A different way to heat food.

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I have been reviewing techniques regarding the instant pot device.  One way to cook vegetables, for example, is the zero minute technique.  What you do with that is set the pressure cooker part up, close it all down, then let it run with zero set as the time.  What the machine does is heats and pressurizes the cooker, then immediately begins cooling down.

With some vegetables, that will cook them without turning them into mush.  What I wanted to see is if this will heat the food back up, for a quick lunch.  Everything was still in the pot.  So I didn't have to change anything out, or put it into a different pot, or... just... heat and let it go.

As to heating up a pot roast and veggies?  It was excellent!  The meat didn't get more done, and the veggies are still good.  I probably overdid the veggies initially, but they haven't gotten worse.  And the meat is still good.  Further, the food stayed warm while eating it.  At altitude... ~4400 feet here... food tends to get cold quickly, especially when there is snow or rain as now, and when it's cold enough for snow.

It worked perfectly.  I had a fine big plate of cabbage, pork roast, some potato, parsnips, and some carrot.  Full as can be, and sated with it.

I keep hearing that snacks are best avoided?  Actually, I agree.  The problem is, if I am hungry, making a whole meal isn't always possible.  I have limits.  Then, if I go too hungry for too long, remaining unable to eat a whole meal while denying snacks, I will end up feasting on anything and everything until some form of satiation is reached.

It might not be intermittent fasting, but eating only whole meals may lead more quickly to that.  Which is a goal.  And, it... is a form of intermittent... by steps.  Snacks lead to general grazing, and grazing is a horrible way to eat.  It means never being hungry, or properly sated, just in a food/satiation limbo.  Definitely need to stop snacking.  Nuts?  With kefir, and cheese?  It becomes a meal.  As with other things I have been known to use as snacks.  Add a few other things, make it a meal albeit a small one.  Yes.

I am trying to keep ingredients somewhat ready.  From meat crumble, already fried... to meat and stock ready for a quick soup, along with various fresh vegetables available.  That isn't always possible though either.  Sardines and a few other items are being added to the larder.  Even so, I am attempting to work toward eating a fuller meal.  Not just sardines, but, say, sardines, pickles, and maybe a pack of fruit or veggies.  

As much a nutrition thing, as it is a general health and maintenance thing.  Snacks, or piecemeal foods don't seem to fill or present what the body needs.  The body begins to seek by flavor, and that... isn't how food should be, not completely.  There needs to be some room for that, and a requirement of suitable flavor.  But it can't be just about flavor, texture, or such.

Think of tastes, how many you have?  Try to add something that will hit each of those notes, possibly several, or in different ways.  Including umami.  Further, consider textures, or at least the ones you like.  Crisp?  A pickle, or fresh lettuce?  Medium hard, say a potato or softer pickle?  Soft?  Perhaps an egg of some sort, or jello?  Try to combine foods to mix and match those.

Take care of both your needs and wants, curiosities and interests.  If you don't tend your body, it will tend itself.  Think of it as a child.  When you deny a child for too long, that child... even a good one... will figure out how to get what it wants.  The child, though, has to be disciplined as well.  It's... not easy, but worth a try.  Which is what I am doing.

There is enough for another meal or two.  I will just eat through this.  I was hungry, for good food.  I haven't been eating well, too tired.  Medicine has been cutting me down.  So... having a good meal helps.  And having an easy way to heat it also works well.  This should feed me for a today, maybe into tomorrow.  Then, perhaps, a whole chicken.  Or... parted?  Getting the skin off, making schmaltz and gribenes for with eggs, too?  Oh yes.

I do need fresh vegetables.  I don't think I can get out today.  But, perhaps, I can do dishes, get a shower, clean in the bathroom, and maybe be ready to try to get out tomorrow or the day after.  So tired.  Medicine, the cold, the dark.  But... I refuse to quit.  I will... keep trying.  Good day.