Why are some people so afraid of beans? Why are 4,700 people agreeing that just eating rice is a good tip? Thousands of years of civilization and we have circled all the way back to poor people surviving on meager rice rations.
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That was me with beets and mushrooms as a kid. Microwaved, canned, flavourless, rubbery garbage. Then I had a slice of pizza with mushroom on it and realized what a mushroom could taste like. Still took me until I was like 17+ to realize my parents can’t cook.
Maybe I just have a really boring palate, but one of my mainstay meals is:
And I actually, legitimately like it. Like, I no joke look forward to it. I’ve had it 3-4 times a week for years without complaint.
One month medium intensity labour for you!
No, seriously, I’ve never found a microwave rice that was good. It’s way better to make a batch in the rice cooker and freeze it in portions, then microwave that.
Not buying two appliances to cook food.
You can cook it on a stove, hell I think they have weird plasticky contraptions to cook rice in the microwave.
But the cheapest rice cooker is the best, set and forget and it comes out perfectly everytime
“If I can’t microwave it, I ain’t eatin’ it.”
-Giant guy in overalls
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Yes the texture and aromas are all off with those microwave rice packets
yeah sounds fine, the big offender is vegetables anyway, canning absolutely destroys them but legumes hold up to canning really well in my experience. and it sounds like you’re getting stuff that’s already seasoned which avoids the other problem with a lot of canned food, which is people’s parents didn’t know how/bother to season it well