Homemade sprouts in a hot box
Homemade sprouts are a nutritious addition to any diet, packed with vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. One of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to grow your own sprouts is by using a hot box or casserole. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating your own sprouting system at home and producing fresh and healthy sprouts.
**Materials You’ll Need:**1. A hot box or…
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no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.
too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.
2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?
but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.
as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.
which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.
the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.
so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.
and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.
but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.
people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".
but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.
but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.
a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.
i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.
and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.
it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.
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Fusilli Pasta Pesto Salad with Lettuce, Chopped Vegetables, Pesto Drizzle, and Burrata Cheese Ball
Ingredients:
125g fusilli pasta
1 ball of burrata cheese
100g mixed salad greens (e.g., spinach, arugula, lettuce)
100g cherry tomatoes, halved
1 small cucumber, chopped
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons pesto sauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh basil leaves for garnish
Crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
Instructions:
Cook the Pasta:
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
Add the fusilli pasta and cook according to the package instructions until al dente.
Drain the pasta and rinse it under cold water to stop the cooking process. Set aside.
Prepare the Vegetables:
In a large bowl, combine the mixed salad greens, cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumber, and chopped red bell pepper.
Prepare the Dressing:
In a small bowl, mix the pesto sauce with olive oil. Adjust the consistency with a little more olive oil if needed.
Assemble the Salad:
Add the cooked pasta to the bowl with the vegetables and greens.
Drizzle the pesto dressing over the pasta and vegetables.
Toss everything gently to coat evenly with the dressing.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve:
Transfer the salad to serving plates.
Place the burrata cheese ball on top of the salad.
Garnish with fresh basil leaves and crushed red pepper flakes if desired.
Drizzle a little more pesto sauce over the burrata for added flavor.
Times:
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
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Am I the only one that finds it weird when people make ships that have characters played by content creators abusive? Like it puts a weird taste in my mouth and it could be that I am a flower husbands shipper and that makes me biased but I also find it weird when people make ships from like actual show abusive when they not canonically. I also find it strange that I have seen not a single thing about any other ships from the life series when none of them are perfect or completely healthy (except maybe ranchers), most of them have issues, and that is completely normal for relationships, even fictional ones, but I have only seen abusive flower husbands and that feels weird to me. Like if it's not canonically abusive it's weird to me.
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