Have you tried adding herbs and spices? Like stuff that actually tastes good. You didn’t even mention salt.
Imho, food that tastes good is more satisfying and keeps you fuller for longer. The downside is, that I tend to overeat, when it’s too good.
Any downsides to eating less meat?
I haven’t been eating meat for almost 20 years now. So my answer is No.
But those are only half truths. They’re omitting the fact, that a lot of the biomass we’re eating comes from farming. Those plants that collect carbon dioxide from the atmosphere use a lot of synthetic fertilizers to grow, which itself uses A LOT of fossil energy to be produced. A lot of that plant biomass is fed to livestock to produce different kinds of foods that the marketTM demands, while emitting methane and ammonia and nitrous oxides, some of which are far worse greenhouse gasse, than CO2.
And then there’s the whole issue of food waste and bullshit products you can buy at the supermarket that might contribute a little bit to your ability to exhale CO2 but come with insane amounts of useless packaging (made from petrol, and the best case scenario for them is, that they’re going to be burned in a waste incinerator later).
People breathing is breaking the natural carbon cycle in lots of places, and part of the problem is, that they are being fed by capitalism.
De-growth rather.
You need to snap out of your misanthropy.
It leads to solitude and darkness.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying me-time and getting away from civilization for a bit, and ofc people can be annoying, especially when they’re just strangers. But not everyone is, and we all need our tribe of people to enjoy some company for some time.
Meet some people and try to see some positives about those encounters. You might learn a thing or two if you open your heart for others.
I agree with everything you’re saying.
I think it should have been clear from my text, that imho the issue lies in food production rather than food consumption and that what kinds of food you’re eating and how it was produced is the part of this issue, that you have some control over. I mean, consumers can’t buy what “the marketTM” don’t offer and yadda yadda yadda, but at least you can do more about it than about the fact, that you need to breathe at all. (Apart from drastic measures, that I neither expect nor recommend)