Update: Point of clarification: By “diet,” I mean “what one eats” and not some plan at weight loss.
Twenty years ago I met the most amazing woman of my life.
The poor thing has been putting up with my eccentricities ever since.
The first time I read Walden by Thoreau, I was taken with the simplicity of his diet in the woods.
In addition, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about life in a pre-industrial (actually post-industrial) world. I am obsessed with simplifying and reducing the role of big corporations in my life.
Then I read somewhere (sorry I forget where) about someone eating oatmeal for breakfast, greens for lunch, and beans and rice for dinner.
So I’m modifying that. Right now it’s the same but homemade bread and natural peanut butter for lunch.
I’m looking into making my own peanut butter.
You may have noticed that this is vegetarian. This is by happenstance, not by design.
I don’t have a plan for duration. And I’m not a zealot. I teach a graduate class on Tuesday nights, so I had a vegetarian burrito at Freebird’s tonight.
But I want to understand what it’s like to subsist on staples. So this is an exploration. It’s a journey. Not the destination.
One day I will wake up and be done with this exploration. All I know is that it’s not tomorrow.
I'm a cognitive scientist and communication scholar who manages a psychophysiology lab at Texas Tech. I teach courses about the cognitive processing of media messages and research methods.
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Do you sit in a thinking chair when you come about major decisions like this? I’m just wondering.
This actually reminds me of a time when I was in elementary school. A friend and I were building a tree house at the time and decided to use only things we find in nature. After about three days of trying to get wood to stick together with mud, we resorted to hammer and nails. I guess, for you, the question will be weather your nails are often vege burritos or something worse, if that makes sense.
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Tim, these decision never come at once. Generally, feelings build up over time. Hence, I cannot say with any certainty when the actual decision arose.
You were pretty world conscious for an elementary school kid. I am impressed.
I like this. And, peanut butter is stupid easy to make.