Cereal with Almond Milk 💚
I've been in tech since I was a youngin'. During my early days and the first part of my career, I was brash. If I broke it, I'd figure out how to fix it. If something was lost in a crash, I would rebuild it better & stronger. That's a powerful learning tool.
But over time, the things I worked on became more and more important to people's businesses and livelihoods, so I had to shift my approach in some ways. For example: backups. Then backups of backups, and of course backups of backups of backups with a side of redundancy. All this to say I've fostered a very strong backup mindset for many years now...
When I started to really, REALLY put a Herculean effort into plant-based eating, I realized that food backups could help me avoid a full crash in my eating goals. If the food I was planning to eat failed, what was next? And if THAT failed? So, I created backups.
1) try to have up to 3 different meals in the fridge at any given time
2) nut butter & bread
3) always keep 2 cereals and shelf-stable almond milk on hand: 1 hearty and slightly sweet cereal and 1 very basic one
Backups gave me the freedom to be brash. I could make bizarre foods and if they were a total flop, I would just reach for a backup. If I was permahungry, I would sometimes hit up one, two, or three backups! I've made a lot of progress over the past many months. I rarely reach for the cereal anymore. But, I keep it around for the same reasons. And today, I had no meal ready in the fridge, and I was hungry so I made a bowl of cereal.
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