Lentils were suddenly impossible and I do not know why

Started 19 December 2024 · 19 replies · 224 hearts · read 1.9k times

MorayElgin, UK · 19 December 2024

1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Lentils were suddenly impossible and I do not know why Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I would rather hear one person's actual arrangement in detail than five general suggestions, if anybody is willing to write theirs out.

I would like to know what other people say when asked, because my current answer is too long and invites more questions.

The arrangements are the hard bit for me. Nothing medical has been difficult; the organising has been relentless.

Thank you. This circle has solved four practical problems for me already and I am hoping for a fifth.

NemoneLewes, UK

I found the volume difficult when my appetite dropped. Plant protein takes up more room and there was less room available.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

The B12 and iron conversation is worth having explicitly rather than assuming. Mine turned up something worth correcting.

13me too 2

MableBolton, UK

My experience is that this is entirely workable and needs a bit more planning, and the planning is a one-off cost rather than a daily one.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I want to slow this down slightly. Every household described in a thread like this is real, and not one of those arrangements transfers whole to anybody else, which is why the detail matters more than the conclusion.

PietPretoria, ZA

Pulses, tofu and a decent unflavoured powder are the whole of my system, and it took me a year to arrive at something that simple.

NoleneDurban, ZA

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

Something practical: I keep something ready in the fridge at all times, because when my appetite is low I will not cook.

CloverTotnes, UK

My dietitian understood plant-based eating properly and that made an enormous difference compared to the general advice I had been given.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

Nothing here is medical advice and on supplements in particular it is worth a proper conversation rather than a thread.

IvesPenzance, UK

#10

Torrin — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The soya question comes up here every few months and my dietitian was completely unbothered, which was a relief after a lot of internet noise.

MorayElgin, UK

#11

What worked for me was spreading it across the day rather than trying to get it all into one meal, which was never going to happen.

NemoneLewes, UK

#12

Moray said something I want to sit with for a second.

What helped was two things I actually enjoy rather than five things I felt I should eat. The should list never survived a difficult week.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#13

Coming back at two years to say it is completely routine now, that my bloods are fine, and that the planning stopped being work months ago.

MableBolton, UK

#14

Protein without it becoming a chore is the whole problem, and most of the advice assumes a plate I do not eat from.

8me too 2

TanviMumbai, IN

#15

No advice, only that you are not the only one who found this part hard.

PietPretoria, ZA

#16

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#17

Somebody in this circle wrote out their week for me when I asked and it saved me about three months of working it out badly.

9me too 7

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#18

Thank you for the honesty about how hard the logistics have been. The accounts that admit the planning is exhausting are the useful ones.

CloverTotnes, UK

#19

I had to stop treating this as a nutritional puzzle and start treating it as a shopping problem, and it became much easier.