Hi, long time vegan, but rather new to cycling. I used to be OMAD (please don’t question the health/fitness, I’m just poor, not ideological), but due to cycling I need to eat 2 meals to have the strength to get back home (riding uphill). I tried eating breakfast, but by the time I get to work and get through the shift, I think anything from breakfast is gone and useless, because I struggle with going uphill. I don’t struggle, however, if I eat lunch. But premade lunches are too expensive.

  • I live completely alone.
  • Buying entire lettuce and even just half a bread is too much for me and a part of it will go bad, making me feel awful (even environmental reasons aside, again, I’m poor, so it hurts more to spend money I don’t have much of on things in the end going to waste). No, I don’t want to seek ways to eat the exact same thing every single time, it’s making me depressed.
  • I’m not interested in long preparation time nor cooking for the week. I don’t even own stuff I could pack food into, but I of course can buy one container suitable for whatever meal for work you may help me come up with.
  • I enjoy the simplicity of putting cereals together via just putting them in a bowl and submerging them in m!lk, to give context for the simplicity I yearn for.

I will deeply appreciate no poor-shaming and being helpful over trying to impose a semblance of moral superiority over having different life ways than myself.

I’m from a poor family, so I don’t have experience with breakfasts/lunches at all. I spent my life eating dinner only.

I was thinking of oatmeal with fruit, but I have no idea if it’s a good idea…? I’ve never done oatmeal before. From what I’ve read, it’s done in minutes. But I also fear it will spill. Do lunch containers keep in soup-like food like oatmeal well? What cheap fruit goes well with it? Berries are mad expensive, I was thinking of buying pears, maybe apples, and cinnamon.

  • ᦓρɾiƚҽ@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never even looked at frozen fruit. ^ ^’ I’ll go have a look once shops are open. I don’t have any sugar, because I never use it. I never had maple syrup, I’ll see if I can find it. I’m in Germany atm, quite far from Canada, but thank you for the offer!

    I cannot eat any pasta. Beans are also a danger. My stomach gets irritated by these a lot. :'( I really like good rice, but idk what to eat it with. I used to try making tofu with spicy sauce to combine it with rice, but it felt really one note and exhausting to eat, if that makes sense. But I made my tofu in microwave and I don’t have one here.

    I’ve been vegan for 8 years. I don’t get how people may not eat vegan when poor, considering the prices of animal body parts and how fast they spoil, since they’re literal corpses.