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Ingredients of the week: Mushrooms,Cranberries, Brassica, Beetroot, Potatoes, Cabbage, Carrots, Nutritional Yeast, Miso, Buckwheat
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Learning simple, and flexible, porridges/curries/stews (slop by some definitions) is the way. They're simple, in that they often let slow simmering do most of the "work" of cooking for you. They're highly flexible, in that you can adjust to what's available instead of being locked into buying specific ingredients that may not be economical. These are the dishes normal people ate every day for thousands and thousands of years of human history. Yet, we've become addicted to trying to eat like some sort of french aristocrat for every dinner and that's simply not feasible for most people who don't find cooking innately rewarding and have money to spare.
I feel like even if you find cooking innately rewarding - or could - and have money to spare which is Jamie Olivers and his ilk actuals target group so they can brag about their cheap healthy dinners to their lessers you're still gonna go run out of time on the stuff
I agree in most cases, but I know people for who cooking is just another hobby, they put on some TV or a podcast and lose themselves in the labor. For those people it's feasible, maybe not EVERY night, but on a frequent basis. The point you're touching on is a very good one though, because it highlights how people are made to feel ashamed for not making "refined" food, or pressured into eating "conforming" (typically over-processed and made hyper-palatable with a lot of nutrition stripped out.) food that isn't healthy.
I see how I've failed to convey this but this is the point I'm trying to make: Jamie Olivers 30 mins healthy weeknight dinners cookbook sells itself on the fact you'd do that. But you can't and even if you could, you wouldn't, unless you're so hilariously rich your mise en place is telling your live in sous chef to get on it, which messes with the "anyone can do this" attitude of the thing
i love cooking but i make one to two "fancy" meals every two weeks and the rest is curries or fastish meals that ive partially prepped ahead of time (teriyakis on rice, for example)
im also probably really nutrient deficient.
unless you have a severe dietary restriction (medical, logistical, self-imposed) you are not likely to have any nutrient deficiency. it's way over hyped myth.
eat some fortified processed food once in a while if you are worried. and Vit D, with folic acid if you might stay preggo.
Eat mostly vegetables cooked in cast iron cookware and you're mostly there