white male consumer

This school year I have been able to keep myself fed. But ease usually trumps nutrition or tastiness. I expect this is true for most people (I was in Wegmans yesterday, and the middle-aged man behind me in line was buying everything I usually would. He was obviously single and living alone. Bleak.)

Coming back from winter break, I brought some cookbooks. I cracked one open the other day. Entirely vegan (from that period in my life). I began reading the first chapter, and it renewed my desire to eat better and healthier. I immediately ran out and replaced my table salt with sea salt. I marinated some tofu overnight and then baked it (instead of my usual method of frying). Baked was quite tasty – not crunchy or crispy as with frying (or grilling), but quite firm and satisfying.

I’m also sitting on 5lbs of whole wheat flour, which I’ll be turning into wheat gluten some day soon. You know that feeling when you discover how to make something from scratch for much less money? Like, say, buying rice in bulk instead of boxes of rice-a-roni? (I still haven’t perfected cooking rice, actually.) This is how I felt reading the wheat gluten recipe. Five pounds of flour was $2 and it’ll yield 2-3 pounds of wheat gluten.

mmmm…. Wheat gluten…