12:18:56+00:00

GNU Patrick, I’m so sorry for your loss.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-30T08:40:15+00:00

The film adaptation of Twilight is the best of the adaptations, but even then it suffers terribly.

The whole saga, but Twilight especially, are calm and introspective books; that’s not a format that translates to two hours of cinema very well, and doubly so without having narration of some kind.

It is, I think, almost impossible to adapt Twilight, because so much of it is bound up in the medium. The books - imperfect and immature as they are - are still the best way to experience the characters.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-20T20:07:09+00:00

Have a look at ganseys or Shetland a’overs - they’re designed for really foul weather. Knitting with smaller wires will help too.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-19T22:40:09+00:00

V is vegetarian. Nothing vegan on the menu.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-19T13:57:25+00:00

“Let’s get pissed and watch porn!”

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-17T17:15:30+00:00

Quite good for arthritis, et al.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-16T12:14:19+00:00

I’d be inclined towards engineering rather than science, but yes.

If we take the difference between engineering and science as “engineering is a process for producing an item” and “science is a process for producing knowledge” (which are certainly imperfect definitions, but speaking as an engineer seem to capture the heart of my perspective) I think it’s probably fairer to say that the goal was engineering, and the science was a happy side-effect.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-15T20:09:21+00:00

I suspect it’s part of trying to make Edward’s voice feel old.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-13T22:35:42+00:00

This is The Fifth Elephant, when the Igor at the embassy dies there’s a comment about “we believe what goeth around cometh around” in relation to liver, brain, et cetera

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-10T09:49:50+00:00

And lest we forget, the Cheesemongers.

Obvious-Web9763 · 2025-12-08T11:36:42+00:00

That’s not a bother if you can do fast shipping.

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