#i don't have that many priviliges in life and lately I feel like I am priviliged just because I know how to cook and it makes me mad like

[antiqua-lugar]

I'm gonna sound like a fucking conspiracy theorist but I think it's very weird that the narrative around eating healthier on English speaking Western online spaces somehow always ends up as "it's just not for common people".

Like on one hand, all the diet culture and "clean eating" bullshit online tends to promote a lifestyle that is unattainable or unsustainable for someone without prior education - like it's always pushing for trendy expensive fresh food every day. I can't have tuna and pasta, the staple food or broken italian students everywhere, I have to have an avocado tuna sandwich. I can't have a bag of frozen spinach, I need baby spinach. Protein smoothies only need powder and a liquid but if you look up online they need twenty ingredients of random assorted bullshit. Add more fruit in your diet BY HAVING FRESH BERRIES EVERY DAY.

On the other hand, most criticism of diet culture and "clean eating" seems to boil down to "see this is bland and boring, don't worry your pretty little head around it and keep eating junk food. No don't learn how to cook, that's just too hard. Just give up entirely". They even had that whole scandal of companies paying influencers under the table and so many headlines screaming "DIETS DON'T WORK" knowing full well no one is gonna click on the article to read the "fad diets don't work and diets don't work because it's supposed to be a lifestyle change not something you do for six months and then give up forever" thing written at the end of it.

Like eating well plays a very important role in everything in your life and you basically have to fight so much advertisement and bullshit trying to convince you that you can't and you shouldn't and btw now we are also turning cooking into a trend, so instead of teaching people to make tuna pasta we need you to believe that it's not cooking unless it can go on instagram.

Nevermind the fact that food tends to be homogenoised and we tend to lose all particularities of local cuisines.