- acargitz ( @theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) English45•4 days ago
What’s wrong with overnight oats? I really like them.
- bizarroland ( @bizarroland@fedia.io ) 34•4 days ago
Some people get a kick out of making you feel bad about anything and everything you enjoy by reframing it in the worst possible light.
Oh, you bicycle to work? Enjoy breathing in all that carbon monoxide from the cars passing you and a greatly increased risk of dying due to a driver not thinking that you’re a human being. Hope you don’t cross a street and inconvenience a driver you selfish prick!
Oh, you eat primarily vegetarian with only a little bit of meat? One, meat is still murder, you’re a prick. Two, of course you would mention it. Three, fuck you and your entire family and your entire gene pool you piece of shit.
I could probably keep going but you get it right? Don’t let the things that you enjoy be taken away from you by people who are chasing clout and will say anything that they possibly can in order to get it.
- SwingingTheLamp ( @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ) English22•4 days ago
I read it as cutting through the spin. We use contemporary words like overnight oats, instead of words like gruel that have strong connotations of poverty, for essentially the same food, to obscure the fact that we are the same working class as medieval peasants were. There’s nothing wrong with gruel; and we’re just not as far removed from peasantry as we’ve been led to believe.
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English16•4 days ago
I eat oatmeal with raisins, pistachios, and molasses like 4 mornings a week. It’s fucking delicious
- bane_killgrind ( @bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ) English9•4 days ago
pistachios
Well how bougie of you
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English5•4 days ago
Each serving gets like 8 salted pistachios from the bulk food aisle at the HEB
- moody ( @moody@lemmings.world ) English5•4 days ago
That’s like $17 worth of nuts in their breakfast
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English6•4 days ago
I know you’re just making fun, but I bought $6 worth of pistachios today and it’ll probably last me about 3 weeks
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) English1•2 days ago
The food bank gave us a bag of bulk bin pistachios and I’ve been wondering what to do with them (other than just eat them alone) since I’ve never bought them before. I’ll have to give that a shot! They gave us some dried cherries, too; I’m curious if they would be good in the oatmeal with the pistachios, maybe? Thank you for the ideas. :)
- Blastboom Strice ( @BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ) English1•3 days ago
I put some oats in water last night to finally try oatmeal🥺
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English22•4 days ago
I make overnight oats nearly every night.
I use steel cut oats in the slow cooker over night, add dates, apple, cinnamon and chia seeds.
It is ready for me before I leave for work at ~6:10, and ready for the rest of the family when they have breakfast at 7:30.
What is not to like.
- BallsandBayonets ( @BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ) English26•3 days ago
What is not to like.
Being awake at that hour.
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) English5•3 days ago
Not even God is awake by then.
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English5•3 days ago
I finish at 2:30 in afternoon, I’m home before the kids…
- ToxicWaste ( @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ) English1•2 days ago
that is great, that you can organise work and kids that way! in my estimate, you see your kids more than many 9 to 6 workers
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English2•2 days ago
I do indeed.
I also took a job far closer to home last year, I’m only commuting 8 minutes each way now.
- SkyeStarfall ( @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•3 days ago
Ok but you go to bed at like 20
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English1•3 days ago
I don’t sleep that much. I have the advantage of being a short sleeper, 4-6 hrs per night is normal, I find it very difficult to sleep more than 6 hrs.
I’m usually in bed by 11, and asleep before 12.
I wake before my alarm at 5:30
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) English3•3 days ago
Hot overnight oats? I always made them in a mason jar in the fridge. My favorite was 1/2 cup of oats, 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt, 1/2 cup of milk, all in a jar and then fill the rest of the jar up with frozen blueberries and strawberries (cut ones). Close, put in fridge, eat cold the next morning. The oats will have soaked up the liquid and gotten soft. It’s a nice cold cereal and quick to pour into a bowl, stir a bit, and chow down.
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English3•3 days ago
Have to use steel cut oats, rolled oats turn into mush if cooked overnight.
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) English3•3 days ago
Yeah that would definitely be my biggest worry. If I weren’t diabetic now I would try it.
- TheReturnOfPEB ( @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ) English19•4 days ago
i wish i was a peasant
peasants had the church that would feast them like 100 times a year for saint days and shite liketh that
i are a serf
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) English7•3 days ago
I mean, if you tithed, so they were feeding you with your own food. Also not a real feast most of the time.
- boonhet ( @boonhet@lemm.ee ) English6•3 days ago
And while the church wanted a tithe, the manor lord required you to work one or more days per week on his field, using your own tools. This was rent. There might’ve also been monetary rent in addition to work rent. And in addition to the church tithe, the manor lord wanted a tithe too. You couldn’t choose to rent somewhere else, either - while the manor lord didn’t own you, he owned the piece of land you lived on, could dictate your terms, and you’d have to pay a fine for moving away to another manor lord’s service. If he sold the parcel of land, you’d have to do all the same to the new landlord. If you could manage to hide in a city for a year + one day, you’d be free. But if you got caught, you’d be imprisoned until your lord came and picked you up.
These were the general rules in my area, others would differ. Obviously they changed over time and so on. And much of this is from the chronicles and those were written by the Order, so the real situation might’ve been worse even.
There’s plenty wrong with our current situation and we seem to be sliding back towards serfdom, but serfdom is definitely worse than what we have now and we can NOT afford to go back.
- NaevaTheRat ( @NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ) English14•3 days ago
you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.
Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.
How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to “the economy” etc.
No actually I’m not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.
the problems with society aren’t that you can’t eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it’s that mere subsitence demands your soul.
- imPastaSyndrome ( @imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ) English12•3 days ago
Overnight oats are really good for my digestion and diet. What, you want me eating steak and eggs?
- whoisearth ( @whoisearth@lemmy.ca ) English2•3 days ago
And they’re amazing for your diet in general. M-F such an easy no brain option for a meal. Make individual containers Sunday night. Food for the rest of the week.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) English11•3 days ago
OP has upset the peasantry.
- OmgItBurns ( @OmgItBurns@discuss.online ) English7•3 days ago
I feel like my oats have been disparaged. The peasantry demands an apology.
- Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•3 days ago
Oats are fucking awesome.
- biscuitswalrus ( @biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ) English7•3 days ago
Without a call to action, this is just an insult.
- ToxicWaste ( @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ) English2•2 days ago
make your own call to action, decide for yourself. you don’t need random strangers on the internet showing you the directiosn. they already showed you where you stand, go and make your own path.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English5•3 days ago
I get the sentiment, but overnight oats with honey and banana fucking slaps. I’d eat that if I was queen of the world (ignoring the fact that I wouldn’t be queen of the world very long because I’d use my unquestioned power to dismantle all the fucked up systems that made a “queen of the world” possible)
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English4•3 days ago
Put dried fruits and spices from around the world in mine I eat better than emperor’s
- chemicalprophet ( @chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ) English1•2 days ago
Just a victim of capitalists.