People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by scruple on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:06PM (#19339444)

This made me think of the Chinese practice of zuoyuezi (坐月子) [0] which translates to "sitting the month" and refers to what we know as postpartum confinement in the West, and which includes a fairly strict diet for postpartum mothers.

Many women who practice this in the US will pay someone to prepare these meals for them a week at a time (they will come to your home and basically do meal prep for the week with the last few days worth going in to the freezer). There is a company in SoCal [1] that will prepare the meals and ship them to you frozen, I believe, as well.

I don't know if they're actually healthy or not but you'd hope they would be better than processed foods.

And I guess my point is that money can buy you just about anything. If you want healthy, frozen, ready-to-eat meals, they can be had for a price.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_confinement#China

[1]: https://www.postpartummeal.com/zuo-yue-zi/

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by madcaptenor on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:38PM (#19340600)

That would be useful even if you're not keeping a particular diet, but just want to have food and not want to have to think about it when you've got a new baby.

We stocked the freezer by cooking a lot before our baby was born... and then in a sleep-deprived haze I left the freezer open.

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