The horror of food robots

I spent last week alone at home, and it was the last week before the start of the school year. In honor of that, I wrote, looked for cover images, and played on PS5.

The first days of writing went quite well, but then I made the mistake of starting to look for cover images for my writings on Pixabay, especially for the one I'm working on right now that I'd most like to finish. The working title of which is On the Beach, but it has to be changed because there's already a famous book with the same name.

When I went through tens of thousands of images, my eyes didn't like it. I finally had to stop because I felt so miserable. It's also a shame that the time spent looking for images is taken away from writing.

So first I suffered from eye pain, neck pain, and headache. And the next day I started getting nausea. I even dreamed that I was vomiting.

So that by the time the school year started, I could be in a state of sick leave.

 

 

So, when you're already nauseous anyway, what to eat when food feels nauseating? Where can you get protein and iron on a zero-carb diet when all meat feels disgusting? And an empty stomach makes you even more nauseous.

On Thursday, I rushed to the library before closing time to pick up my reserved books. It was a bit annoying that I couldn't reserve one book because it was in the library, and it was still there the night before. But someone had already borrowed it that morning. Exceptionally, I took 3 books from the free book shelf, one of which was on my list.

And I was in a hurry to also buy socks on the same trip, since Clas Ohlson also closes at seven. Maybe it wouldn't have been worth it, the price of thermal socks had just gone up by 3 euros. 26 euros for two pairs of Heat Holders socks.

 

 

When I got home, I was met with a frightening sight: a food robot. Of course, it stopped because of me, even though I tried to walk on the other side of the road. It hasn't been many months since a robot followed me all the way home, it didn't dare to pass me at any point. Pretty slow food delivery if it comes at my walking pace. Food robots are so pathetic that I don't understand how anyone can use them.

 

On Saturday I would have liked to celebrate the release of my debut novel, so it would have been a book launch, but feeling unwell and feeling like throwing up prevented that. I had big plans: opening a bottle of sparkling rosé wine, having a few drinks and going to a bar, but no.

 

 

 

I thought I wouldn't be able to play Tomb Raider 2 Remastered without cheats. I had always played the (original) game before only using cheats. At first I had great difficulty with the controls. I switched to modern controls when I couldn't accept that the jump button was the cube. Then I had to constantly google which button did something, like grab a ledge or dive. When I got through the Opera house level, I stopped, at least for now. It's a wonder I even got that far.

 

How a poor person eats on a low carb diet

I can never buy two weeks of food for less than 150 euros. So I spend over 300 euros on groceries a month. So when my only income is 279 euros in student aid, this equation just doesn't work. Even though I try to buy the cheapest shit these days, it just doesn't work. Of course, that amount also includes hygiene products etc.

 

 

I don't eat lunch at all, but I eat breakfast at lunchtime. Previously, it was two slices of low carb bread with cheese slices. I still have some of that (now bankrupt companie's) bread left, but now I eat something else. Either two eggs fried in butter, or two slices of grain-free seed crispbread with those cheese slices.

Then it's already afternoon tea time. Sometimes I might eat sugar-free chocolate with that. Lindt is the best, but expensive. There are other chocolates, for example, the Red brand. And Lidl's sugar-free chocolate is just fine, very similar to Lindt.

For dinner, I eat 200 grams of frozen vegetables, usually either carrot cubes, or broccoli. I gave up on fresh vegetables when I got annoyed that they were always moldy. I used to put olive oil on broccoli, but it's too expensive now, and I only use butter for dinner these days. Then some meat. For example, chicken or minced meat. Less often fish, that's expensive too and I can't stand fish bones.

 

For an evening snack, a piece of cheese and unsweetened/unflavored yogurt. It seems like I eat too many dairy products, but I can't think of anything else that's cheap, low-carb, and preferably high-fat. Sometimes I also eat almonds or nuts.

I might also eat Gullon brand gluten-free and sugar-free chocolate chip cookies. That's the only similar product I know of on the Finnish market. I remember with nostalgia the sugar-free and grain-free lemon muffins that were on sale during the low carb diet boom.

In my opinion, I eat too little, and I've lost almost 10 kilos since I lost my job. I weigh 47 kilos now. But even though I eat a little, the grocery bill is terrible...

Well, the first thing I should do is give up tea. It's completely pointless. And I also drink expensive tea, Clipper, about four times a day.

Why do I spend so much money on food?

One reason is the low carb diet. Grain-based sugary crap would of course be the cheapest. And potatoes. Since I'm "poor" these days, I "have to" eat a little potato, e.g. in ready-made meals. Grain-free and potato-free ready-made meals are expensive. What's annoying about the cheapest ready-made meals is that the butter and cream have been replaced with cheaper and unhealthy vegetable oils.
 

I simply have such expensive taste. For example, when it comes to chicken, I usually only like the most expensive oven-roasted chicken. For example, I can't stand chicken strips. And recently it happened that I started to hate chicken legs, as I was nauseated before and after eating them. I'm such a snob that I don't like industrial/packaged minced meat, it should be ground in the store.