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University student in need of help - living on my own!
@browntown--I couldn't help noticing that you said your main repertoire was daal and beans--if you don't mind my asking, are you Indian? I only ask because many people I knew from Southeast Asia, when they went away to uni, complained how NOTHING compared to their mother's cooking--they were all very 'food homesick' at first. I think it's great that this is motivating you to begin cooking--as well as everyone else's great suggestions, you might want to ask your parents for some easy recipes and if there are other students with similar tastes as yourself, having 'cooking nights' to replicate some favorite dishes you're used to having at home could be a great way to meat people.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 74: Can My All-Pie Fourth of July Diet Work?
@ed--it's funny, but as a lifetime dieter, I often tried such diets--such as having only 1,200 calories of Pop Tarts or ice cream for the day, rationalizing I was going to eat it anyway, so why not. The problems are 1. If you're obsessed with a food, portion control is hard 2. Eating that much sugary stuff makes you want more sugar 3. I have a feeling you might gain (sorry). I know it's mathematically illogical, but everytime I mono-dieted, it felt like my body, starved for nutrition, was grasping onto every last sugary calorie it could hold onto.
How funny--at all of the cookouts I attended nothing was ever required to bring, although I usually bring a hostess gift. Perhaps it is an 'East Coast' thing but I would be surprised to be asked to bring chairs (unless it was a potluck, even though I haven't been to one since grade school, with my Brownie troop).
I guess, regarding the hostess' prerogative to 'set limits'--fair enough in theory, but if I had to go to a relative's event that I didn't want to attend, but was 'pressured' subtly by family member to go, I would be annoyed to have to bring chairs, plates, ice, and food. I think unless it is a very small gathering, the host/hostess should not force the guests into a DYI affair, and if s/he does, not be upset if they fail to attend.