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Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition not returning after 18 years by OliveBrittle in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[-] OliveBrittle@piefed.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

I mean, that was kinda assumed when the mainline series was discontinued.

Private clinic Grifols says it's pausing all plasma collection in Canada by OliveBrittle in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[-] OliveBrittle@piefed.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good. As a regular blood donor, all they do is mooch off taxpayer dollars and cost our healthcare system money it can save on free donations from Canadian Blood Services.

People need to be taught the dangers of these private clinics, and how despite paying you, they cost our society more than they're worth and just lead us more into private healthcare.

Ganondorf should and will have sex with every gay man ever by OliveBrittle in c/BrandNewSentence@lemmy.today

[-] OliveBrittle@piefed.ca 18 points 1 day ago

>"Controversial take"

>Least controversial take ever

Yep, sounds about right for controversial takes on the internet.

Here's a controversial take: Shadow the Hedgehog is one of the best games in the Sonic franchise.

How do I balance out my diet with preventing food waste? by OliveBrittle in c/loseit@discuss.tchncs.de

[-] OliveBrittle@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Genuinely not an excuse. It just hurts knowing it'll all be thrown away and it feels like you have to do something about it.

I do think changing my mindset to "it's wasted just as much if I eat it when I don't need it" and "I'm treating myself as a waste bin if I eat this when I don't need it" will really help going forward for the diet seeing that responsibility of eating is shifted from me. However, now it's just a matter of how to get it to people that do need it when it comes to my social conscience.

In summary, I try to get it to people, and if I can't, I need to accept it'll be thrown out and that it isn't my fault if that happens. I'll be getting in touch with the organisation that runs the event and see what can be done about this going forward.

How do I balance out my diet with preventing food waste? by OliveBrittle in c/loseit@discuss.tchncs.de

[-] OliveBrittle@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

That first point I think really helps a lot on it's own. I grew up poor (and still am pretty poor admittedly), and I was told to eat pretty much everything on my plate. Eating rice? Gotta eat every last grain. Mother burnt the frozen pizza rock solid? Had to eat it. Food you don't like was for supper? You're not leaving that table until you finish it.

While my parents would use the "kids in Africa" line, something that arguably hit me more was my Nana comparing things to our ancestors during the Depression.

I'll see what I can do about containers next time around. I might also ask them about how to give away leftovers to people near the nearby shelter.

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How do I balance out my diet with preventing food waste? (piefed.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by OliveBrittle@piefed.ca to c/loseit@discuss.tchncs.de

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Hi all,

I've recently been putting in a lot of effort in order to lose weight, especially now that I have a motivating factor of having a vision of the woman I want to be. I've basically completely cut out fast food and started making high fibre, high protein foods at home, mostly cut out unhealthy fats by swapping to a (mostly) vegan diet, made a habit of doing a weekly weigh-in to track my progress, and portioning food whenever possible.

I do a monthly workshop, and they're generous enough to provide lunch for the event. Last time lunch was provided, we each ordered our own individual meals, and then ate them during the meeting. Quick and easy, sure I can't calorie count, but I can order something I know will generally be within my limits for the day, and work around that.

However, this month they decided to change to group catering. The advantages of this to them was that it was cheaper, and they wanted to increase social interaction by having conversation over shared food. This was understandable, but despite the catering order supposedly being for ten people, and our group having nine people, the amount of leftover food was insane. An entire tray of rice, entire tray of potatoes, half tray of hummus, over half a tray of falafel, it went on.

I hate food waste, and if we didn't take the food home with us, it was going to end up in the garbage. I decided to take the tray of hummus and a tray of mixed foods, and brought them home. It was too much food, and I easily overate my caloric intake trying to eat it all before it started going bad and as such have likely screwed over my progress for the week.

How do I balance these things out? Freezing isn't really an option, and while I want to portion things out, the main issue is being able to get to those portions within a reasonable time frame. I don't even necessarily want to eat it myself if possible, but while I can give out falafels to the homeless with ease for example, it becomes a pain when it's food like rice, potatoes, or stuffed grape leaves where a plate is necessary.

What can I do to balance these two out? I want to prevent food waste, but I also want to be strict to my diet because I'm absolutely determined to get to the goal I want to achieve.