Hello comrades and welcome to the last improvement megathread of April! It's the last Sunday of April, a good time to look back on the month.
As usual, some discussion ideas:
- How was your April?
- Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
- Do you have any goals for next week?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Poster caption: If you want to be like him - exercise!
Good luck with your goals 
This week I went to the store and bought groceries and have been eating mostly homemade meals instead of relying heavily on fast food.
next week I hope to keep it up, go out to eat even less, and make sure to eat all the perishable foods that I bought, and pick up more fresh food late in the week.
also doing better on cleaning/household chores, but not quite there yet. I may need some more spring and summer appropriate clothes but I want to sort through more of my mess before I commit to buying anything new. maybe thrift some shirts
Hell yeah, home cooked meals are the best. What is your go to recipe?
TVP tacos are up there. I love how shelf stable tvp is, great for most things that need a seasoned and ground protein.
I havent made it in a few months but okonomiyaki is also really fun and delicious though it usually makes a disaster of my kitchen lmao
I've been wanting to try cooking with TVP for ages, but noone around me sells it. I should check on how economical it is to order it.
what? no way. that sucks, its pretty widely available near me.
its shelf stable and light/not bulky though so I bet ordering it online is fine. looking online it appears the brand they sell near me you can get 4 bags (3lbs total) for sub $30 which I'm pretty sure is cheaper than in-store lol
There's a few recipes from when I was a kid that really take well to it but I just like having a shelf stable protein too because meat and even tofu are kind of annoying when you are cooking for one and have a bad habit of going weeks without cooking a proper meal
Yeah I just moved to a small town with only one-and-a-half grocery stores - but maybe the general store has it? I haven't gone in there yet.
ah gotcha, yeah meat alternatives may not be on the list there then
Haven't heard of TVP until now, I will be checking it out
Btw what is the commie desktop?
its linux
just a play on the common linux refrain(/running joke, depending on who's telling it), that "<CURRENT YEAR> will be the Year of the Linux Desktop" (ie the year that mass adoption of linux for home computers takes off in the mainstream) because of some improvement in user experience or some microsoft debacle
also yeah tvp rocks I think its just basically soy protein (edit: can be any legume/pulse that is made into oil basically, uses the leftover protein) made into craggly crumbles that you can rehydrate. I made decent tvp "bacon" bits once too but then realized I rarely have a use for bacon bits and eventually ate most of them plain lol.
it probably isn't the healthiest or most ecologically perfect food but I like it. and its not like its the star of the show, its just adding protein or soaking up flavor mainly
Hell yeah I've been doing this too the past week. Only eating out I've done is a ramen bowl at a local place, everything else has been grocery store food. Saves so much money and feels good besides.