Food Security Carnival Discussion Post.

[commodorified]

Solicit or offer ideas, cheer each other on, ask for or offer data or resources, team up and do a group-authored post or a mini-carnival cluster of posts, find a beta, be a beta ...

I would like to say: I am not at all worried about avoiding duplication, and suggest that nobody else be either.

If eight people do posts on How To Cook Eggs, they will all be different, they will all be right and useful, and each of them will be somebody's absolute most useful and favourite post of the whole carnival.

Carry on!

Comments

[geeksdoitbetter]

~nods~

in my kitchen, soaking turns into many days and much swampy smell

which is to say, i have many more normal plates and bowls sitting around than i have a difficult baking dish needing special care

[daedala]

Lol, sure, no problem.

I might feel weird for managing to finish a good deal more than that in one year, but that's my problem. :)

[libitina]

No, I think that's what you're supposed to be planning to do when you make that purchase. The household I grew up in, however, was not so good at eating the things tucked away out of the most direct line of sight.

[nancylebov]

I found the amount of information a little intimidating on the first pass, and I already know some of it.

I'd like to see somewhat from people who learned to cook as adults about what was enough information to get them started, and more from people who aren't cooking but probably could be about what what makes getting started difficult for them.

On the cleaning side, I've got a couple of posts about scrubbing. It seemed to me that I had attention issues which made getting things clean difficult. I do, but it turned out that I also wasn't using hot enough water, and that expecting myself to get things clean on the first pass was like expecting myself to be able to write without needing to proofread.

A book which looks promising but which I haven't read: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods.

[laceblade]

I could have used that last year for sure, but it would definitely be useful in the future, too.

[ironed_orchid]

I'm planning to write on this topic.

[adrian_turtle]

I would really appreciate advice about food prep constrained by joint problems. It seems like most of what I read on "cooking when one has a disability" addresses general lack of spoons, or food sensitivities (problems that make it seem like a good idea to roast a whole chicken, or make a big batch of something in the crockpot.) With the 2 weeks of shoulder pain-flare I had at the end of December, I couldn't lift a whole chicken. And maneuvering the crockpot is even harder.

[jsl32.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to post this here. I had a big screed ready to go when you originally put this up, but life got in the way and anyway it would have been an overreaction. I did read this post and feel that it was just another narrowcast for a select group with extremely specific characteristics and yet it was presented as something broader in focus, but I sure didn't see that.

Plus the judging of primal/paleo in a context of 'not judging' with of course nobody having a problem with that just goes to my point about the narrowcasting. As well as the focus on a very small number of ingredients while talking about 'everyone has different notions of healthy food', but of course only a few things are even listed as stuff to eat at all.

It just had the tenor of being for a little clique and not for a broader group, to me, because I can't eat most of what was discussed, I don't cook for health and logistics reasons and rely on a spouse for that, I have a spouse and an infant, and I eat meat, but not by buying a whole animal and never any other option. And I eat primal/paleo-ly and I find the dismissal of all the numerous female voices in those spheres, of a mix of age ranges, very, well, honestly I suppose triggering is the best word. That community of people continues to be self-checking and supportive and I find that support valuable because so many people dismiss and insult those individuals, even non-judging types.

And you know, it's fine, this is probably not for me. I simply hoped it was because I certainly spent my time not cooking because I thought I was poor at it. Such is life. You all have a lovely New Year.

[susan8020]

Yes, more on this would be good.

Re: Content warning: poss eating disorder triggers

[pinesandmaples]

I've had to make a list of things I will actually eat even when I don't want to eat for my wife because I will also cancel meals (for myself, at least) due to lack of interest. (Much akin to Monday, which should usually be canceled due to lack of interest.)

So yes and solidarity and stuff.

[pinesandmaples]

Would a discussion about freezing foods--especially freezing one or two portions of something--be of interest to anyone?

There would be a little bit of food science (x ingredient doesn't freeze well, here's why!) as well as a check-list sort of thing to help people pick which recipes will stand up to the freezer and some advice about the best containers for the specific job at hand (bags versus foil packs versus jars). My wife has to get some use out of her O-Level GCE cert in food and nutrition somehow!

[daedala]

YES. I'm back to cooking for one, and knowing more about freezing stuff would be helpful! Most places that talk about freezing talk about the whole casserole or whatever, which does not solve the problem of getting tired of my own leftovers.

[pinesandmaples]

Awesome! I know what I'm doing tomorrow afternoon!

[commodorified]

I really truly do mean the bit about people using their own excellent judgement, but fwiw, that sounds brilliant.

[commodorified]

I'm not sure how I missed seeing this.

All I can really say, especially as your comment is so generalised as to render your meaning pretty much completely opaque to me - seriously, why you feel unwelcome is the backwards of clear from this - and given that I am only willing to repeat a limited number of times that people should use their own judgement and write from their own position, so long as they're not invalidating other people's experiences or knowledge, is that yeah, it sounds like this carnival isn't going to be something you'll benefit from, and that's a shame, but the internet is full of a number of things and i hope you have better luck elsewhere.