• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    In Taiwan, almost all restaurants will be veggie heavy. At home, it’s always 1 veggie dish and 1 meat dish.

    Every time I go back to visit the US, I’m constantly constipated.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Restaurants like to serve vegetables because they are cheap, easy to prepare (mostly), fast to cook, and filling. Far more profitable to sell than a steak. That those same vegetables are high in fiber, is an accident to them.

      As a person who needs to take supplemental iron pills every day, constipation is an old friend and I’m always eating as much fibre as possible to combat it.

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          2 hours ago

          Frozen or canned vegetables are cheap and readily available. Cheap beans, either canned or dried. All common items in any restaurants. And in 40 minutes I can have a loaf of oatmeal bread to go with it all. And that includes making the oat flour from scratch with cardboard box of oat meal breakfast cereal.

          You want more fiber than that, I will need to fall a dead maple tree I didn’t get dropped this past summer.