🍳 **掌握烹饪技能，实现身心双重效益**：学习烹饪不仅能带来经济上的节省、社交上的便利，以及在美学和健康方面的提升，更重要的是，它能帮助人们更敏锐地感知自己的身体。通过亲手制作食物，可以更灵活地调整食材和口味，从而更好地理解哪些食物让自己感觉良好，哪些则不然，实现与身体的和谐共处。

⏰ **灵活调整饮食节奏，满足个体需求**：文章提到，从一日一餐到一日三餐，再到不规律的餐次，各种饮食模式都能适应。关键在于培养灵活的饮食能力，无论是长时间不进食而不感到饥饿，还是短时间内大量进餐，都能从容应对。这种能力是可以训练的，能够适应不同的场合和需求，提升生活的便利性。

🤔 **有意识地进食，提升感恩与审美体验**：每天至少一次，有意识地思考正在食用的食物，能够带来双重益处。一方面，它能引发对我们能够轻松获取充足美味食物的世界的感恩之情；另一方面，它能增强对食物的审美享受，使用餐体验更加丰富和深刻。

🌶️ **大胆尝试香料，探索风味无限可能**：鼓励大胆地使用各种香料，并观察其带来的变化。虽然初期可以先了解一些基本的香料搭配原则，但更重要的是通过实践去发现不同风味组合的魅力。香料的运用是丰富烹饪体验、提升食物风味的关键。

🚫 **减少零食购买，回归均衡与适量**：文章建议尽量少购买零食和甜点，因为家中若有此类食物，很容易在短时间内被消耗。这类食物通常蛋白质含量较低，而作者倾向于高蛋白饮食。避免过度加工和高度诱人口味的零食，有助于自然地达到适量的进食，保持身体的均衡。

Published on November 5, 2025 3:47 AM GMT

I've got some drafts in the oven as I continue my Halfhaven writing, but nothing that's ready to go out the door today, so I thought I'd follow the example of some of my compatriots and make a list. I expect some of these to be fairly idiosyncratic so consider with caution before adoption.

1. Learning how to cook pretty well. There's financial benefits to cooking your own meals, there's friendship benefits to cooking food for events, there's aesthetic benefits, health benefits. I think in addition to all of these cooking your own food can help put you more in tune with your body, since you can much more easily adjust and experiment with things you like more or less and things that make your body feel more or less good afterwards.

2. Eating meals to the extent that I want to at the times I want to. I've done everything from eating one meal a day at a regular time with a small snack earlier in the day to regular three meals a day to an irregular 1-3 meals a day at inconsistent times and they've all felt fine. The one main meal a day was good for losing a bit of weight, and in general, I'm able to feel really flexible in my ability to eat more or less for any given occasion. I'm able to go a fairly long time between eating without feeling bothered by hunger, and I'm fine with eating a lot of food in a short amount of time, which can be convenient. I believe this is something that can be trained, since this certainly wasn't always the case for me.

3. At least one time per day, I put conscious effort into thinking about the food that I'm eating. It either helps me be more thankful that I live in a world where I can easily access more than enough yummy food and/or helps enhance the aesthetic enjoyment.

4.  Use spices! Use a lot of spices! Put 'em on and see what happens! Eventually you start learning about how different flavors mix but until then just keep putting spices on. (Do learn at least some basics about what goes with what beforehand)

5. I purchase very little in terms of snack/dessert-ish content. If there is food in the house, odds are that I am going to eat it before too long and having lots of snacks/dessert is bad for me. I'm not even sure about how it effects me at the nutrient level but they'll just generally be protein-scarce and I try to eat relatively high in protein. Also by avoiding the sort of hyper-palatable snack food that is really easy to eat, it's much more likely I'll naturally arrive at eating an amount of food that is appropriate for me. Sometimes I try making my own snacks and that's more fun.

There's a short list that manages to fulfill my word obligations. If you read this far, do you have any advice/recommendations on getting started with baking? I've done very little on that front so far but would like to go further.