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The spirit is willing, but the mind is empty Anonymous
Ok, leaving my mental and dental probems aside for now, I want to get into shape, but for the life of me I can't find anything useful about diet online.

I was never taught how to eat properly, either in school or at home. I can't find shit about how to do it, just lots of web sites saying it's a good idea, some very vague food pyramid shit, and today I stumbled on:
http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php
because it was posted here.

If I didn't eat mostly crap, I would starve to death.

Tonight I ate southern fried chicken, mixed salad, and wholegrain rice.
The chicken was ready-made, the salad came in a bag, and the rice was uncle ben's microwave stuff [because it was the only wholegrain rice I could find in the supermarket, nothing else was labelled as such].

Sadly, this is me at the top of my culinary game.

A typical days eating for me is:
Breakfast: Buy a sandwich from the supermarket on the way to work. Usually ploughmans on wholemeal, or chicken salad on wholemeal.
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>> Anonymous
troll?
>> Anonymous
reduce the chocolate/ice cream to once a week or so.

Get eggs or whites and Oatmeal in the morning
buy canned tuna/salmon and add lemon, peppers and some low fat mayo if you want.
buy some walnuts, almonds for good fats
>> Moonmauler !!LgNbdvCFAuN
Oatmeal. Cheap and easy. Add some fruit to it if you want to.
>> Anonymous
>>77743
No, I really don't have a fucking clue how to feed myself.

>>77746
If I can get something better to replace it with, I'll never eat sweet crap again.
>canned tuna/salmon and add lemon, peppers and some low fat mayo if you want.
Ok, that sounds edible. Do I cook it, or eat it like that? Should I add actual lemon, lemon juice, or just part of the lemon?
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
>>77752

10 lemons per can of tuna
>> Anonymous
>>77759
ignorance=/=stupidity/gullibility
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
>>77775

20 lemons
>> Rugu !!iGOcbFFd8V9
You sound desperate. That is good.

I don't know much about nutrition, I'm more into periodization muscle training. But since you seem like an adult living on your own, (with an income) you can go out and buy raw materials you can cook yourself. If you have an oven, I would clean and wrap a few sizable chunks of chicken (thigh for me) in aluminum foil, and then bake it at 400 degrees for 40 minutes. It's pretty good in my taste, very soft and nice flavored. Chicken contains complete proteins, and isn't as fat as pork or beef.

And it's easy to cook. Clean, salt/pepper/baste, wrap in aluminum foil, and throw in oven, and come back in 40 minutes.

Fried foods is bad for you, should avoid that unless it's on a cheat day.
>> Anonymous
>>77750
Hi, I live in Europe. Is brinta a good brand of oatmeal ? (I prefer them to Quaker's but I am clueless about what kind of oatmeal people are talking about)
>> Anonymous
I just came here to see the OP.
>> Anonymous
H0w to eat, sez me:

Zone ratios, 40/30/30 carbs/protein/fat. Look it up.
Go to crossfit.com, read the nutrition forum. Those guys are all about Zone ratios and the Paleolithic diet. They know how to eat.

After being full of this awesome knowledge, go to fitday.com and start plugging in food and combos of foods and look at the pie chart. Come up with combos that the hit the magic ratio; these will be your "recipes" for great success.

Staple info:
2% milk is about ideal by itself.
Add a serving of mixed nuts to anything if it needs more fat.
Peanut butter is also useful but sneaky w/calories.
Buy giant jugs of protein powder, chocolate and vanilla, and add either to different foods. Chocolate goes well with bananas and peanut butter. Vanilla goes with oatmeal. Etc.
Protein: buy a buncha different kinds of meat.
Carbohydrates: veggies and fruit. Bread and rice and pasta are for pussies. Ain't nothing wrong with frozen veggies.
>> Anonymous
Just eat smaller portions, with no snacks between them. Also dont drink anything but water.
>> Anonymous
At a glance the main thing I notice is a lack of good fruit and veg, by salad in a bag I guess you mean lettuce which is good but isn't that nutritious. Its kind of hard to tell you exactly what you should aim for when you're not giving much about yourself away though. Are you exercising much? Are you looking to lose weight?
>> Anonymous
>>78016
>>77827
Also, are you in the UK?
>> Anonymous
>>but for the life of me I can't find anything useful about diet online.

You need a real live person to talk to about nutrition. You've got so many questions in your opening post.. I don't know where to begin.
>> Anonymous
>>77775
It does if he knows he's ignorant. Take a fucking Health class and stop whining about how you were never taught to eat healthy. It's unfortunate, but now it's your fault.
>> Anonymous
What the hell is wrong with people who can't cook? Have you even tried?

Buy a fucking cookbook. A real one, not one with 1001 hip recipes. One that contains the basics of cooking like how to fry meat and cook vegetables. They're usually divided in chapters by food type, i.e. vegetables, meat, potatoes, grain, desserts, bread, etc. Go to your nearest real bookstore and buy one.

As for making a meal, it's really not hard. You need proteins, carbs, and vegetables. So pick some meat, chicken, beef and do something with it. Fry it, chop it and fry it, boil it, grill it in the oven, whatever. Then pick some carbs to go with it. Cook some pasta. Cook potatoes. Fry potatoes. Cook rice. Stir-fry some noodles? It's really not hard. Finally, pick some vegetables that you like and make a little salad that goes with your meal. Chop some cucumber and tomatoes. Maybe lettuce? Grind some carrots? Put it all on a plate and eat.

Using the above you can make a lot of varied dishes. They're not advanced recipes at all, it's very, very basic, but it really is enough. Food does not have to be complicated.
>> RSI guy !HjbWRiSTJ.
>>78680
bump for great desperate need to be read by many anon.