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Here are a few things I'll eat in a day. I typically don't eat a big breakfast, but I will have a big lunch. Dinners in my family are late, usually 6pm to 8pm, we typically walk after dinner, then I'll drink tea to relax before bed.
You'll probably notice a lack of beef and pork, I have trouble digesting them, so it's mostly chicken and seafood. My family also don't eat a lot of bread, it's treated more like a side than a meal.
And yeah, there's a quite a mix of cultures here. My mom's side is Greek/Egypt with Turkish influences from her great grandfather, my dad is Native American with some adopted local New Mexico flavors. Since I was originally born and raised by the ocean, seafood and sea vegetables are a big thing in my diet. They're hard to find in the southwest, but I crave them and they keep me healthy as I have low blood pressure, so I need a bit of healthy salt.
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Things I'll have for breakfast:
Apple cider vinegar mixed with honey or a fruit juice, usually pomegranate juice. Gets my digestive system prepped.
Oatmeal with dates, pumpkin seeds, and seasonal fruit.
Fresh fruit or fruit jelly with yogurt. I like Greek yogurt as it's more creamy and filling.
Seaweed soup with green onions or salmon
Kefir a type of strong yogurt drink
Crepe with fruit, pine nuts and honey
Omelet with spinach or dandelion greens
Eggs boiled in black tea and star anise
Shakshuka eggs with tomato and spices
Salmon with fried eggs
Fresh tilapia corn taco
Fruit smoothies
Green tea
Yerba mate
Lunch:
A Flatbread wrap with either chicken or falafel, lettuce, feta, red onion or tomato topped with tzatziki or Tahiti
Sardines with tomato pesto on ciabatta
Basmati rice with chicken or fish with garlic, oregano, basil
Tuna with red onion and chopped mozzarella
A salad made of lightly pickled cucumber and lato (sea grapes)
Rice soup - Made with leftover tea, seaweed, sesame seeds, fish
Baby octopus with chopped tomatoes, red onion, and oregano -
Dolma - Grape leaves stuffed with spiced rice and a meat then steamed, cabbage leaves are sometimes used instead
Ta'meya or Falafel - ground chickpeas or lentils mixed with spices and fried into rounds, topped with tzatziki or hummus
Grilled cheese with strawberry and sage
Jellyfish salad with sweet vinegar and red chili
Steamed cactus pads with watermelon rind
Blue corn bread with sweet corn
Fish cakes in a crab broth with five spice seasoning
Ful medames
Peel and eat shrimp
Mussels on ice
Shawarma
Dinner:
Grilled chicken with mixed vegetables like cherry tomatoes
Vegetable bake with seasonal vegetables
Eggplant lasagna with feta and sliced tomatoes
Cioppino - Seafood in a rich tomato broth
Risotto rice with mushroom
Shrimp with feta and tomatoes
Grilled catfish with spices
Mussels in butter and garlic
Seafood in spiced yellow rice
Crab cakes in scallop shells
Three Sisters soup - Corn, beans, squash
Spinach and cheese stuffed pastries
Squash and corn simmered in milk with pepper, garlic, and saffron
Pumpkin soup with garlic, apple, and sweet potato
Tuna steak with cranberries and feta
Zucchini stuffed with herbed rice and baked
Sayadeya - Fried fish with red onions on rice spiced with cinnamon, turmeric, and ginger
Venison chili beans
Fry bread tacos
Kushari
Chicken livers and hearts
Wild rice with elderberry and morel mushrooms
Lumpias - Like a large egg roll
Wild rice with sweet potato, pumpkin, and cranberry
Snow fungus soup with chicken bone broth
Chicken herb soup - chicken boiled with red dates, wild yam, astragalus, goji
Grilled chicken with butternut squash sweet potatoes
Mixed bean soup with chicken bone broth
Sweet and sour bitter melon soup
Between meals:
Tea with milk
Lots of different nuts
Dried fruit like dates and figs
Fresh fruit with a bit of sweet condensed milk
Jerky turkey or venison
Pickled sweet vegetables
Bruschetta with crackers
Fresh figs with goat cheese
Olives stuffed with cheese
Seaweed salad
Squid jerky
Horned melon
Naan with olive oil
Fried sardines in honey
Mushroom chips
Sweet potato chips
Crispy baby crabs
Fried sage leaves
Prosciutto
Frozen grapes
Zabladi
Cactus fruit
Quail eggs
Snap peas
Drinks:
Grape juice
Pomegranate juice
Hibiscus tea
Mint tea
Ginger tea
Anise tea
Yuzu tea
Rose petal tea
Barley tea
Flowering tea
Mountain herb tea
Water infused with fresh lemongrass and fennel
Water with basil seeds with honey
Roasted milk tea
Yerba mate
Corn silk tea
Rice milk with cinnamon and cardamom
Desserts:
Yogurt with honey and mixed fruit either frozen or seasonal
Chia pudding with peanut butter or rose petal jelly
Italian soda with sugar-free syrups of either rosewater, lavender, peach, or strawberry
Iced coffee with cacao nibs
Chocolate dipped fruit
Gelatins
Anise cookies
Amaretto biscuits
Honey comb
Baklava
Grass jelly with milk
Coconut milk pudding
Rose or pistachio halva
Sweet potato with ice cream
Snow fungus with fruit and rock sugar
Khoshaf - A dessert made of dried fruits simmered with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves
Lazy meals:
A typical salad
Frozen vegetables popped into a microwave and served with ready cooked shrimp or a can of sardines in tomato
Pumpkin puree in a can mixed with garlic, pepper, and milk pop into microwave
Jellyfish salad with pickled vegetables and sweet chili sauce
Thin crust pizza made from a pita with tomato, cheese, and Italian seasoning
Spinach or dandelion greens omelet with cheese
Rice soup - made with tea, fish, seaweed, and green onion
Sweet potato with toppings of choice
Baked potato with peanut butter and crab paste
Wonton wrappers stuffed with cream cheese and fried
Chestnut rice - Rice with chopped chestnuts
Chopped apples with cinnamon and honey in the microwave
Bread pudding - day old bread, fruit of choice, egg, milk pop in microwave until egg is cooked
Rice pudding - cooked rice, milk, cardamom, cinnamon, and dried chopped fruit
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in one of the chapters of "Peace Is A Journey" you had the gang eat snow to stay hydrated, you should never eat snow to stay hydrated. in fact, it does the opposite and dehydrates you. My family comes from a long line of Mountaineers and my mom used to be a cross-country skier. Other than that you've been incredibly accurate with mountaineering knowledge.
See, I'm actually of two minds about this one, because you're right that in the long run, eating snow dehydrates you more than it hydrates you....but I've been debating whether or not that would be known by Rayla in-setting.
I have shown her to have pretty damn good all terrain survival knowledge, so on one hand, yes in theory she could know it. But on the other hand, I have to think about what her people in the Silvergrove do or do not know, and where they'd get that information from.
The reason snow dehydrates is because melting it inside the body and then reheating the body's core temperature takes energy, and that's like, metabolic knowledge that I'm not sure everyone would have. People who live in cold regions would probably have most of their populace knowing that eating snow is bad just from folk knowledge and experience, but for everyone else....I'm not so sure.
The Silvergrove is located in a temperate forest. Certainly Runaan and the assassin squad would have been trained in a lot of survival knowledge, so they might know intricate cold weather survival stuff like this. But it could also be that, like for us, there's a basic assumption that eating snow is a good way to rehydrate if you can't make a fire to melt it, and either Runaan would know or wouldn't, and then Rayla would know or wouldn't, because in the end she is less knowledgeable and experienced than Runaan. I've been leaning towards 'yes they do know', because they did travel through mountainous regions in winter to get to the castle, so Runaan would probably have brushed up on operational knowledge and learned it even if he didn't previously - IF that information is actually available. And that's where I'm stuck.
Moonshadow elves in piaj ain't any better at thermoregulating than humans. But. In piaj worldbuilding, Skywing elves are very very cold resistant, and Sunfire elves can keep their core temperature high with very little energy, because their thermoregulatory processes are augmented by magic. So if Sunfire and Skywing elves can very efficiently stay warm, and therefore snow hydrates them, and they can live in cold regions more easily, it might be harder for Moonshadow elves who don't generally live in cold regions to know whether or not snow is an efficient water source, since they only have hearsay from other races. This makes it more likely that Runaan and his squad wouldn't necessarily know that snow-eating itself is dehydrating, just that eating it makes you colder, so wherever possible you want to melt it on a campfire first.
So my options are:
- Runaan knows, because the Silvergrove has accurate niche information about Moonshadow elf cold survival for some reason, presumably from hypothetical cold environment Moonshadow societies or a pronounced past history of cold weather ops. In this case, Rayla either knows, in which case the story text needs editing, or doesn't, in which case only the notes need editing.
- Runaan doesn't know, because either Silvergrove information on cold weather survival isn't that detailed, or because the differing physiologies of different elf races means that information just plain isn't available.
So in sum I really haven't decided yet what my stance is on this lmao, and that's why I haven't made any notes about it in story yet. I was kind of hoping no one would notice >.> Good catch though.
I welcome input / opinions! I'm still making up my mind on this one. I really like it when there's funky racial difference reasons for there being misinformation, so I'm biased towards that, but on the other hand I feel like the Silvergrove assassins are pretty resourceful and might have conducted enough cold weather ops to know anyway.
What do you think?
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