Agreed! Pulses in general allow for a healthy and affordable diet.
I’m not a proponent of rice mainly for the way it gets produced (lots of water needed and methane emitted in the process) and the fact it’s a hyperaccumulator of arsenic. About all these things I don’t need to worry when picking pulses.
But each to their own and some variety rarely is a bad idea.
Makes sense. Maybe I’m just trying to be too efficient.
Soak the dried beans over night and the lentils at least for 2 or 3 hours.
Fry an onion and some cloves of garlic in oil. I prefer olive oil, but take whatever is available.
Add a good amount of canned tomatoes to it - canned tomatoes are typically more affordable than fresh ones while tasting better at the same time due to typically being harvested and processed when being ripe. Also they can be bought in bulk due to the long shelf-life.
Put some spices in: pepper, cumin, oregano, thyme, cardamom go well with it, or whatever you like. If the fancier spices are too expensive, just pepper does quite well.
Finally add whatever vegetables are available and affordable: bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms, green squash, whatever you can get and like.
If you can get some minced meat, put it in the pot/pan before you add the canned tomatoes. The same goes for sausages: slice the sausages and roast them gently; it improves the taste.
More affordable than minced meat (potentially healthier than sausages) and a good source of protein (next to the pulses, which contain a nice amount of protein already) would be eggs.
Crack one, two, three eggs into the pan, put a lid on and let it cook for around 10 minutes. The result is close to eggs Benedict ;)
Have fun and hang in there!
While pasta might contain calories and some protein, there’s a lack of other nutrients.
I advice going for pulses instead of pasta.
Dried pulses have a long shelf-life so they can be bought in bulk to reduce the price per meal.
+1 for the beans (or lentils, or just any pulses fwiw), but why the rice?
Pulses contain carbohydrates, but much more protein than rice and as rice is a hyperaccumulator of arsenic and pulses aren’t, wouldn’t that make a diet centred around pulses healthy while still affordable?
Put some canned tomatoes, vegetables, onions, garlic, spices or whatever else is available and affordable to the beans and you have a nice enough and quite healthy meal.
Beans shouldn’t be much more pricey, give you less worry about arsenic and contain a fair amount more protein than rice.
If affordable, I’d pick beans over rice any day.
Big bags of dried beans it is!
You’re talking about mammals only, right?
E.g. fish disagree by and large.
While ionized particles stick to other things, they do not really stick together - at least if they are the same type of particles or rather carry the same type of charge, respectively.
Aren’t most US Americans immigrants if you just go back in time long enough?
Hell, even Native Americans must’ve immigrated somewhen.
It’s all about ‘I got mine, fuck you!’ attitude.
I suppose that’s only a short-term effect.
Long-term prognosis should be the oceans getting saltier because of the rivers carrying salt into the oceans until the equilibrium between salt being carried into the oceans and salt being sedimented at the ocean bed has been restored.
Well, in geological time frames ‘short-term’ can be quite a long timespan.
Practice your sharpshooting skills and make kidnappers afraid again?
I have a name for that boat: Cybersunk
Is that how you start the trickle down process?
Are you a Google or a Meta or something else?
Well, attacks can come from within with support from outside.
Thank you for providing real-world examples that show how well public ownership can work to the benefit of the people.
If you combine the right parts of communism (ownership) and capitalism (market mechanisms with sane guidelines) you can actually create a system that works for the good of the people and sustainably/efficiently so!
You’ve been deluded into thinking that public/government managed equals inefficient and expensive.
If anything public managed (or at least owned) housing would be cheaper, because of greed having been removed from the equation.
Allowing people and corps to stash basic services away is what’s expensive for the population because the leeches will always require the maximum fee the market allows them to invoice.
Even if not everyone can or wants to own a house, there’s no good reason for these houses being owned by corpos or individuals.
Housing is as much basic infrastructure/human needs as is health care, education, electricity, water supply, sewage system, internet access and should be in the hands of the public sector - alas, it most often isn’t and that alone should tell you enough.
I’m not saying there shouldn’t be corpos allowed to provide service based on the public infrastructure, but the infrastrucure itself would be public in a fair and sane world.
If you can’t kick out leeches from abusing public infrastrucure, well, you end up in the world we live in.
Now you can call me communist or think about why the system we have is designed to help the rich getting richer.
This is no natural state we live in. It’s an abomomination.
It’s a dangerous game tho.
It can very well invalidate the life of the pardoned as well, if one of the aggrieved party has nothing left to lose because of that wage theft.
I wonder how long Donvict can continue before he gets stopped for good.
Dunno. What I can say is that it’s not no concern.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/15/health/arsenic-cadmium-rice-wellness
Add the methane production and use of water to the equation and beans or pulses in general look quite a bit better in terms of environmental or individual health.
And last but not least rice contains very little protein whereas pulses are rich in protein.
But because pulses typically are low on some protein like methionine and cysteine, grain is a indeed a good addition to a diet based on pulses.
Yet I’d pick oats over rice for that part.