Cooking

The German Nutrition Society (DGE) has shifted to a circle instead of a pyramid:

The portions of the circle refer to volume and not calories. In my opinion this design is superior to pyramids in general because all parts are equally important for a balanced diet, with hydration in the middle.

I'm just completely confused by this pyramid. What does it say?

• Bread / grain is the basis for our food
• Avoid bread
• Bread is the 3rd corner, equally important to meat and vegetables

All three seem equally logical to me.

“No bread? Let them eat steak!”

About the pic and the "official FB page":

MAHA == brainworm

Your dough looks nice. What is raising it? And the color, is that rye?

For me, this does not look like a basis for which food groups you eat because there is only one separator between grain and non grain.

If I would guess, the idea is to eat equal amounts of meat, vegetables, and grain, as these are the three corners of this samesided triangle

What it looks like for me, though, is a map to show for what constitutes a vegetable, a meat, or a grain.

What we learn:

• Anything with less than 80% grain is not a grain dish (see black line, porridge, for example, is on themeat side of the line)
• vegetables and meats can't be clearly distinguished (see lack of line)
• an avocado is exactly 1/3 fruit 1/3 meat and 1/3 grain

Do the opposite of anything RFK says.

I'm not certain I understand... I make a lot of bread too and partly because it's cheap, but also partly because it's awesome. I'm focused on sourdough at the moment, it's been a long trip.

I am unsure of what the "new" pyramid is trying to say, because it says nothing. Very strange, though not, I suppose, coming from the barely literate fuckheads running HHS now.

It sounds like you're struggling pretty hard, good on you you make your own bread. Fresh vegetables and fruit are still fairly reasonable, particularly if you do local farmer's markets. I recently posted about how using dried beans instead of canned is a real money saver (a pound of navy beans is like, $1.20 - and loads of good protein).

I am also quite focused on foraging right now. I hope it doesn't come to it, but if it should, I'd like to be as prepared as possible. Knowing what edible wild plants exist around you is very valuable, and can be a fun hobby for those bent that way.

I really don't want to make excuses for anything this administration does, and I haven't looked too much into what the justification of this is supposed to be

But hypothetically if you dumped this new food "pyramid" on my desk, without any other context, and I didn't know it had anything to do with the trump administration, and asked me to make sense of it I feel like I could come up with something like "whole grains, proteins, and produce are the 3 cornerstones of a healthy diet"

And the pyramid is upside down because no one thing should be the main "foundation" of your diet, it should all be balanced

I kind of feel like the trump/rfk cronies came across a half-finished rough sketch of an idea for a new food pyramid loft in the desk drawer of some competent USDA employee they forced out, threw out the notes they found with it, and pushed it through with their own stupid spin because they wanted to do something showy like coming up with a new food pyramid.