Daily Food Diary

[Mendalla]

Yeah, it's hard to see the home of things like bulgogi and kalbi as a food desert but definitely know the phenomenon of neighbourhoods with a lack of good food nearby.

 

[Jaebius]

I did some research...

"Some" research is good. More research is most probably even better.

Let's not pretend like South Koreans only eat traditional Korean foods. Such is simply not the case. There has been a growing demand for Western food choices for quite some time. As example, Chipotle is opening its first location here today, in Seoul. That said, let's consider your alternatives.

• The US Choice: Kellogg’s Cranberry Almond Cereal
  • The Korean Replacement: Misutgaru (미숫가루)

In Korea, Kellogg's products are made by Nongshim Kellogg, a joint venture between the Korean food manufacturer Nongshim and the American company Kellanova. The cereals are produced at their manufacturing plant in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do.

• The US Choice: Steak Cheeseburger Combo
  • The Korean Replacement: Convenience Store Dosirak (도시락) – A balanced, pre-made local meal kit featuring lean proteins, brown rice, and fresh vegetables.

Now here's an interesting one. Here you're suggesting I get something at a convenience store. Later in the list, you poopoo my choice of getting something at a convenience store. You know, I did not say that the New York Steak Cheeseburger Combo was American! Just because something has an American name doesn't mean that it's American.

• The US Choice: Sprite Zero
  • The Korean Replacement: Carbonated Water with Hongcho (홍초) – Sparkling water mixed with tart, fermented fruit vinegar for a zero-calorie, probiotic fizz.

Coke products are made, bottled, and distributed in Korea by Koka-kolla Eumnyo, which is entirely owned by the Korean conglomerate LG Household & Health Care. The Coca-Cola Company (U.S.) and Koka-kolla Eumnyo are separate corporate entities.

• The US Choice: Campbell's-style Cream of Mushroom Soup
  • The Korean Replacement: Instant Miyeok-guk (미역국)
  • – Low-sodium seaweed soup blocks that are deeply comforting, mineral-rich, and low-calorie.
    Sept 1

Woh, here you're way off. I never said that the soup was Campbell's! In fact, it was made by Fontana, a food brand owned by the Korean conglomerate Sempio.

• • The Western Choice: Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar & Pokemon Chocolate Roll Cake
    • The Korean Replacement: Roasted Sweet Potato (군고구마) or Roasted Chestnuts (맛밤) – Naturally sweet, fiber-rich whole foods available warm at any convenience store counter.

The Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar is American, loaded with protein, and delicious. I don't particularly care for sweet potatoes or roasted chestnuts.

The Pokemon Chocolate Roll Cake is made by Samlip, one of Korea's oldest and most iconic mass-market bakery and food manufacturing companies.

• • • The Western Choice: Gong Cha Toowoomba Sausage Burrito
      • The Korean Replacement: Triangle Kimbap (삼각김밥) – Opt for the Jeonju Bibimbap or Tuna Mayo flavors wrapped in crisp seaweed for a lower-calorie, authentic local grab-and-go lunch.

Gong Cha was originally established in Taiwan before being acquired by a group in Korea then ultimately moving to the UK and getting owned by an American private investment firm.

WhyCzar:

• The Western Choice: Processed Pork Dinner & Denmark Berry Yogurt Drink
  • The Korean Replacement: Boiled Egg Cup (감동란) & Plain Unsweetened Yogurt – Keeping the fresh kimchi and white rice is great, but pairing them with clean convenience-store proteins and zero-sugar dairy reduces the processed sodium and hidden sugars.

Good thing the pork was for my dinner last night and not your problem today. It was made by BGF Retail, the core operating subsidiary of BGF Group, a South Korean holding company

 

[WhyCzar]

When I say that I'm living in a food desert, I mean my own neighbourhood - not the entire nation of South Korea!

South Korea has amazing convenience store food and virtually no urban food deserts.

(Thanks to extreme retail density and robust public transit)

Now here's an interesting one. Here you're suggesting I get something at a convenience store. Later in the list, you poopoo my choice of getting something at a convenience store.

I don't think I poo poo'd shopping at a convenience store given that:

South Korean convenience stores offer an extensive selection of healthy and fresh alternatives.

Fresh Produce and Proteins

• Fresh Fruit: Stores sell single-serving fruits like washed apples, bananas, and pre-cut pineapple cups.
• Boiled Eggs: Hard-boiled, smoked, and salted eggs (gamdongran) are available in pairs right by the register for quick protein.
• Chicken Breast: You can find vacuum-sealed, pre-cooked chicken breast fillets in various flavors like garlic, herb, and smoked.

Balanced Ready-to-Eat Meals

• Premium Dosirak: Many boxed lunches feature calorie-conscious combinations of purple rice, roasted vegetables, and grilled fish or lean meats.
• Salad Cups: Refrigerated sections stock fresh green salads paired with dressings, chicken, or sweet potato cubes.
• Tofu Snacks: Single-serve packages of soft tofu with soy sauce packs offer a low-calorie, high-protein snack.

Health-Conscious Drinks

• Zero-Sugar Beverages: Shelves are packed with sugar-free sodas, zero-calorie flavored waters, and unsweetened barley or corn silk teas.
• Protein Shakes: Ready-to-drink protein beverages and high-protein milk options are highly popular and widely available.

 

[Jaebius]

South Korea has amazing convenience store food and virtually no urban food deserts.

(Thanks to extreme retail density and robust public transit)


I don't think I poo poo'd shopping at a convenience store given that:

South Korean convenience stores offer an extensive selection of healthy and fresh alternatives.

Fresh Produce and Proteins

• Fresh Fruit: Stores sell single-serving fruits like washed apples, bananas, and pre-cut pineapple cups.
• Boiled Eggs: Hard-boiled, smoked, and salted eggs (gamdongran) are available in pairs right by the register for quick protein.
• Chicken Breast: You can find vacuum-sealed, pre-cooked chicken breast fillets in various flavors like garlic, herb, and smoked.

Balanced Ready-to-Eat Meals

• Premium Dosirak: Many boxed lunches feature calorie-conscious combinations of purple rice, roasted vegetables, and grilled fish or lean meats.
• Salad Cups: Refrigerated sections stock fresh green salads paired with dressings, chicken, or sweet potato cubes.
• Tofu Snacks: Single-serve packages of soft tofu with soy sauce packs offer a low-calorie, high-protein snack.

Health-Conscious Drinks

• Zero-Sugar Beverages: Shelves are packed with sugar-free sodas, zero-calorie flavored waters, and unsweetened barley or corn silk teas.
• Protein Shakes: Ready-to-drink protein beverages and high-protein milk options are highly popular and widely available.

Let me know when you actually come live here in Korea. Then we discuss the food scene. Till then, I'm not listening to any more of your judgy posts

 

[BetteTheRed]

Clearly, Jae, your ability to choose and eat healthy food has not improved with your emigration. I don't actually care much, and you started the thread, but if you're interested in opinions, which your presence on a discussion forum suggests, your dietary choices remain appalling.

Breakfast: high fat greek yogurt
Lunch: Kind peanut butter breakfast bar
Dinner: Shared chicken/rice/veg bowl for appetizer, beef burger, corn, green salad.

Big guy made brunch out of his homemade vegetable soup, the base of which is usually homemade bone broth.

We eat simply, from the earth. I buy yogurt, and cheese and granola bars, but the bulk of my shopping is simple protein, veg and fruit. And I grow stuff: cucs tomatoes kale eggplant lettuce, fresh herbs.

 

[Jaebius]

Clearly, Jae, your ability to choose and eat healthy food has not improved with your emigration. I don't actually care much, and you started the thread, but if you're interested in opinions, which your presence on a discussion forum suggests, your dietary choices remain appalling.

Breakfast: high fat greek yogurt
Lunch: Kind peanut butter breakfast bar
Dinner: Shared chicken/rice/veg bowl for appetizer, beef burger, corn, green salad.

Big guy made brunch out of his homemade vegetable soup, the base of which is usually homemade bone broth.

We eat simply, from the earth. I buy yogurt, and cheese and granola bars, but the bulk of my shopping is simple protein, veg and fruit. And I grow stuff: cucs tomatoes kale eggplant lettuce, fresh herbs.

Do you know Bette, I didn't start this thread for the purpose of being insulted. I'll be putting on "ignore" all who choose to mock me in posts after this one

 

[WhyCzar]

Let me know when you actually come live here in Korea. Then we discuss the food scene. Till then, I'm not listening to any more of your judgy posts

I shouldn't have dismissed your personal experience with a copy-paste list of store inventories.

At the end of the day, this is your food diary and your kitchen.

What you choose to eat daily is entirely your call, and you don't owe me an explanation.

And now it is time for my one a day meal - locally sourced wild boar ground meat, bacon from the local butcher, home grown tomatoes and cucumbers - all mixed together with some cottage cheese. I will dip into it with rice crackers seasoned with pepper and sea salt. Kombucha to wash it down and likely followed by a frozen lemon square with whipped cream.

And now I’ll step back and just read along from here.

My bad for throwing off the vibe of your thread!

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[Luce NDs]

What is good news compared to bad news (information we don't wish to hear) unless we can process it through the conflict machine? Some will not do that as it is just ignored as a bad blunder when perhaps ... it isn't as appears. Metaphor of it isn't as appears <-> incarnation (flowering thing beyond ground level? These things may manifest in the abstract as myth ... declared no logical by people that do not wish to face choices that may not be quite right for anything that survives our brutalizing tendencies to destroy anything that we decide to accommodate with decisive hate ... forming vacuous blunders ...

Why can't we just observe people destroying themselves in muted darkness ... like the late night hockey games ... instead of raving about the competition? Cooperation slides out of the image ... and tri OHM phantom beasts immerge as prestigious, CEO's of governing, busy institutions of believing what is erroneous ...

Thus what is wrong becomes those in that world ... the opposed intelligence sinks ... usually into a myth, story, or ballad as normally truth will not be heard ... thus mute and dark! It's human like a boob, or boid ... the psyche gets itself into the most obscure thick places while there remains an alternate will to look on from great distance ... so heh goes at it. Ghost's it for short ... as essence ... stinking thought? Functional arty ... as mean ... like bodies reassembling from former debris ... of passing generations? Moving vestiges ... vestigial remnant! Always some waste involved ...

 

[Luce NDs]

Does that previous post enlighten the separation of absolute and abstract as something ultimately separated like soul and spirit within a body of humanity ... and several body accumulate and conflict with great efficiency as better than in deep space? Do these accumulate in Black Holes eventually?

Thus stains in what appeared to be clear space ... illusions! Mentally ordered ... mental devices quickly going out of business as autonomous folk don't wish them to be thus 'oul departs in peace ... mysteriously as no one observed the departure from normal ... just couldn't see it ...

These power remain darkened because of those that prefer them blanked out ... in plain Black & White ... a Wise Qui tucked away blind and ineffable ...

Not a word now ...

 

[Jaebius]

Wed Sep 02
Breakfast

• Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar
• Saltine Crackers
• Cranberry and Almond Cereal (with 2% milk)
• Black Coffee

Lunch

• Heritage Chicken Sandwich Set
  • Heritage Chicken Sandwich
  • Creamy Coleslaw
  • Cheese Sauce
  • Sprite Zero
• Harvest Apple Pie

Dinner

• Thai Dinner
  • Pineapple Fried RIce with Chicken
  • Crispy Vegetable Spring Roll
  • Spring Mix Side Salad
  • Coke Zero

 

[WhyCzar]

Till then, I'm not listening to any more of your judgy posts

Fair enough.
You don't live in North America anymore.
I have no reason to listen to your judgy virtue signaling posts trying to shame people that do live there into boycotting the USA.
Practicing virtue is never as easy as preaching it no matter where you find yourself on the globe don't you find?

 

[Mendalla]

Having a bit of a weird food day myself since I had to take breakfast to work and eat it late due to fasting medical tests.

Breakfast:

Cheerios with walnuts and raspberries (Something I do have at home sometimes but not my usual at present. Just more portable.)
Yorkshire Gold tea

Lunch:

Quesadilla w. spicy chicken, cheese, various vegetables from Quesada
Assam tea w. a squirt of lime.

Supper:

No idea. I'll find out when I get home. Mrs. M is in charge of that.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Jae, if you die earlier because you eat a massively processed diet, it's on you, not me, and I don't give a flying crap. Please put me on Ignore, and I will do the same for you. You have been almost entirely the reason for every irritation I have felt on this site, and I'll almost give you credit for destroying it, but you're not even good enough for that. Feck off and may you live in interesting times.

 

[Jaebius]

Jae, if you die earlier because you eat a massively processed diet, it's on you, not me, and I don't give a flying crap. Please put me on Ignore, and I will do the same for you. You have been almost entirely the reason for every irritation I have felt on this site, and I'll almost give you credit for destroying it, but you're not even good enough for that. Feck off and may you live in interesting times.

Just know, Bette, that while you’re busy telling me to "feck off," I’m quietly hoping you find peace in less processed things.

May your interesting times be enlightening

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

Jae, if you die earlier because you eat a massively processed diet, it's on you, not me, and I don't give a flying crap. Please put me on Ignore, and I will do the same for you. You have been almost entirely the reason for every irritation I have felt on this site, and I'll almost give you credit for destroying it, but you're not even good enough for that. Feck off and may you live in interesting times.

Bette, I am getting a bit worried about your mood, you even start cursing the weather and seem to be off balance a bit. Hope you feel better soon.
The thing with “ dying earlier because of our bad habits”, is actually misleading. Smokers used to say “ I don’t care if I die earlier”, but it’s not the years we are missing but the years before that when we deal with chronic diseases and cancer that we would want to avoid.
I have no idea why Jae started this thread. He obviously is not asking for advice.I guess he has some exhibitionistic tendencies.

 

[Jaebius]

Bette, I am getting a bit worried about your mood, you even start cursing the weather and seem to be off balance a bit. Hope you feel better soon.
The thing with “ dying earlier because of our bad habits”, is actually misleading. Smokers used to say “ I don’t care if I die earlier”, but it’s not the years we are missing but the years before that when we deal with chronic diseases and cancer that we would want to avoid.
I have no idea why Jae started this thread. He obviously is not asking for advice.I guess he has some exhibitionistic tendencies.

Am certainly open to constructive criticism, Mrs.A. However, I don't see much Bette's contributed that's constructive - certainly not her "Feck off. I hope you die soon" attitude

 

[Luce NDs]

I guess he has some exhibitionistic tendencies. --- Mrs. A

Should we be bound to some restrictions and confinement? Such is the Bond Market that is enabled in a great uproar caused by another one attempting to control the world ... which collectively has a mined of its own that is deeply covered up ... a social thing about individualization and getting alone before showing it all to no one in particular ... thus nothing to be admired in a character determined to control ... a version of avarice interspersed with many small eves ... dark spots arising ...

Reminds me of an incident in SJ recently about a young topless woman ... well exposed I suppose as it attracted authority ... in a misunderstanding on the laws of getting it out there ...

Should there be respects on both baring it and cover-up as often occurs during politically busy activities of trying to get people to accept religious fixations? Build a Wahl between the 2 essences ... of meme branes ... loaded metaphor! Thus weighted ... and we defer ... continuously so the myth can continue about naked cover-ups ...

You showed em Jae ... now what is to be done with it? Phi-LD with Los Ophie ... Ur Oph there ... running as pursued ... balancing out the running and the return! Golden Rule ... what is driven out may come back at yah like a monster ... Davi deux, or separates Sues ... that' Cid ... identification without the weighty cover ... the gnawing of beavers ... egad! Thus Gads be ...

Such empty deliveries can go on and on ... as if "nothing" tuit! Something is temporal ... id'll pas' ... stinking thought is like that als OH ... Raep ete's ... that shining up in depe ... worth the aul in dragging it out? Thus coupled they haul it out ... causing opposition to those in drag ... follow 'n?

Rigid fixed depositions ... as religious real eight 'n ... 8? H'eight it ... there's some matter disposed there ... Su' aisted ... prodigally ... even prodigiously ...

Di gits ... ele giti mate tale as strung along ... "g" being dark! Thus unseen and muted ... butte ND? Not a real button ...

 

[Luce NDs]

Buttons are not fast as Con Crete vs Pro Crete ... a stripped down civilization that knew no past. They lacked recall also ... something law St. in the driven directive as unmoved? It was unseen ... trans parent ... an exchange?

These also collapse under strain of controls ... avarices? Financial nightmare ... black oozes ... hosiers' ... Rhodes ... rides on ... put it together!

 

[chansen]

Jae's game has always been plausible deniability. He'll bait you in or annoy you, then when you react, he pulls out the "Who, me?" lines.

We know this.

 

[Luce NDs]

Jae's game has always been plausible deniability. He'll bait you in or annoy you, then when you react, he pulls out the "Who, me?" lines.

We know this.

Homey is the agenda ... thus homeopathetic ... and we get ill ... reflects badly ... but yet it goes on!