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Cooking Barley without Foam?
I enjoy barley, usually cook it in the rice cooker, but it foams like crazy. For the record, I use pearl barley and it's a basic one-button rice cooker with no options. White rice foams a bit too, but this is on a whole different level. I have to stand by the cooker for the first 15 minutes to take off the lid every now…
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Dog Food
Saw this on another forum. Will post without comment. ozy.com/true-story/i-did-it-6-days-of-eating-dog-food/36846
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Wide grip pull-ups vs narrow vs chin-ups
I'm curious, I love to do bodyweight exercises and pull ups are my favourite. I do three variants: chin-ups (palms away from me), narrow grip (palms towards me, hands the width of shoulders) and wide grip. Wide grip pull-ups are easier than narrow but I've started avoiding them because they seem to strain my elbows. I do…
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How to Add Flavour to Cooked Grains (Rice, Barley, etc)...
...plot twist : without adding a ton of sodium? (and, of course, without spending ludicrous amounts of time or money either) I know the usual ways to add flavour (broth/sauce/cheese/etc) but the only low-sodium ones I know are: - use low-sodium broth (which is... not great) - mix canned tuna in (which is good, but can get…
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The Ultimate Poverty Dinner
80g oats 1oz/30g peanuts (skip if low on cals) 1 cup/250 mL store-brand vegetable juice 3 jumbo eggs Macros: 780 calories 43P - 37F - 70C Cost: 1.48$ 1/6x1.50$ + 1/16*5.00$ + 1/6*2.50$ + 1/4*2.00$ Mirin'?
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Adequate Protein Intake?
There's been a lot of threads about how much protein you need. People always give what they consider optimal protein intake but this strikes me as a bit strange. I'm certain that you do need about tree fiddy grams of protein for maximal athletic performance and muscular development, but most people here - myself included -…
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Fiber and Calorie Counts
I've been eating a lot of peas lately. Looking at the label, I saw something strange: 1/4 cup: 110 calories 0g fat 28g carbs (12g fiber) 10g proteins Doesn't add up, does it? 4(28+10)=152... However, if you remove the fiber you get 4(16+10)=104... which does add up. I checked some other labels as well. Some seem to follow…
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Vegetarian lunch ideas?
For a variety of reasons, I'd like to start restricting my consumption of dead beast to one meal a day. I'm rather stuck on what to eat for lunch except for sandwiches with luncheon meat though. I tried the veggie sub with double cheese at Subway and it was... okay/10. Basically a grilled cheese with veggies and not enough…
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Too little sugar?
I don't track my sugar intake, but we have so many threads about it that I checked it out on my reports. Result: I have been below MFP's recommended sugar intake for the 84 of the past 90 days. In fact, I have been below half of MFP's recommendation for most of those days. This isn't deliberate, I just don't like sweets. I…
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The Good New Days
Found this through another forum and I thought it was cool. Sorry for the long linky, blame mfp... It lets you track various measurable indices of life quality for the past 200 years (they don't have the same amount of data for all years though). EDIT: gapminder.org linky was too long for mfp, just click on the "Gapminder…
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Questions about form (bodyweight exercises)
I'd have two questions about bodyweight exercises: 1. Is there a difference between pull-ups with the thumbs under the bar (i.e. gripping it like a stick) and pull-ups with the thumbs over the bar (i.e. holding onto it like a ledge)? I saw it claimed that "under the bar" works the biceps more while "over the bar" works the…
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Gluttony: the lasses gave it a good shot but...
A little while ago someone posted a video of a woman eating a large steak and we had a spirited debate as to whether she should have eaten a starving African child instead (or something along those lines, I don't remember all the details). In response, here's a dude eating 10 000 calories worth of pork sandwich and…
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For those of you who do not like artificial sweeteners...
...allow me to convert you (not what you might think). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216417 I rest my case.
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# of sets vs # of reps
Two of my goals are to do 50 continuous push-ups and 20 continuous pull-ups (~70% there). Which of the following workouts do you think is best: a) 1 or 2 sets at max number of reps b) do a pyramid increasing reps until failure, then back down c) many sets with a small number of reps From my point of view, a) is the…
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Have you ever suspected the nutrition info of fibbing?
Lying is such an ugly word, isn't it... Yesterday, I went grocery shopping and bought a pack of cheap, store-brand turkey hot dogs for all my meat needs (I'm classy like that). The label claims that each hot dog has 6g of fat, 1g carbs and 11g protein for a total of 100 cals. I'm suspicious because most hot dog brands…
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How did I use to live without a bathrobe?
It's true, I lived 28 years of my life without one. Unthinkable. Got one for Christmas and have pretty much been wearing it 24/7. Alpha as fuark.
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Criticize my day-to-day workout
I'm looking for a light workout that I can do on an (almost) daily basis without soreness. My current one is: 1 x 20-30 pushups (my max is ~35) 1 x 10-12 pullups (my max is ~14) 1 x 10 hanging leg raises (my max is ~15) No rest between the exercises, except maybe to check on dinner. I can do this five-six times a week…
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Procrastination...
My to-do list for today was: - shave - go to the bank - go do laundry - get some writing done - work out My day so far: - woke up at 7 - breakfast + morning teas ~1hr - waste time on internet ~1hr - listen to music ~1.5hrs - play dungeon crawl ~1hr - waste time on internet part II ~1hr - lunch ~1hr Anybody else know these…
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How well would you be doing back in Ancient Rome?
In 301 A.D., the emperor Diocletian tried (unsuccessfully) to stop an economic crisis by fixing prices and wages throughout the empire. The edict was an abject failure but it allows us to see what kind of income and expenses the Romans had (it was based on pre-crisis prices). Here's a part of it with some added…
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Any cheap milk alternatives?
I've given it many chances, but I have to accept that I just don't like dairy milk. I do, however, need to get my calcium somewhere. I like almond milk, but it's so expensive. At ~4.50 for 2L, it's more than twice as much as dairy milk. I've also seen soy milk around, and it's often a bit cheaper, but I'm not enthusiastic…
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Mini success - 100 pull ups...
...not in a row though, lol. Technically speaking, 55 pull ups and 45 chin ups, but the difference between the two is small. I usually do 2-3 sets of 10 in the morning (when I remember) and rarely push myself too hard (see my avatar, I chose it for a reason). Anyway, I didn't have much to do this afternoon, so on a whim I…
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Iron intake for men
I just wanted to point out something that has been bugging me a bit. One nutrient that is consistently low in my diet is iron, so I did a bit of digging around. On nutritional labels, iron is given as a % of daily recommended intake. However, men (over 15 and under 50) need about half as much iron as women do (we're…
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Locked in a basement
I haven't seen this posted here yet. Would be interesting to see what people's priorities would be: Edit: image didn't work out, will explain via text + linky. You have to spend 10 years in a basement in exchange for 10 million $, are provided basic utilities and can ask for more stuff up to a certain limit (or more by…
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Relevant to our common interests
http://www.cracked.com/blog/fastfood-meals-for-failures/ Sorry if re-post, I ran a search first but came up empty. Incidentally, I've had three of those so I can offer a quick review: The Double Down, IMHO, sucks. I agree with the article's writer, it's the bread that makes the sandwich. It was also pretty greasy, I mean…
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Healthy (-ier) foods that grew on you
Somewhat as a counterpart to the thread about unhealthy food being tasty, I have a question: Do you have any foods that you originally chose for health reasons and didn't really like but which grew on you? For me, it's brown rice. I've eaten and loved white rice for as long as I can remember. Switched to brown about a year…
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Why am I so bad at push-ups?
Hi, I'm 27 (nearly 28) and was fairly athletic in my late teens and early 20's. My activity level has fluctuated since, but I've tried to do calisthenics semi-consistently. Overall, my upper-body strength is good and I do push-ups, pull-ups and L-pull-ups regularly. Got no problem doing pull-ups or ab exercises and can do…
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What do people think about cheat days?
Hi, been using myfitnesspal for a few months but first time posting. For a bit of background, I'm a 27- (nearly 28- :frown:) year old male, not really overweight but trying to get rid of the last few kilos in excess and make healthier dietary choices. I'm trying to do a slow, sustainable cut at 1800-1900 calories a day…
