Tag: food

Broke af?

ok2befat:

avari20:

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

❤ 

taebabywhysoserious:

ruzuki:

taebabywhysoserious:

allen-desu:

taebabywhysoserious replied to your post “I WANT IN ON THIS SHIT. Though for real you are so attractive like how…”

Well that answers everything, vegetables are ew

HOW DO YOU NOT LIKE VEGGIES????

BECAUSE THEY ARE BLAND AND WEIRD. 50 THUMBS DOWN

Come to my house whoever has been feeding you veggies has no idea how to cook em properly. I will show you some damn tasty veggies.

I literally can only eat them in something else like soup and that is only a product of a few months ago haha. If you can make me eat straight up vegetables and they are actually good the world would end.

Oh I can make them taste more than good ;D Usually it is by adding things, though, just plain veggies can be rather plain if you dont add some sort of seasoning or cook it with meat…

My favorite is carrots and potatoes roasted with beef roast. Soaks up a lot of the flavor from the beef… not the healthiest way to eat them but they are delicious. 

Asparagus wrapped in bacon is amazing.

Artichokes on pizza is also amazing.

Green peppers and potatoes and onions and mushrooms scrambled with eggs…

You can mash steamed cauliflower like mashed potatoes, with sour cream and cheese and green onion bits…

You can add stuff like peas or corn to macaroni and cheese… my favorite as a kid was mac and cheese with corn, cream of mushroom, and tuna added. I refused to eat plain mac and cheese XD

I’ve always liked veggies tbh, even as a kid, but there is a huge difference between the flavor of plain steamed veggies, and veggies cooked with other things and/or with proper seasoning…

nippon-com:

A new take on the age old rice ball is gaining popularity in Japan. Known as onigirazu, so named as chefs can quickly make them without worrying about getting sticky rice hands, these versatile and hearty dishes have rapidly become popular search subjects on cooking apps such as Cookpad and have even inspired several recipe books.

The photos above by Laura Tomàs Avellana on Flickr show how to make onigirazu in just a few steps. All that is needed is nori, rice, plastic wrap, and fillings.

Everything Masterpost

trxyeisnotonfire:

So I love finding masterposts online, and I figured everyone else does too, so I decided to make one of my own. I’m constantly updating this/fixing links, so make sure to check back. If you need to find it, it’s linked on my navigation page.

Bored?

  • The Bored Button

Online Games

**psychological game, possibly triggering

  • Addicting Games
  • Girls Go Games
  • Super Mario
  • Goatlings (literally the coolest website ever. you make a goat and battle and dress it up and stuff and the options for gender are male, female, neutral, other, and hidden.)
  • Online Games Masterpost
  • Lots of relaxing games
  • More relaxing games
  • Helicopter Game
  • 2048
  • QWOP
  • Curveball
  • Robot Unicorn Attack
  • Cubefield
  • Choice of Dragon
  • Color Tests
  • The End**
  • No One Has To Die**
  • Off**
  • The Grey Rainbow**
  • The Color Tuesday RPG (TCT)**
  • Bastion**
  • Coma**
  • Loved**
  • Don’t Look Back**
  • Thomas Was Alone**

TV Shows/Movies/Music

  • Hulu (watch lots of shows/movies for free, but it does have ads, totally legal)
  • Anime List (with subtitles)
  • TV Series Masterpost Blog
  • Lesbian Movie/TV Show Masterpost
  • Crackle (lots of free movies/shows, totally legal)
  • Popcornflix (more free movies)
  • Watch Documentary (documentaries)
  • Masterpost with HUGE list of shows/movies
  • Make playlists
  • Download music from YouTube

Art

Tutorials/References

  • Skin tones
  • Color palettes
  • Drawing cloth
  • Drawing varying faces
  • Better shading
  • Color palettes/ref (2) (3)
  • Body references
  • People with wings (2)
  • Colouring/shading (2)
  • Different people to use as inspiration
  • Matching profiles to front facing people
  • Drawing gifs
  • Hands
  • Art tutorial blog (very helpful)
  • Drawing guys
  • Lighting
  • Anime eyes
  • Braids
  • Watercolors
  • Hats
  • Facial expressions
  • Folds
  • Hair
  • Need something to draw?

Software

  • Free software (2)

Crafts/DIY’s

  • Heart friendship bracelet
  • Cool cutout t-shirts
  • Homemade chalk paint
  • Finger knitting
  • Origami butterflies

Feel Better (tw: mental illness, self harm, suicide, eating disorders, body image)

Distractions/Cheer Up!

I put most of these here with anxiety/panic attacks in mind but they’re just simple, calming things, so they’re really good for anytime. This is probably going to be one of the longer sections, because there are so many amazing resources. This first section doesn’t have anything triggering except very small mentions of mental illness.

  • Ocean in a bottle
  • DIY microwave heat pads
  • Origami
  • Learn how to do things (masterpost)
  • Make sand art
  • Lots of soothing games
  • DIY relaxing glitter jar
  • DIY honey lavender bath melts
  • Soothing noise generator
  • The Fluffington Post
  • Draw a nebula
  • Get compliments
  • The Dawn Room (comfort and support)
  • Draw with silk
  • Explore space
  • The Thoughts Room (get rid of negative thoughts)
  • The Quiet Place (take a break and relax)
  • Get a hug
  • Distractions (2)
  • Emotional Baggage Check
  • Cute Roulette
  • Immunity cat
  • “To This Day"… for the bullied and the beautiful (video)
  • Gives Me Hope
  • Make everything okay
  • Just say yes!
  • Liquid particles
  • Paint (click for another color, hit space to clear)
  • Nice relaxing games

Self Harm

  • Simulate cutting **VERY TRIGGERING**
  • Alternatives
  • Recovery masterpost (including more alternatives)
  • Coping with thoughts of self harm masterpost (more alternatives here too)
  • Another recovery masterpost

Information/Helping Others/Self Help

This is a bit of an extension of the last few sections, but it’s basically a bunch of links that will help you help friends/yourself with anxiety/depression/eating disorders/anything like that.

  • With social anxiety
  • Info on anxiety
  • With depression
  • Info on depression
  • With self harm
  • Info on cutting/self harm
  • With eating/body image issues
  • Info on eating disorders
  • With a mental illness
  • Info on panic attacks
  • With a panic attack
  • What not to say during a panic attack
  • Info on (mostly physical) abuse
  • Info on abuse/types of abuse
  • How to support a friend
  • Self help masterpost
  • Helpful stuff/lots of info (includes abuse, anxiety/panic disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBT, staying positive, self harm, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts/suicide prevention, trauma and PTSD, and a section of other links)
  • Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US)
  • International Association for Suicide Prevention (includes links to find help centers/lifelines near you)
  • Masterpost with suicide helplines for a lot of countries
  • Info on suicide
  • Info on bipolar disorder
  • Info on personality disorders
  • Info on PTSD and trauma
  • 7 Cups of Tea (talk to people trained to listen to you and help with your problems, completely free)

Fashion/Makeup/Hair/Beauty/Cosplay

There are a lot of crossovers so I’m just combining fashion and cosplay.

Makeup

  • Makeup tips (2)
  • What colors should you use?
  • How to contour
  • Perfect eyeliner
  • Applying false eyelashes (video) (pay attention this is so hard)
  • Perfect eyebrows (video)
  • Eyeliner ref
  • Lipstick color ref

Hair

  • Bun masterpost
  • Braid masterpost
  • Dip-dying your hair
  • Good semi-permanent hair dye
  • 101 hair ideas

Cosplay

  • Learn to sew
  • Cosplay makeup help
  • Bigger eyes (video)
  • Latex elf ears (video)
  • Pointy teeth (video)
  • Fake blood **LOTS OF BLOOD, COULD BE TRIGGERING**

Clothes

  • Cheap online clothes
  • Old fashioned clothes

Sexuality/Gender Identity

  • GLBT National Help Center (US)
  • The Trevor Project (crisis intervention and suicide prevention for young LGBTQ+ people) **TW: MENTIONS OF SUICIDE/ABUSE/ETC**
  • Coming out videos/LGBTQIA+ channels
  • Asexuality, types of attraction, and romantic orientation
  • Bisexuality and pansexuality
  • Intersex
  • Human Rights Campaign coming out resources
  • Coming out
  • Transgender info
  • GLAAD
  • LGBTQIA+ terms
  • Gender Diversity terminology
  • Gender Diversity

Writing

  • Huge masterpost
  • Writing tips site (2) (3)

Names

  • Character name generator
  • Fantasy character names
  • Various name generators
  • Common surnames

Character Profiles

  • Character profile generator
  • Teen character generator
  • Various character generators

Characters

  • Manipulative
  • Witty
  • Leader
  • Rebellious
  • Indifferent/distant
  • Bitchy
  • Popular
  • Young
  • Of a different gender (different than the writer)
  • Character of color
  • With a tragic backstory
  • Character development questions
  • Underused personalities/traits
  • Character virtues and vices
  • Character trait cheat sheet
  • Lots of character resources (includes: narrators, backstory, general stuff, sexuality, religion/culture, disabilities, and other stuff) (also has other writing resources)
  • Body language
  • Diversity Cross Check (diversifying characters while making sure to not offend people or use stereotypes. You can get in contact with all of the people who submitted profiles.)

Story/Plot

  • Outlining
  • Creating a compelling plot
  • The Snowflake Method
  • Beginning and end, but no middle?
  • Coggle (free online mind mapping)
  • How JK Rowling outlines books
  • Ways to outline your plot
  • LitLift (online writing where you can write and share stories if you want to. It has great organization, so you can keep track of settings, items, chapters, scenes, characters, and more.)

Essays

  • The five paragraph essay
  • Writing a basic essay
  • Harvard essay help
  • Essay structure
  • Using quotes
  • Academic writing tips (very helpful)
  • Writing an introduction
  • Writing a thesis statement
  • Transitions
  • Strong body paragraphs
  • Paragraphs
  • Conclusions
  • Developed and detailed conclusions
  • Persuasive and argumentative essays
  • Writing about poetry
  • Writing an expository essay
  • Essay map
  • Research papers
  • Application essays

Research

  • Lots of stuff
  • Mental illness
  • Limits of the human body
  • Fighting/self defense
  • Writing fight scenes
  • Flirting
  • Kissing (scroll to bottom for writing tips)
  • Sex scenes
  • Issues, -isms, and privilege
  • Mystery/crime resource references
  • Gun information
  • Forensics for writers
  • List of resources

Motivation/Help

  • Written? Kitten!
  • Write or Die
  • Tip Of Your Tongue
  • Mind mapping
  • Cliche finder
  • Word frequency counter
  • Prompts (2)
  • First line generator

School

  • Mathway (solve math problems + get an explanation)
  • Scholarpedia
  • Effective all-nighters
  • Quizlet (great for studying – make flashcards and study them as well as playing games with them)
  • Bibliography maker
  • Didn’t listen in class?
  • Finals survival
  • Geography
  • Wolfram Alpha (solves math problems and has great research/info)
  • Online ruler
  • How to study
  • Study tips
  • Stress analyst
  • Learn history
  • Etymology dictionary
  • A ton of calculators (engineering, net profit, etc)
  • Unit conversions
  • Free graphing calculator
  • Learn to use Excel
  • Free Microsoft Word alternative
  • Writing software

Food (tw: food)

  • Cook with the ingredients you have
  • Quick and easy snacks
  • Healthier food substitutions
  • Quick and easy soup
  • Study snacks
  • Guide to chocolate chip cookies

Microwave Food (aka things to make with a microwave and a mug)

  • Microwave snacks
  • Mac & cheese
  • Nutella hot chocolate
  • Cookie in a mug (so apparently this is actually a single serving cookie you bake…)
  • Blueberry muffin
  • French toast
  • Cinnamon roll
  • Coffee cake
  • Banana bread
  • Chocolate peanut butter cake
  • Nutella cake
  • Cheesecake
  • Chocolate fudge s’mores cake
  • Strawberry pie
  • Chocolate and caramel cake
  • Quiche
  • Rice Krispie Treat
  • Chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Dark chocolate and nutella cake
  • Magic Diet Coke chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin spice cake
  • Chocolate cake with ganache
  • Red velvet cake
  • Brownie
  • Cookies and cream cake
  • Sausage and cheese spaghetti dinner
  • Chicken pot pie
  • Mint chocolate chip cake

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Themes

A lot of these include tutorials, too.

  • Themes by Rhaegara
  • The Theme Gang
  • Themes by heytonks
  • Hunt down that theme
  • The Coders Club
  • It’s Photoshop
  • Thememakers List
  • Starious
  • Theme resources
  • Thmresources
  • Wonderfully Themes
  • Teenage Cloud
  • HTML Hotties
  • Polythemers
  • Html wizards
  • Aeterno themes

Theme/Coding Tutorials

  • Theme base code
  • Theme Hunters tutorials
  • The Coders Club tutorials
  • Starious tutorials
  • Theme resources
  • Html wizards tutorials