I do more than 40 most weeks and don’t burn out because I have help at home, take time to exercise, take my PTO.

I read once “more than 4 hours a day of work is not conducive to spiritual development” and think they have a point. My ideal workday really would be 4 hours. Probably noon to 4 so that I could manage to be productive.

Soft scrambled eggs for sure, if it’s just beaten eggs, salt and pepper.

Fried eggs over very easy #1

Soft scrambled eggs #2

Omlette is lovely IF it is filled, cheese, spinach, onion. If just eggs, no.

Streaming. Mostly YouTube music, some Bandcamp, all legal. Headphones at work, speakers at home. Favorites are many, old and new music, last couple of years it’s been Fontaines DC I think, they are just so good, sitting at the intersection of rock & punk & melodic with such awesomely poetic lyrics and the underlying thread of despair of all Irish music.

I knew two mathematicians, both worked at NASA. Met one coaching dance (side job) and one gymnastics (his retirement job). I’m not entirely sure what they did exactly, beyond “math”.

Do you want fancy beans? Rancho Gordo online has fancy beans. They are, as they say, the leguminati.

For canned I use the ones from whole foods or go to specific ethnic markets. Chinese chefs use some crazy preparations I don’t usually like - fermented black beans ok in small amounts, but no no to red bean ice cream or any sweet preparation. And big no to Japanese natto, what are they even thinking?

But middle eastern markets have good canned favas, and spanish and italian markets here have lots of brands that aren’t Goya.

Enjoyment is an important part of healthy eating, and I believe simply not overeating is at least 75% of healthy eating, so wouldn’t really worry about it that much.

The soup is in this thread higher up, hardly a recipe it’s so easy - I don’t really like squash or sweet potatoes but love that soup, all the toppings.

Oh! I remembered this one too, might be more tasty to you if you are into cooking, my family keeps asking for it, but it’s not a weeknight thing, have to pull out the blender. Sopa Tarasca, at the bottom of this link. I have made it with canned beans and tomatoes and it’s just as good.

https://www.npr.org/2009/11/04/120062592/foods-of-michoacan-are-forever

Have you tried roasted chickpeas (garbanzos)? Also there is a chickpea flour that is used in Indian food. Not that this would be enough to get you the 2 cups or anything, but they are some much different tasting/feeling preparations that you might like ok or enjoy. Also the pumpkin soup I posted - the puree hides in that soup, nobody thinks it’s beans, the pumpkin is so strong of flavor the beans just cut that so it’s good not ungodly sweet.

I can imagine not liking beans, they do have a specific, really lovely to me, smooth and thick texture. The flavor I can’t really imagine not liking all of them, they are pretty different from each other.

Plenty of other foods have fiber just not as efficient as beans, you would have to eat a lot more to hit that health target.

I like white rice, and make bread with 65% white flour. But foods with fiber are delicious.

Beans, so good so many ways.

Fruits - raspberries, dates, apples, peaches, pears, mango, pineapple.

Greens- cooked collards or mustard greens are so tasty, salads can be so good tasting.

Onions and garlic make a good start to many meals and have a specific sort of fiber that is very good for you.

I like oatmeal.

But again - the total fiber needed for health is in two cups of beans. Just throw them in anything. Put them on your white rice, in your white flour tortillas. Garbanzos into sausage soups. Cannelini into pasta dishes. Hummus and falafel with your lamb and white flour pitas.

I guess just by eating them a lot my body adjusted?

Though I think also, you know how different bodies have different strengths and weaknesses - digestion seems to be my body’s strength, the one place I don’t usually have issues. Like no trouble eating meat after 20 years of vegetarian food, even. It doesn’t care. It’s weaknesses lie elsewhere.

Beans are perfect.

Refried pinto beans we eat with breakfasts or in burritos.

Black beans from cans, reheated with some cumin, salt, pepper, vinegar or jalapeno brine. My family (except for me) prefers black beans above all others.

Bonus easy recipe - get a can of cannelini beans and a can of pureed butternut squash or pumpkin. Heat these together with some olive oil, curry or berbere, salt. When they are hot, hit it with an immersion blender until it’s a puree and adjust the consistency to your preference with chicken broth, veg broth, or just water is ok.
Serve with lime slices, pepitas, queso fresco if you have it or a splash of cream or sour cream can also be good.

Beans. I know on Lemmy beans are memes, but beans are how to get enough fiber each day. 2 cups of cooked beans has the total fiber you need for a day, and it’s hard to get there without beans.

It takes about 3 -5 cups of cooked veggies to get the fiber that is in one cup of beans. So 1 cup of cooked beans and some greens with supper, a big salad for lunch and oatmeal with raspberries and yogurt for breakfast would get you there. And should leave room calorie wise for some meat and bread or rice or pasta.

My kids make fun of me for making beans for so many meals but delicious, cheap, healthy, they are an ideal food.

We have a pride flag & an American flag. And sometimes a Jolly Roger. I agree, you cannot let the conservatives define themselves as the real Americans. I am here, I’m from here, wanting a better America is patriotic.

Opposite for me. I try to always fall asleep sober, going to bed drunk gives me interrupted sleep. Fall asleep faster, sure. But always wake up in the night. Sober, I sometimes have trouble falling asleep but once asleep generally sleep until morning.

More than one a day is pretty unhealthy, could you just time a small nightcap right, and drink less not none?

That’s our cats. They can get through the door without you even seeing them do it. The dogs just sit and look at the open door unless we tell them to go through.

Once my cat ran out the door and back in, with a lizard in her mouth, before I could close it or yell for her. Most efficient hunt I have ever witnessed.

Seaweed is the way to go. As others have noted, miso soup with kombucha is good, seaweed salad, maybe tofu wrapped in seaweed, nori snacks (I like the wasabi ones).

Think of the tentacles shape, too. Maybe make a dense shallow cake and cut it into tentacles shape before frosting it? I don’t think it all has to taste of the sea to be thematic.

4 hours of work 5 days a week. 5 weeks off per year.

Enough money to not worry about money.

A short run in the morning, short weightlifting after work, yoga in the evening. Two non consecutive rest days with just stretching and walking. To feel good enough to do that so I can keep feeling good enough to do that.

Going out on one weekend night to do something, staying in the other nights.

Pet cats, and maybe one dog.

Traveling somewhere every year.

And having enough money also to get the house in the shape we want.

Basically I want a well funded partial retirement.

Our library did a “big book club” thing where they made infinite e-reader copies available, and I thought hmm, I’ll give it a try and wow I did like it. Later my penultimate kid read it, not knowing I had, and recommended it as one of the best books she’d ever read.

It was fantastical and strange, I can imagine not liking it but wow I sure did, and so did my kid.

Life of Pi is the one people seem to like that I hate. I want my 2 hours back, feel it was wasted.

Some written stuff I love, erotica, stories. Video no, I’ve not found much I like at all.

Maybe some enjoy flammable? My lunatic ex took an old Christmas tree out to the backyard and set fire to it because he wanted to see how fast they burn. He nearly did burn down the house, that was a BIG fire, very tall fire. But if you have a big enough space, or broke it down to burn more slowly and reasonably? Fuel.