Literally everything. I hate living under a system where my options are
- repeatedly consume products which cause death and the destruction of our environment
- move out into the woods and live as an isolated hermit
- die
I’m…I’m just so tired.
Amen.
And it’s just so much worse if it’s something I don’t actually need and is on the pricey side… Like, I enjoy those canned Starbucks nitro cold brew drinks. I feel guilty wanting to buy them, I feel guilty about how many I want to put in my cart, and I feel guilty when I drink them.
I’m so fucking sick by it, too.
I don’t have a problem with 2, it’s just not an option without having plenty of money first.
I eat Hot Pockets.
I hate Nestle but they’re so good 😩
And nobody makes a knock off. They’re my only option for microwaved pizzas conveniently rolled up into a pocket.
Pizza pockets? Made by Pillsbury (which honestly could be a nestle brand idk)
Hm… I haven’t seen those. But I do sometimes make my own pizza using grands biscuit dough for the crust so it’d probably be hella good. They’re owned by General-Mills.
Some of my frequent grocery purchases come in single use plastics. I wish there was another way :(.
Try searching for a “refillery” or refill station near you. They are stores where you bring reusable containers with you to fill with goods. They usually have a limited selection but it’s something and it helps.
I’ve been doing that for things like shampoo and detergents. But unfortunately I’ve got celiacs. All my food HAS to be packaged so that I know it’s safe to eat.
Gasoline and diapers.
No kink shaming here mate
-Fast food. It’s so expensive.
-Alcohol. It’s unhealthy, and I use it as a crutch when I’m feeling bad.
-Animal products, due to climate change.
Kombucha taste close enough to alcohol, that sometimes I end up not drinking any at all
I can share how to manage meals, even while drunk!
Switch to the premade microwave meals, semi healthier. You can get these at the store or even delivered.
For alcohol, I went down the expensive seltzer water/soda route to curve that. I still have wine and a beer, but not much really.
Animal products… You can just reduce, maybe do over meatless day for all the meals. It’s not much, but something.
I’ve had a lot of microwave meals and I can’t say that any one has ever come close to the appeal of fast food. Usually they’re watery vegetables and a microwaved porkchop or something. At least buy a decent frozen pizza.
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Games.
Extending Gaben’s beard since Steam’s conception…
It used to be stuff for my vaping. It is better than smoking, but still a waste of money. I quit last year though!
Congrats my dude! That nicotine is a hard habit to break and I’m super proud of you for getting out from under it!
I still get cravings. Pretty sure that’ll never go away
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But you feel guilty about smoking?
I felt guilty spending all that money to literally go up in smoke, going outside to feed that addiction while my wife was inside with our kid.
Now I felt awkward for even asking. But I never saw it that way.
Onlyfans type stuff. It’s an addiction and honestly pretty hard to quit
Interesting, may I ask what you get from it over regular stuff? Is it the content itself or is it the idea that it’s a regular person? Or a bit of both?
Both tbh
may I ask what you get from it over regular stuff? Is it the content itself or is it the idea that it’s a regular person? Or a bit of both
Why would you feel bad about paying a “regular person” for their work?
You’re missing the point.
Pornography addiction is a real thing.
Gotcha. I misunderstood the post.
Because it’s a decent amount of money and it’s not really the best use of my time and energy you know?
I’m guessing it’s the time spent on OnlyFans not the money
Meat… :( We could all live without, but this damn learned behavior…
The alternatives we have nowadays are so varied and some are really great at mimicking the flavour and mouth-feel of meat!
I have tried like 5 different vegan meat things now and they ranged from bad (the times they involved cheese, my god vegan cheese sucks) to “ok, but would rather just eat something that is vegan without trying to be fake meat.”
Is there any particular type of product that’s good? Brands will probably only help if you’re also in germany, but maybe fake chicken is just the wrong fake meat to buy.
A lot of them have just as much saturated fat as their meat counterparts, and can be chock-full of inflammatory seed oils. Not exactly ‘healthy.’
Can you get Impossible brand in Germany?
Have you actually tried making vegetarian meals at home?
Don’t try to eat less meat, try to eat more veggie. I know it’s technically the same but the thought process is different. Before you know it, you had weeks without meat.
I have a lot of asian friends and their meals are always the opposite of typical American meals. It’s a ton of veggies/rice with meat as a ‘topping’ rather than meat being the centerpiece with veggies as sides. I’d love to incorporate that more but I love meat so much…
Start easy, cut out 1 animal you don’t eat too much of and go from there. Once I stopped eating beef, pork and lamb I felt weird about eating chicken, so just stopped altogether! (amongst other reasons)
Good luck on your journey!
I did so for greenhouse gases reasons. First I stopped with beef, never enjoyed lamb (poor young thing), and several others. Pork pretty much, too, but sometimes I still eat it, same with chicken. Not at home, there are amazing alternatives for sausage and ‘meat’. But when eating at restaurants, I have issues eating vegan or vegetarian due to some intolerances. And eggs are still a problem for me. But I buy from a source where male hatchlings are not getting shredded.
I would argue we shouldn’t live without it, but it does need to be cut back and less glorified. There are soo many alternatives that are healthier, cheaper, better for environment but you should still be able to have a medium rare steak and some chicken wings when you want it.
well as of the ethics doing a bad thing once is still having done a bad thing, but I guess sure if you want to decrease animal suffering the fastest realistic way, getting 10 people to reduce their consumption trumps 3 people completely cutting their meat consumption. (yet you’ll still have 10 people exploiting animals for their “products” who should be living without doing just that. vegan btw)
The only thing wrong with your arguement is many don’t believe eating meat is unethical.
You are completely correct that you will get more change getting people to reduce consumption than eliminate it
As a vegetarian, we can all tell that you’re vegan. The disclaimer wasn’t necessary.
This aggressive behavior and labeling isn’t productive if your goal is to persuade people to try something entirely new to them (remove meat from their diet).
Yeah they could have left out the whole judgemental thing about animal suffering and be more encouraging. Instead they chose to be an insufferable, smug and arrogant microaggressor.
Who said anything about animal suffering? I feel like this is more about personal health…
nah, meat is great. Just the sourcing of it is not so great. Get your meat from a local butcher where you know where the animal came from.
Or better yet, if you have the space, time and money: get your own livestock.the animals don’t care wether their dead corpse is shipped to you from Argentina or from your local butcher that is just such a nice and friendly guy :^) they’d prefer not having their throat slit by anyone at all
You apparently don’t know that most of the time, their throat is not slit to kill them, but rather animals are shot with a pneumatic bolt. Stay with the facts and you sound less aggressive.
They do care about how they lived their lives though. And I’d much rather like an animal which could roam around almost freely and enjoy its short life instead of one locked up in a tiny box in which it can barely move, suffering until its death.
I talked to my vegan son about buying meat from local farms. He got mad at me for wanting to only kill the happy cows.
Wow, your son has a point 😂
Same! I would like to be vegan but i love a great steak, or burger, or…
Gasoline. Airplane tickets. Those are probably the worst two things. But as others have said there are really only a few things that don’t make me feel guilty. So it might be easier to list those.
McDonalds. I have food at home and it’s expensive. But damn I get a craving for it
That might be your gut microbiome craving it. You can re-anchor your microbiome with new bacteria but it takes about a week or two.
I start getting cravings for strawberry banana smoothies with spinach now. Or berry smoothies. Costco sells unflavored yogurt and milk in bulk, same wity big bags of frozen berries. It’s typically replaced desserts for me because they are filling. (I also have one of those bullet shaped blenders where the lid becomes a drink cup. I have a few cups so I can just rinse the blades and then throw the cup in the dishwasher. )
I used to have those same cravings, so I know how it feels!
Hey this is good to hear!
Takeout. I get it a few times a week and always feel a bit guilty about it. I like supporting the local businesses but it’s expensive and the plastic containers aren’t great.
Coffee.
I don’t need fancy coffee every day, especially with the inflated prices. I did the math and it’s over $200/mo spent on coffee.
I stopped getting it every day, but I can’t seem to kick the habit on weekends.
I was gonna say energy drinks. I gave them up for a year and demonstrated to myself that I don’t need them. Then I let them back into my life and again developed a (mostly mental) dependency on them.
It’s so easy to slip back I to those habits. So, so, easy, and harder and harder to stop each time.
fyi, that coffee you are buying isn’t “fancy.” Buy yourself actual fancy coffee and grind and brew it yourself. I bet you could get some extremely amazing brew say, $250/lb and it would be cheaper then then the shit you buy daily.
Oh, yeah, no, it’s definitely not coffe that’s actually fancy, I just mean dressed up coffee. Iced vanilla latte with an extra shot of espresso is my jam.
Now I use a morning blend with my Kureg and froth up some milk with a shot of vanilla syrup and drink that.
It never tastes as good, but ohwell.
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Sorry you live somewhere with (even more) regressive drug laws (than my country). Signed, a Canadian.
