@rl_dane

That sounds like a raw thing; the process of cooking improves your body's ability extract nutrients from food, so it follows naturally that when your body is extracting less value, it produces more waste.

I, at least, when eating vegan (non-raw) have not had this issue.

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

Most vitamins and minerals don't seem to be significantly affected, but I guess if you have a deficiency of folic acid? https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/retn06.pdf

Just judging that from a brief look over the data; I'd have to do more in-depth analysis to be sure.

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

Sure, very likely. RL's currently eating only raw food, though.

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

This feels relevant, by the way: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reality-check-5-risks-of/

@amin @OpenComputeDesign

That's a good read. I already had a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the raw food hype was deeply pseudoscientific.

I think I will probably start introducing more cooked foods gradually, but honestly, I'm at a place where I could eat nothing for a month or three and barely have any long-term ill effects.

So, raw food, in one particularly slanted sense, is a kind of dietary fasting to me.

@rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign

Sounds like a plan! Once you're wanting to start a transition to cooked vegan ask @daniel and myself and I'm sure we can help you get some stuff figured out for both nutrition and tastiness. ;)

@amin @OpenComputeDesign @daniel

NOICE!!

Anything off the top of your head for a "start adding this first when you're ready to start cooking" suggestion?

I will say that the place I was going to wasn't necessarily recommending #RawVegan long-term, but for a period of time, as a kind of "detox" (again, I know that's a pseudoscientific gray area that gets insanely overblown)

@rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign @daniel

I mean, my personal favorite is legumes. Chickpeas and lentils mainly, but just beans in general… they can be so good and so healthy! :D

Learning to cook beans and then prepare meals with them was a key skill for me. I mean, you can use cans, but I feel so much happier when cooking from dried, I dunno. Either way will keep forever in the pantry, so there's little reason not to stock up on legumes.

Rice is another big one; I eat rice with most of my meals, though admittedly that may be the Asian side of me. Might just be a good time to get into the vegetables you can't really eat raw; potatoes, for example, I enjoy cooking with potatoes.

This whole conversation has actually been getting me considering making potato and bean korma tomorrow… (the recipe I have is from one of our Afghan neighbors, but, uh, with way less oil.) I've only made it with my mom, never alone.

@amin @OpenComputeDesign @daniel

Potatoes are a bit of an addiction of mine, so I think I'll stay away for a little bit longer. XD

I do have a recipe for raw sweet potato bisque which is actually really delightful.

BEANS! Yes. There will be beans. I will transition to cooked with beans.

By aftsection will be an absolute unit of methane production.

cc: @Twizzay.social.linux.pizza for fart humor. All hail the mighty TWIZ, for we love thee.

@thedoctor @rl_dane @amin @daniel

My family grows mostly potatoes.

Potatoes are alright, but way over hyped tbh

@OpenComputeDesign @thedoctor @amin @daniel

SHUT YOUR DEPRAVED MOUTH, RICE-BOY! /j

@rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign @thedoctor @daniel

No, no, I'm the rice boy.

@rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign @thedoctor @daniel

Also: https://rice-boy.com/rb/index.php

This guy's comics are fantastic, and they all start with one named "Rice Boy".

@amin @OpenComputeDesign @thedoctor @daniel

Dude... are you like... physically JACKED-IN to the internet? Like, do you have an RJ-45 port in your right temple? XD