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The Picard Maneuver
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I'd be pissed if I didn't like gruel and living in tiny spaces.
That pfp is incredible
and? i love me some gruel. get some cinnamon, a little bit of coffee, some weed and some hatred, that's a good breakfast there
I am currently adding a fourth layer of poverty to the tiny home my greatgrandparents built a century ago. My whole family has cut their teeth in that house
Honestly oats are one of my favorite foods though, I have binge eaten massive quantities of them before. I think I may have been a horse in a former life.
Aight, I will not stand for overnight oats slander.
Shit is delicious. Get your toppings and sweetner right, try it again and then come back.
No peasant had strawberries, bananas or blueberries to fuck around with. They ain't had maple syrup or Greek yogurt in that shit. No one thought to make butter from peanuts (I know it's mostly butter, shhh) and add that in.
what do you mean it's mostly butter? even peanut butter with added oil/sugar/salt is still some 85% peanuts. Or do you mean simply that it had a high fat content?
Can’t they make peanut butter where they don’t add anything at all? Like just peanuts?
Unsalted natural peanut butter is just roasted peanuts. Salted natural peanut butter is just peanuts and salt. The oil is just from the peanuts, not added.
No mix peanut butter is the same but with palm oil and usually whichever sweeteners are cheapest. Palm oil hardens at room temperature and keeps the peanut oil from separating.
The peanut butter I buy is 99% peanuts and 1% salt.
Sounds like you've never been to a hippy store. They sometimes have machines that you pour the peanuts into and then you have some peanut butter. You can also have cashew butter, etc.
You can get the just peanuts stuff from any store. I think Adam’s is like that. It is the kind you have to stir the oil back in when you get it.
it’s literally what pb is.
I make my own peanut butter because I like it extra roasty. It's like 500g peanuts, a half teaspoon of salt.
Yes but it will separate and you need to stir it up to get all the layers mixed together
Right, the high fat part.
Ok, I've got some cut oats and oat milk. How do I go about this overnight oats thing? It just goes in the fridge?
Yes but that alone will probably not taste too good. A little more effort is worth it. Easy to meal-prep for the whole week too.
I use this guys base recipe and mess around with toppings. The banana bread and pb&j ones are a favorite.
This is a copy paste from his video description:
::: spoiler spoiler
1 serving of BASE OATS contains: 310 calories, 12g protein, 45g carbs, 6.5g fat, 14g sugar, and 7g fibre. This is based on using unsweetened almond milk.
BASE OATS (1 serving):
Combine and refrigerate overnight:
► Rolled oats (1/2 cup)
► Chia seeds (1 tbsp)
► Milk (1/2 cup)
► Greek yogurt (1/4 cup)
► Maple syrup (1 tbsp)
BASE OATS (4 servings for meal prep):
Combine and refrigerate overnight:
► Rolled oats (2 cups)
► Chia seeds (1/4 cup)
► Milk (2 cups)
► Greek yogurt (1 cup)
► Maple syrup (1/4 cup)
FLAVOUR #1 - BANANA BREAD
First, prepare banana puree by mashing a ripe banana until it softens into a puree.
Refrigerate ingredients:
► Base oats (1 serving)
► Banana puree
► Ground cinnamon (1/2 tsp)
► Vanilla extract (1/2 tsp)
Add toppings:
► Banana slices
► Maple syrup
► Chopped walnuts
I also like blueberries here
FLAVOUR #2 - PB&J (PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY)
Prepare raspberry puree:
► In a saucepan over medium heat, combine raspberries (1 cup), maple syrup (1 tbsp), and vanilla extract (1/2 tsp)
► Whisk and stir until it softens into a smooth puree consistency
► Set aside to cool
Refrigerate ingredients overnight:
► Base oats (1 serving)
► Raspberry puree
► Natural peanut butter (2 tbsp)
Add toppings:
► Raspberries
► Chopped walnuts
► Maple syrup :::
That's a silly thing to say.
Peasants have land.
"Peasant" was basically a farmer. Some peasants had land, many didn't. If you were a tenant farmer not only did you not own the land, in many cases the land owned you. In many cases you were born on the land and you "rented" it from the manor lord. That meant that you were allowed to grow crops on that land, but you owed the lord for letting you use his land. You'd pay that back with shares of your crop and/or labour on his crops. In return, he was responsible for defending you... but that meant he'd conscript you into his army and you'd fight the invaders.
If you didn't like that deal, too bad, if you were a villein you couldn't leave the land without the lord's permission. You weren't a slave exactly, but you weren't free to go find work elsewhere.
There were peasants who did own land, but it wasn't common. The equivalent today would be if you rented from a landlord, but you had to use a uber-jobs app that required you to do odd jobs for your landlord for free for 1-2 days a week.
No they don't. They're landless labourers.
There's nuance here: a peasant may have owned some land, but often not enough to live off of, which made them dependent on additional labour on the land of some landlord to supplement their own land's harvest.
I recommend reading this historian's analysis of life as a peasant.
Thanks for the recommendation but I'm pretty sure peasants still exist.
Pretty sure they usually worked/lived on the land owned by lords, no?
That would be serf, right?
Serfs were a subset of peasants from what i understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant
and those are a type of government surveillance drone if i understand ornithology correctly, which i don't
Mmmm tasty government surveillance drones
And when in your entire area almost all the peasants were serfs serving mostly foreign lords for several centuries, you kinda forget other types of peasants existed.
But they'd work a couple days out of the year and their lord was expected to fight to protect his people and land
And the peasants who leased the land were his foot soldiers
Often not enough to sustain their family, which means they had to supplement it by working for some landlord.
I recommend reading this historian's analysis of life as a peasant.
I've lived in both a large house and a tiny apartment, and there is just something super appealing about living somewhere that you can understand at a glance.
The only thing I didn't like about tiny studio apartments was the inevitable lack of noise isolation.
Now, my dream is to live in a house that probably is just a little too big to qualify as "tiny," but the house is on a decent piece of land. Basically a nice cabin in the woods sort of house, but without the horror movie connotation.
When my wife and I got our first apartment, it was a tiny studio. 15'x12'. But, as our family grew, we needed more space to accommodate the kids. We currently have 13 people in our household, and we built another extension on our house to bring it to 14 bedrooms. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of that tiny studio. Being able to clean our entire living space in like 20 minutes was pretty great. But the tradeoff of having enough space to build a big family is worth it IMO. If my life had gone differently, and I was just a single dude, or if my wife and I had decided to go the DINK route, I'd be fine in a tiny home.
But it was really nice being able to open my home to my niece when my sister went to prison and my niece had nowhere to go. When my oldest son's marriage imploded and he needed to move back home (with his kids in tow), it was nice to have the space to host them. I try to always have an empty room in case someone I love is in a bad situation. Couldn't really do that in a tiny home.
I also host most big family events, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July and whatnot. I have a HUGE extended family, and we generally have ~50 guests in addition to our own household. Trying to host 50 guests in a tiny home would be impossible. Trying to cook enough food in a tiny kitchen would be an insane endeavor. Not to mention the idea of all those people trying to share one tiny bathroom.
13 people is about a dozen too many.
That's my dream too. The struggle is that I'd prefer not to homeschool the kids, and it's hard to find that sweet spot where you have that kind of space and are in a good school district.
Smaller houses or apartments are actually great. Not like shed sized but 500-1000 sqft units are great for singles or couples on a budget. I've met a lot of retirees that downsize as well.
It really depends what you want to do. I like having a workshop / maker space and a home office. You need space for that kind of thing.
I want a tiny house because I don't have the time, energy or interest to care for a big house. Give me an adequately sized indoor space and a big garden
A lack of land is their defining trait, yes.
I have a small house on about 1/2 acre. It is in more of a small town though.
As a European, i have no idea how large this is. Could be a football field, could be a dog shed
I hate that my country uses a mix of metric and imperial units but sqft is the most common unit for area of housing or rooms. Its about 45-90 square meters, which is something you could have easily converted online or with a calculator.
Europeans are internet challenged.
also mathematics. it's kind of funny how easy the units are to convert between, but they refuse because hamburgers are soooo hard.
but i got an iphone
"Everything is so expensive these days."
Says the person rocking the newest iPhone Pro Max (they literally just use it for Facebook and Temu).
Finance is a beautifully elegant con.
I built and lived in a tiny home for 7 years. 330 sq/feet. I gutted and converted a 1952 Spartan Imperial Mansion. Put in hardwood floors, a bathroom with clawfoot and bidet, a full-sized bed, a pull-out guest bed... I had a full kitchen and fridge, and enough storage for food, guitars, and other things.
I chopped firewood every day because I heated my place with it in the winter via hardwood stove.
I miss a lot about that lifestyle. What I don't miss was the isolation.
Oh my. What a winner!!!
That looks serene. I like it a lot!
Brother. May i have some oats?
Hey now, oats are great start for the day.
I prefer quick oats, but oats none the less.
100g of Quick oats + 200g of yogurt + 30g(scoop) of protein powder. Really good start for the day. Nice dose of carbs and protein to keep growth up and keep me full for longer. Been eating it for years, just wish i would have discovered it sooner.
Overnight oats is great, but I don't have very good taste, according to most.
I like gruel.
I've been trying to use oat bran a lot more. It's just healthier and easier. Can't get past the texture of porridge though. I've made a batch of oat bran and veggie egg fritters that weren't bad, I was going to try a kind of in mug oat bran banana cake today, something easy using the microwave. Wish me luck.
Whole oats (groats) are pretty damned nice as well.
