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   Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:11 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

   I like to believe I eat healthy, but when I think about it, I actually eat a lot of things like pizza, tacos, and enchiladas. It’s just that those things are usually “home made” so they *seem* healthy.

   I do eat salad on a pretty regular basis tho.

   #Cooking #Homemade #Dinner

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:08 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     Oh and we NEVER had fresh vegetables or fruits in the house.

     We never had salad.

     My mom did not frequent the produce aisle, the deli, or the bakery section at the grocery store.

     I didn’t know garlic came in any other form other than powdered in a jar.

     I didn’t know there was a difference between real butter and margarine.

     Ironically, both my grandfathers were avid gardeners. But mostly I remember them having loads of onions and fresh tomatoes in summer.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:09 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     I don’t know how other people tend to cook dinner, but I LOVE cooking from recipes now, and then eating the leftovers for the next 1-3 days.

     It can be tiring to do it every single night, tho. Easier “just heat it up in the microwave or on the stove” options are good to have on hand.

     #Cooking #dinner #homemade #food

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:10 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     FWIW I do put a smattering of zucchini and broccoli on my pizza. 😂

     And I do save money (probably?) by making it myself.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:10 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     Also I grew up with a mom who worked full-time and was still expected to make dinner every evening for our family of four. So we had a lot of prepared/frozen foods for dinner. Not TV dinners (at least, not too frequently, maybe once a week at most), but frozen chicken strips, canned veggies, instant rice, etc.

     And our oven was broken for most of my childhood/teen years, so stove top and microwave was how she cooked.

     We joked that the four food groups were bagged, boxed, bottled, and canned.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:10 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     Making a meal “from scratch” using an actual recipe and base ingredients was not really a concept I was familiar with until I started teaching myself how to cook in college. Before that, meals were usually assembled by heating up an assortment of semi-or fully-prepared foods on the stove or in the microwave.

     The only time we had “home made” meals was when we had dinner at my grandparents’ house.

     #Cooking #dinner #homemade #food

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 05:57:11 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     I realize this maybe comes across as a sort of humble brag, but it honestly didn’t occur to me until recently that I equate “home made” with “healthy,” and while that may be true from an additive and preservative angle, it’s not necessarily true in terms of caloric or nutritional content.

     Homemade pizza is still pizza, it just feels more wholesome and “nourishing.”

     Hence, tricking myself into thinking I’m eating healthy.