NuevaVida -> RE: Recipes for slave feed? (4/6/2013 8:49:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida My point is that I'm not seeing how any of this reduces the slave's focus on him/herself. It's an additional chore - as now some thought, planning and prep needs to go into the slave's feed in addition to meal planning and preparation for the owner. I'm not necessarily knocking the idea, just saying it's adding work, rather than eliminating it. It doesn't add extra work. It takes less than 20 minutes to prepare 12 meals, with most of that time being cook time, which can be done simultaneously to cooking the owner's meal. Doubling up the meal made for the owner adds prep time and sometimes cook time, for every single meal which, unless the owner is only eating microwave tv dinners, far exceeds the time prepping a separate meal for the slave in bulk. Depending on the meal in question, just cleaning and prepping vegetables for a single person for a single meal can take about as long as preparing a batch of bulk slave feed for a couple of days. We must prepare food differently. When I cook for us (whether it's just him, he and I, him, his daughter and I, etc.), it takes no added time at all. A chicken bakes just the same. So does a roast. Pasta cooks the same. I'm still heating the oven just as long to broil a steak. I always cook for 3-4 anyway, because he likes having tasty leftovers for lunch. So whether or not I serve up a small plate for myself, no additional time is needed except for the time it takes to pull the plate from the cupboard. I assure you, he does not eat microwaved dinners. So now in addition to that, I'd also be putting some time aside, probably on a Saturday or Sunday, to make the slave gruel. Several versions of it, to add that variety we spoke of. Again, we must cook differently, since it's usually 30-40 minutes to prepare, cook and serve dinner here, unless we're roasting or stewing something, which is considerably longer. No right or wrong in the time difference, we're just different. quote:
I do agree with you that a monotone diet is not something anybody should be on for long periods of time, and that trying to figure a diet like this to have a slave on indefinitely would be a bad idea. The only way I'd even consider attempting that is if the diet in question is cleared by a doctor and a nutritional expert. However, for short, to medium long terms (I'm thinking up to a month or two) a monotone diet shouldn't be an issue, providing it's somewhat nutritionally balanced. People trying to lose weight diet on all kinds of crazy diets for longer than that, mostly without any ill effects. As someone with food/eating issues, I was advised years ago by my doctors to always try to eat something different every day. The body tends to crave foods its allergic to, and then builds up resistances for those allergies by compensating in other ways. With me it was headaches, confusion and slight mood changes. It was interesting to take away certain foods for an entire year, bring them back into my system slowly - one at a time - and see what happened. Who knew yeast made both my arms completely break out in rashes? My body was compensating for this and causing confusion and mood swings in my head instead. So now, if I've removed yeast from my diet, and I only have it here and there, I get a rash, rather than confusion and irritability. Obviously eating something different every day can be challenging, especially for those who go to work 40+ hours a week. But eating the same thing even for 30 days can potentially cause issues in a person that they're not even aware of. I wouldn't say it's necessarily harmful, but it's not the healthiest idea, and one I'd have to avoid. So in the case of the OP, I'd have 3-4 options in the freezer that I could rotate through. But even in the case of one option, it's still an extra chunk of cooking/prep time - large or small - that I would not otherwise have if I were just serving up a small plate from what I cooked for the Mister. And that's the point I was making. The OP was looking for no added time thinking/prepping for the slave's food and in my household, it would create added time, rather than remove it. Again, we all do things differently. That's what it would look like over here.
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