Ingredients for a Good Life

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Georgeanna
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Re: Ingredients for a Good Life

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Belindi wrote: November 7th, 2018, 6:52 am Oatly sell the oat sludge to a pig farm. Nice and economical but bad copy for the vegan market.

I bet the oat sludge makes a good soil improver. Another possible use for the oat sludge may be as a laxative; a few years ago oat bran was recommended as more bowel-friendly than wheat bran. To make the oat sludge into a laxative there would have to be a recipe that makes the sludge nice to swallow. Could it be incorporated into soft toffee, or that Scottish favourite, tablet?
Well, there ya go.
The new oat-flavoured tablet. Tasty toilet treat. Och aye the noo :)

Have your tried tablet with ginger bits in ? It's yum.
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I emailed Oatly with the suggestion!
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I emailed Oatly with the suggestion!

Georgeanna:
The new oat-flavoured tablet. Tasty toilet treat. Och aye the noo :)
It could start a new movement. :D
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Re: Ingredients for a Good Life

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Belindi wrote: November 7th, 2018, 7:27 am I emailed Oatly with the suggestion!
Love it :lol:

'It could start a new movement' :lol: :lol:

And the advertising slogan ?
'Good to go !'
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Yes!Good to Go when you Go With Oatly :D
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Re: Ingredients for a Good Life

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Georgeanna wrote: November 3rd, 2018, 9:35 am [ Inspired by Belinda's recipe for dal ]

Concerning philosophy and the Good Life. What are the ingredients for a life of well-beingness ?
If we follow Maslow's hierarchy of needs we could work our way up.
I've forgotten exactly what they are but I'm sure Food and Shelter is a basic.

How can we do anything without good nutrition and sustenance ?
The health of the body is often overlooked in discussions of morality, religion, etc.
However, types of food, the forbidden kind, the 'sins' of some dietary fad...the way they are combined and cooked so as to maximise health or minimize harm...with care and taste...what can possibly be more fascinating ? It's an oral thing.

What, for you, makes life enjoyable, worth living...and is good ?
I never used to think of food, and the cooking thereof, as anything other than a boring necessity - if a pill could have been invented to replace it, I would have bought it.
Now, I see the value of it. The trouble is - so much of it is bad for you, in so many ways...

Belinda, we need your help !
Food is actually a very big deal.

For my pet cat it is the #1 priority.

As long as I keep feeding him AND treating him nicely he will return every day and sleep next to me on top of my bed during the nights.

There is basic food and then there is exquisite food.

If you have only basic food then you must embrace Stoicism.

If you have exquisite food then you may embrace Epicureanism.

Big difference.
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Re: Ingredients for a Good Life

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h_k_s, aren't "exquisite" and "basic" subjectively relative? So how could you know if you were a Stoic or an Epicurean.
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