stress-FREE cuisine: cat-food system adapted for humans?
Adapting the cat-food system for humans might make the preparation of daily 3-5 meals really stress-FREE and sustainable – was my first thought while reading the last issue of the German TEST magazine’s cat-food test results. The German language link:
http://www.test.de/themen/haus-garten/test/-Katzenfutter/1708060/1708060/1709973/
Everybody would know how many calories they need of which nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, fiber, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water) and we could buy our breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and dessert cans for weeks ahead. Cooking would not be a burden any more: you could do it only when you really felt like. (Well it could not be an excuse, either…)
teachings are like food: healthy or fattening, fast or slow
There are more ways than one to keep you from starving to death. You can grab a BigMac in a drive-in or buy a sandwich at a filling station. Or you can drive to your mother or a friend, sit down, have a talk, peel potatoes for her while she is cutting onions, Then talk some more until her goulash is finished. For Epicurus and his friends it was more important with whom they ate than what they ate. The main idea was not to be dependent on complicated, hard to procure, expensive food. They even grew their vegetable in their own garden.
The food you get from me is cooked according the ancient Epicurean recipes. I might use a gas stove or a special casserole but the recipe had been tested for 800 years. You might not feel like grabbing a sandwich at the filling station, but to sit down and eat the food I cooked for you.
There are tens of thousands of quick-fixes of stress “reduction” or “management” etc. out there on the net and some of them might just perfectly suit some of you some of the time. If that’s what you think you need at this moment: go and get it.
If you want to find out about something about the roots of your desires and the consequences of your illusions, you should stop, sit down take your time and engage in some nourishing reflection. If your goal is to eliminate the causes of stress and stay stress-FREE, then you ought to take your time and spoon an adequate teaching, like e.g. Zen Buddhism or Epicureanism - if you are a more rational kind of person, more rooted in the European Enlightenment culture, trusting science and experience. It is available in a raw form, uncooked inside books or cooked and served by Galenios on this site.
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