It used to be stuff for my vaping. It is better than smoking, but still a waste of money. I quit last year though!
Congrats my dude! That nicotine is a hard habit to break and I'm super proud of you for getting out from under it!
I still get cravings. Pretty sure that'll never go away
Meat... :( We could all live without, but this damn learned behavior...
Don’t try to eat less meat, try to eat more veggie. I know it’s technically the same but the thought process is different. Before you know it, you had weeks without meat.
I have a lot of asian friends and their meals are always the opposite of typical American meals. It's a ton of veggies/rice with meat as a 'topping' rather than meat being the centerpiece with veggies as sides. I'd love to incorporate that more but I love meat so much...
Start easy, cut out 1 animal you don't eat too much of and go from there. Once I stopped eating beef, pork and lamb I felt weird about eating chicken, so just stopped altogether! (amongst other reasons)
Good luck on your journey!
That's a great idea!
Another thing that helped was to hold of 'recreating' your favourite dishes by making them veggie/vegan, at least to start with. Since you'll have just given up meat, you'll be directly comparing to the meat counterpart.
There are so many amazing veggie and vegan dishes out there, have a go at making some of them first. After all you want to give yourself the best chance possible.
It certainly takes a lot of effort to change your eating behaviour, but I've certainly felt a lot better after making the change. Good luck and remember to start small! :)
You could reduce your mince meat consuption by adding TVP/ soy protein crumble in it. This is what some fast food places actually do and people don't notice the difference unless they hear about it. There are also many vegan proteins in freezer section in many stores. Tofu can be super delicious once you learn how to cook it. I think cooking yummy tofu is sign of good chef.
Same! I would like to be vegan but i love a great steak, or burger, or...
I would argue we shouldn't live without it, but it does need to be cut back and less glorified. There are soo many alternatives that are healthier, cheaper, better for environment but you should still be able to have a medium rare steak and some chicken wings when you want it.
Some of my frequent grocery purchases come in single use plastics. I wish there was another way :(.
-Fast food. It's so expensive.
-Alcohol. It's unhealthy, and I use it as a crutch when I'm feeling bad.
-Animal products, due to climate change.
Starbucks coffee, and even more so, their tea. Just doesn't seem like a good use of my money, since I can make it at home for a lot less money.
And the one made at home is probably better too. Starbucks coffee kinda sucks, especially at that price point
I felt guilty for buying a fancy coffee machine but it's probably paid for itself over the last few years.
McDonalds. I have food at home and it's expensive. But damn I get a craving for it
Literally everything. I hate living under a system where my options are
- repeatedly consume products which cause death and the destruction of our environment
- move out into the woods and live as an isolated hermit
- die
I'm...I'm just so tired.
Amen.
And it's just so much worse if it's something I don't actually need and is on the pricey side... Like, I enjoy those canned Starbucks nitro cold brew drinks. I feel guilty wanting to buy them, I feel guilty about how many I want to put in my cart, and I feel guilty when I drink them.
Drugs, probably.
Spent a few k on k alone.
Add up everything over the years and I'm at least 1,000,000 pennies poorer.
More good times than bad but I still feel a bit guilty when I crunch the numbers.
Ice cream. I'm addicted.
Takeout. I get it a few times a week and always feel a bit guilty about it. I like supporting the local businesses but it's expensive and the plastic containers aren't great.
Furniture.
Not the products themselves, but the amount of packaging to throw away every time I buy a new chair or shelving unit that comes wrapped in layers of foam and plastic. Makes me guilty how much waste there is. But buying second hand isn’t always an option.
Micro-transactions in that one game I play.
I can easily afford it, so it's not like I'm gambling away my family's savings or something. However... At $10-20 a pop they aren't so "micro" anymore. And I know it's bad that I'm encouraging this predatory tactic. The money probably doesn't even make it to the developers. But they're freakin' ships from Star Trek! I can't help myself.
I actually feel really guilty about buying all those single serving drinks from Dunkin' and the convenience stores because of all of the plastic I am just putting back into the environment. I really need to stop doing this. 😾
I really enjoy iced/ cold brew coffee but always felt dumb paying $5 or more for it, especially because of the waste. I bought a cold brew pitcher and some travel mugs, and now I can have my coffee for pennies a day with no waste. Only downside is you have to remember to make it at least 12 hours before you want it.
Edit to add: Total price for the pitcher and mugs was equal to about 8 cups of coffee from a coffee shop.
I like the cold brew as well. The trouble is Dunks also wants to charge Starbucks prices for less than Starbucks quality.
Almost everything I eat, tbh. 30+ years of being overweight will do that to you.
Gas for my car.
Expensive drinks when I'm out for dinner etc. But I guess that's the cost of socialising.
Bubble tea. Expensive, but so good on a hot day..
Gasoline. Airplane tickets. Those are probably the worst two things. But as others have said there are really only a few things that don’t make me feel guilty. So it might be easier to list those.
Things I want but don't need like a beer at the store on Friday evening or a tablet of chocolate for the weekend or a game on Steam. So I try to minimize such purchases.
Chocolate
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