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.
Heh, I’m in Clare. The only thing to do is to find other non-national communities. A friend lives in the Netherlands, which is similar. Has never managed to make real Dutch friends, but is friends with Greeks, Eastern Europeans, Spanish, etc. As long as you’re in a decent sized city, you should find some. Even if they don’t match your own background, they’ll probably be welcoming.
In the past I’d find friends through work, but here my coworkers are practically all German besides very few, but they’re not the nicest bunch, besides one, who is getting mentally ruined by his superior essentially bullying him and refusing him beyond deserved promotions, while praising a German coworker who is so incompetent and rude, they get reported to HR over it. It’s certainly odd here, but with the current world situation moving is completely impossible. I cannot afford my healthcare anymore, but at least they cover my upcoming surgery. On the worse note, it also means I cannot save up for anything.