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> mostly pasta Sensible choice all things considered. I think instant noodles are also a pretty good bet, I personally make a noodle soup with vegetables to br

by bArray 7y ago

> mostly pasta Sensible choice all things considered. I think instant noodles are also a pretty good bet, I personally make a noodle soup with vegetables to bring up the nutrition a bit. I would also add frozen vegetables to the list as it keeps for ages and balances out most meals, whilst still being quite good for you.

Reason077 7y ago
Rice and a good rice cooker. Plenty of big 4.54kg packs of California-grown Nishiki rice on the shelf in Sainsbury's last time I checked. I like pasta too, but don't eat as much as I used to. Rice is so versatile!
- bArray 7y ago
  > Rice and a good rice cooker. I like rice, but am concerned by the number of people who don't wash it (arsenic) [1]. Then you have the issue of reheating/leaving to cool [2]. With the amount of idiocy going around it seems like a massive risk. Pasta is very difficult to mess up, worst case you're just going to get some crunchy or over-boiled pasta. [1] https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doctors-arsenic-in-rice-and-arsenic-poisoning-symptoms/ https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doct... [2] https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/ https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can...
  - netsharc 7y ago
    I eat a lot of rice and am now worried, but man, [1] is just a random blog that looks like it's a fake news website. The author blurb just says she married the love of her life in 2012. Uh, how is that relevant? It's the kind of article/site like one you'd see taking a graph of the effects 2011 Japanese quake on currents across the world, and claiming it to be a graph of how radiation has reached California...
  - dylz 7y ago
    [1] looks like a spam blog.
  - netsharc 7y ago
    After researching it, the arsenic isn't "fake news", and I would trust the BBC to actually have asked real experts [1], [2], and their recommendation is: > Now, some ways of cooking rice reduce arsenic levels more than others. We carried out some tests with Prof Meharg and found the best technique is to soak the rice overnight before cooking it in a 5:1 water-to-rice ratio. > That cuts arsenic levels by 80%, compared to the common approach of using two parts water to one part rice and letting all the water soak in. Using lots of water - the 5:1 ratio - without pre-soaking also reduced arsenic levels, but not by as much as the pre-soaking levels. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp7gqLN/should-i-be-concerned-about-arsenic-in-my-rice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp...
danans 7y ago
While you're prepping, lentils, dal (dried split peas), and dried beans, are all very shelf stable proteins. Pair with hard skin squash and pumpkins, which also keep for a while, and of course rice. Powdered butter is a shelf stable fat, also nuts though they're more expensive. Even if you don't use it now because food supply chains don't end up majorly affected, this kind of stuff is handy to have around in case of an a more immediate emergency.

by bArray 7y ago

Reason077 7y ago

Rice and a good rice cooker. Plenty of big 4.54kg packs of California-grown Nishiki rice on the shelf in Sainsbury's last time I checked. I like pasta too, but don't eat as much as I used to. Rice is so versatile!

bArray 7y ago
> Rice and a good rice cooker. I like rice, but am concerned by the number of people who don't wash it (arsenic) [1]. Then you have the issue of reheating/leaving to cool [2]. With the amount of idiocy going around it seems like a massive risk. Pasta is very difficult to mess up, worst case you're just going to get some crunchy or over-boiled pasta. [1] https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doctors-arsenic-in-rice-and-arsenic-poisoning-symptoms/ https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doct... [2] https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/ https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can...
- netsharc 7y ago
  I eat a lot of rice and am now worried, but man, [1] is just a random blog that looks like it's a fake news website. The author blurb just says she married the love of her life in 2012. Uh, how is that relevant? It's the kind of article/site like one you'd see taking a graph of the effects 2011 Japanese quake on currents across the world, and claiming it to be a graph of how radiation has reached California...
- dylz 7y ago
  [1] looks like a spam blog.
- netsharc 7y ago
  After researching it, the arsenic isn't "fake news", and I would trust the BBC to actually have asked real experts [1], [2], and their recommendation is: > Now, some ways of cooking rice reduce arsenic levels more than others. We carried out some tests with Prof Meharg and found the best technique is to soak the rice overnight before cooking it in a 5:1 water-to-rice ratio. > That cuts arsenic levels by 80%, compared to the common approach of using two parts water to one part rice and letting all the water soak in. Using lots of water - the 5:1 ratio - without pre-soaking also reduced arsenic levels, but not by as much as the pre-soaking levels. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp7gqLN/should-i-be-concerned-about-arsenic-in-my-rice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp...

danans 7y ago

While you're prepping, lentils, dal (dried split peas), and dried beans, are all very shelf stable proteins. Pair with hard skin squash and pumpkins, which also keep for a while, and of course rice. Powdered butter is a shelf stable fat, also nuts though they're more expensive. Even if you don't use it now because food supply chains don't end up majorly affected, this kind of stuff is handy to have around in case of an a more immediate emergency.