i dont really get why people have so much resistance when switching foods. seasons and shortages have existed since people started agriculture and when something becomes scarce, you pivot and eat what youve got. if there was some bizarre soy disease and tofu becomes expensive, im just gonna buy lentils 🤷
I was like this in the past, it’s just that you’ve spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It’s not just buying different things, it’s learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
People are creature comforted and they literally don’t know how to live without those creature comforts, so instead of considering changing anything in their lives they just double down and do stupid shit to get a hold of those creature comforts. Fucking addicts.
i dont really get why people have so much resistance when switching foods. seasons and shortages have existed since people started agriculture and when something becomes scarce, you pivot and eat what youve got. if there was some bizarre soy disease and tofu becomes expensive, im just gonna buy lentils 🤷
I was like this in the past, it’s just that you’ve spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It’s not just buying different things, it’s learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
People are creature comforted and they literally don’t know how to live without those creature comforts, so instead of considering changing anything in their lives they just double down and do stupid shit to get a hold of those creature comforts. Fucking addicts.