Americans Drop Kale and Quinoa to Lock Down With Chips and Oreos

[conuly]

No shock there. It's scary outside. You're stuck inside either alone or TRAPPED WITH YOUR FAMILY. Either you're suddenly unemployed or you have to work from home (joy). Your Netflix and chill has entirely too much Netflix and too little chill... and to add insult to injury, you're probably watching kid's shows because your kids are there with you.

Why wouldn't you load up on the snacks now?

Plus, kale goes bad. Oreos don't.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Out of snacks. Loaded to the gills on kale, quinoa*, and spinach - and worried by the time I hit stores again snacks will be gone.

I've never eaten so much junk food in my life, though. Maybe just having it around in greater quantities than usual increases how much of it one eats, as that was like, a six-month supply in less screwed-up times, gone in just a few weeks.

*One box, which is already too much.

[conuly]

We actually plow through quinoa because I make some sort of grain nearly every day - rice, millet, kasha, oats, barley - and I always cook it with quinoa.

[marahmarie]

Quinoa doesn't taste...bad...I don't mind it too much if nothing else is around, but I don't find it filling and have never served it to another person who likes it, so I whip it out only once I'm out of all other grains. Barley I can't do, I deeply dislike it.

But I'm big on grains too, overall, though not every day; maybe 5-6 days out of 7, if I can manage it (though I'm counting regular semolina pasta into this so ymmv).

[conuly]

I figure a grain is a grain is a grain... or a pseudograin, as the case may be. They all taste good cooked with a little broth or with a mirepoix and broth, or with tons of milk and sugar and butter and apples. But yeah, quinoa mixed with a grain (I do a 3:1 or a 2:1 ratio, with quinoa as the 1) is the best bet unless you're subbing for couscous, which I find works well if I don't have small couscous.

[marahmarie]

They all taste good cooked with a little broth or with a mirepoix and broth

I so want to go cook all of that now in All The Broth (but a bad time to start cooking, I might literally wake the neighbors).