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gotta rant about vegetables for a minute and also more generally about morality-based dietary planning
legit furious rn
so tldr my grandpa is 100 and my mom handles his meal prep
he has great difficulty eating, gets ~500kcal down daily
and my mom is losing her mind
legit furious rn
so tldr my grandpa is 100 and my mom handles his meal prep
he has great difficulty eating, gets ~500kcal down daily
and my mom is losing her mind
she's losing her mind because the assisted living staff are some combination of (1) not paid enough to actually feed gpa the carefully-labeled foods that she painstakingly prepares for him and she is in her 70s and TIRED and "trying to keep my dad from starving" is her life now
meanwhile grandpa while he yes he is 100 years old is far, far weaker than he needs to be because he is not eating enough and is slow motion starving because of it, apparently he's less than 100 pounds now
so mom dropped kiddo off today after watching her and went on a rant about this situation, as she should, it's maddening
complaining about all the produce she throws out, assistants messing up her carefully labeled system, etc etc
complaining about all the produce she throws out, assistants messing up her carefully labeled system, etc etc
and at one point she mentions that she said fuck it and made him bananas foster after her brother was worried about grandpa not eating bananas anymore
and that surprisingly he was able to down the whole thing in like 15 minutes (usually meals take hours)
that's where i flipped
and that surprisingly he was able to down the whole thing in like 15 minutes (usually meals take hours)
that's where i flipped
do you have any idea how many calories are in something like this
i bet it's more than 500
i bet it's more than 500
why the fuck are they not just giving him a giant bowl of ice cream at every fucking meal
why are they buying PRODUCE
why are they labeling shit. huge containers of ice cream? EASILY PREPARED. EASILY ORGANIZED
why are they buying PRODUCE
why are they labeling shit. huge containers of ice cream? EASILY PREPARED. EASILY ORGANIZED
why the fuck has no one had the thought "gosh let's let this dude who is literally starving just eat ice cream, a food he easily eats when he can eat almost nothing else and only with great difficulty, all day"
"it's not nutritious" motherfucker 500 kcal a day!!!! how much nutrition do you think is in that?
he is ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD
he doesn't need vegetables for whatever bullshit reason you think those are important
he needs CALORIES
and proteins, which incidentally, dairy?
he is ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD
he doesn't need vegetables for whatever bullshit reason you think those are important
he needs CALORIES
and proteins, which incidentally, dairy?
the only reason i can imagine is that everyone involved in this is hopelessly FDA-brained or unthinkingly working with a model of eating based entirely on some premodern morality of suffering
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