Today's ration: ham dinner, leftovers tomorrow
Posted by elonmusktheturd22@reddit | shittyfoodporn | View on Reddit | 29 comments
Finished planting spring crops, doing lots of work on my farm, as much as i can anyway. So had to add a few more calories for today.
Half a can of ham, a can of mixed vegetables, and half a can of cranberry sauce. Soy based buttery topping on the vegetables and mustard on the ham.
twogunsalute@reddit
How long are you on rations for?
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Thats just my term for scheduling what and when i eat based on calories needed per day.
I cannot feel hunger or feel full so i can't self regulate. I have forgotten to eat for over a week a couple times, so i schedule what i eat. Planning also helps since i only get a ride to town once a month (no vehicle, 20 miles to town) and i have no refrigerator.
It will be harder to plan far in advance when i have fresh produce to use or preserve.
The inability to feel hunger is the result of nerve damage after my spine was bolted together after a logging accident 5 years ago.
As per eating from expired cans, that will mostly end in june, as i will be almost out of them.
ChoiceEmu9859@reddit
How do you determine the number of calories you need?
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Rough guess. Since i can't feel hunger i would go days without eating until i collapse to the floor, fainting, etc. since i can't feel full there is nothing to stop me over eating.
So i try to schedule that i eat twice a day, sometimes just once a day. And reasonable portions. Like this ham dinner had roughly 900 calories, and 36g protein, before i added cranberry sauce, for an extra 150-200 calories.
Thats a baseline ration for a day. This morning i also had half a cup of dry oatmeal (plain, with hot water) for about 100 calories before walking my dogs 4 miles, then watering the crops and a other chores. Then i sat around till i had todays ration. Then sat around until 6pm when i biked 4 miles. I am in excruciating pain but stay active as best i can. Biking as i can to get used to it so i can bike to the truck stop in summer when the ice cream stand is open. Also had about 100 calories from half a cup of popcorn, popped in a whirlypop. Eating slightly more than the main ration due to the activity.
Still only around 1500 calories for the day. Not loosing or gaining weight
gibbonsons@reddit
Did you find a strategy to be able to see forward better when you are biking? Those horseshoe shaped pillows like someone else mentioned to prop up your head, or maybe you could rig something up with mirrors? Anyway, ice cream is a worthy goal.
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
No, i just bike without seeing where I am going and hope nobody is parked in the road
The00Taco@reddit
If your nerve damage was from the surgery itself and not the accident have you looked into suing? That's not a normal thing to happen from spine surgery, and not a normal possibility for complications. I work in spine surgeries often so I'm not pulling this out of my ass
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
I'm lucky to be alive given what happened. 9 vertebrae broken, cervical and thoracic.all my ribs broken, lungs crudhed, heart bruised, back muscles crushed/pulverized.
I crawled to the roadside as i had no cell signal (new tower went up months later), Mennonites on a buggy found me hours later, raced to call 911.
Paramedics had to keep stabing me in the lungs to keep me breathing as i was flown to trauma ward.
They did what they could to stabilize me, my left side is partly numb and I'm locked in an awkward hunchback shape in constant pain, but i can walk.
I was angry about the posture for a while, in the hospital bed afterwards they propped me up with 3 pillows behind my head to actually reach my head. Then i rationalized they were more concerned with stabilizing me, the slightest move and i would be a quadriplegic.
Medicare (hospital case worker got me on disability) covered the surgery and critical care, and flight, etc, but after i was out, no longer critical I had no follow up coverage or PT (was denied) so i had to teach myself to walk again while staying at a friend's house for a month. Only at hospital for 2 weeks, the nurses were assholes half the time. I had 1 inch tubes in my lungs to drain the blood, once no longer needed i was booted out.
Walked with a walker till i was screaming in pain, going up and down stairs, in hospital i was on max dose morphine and fentanyl, but once out i flushed it and went cold turkey. In 2 weeks i was using a cane, 2 weeks after i didn't need that.
Went home 6 weeks after injury, my neighbor (former friend) had trashed my place, sold my livestock for their own profit, and abused my dogs while i was away, stole a lot of money too.
All my friends abandoned me, or robbed me first. The one i stayed with refused to answer the phone for half a year, i had no way to get supplies and lived off cans. Friend i stayed with thought my number was a scammer so never picked up for anyone at all. I now get a tide with him to town once a month, otherwise i have virtually no human contact living in my remote cabin.
Surgery was in another state, had to be flown out there as no hospital closer could handle the mess i was in, the doctors said i wasn't human given what i survived. I think I'm dead and in hell now, having once been so active i can think of no greater torture than being forced to sit around in a recliner all day on disability.
Given that my back, chest, left side, etc are numb or partly numb, i assume the nerves to my stomach are also severed since i have not been able to feel hunger since the accident.
I tried to see a doctor in my state but was denied, or sent to dr Nick Riviera (not her name but she was an incompetent quack), kept getting denied every time i tried to do anything, combined with lack of travel options, was billed a months income (disability) when i saw a quack and the medicare refused to cover it, so i just deal with stuff myself.
The00Taco@reddit
I've been following your ration posts for quite a while and I already knew some of your story. I know you're doing you're own thing surviving, but I would recommend reaching out to a lawyer to see if you can get some compensation of some kind
Omarzchick@reddit
I just knew that meat came out of a can
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Actually, everything on thst plate came out of a can.
Redence_@reddit
You should just get rice as it kind of extends every kind of meal you prepare and makes you full pretty easily. You can then fry the leftover rice tomorrow with minimal ingredients for a savory meal.
Jeramy_Jones@reddit
And expired four years ago?
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Some did
Omarzchick@reddit
I should have known that! Always like your posts.
Away-Living5278@reddit
What all did you plant?
Honestly gotta do what you gotta do. My only concern would be the sodium levels but if you don't have high blood pressure I wouldn't worry for a short bit.
Get some dry beans next time you're in town. They'll be a great source of protein and you don't need a fridge.
I have 3 larger raised garden beds. What I've found easy to grow are tomatoes (regular and cherry), snow peas, bush and vining green beans. And herbs (rosemary, basil, thyme, etc). The only thing with the snow peas and green beans is they produce for about 2-3 weeks so you have to stagger your planting every 2-4 weeks to keep a continuous crop and you need more plants than say you do tomatoes for one person.
I have not had luck with squash or cucumbers but I gave up anyway since my CSA (farm share I buy) always gives me tons. My neighbor does very well with peppers and cucumbers though.
I'd also recommend growing beets if you like them.
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
I have half a barrel worth of dry beans. Just using up the last of the canned beans.
Most of the cans i got free from people throwing them out after they got them at the food pantry and didn't want them. I only have a couple cans left.
I have 6 rows of beets, 30ft rows, in my spring garden. 6 rows of turnips, 12 rows if green peas. 3 carrots, 4 lettuce/radish, 10 spinach, 3 cabbage, 2 brussel sprouts.
If possible i will also be putting in onions, garlic, and rutabaga. My friend is going to the food pantry today (won't give me a ride tonit, i asked several times, his minivan is already full with him, his wife, his wifes sister, etc). Only way i could go is to bike there, and its not worth the back pain and the all day trip and other aggravation. Anyway they asked me to grow rutabaga so are dropping off seed for it, i asked them to get onion sets and garlic ($10 worth since thats all i got at the moment) and they might drop them off after the food pantry, and get eggs from me (i got 15 dozen eggs over the last 2 weeks from my chickens, far more than i can use).
TheDudeMaverick@reddit
You know what? Other than the canned cranberry sauce, all of those would go well in fried rice if you had some leftover rice.
NekoGoddess9625@reddit
A succulent, Great Depression Era meal 🧐
februarytide-@reddit
Okay but cranberry sauce with ham sounds sort of amazing, like applesauce with pork chops.
LonnieJaw748@reddit
Cranberry sauce has many places. With yogurt and granola in the morning, with crispy fried chicken, put it in a fruit smoothie, on roasted or braised pork, over vanilla ice cream. It’s truly an underutilized condiment and it’s a shame it only gets a short period of popularity per year.
scary_miracle@reddit
Is cranberry sauce for ham or for vegetables? I ate it with meat before, but not with garnish.
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Its that red jelly on the side, i always just ate it as a side thing, not as a sauce on anything.
damagecontrolparty@reddit
Veg-All?
Bioslug@reddit
Yum, how did the planting go?
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Won't know till they grow
Sea_Spray7368@reddit
What the actual fuck is on that meat on the left
elonmusktheturd22@reddit (OP)
Mustard, that piece was odd shaped as a piece came off stuck to the frying pan
Librosinleer@reddit
😭