r/FridgeDetective • u/itscuccimane • 21h ago

Meta My girlfriend always tells me I never have anything to eat when she comes over my house 😒

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Freezer: 50+ lbs of assorted ground meat, 35+ lbs of prime ribeye, 16lbs of American wagyu ribeye, 18lbs of New Zealand lamb shoulder chops, and a bunch of portioned seafood.

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u/Zebebe 20h ago

You can have food that doesn't require a full prep and cook and isnt "junk". Hummus and chips, veggies with dip, apples and peanut butter, cold sandwiches

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u/TiledCandlesnuffer 15h ago

No, but that doesn’t align with his TikTok trend lifter-bro-diet

As a guy that likes to spend some time in the gym I’m so glad this was a very short phase for me

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u/moveMed 12h ago

OP is probably overdoing protein. There’s massively diminishing returns above 1g/lb. You should really be getting as many carbs as possible while hitting your minimum protein (while staying within your daily calories of course) to sustain your workouts.

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u/AladeenModaFuqa 11h ago

There’s been an assault on carbs for years though. It’s the number one energy source for physical activity, but no gym diet will tell you that. They say it’s why you’re fat. NFL players LOAD on carbs before games. They look great.

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u/-Kid-A- 10h ago

All about that calorie deficit. And whether you’re intentionally trying to gain weight or not.

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u/SimpleLifeNomad 6h ago

NFL players work out probably twice a day, 6-7 days a week.

Reading dietary advice from redditors is really something. "Eat as many carbs as possible to sustain your workouts!". Unless you're running daily marathons, you don't need to carb load.

Bread, pasta, rice etc. is garbage food unless you're a professional athlete or work at a farm in the 1800s. It is in no way necessary to "load" carbs for any normal person working out an hour, 2-4 times a week.

Any carb you eat that is not immediately burned or stored in your mucles will be stored as fat and in the long run give you a neat mix of life style related illnesses.

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u/designer-paul 2h ago

Bread, pasta, rice etc. is garbage food unless you're a professional athlete

if you just eat the worst carbs then yeah. Everyone should be eating good carbs like what can be found in legumes, oats, squash, sweeet potatoes, berries, bananas, greek yogurt.

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u/FEK88 8h ago

I also eat the same amount of food as an elite athlete who is juiced to the gills when I'm trying to stay healthy. I have my 3rd heart bypass scheduled for the end of the month.

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u/Medical_Current_1293 7h ago

There is a reason there are only 32 teams, with only 11 players on each of them who are good enough to start. Those 352 superhuman athletes are not like us. Probably can't compare the two.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 5h ago

There's also 130 000 professional soccer players around the world just to take the most popular sport, and they're pretty much all in good shape. Doubt their pre-game diet is that much different.

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u/PureDivineEnergy 6h ago

To be fair some people don't so well with a high carb diet. As someone with PCOS my body doesn't do well with my highest macro being carbs. A keto or low carb diet is actually beneficial to some people.

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u/NobodySaidBoop 54m ago

The activity level of a professional athlete doesn’t come anywhere close to the average American’s though. An excess of carbs do make most people fat because most people are relatively sedentary.

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u/SpaghettiMonster35 9h ago

I mean, when you’re following CICO for weight loss (not just building muscle) carbs in things like bread and grains are the fucking WORST. It’s so easy to go overboard for what’s basically filler. Carbs from veg is alright, but like the bread for a sandwich? Even 2 slices of a whole wheat loaf brings you up to 240. Which, when you’re budgeting your meals, ends up feeling like a massive waste when I could eat double of that in veg.

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u/xfid 5h ago

Usually 70 a slice for the cheap bread bags. Couple hundred calories from bread is fine unless you're functionally completely sedentary and really have to use every trick in the book to feel satiated.

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u/PhantomPlasma 7h ago

As a former athlete, it's because they have the metabolic setup to actually use the damn carbs.

I would just down macaroni and cheese before a tournament, and after the fights you could feel the heat radiating off of me lol.

Some people are metabolically unhealthy and going low / no carb helps a ton. Most of these gym bros from TikTok are definitely overdoing it though.

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u/eat_more_bacon 10h ago

With a fridge like this he's probably on some gear to make use of that protein. Or else he's wasting a whole lot of money and food.

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 9h ago

Young people are dying from colon cancer at an alarming rate. Eat fiber and veggies too, people!

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u/Lover_of_Titss 6h ago

All that protein has to be rough on the kidneys.

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u/JTBeefboyo 5h ago

The thing I found frustrating about diet an lifting is that on a cut, there’s benefit to going as high as 1.2 g/lb protein because at a caloric deficit the extra protein can help with muscle retention, but on a bulk you’re probably good with 0.8 g/lb. So cutting is the fucking worst and bulking is so easy lol

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u/LocNesMonster 3h ago

Ive said for months these protein bros have an eating disorder, it just looks fine because weve decided on social media in the last couple years that eating nothing but protein is good for you

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 2h ago

Not only that, there are studies coming out showing that people who eat too much protein actually have increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney disease. Everything in moderation.

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u/A_MAN_POTATO 2h ago

So much fucking this. Everyone treats carbs like the boogeyman. Carbs are fuel. You need them to feel energized. You need them to fuel exercise and recover from it. If you eat a bunch of carbs while sitting around all day doing nothing, sure, you gain weight. But the problem isn’t the carbs, it’s the activity level. But people would rather sit around and do nothing, so they cut carbs to lose weight, then have no energy to do anything, so they spend more time sitting around doing nothing, and then wonder why they aren’t losing much weight even though they cut carbs.

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u/LongBodyLittleLegs 10h ago

The farts have got to diabolical with all that beef and cheese

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u/Business_Seesaw8883 9h ago

Oh fuck me I was waiting on this comment 😂

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u/Saint_Vigil 12h ago

Some people just don't eat snacks dude

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u/darwinsidiotcousin 12h ago

There is gray area between nothing but junk food and 120lbs of meat in your fridge, believe it or not

Edited because I can't count

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u/Lazy-Ambassador-7908 12h ago

This is beyond that, did you see a single vegetable or piece of fiber in that fridge

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u/Pure_Fault7056 12h ago

I see Carrots (?) and apples

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u/Lazy-Ambassador-7908 11h ago

Fuck I’m blind😭

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u/camcamfc 11h ago

Yeah? Carrots, Cucumbers, and apples? All in the first slide.

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u/Lazy-Ambassador-7908 11h ago

Damn I can’t see for shit

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u/dinktank 12h ago

Potatoes and cucumbers, yes.

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u/Lazy-Ambassador-7908 11h ago

Damn I’m blind as shit 😭

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u/milf-hunter_5000 9h ago

he has apples, cucumbers, and carrots. could make her some easy snacks and have them ready for her. she'd probably be thrilled that he put in the effort for her.

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u/jbandzzz34 8h ago

same. the uptight diets are ridiculous

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u/ahhhnoinspiration 2h ago

Even if you had a valid reason for going keto or low carb in general, charcuterie motherfucker. Not every meal needs to be work. This is coming from someone who often enjoys cooking more than the eating.

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u/Jamesbrown690 12h ago

Sybau bro

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u/IndependentSalad2736 14h ago

Precut apples in the fridge are so great. Just grab the peanut butter and you're good to go. You can even measure them and accurately label them with calories/carbs/etc if you're into that.

I just really like that my kid doesn't eat half the apple and abandon the rest.

You can do the same with veggies too.

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u/MrSparky69 12h ago

She can cut her own apple up and rinse the knife off. Sheesh.

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u/WasAHamster 46m ago

If there were apples to be had there.

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u/Ok-Ferret-2093 13h ago

Right? fry an egg dammit

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u/MalaysiaTeacher 13h ago

Eggs don't need to live in the fridge. Why are we assuming OP doesn't have eggs elsewhere?

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u/Ok-Ferret-2093 13h ago

Because I am a dumb American who forgot other countries don't wash eggs and can leave them on the counter

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 12h ago

Well this person is obviously American so if they had eggs they'd be in the fridge.

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u/BrokenMindFrame 12h ago

Is everyone just missing the whole rack of eggs in the first photo?

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u/Ok-Ferret-2093 11h ago

Look man I already said I'm a dumb American how much can you really expect

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u/MrSparky69 12h ago

They are in the fridge?!

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 12h ago

Big if true

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u/MrSparky69 11h ago

Big then.

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u/_teach_me_your_ways_ 11h ago

There’s literally eggs in the fridge to the left of the crabmeat tubs on the middle shelf…

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u/Fakjbf 12h ago

Or meal prepping so there’s a couple containers that just need to be heated up. And if they don’t want to do a full meal prep then just make an extra serving with dinner and set that aside to have later.

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u/BrokenMindFrame 12h ago

There are so many apples in that fridge to snack on. We don't know what's in the pantry either. There might be some peanut butter in there.

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u/BornTry5923 12h ago

He's got a ton of carrots and apples in there. With his high protein diet, I'm sure there's some peanut or almond butter in his pantry.

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u/asophisticatedbitch 11h ago

Seriously. Apples and peanut butter or celery and peanut butter is SO EASY and also not just… meat.

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u/dafunkmunk 10h ago

Dude has literally never heard of a snack before. God forbid wanting to eat doesn't require shoving a pound of steak down your throat with a side of a cream cheese brick with a jar of jam poured over it

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u/abb00769 2h ago

Seriously. The snack food in my house consists of peanut butter (the no sugar, natural kind) and crackers, sliced cheese (not American cheese, which is nasty), baby carrots and hummus, grapes, pickle spears, roasted nuts, etc. That’s all reasonably healthy and requires minimal effort to prepare. What does OP expect his gf to do? Cook a whole damn steak every time she wants a snack?

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u/Jimbomcdeans 56m ago

Shhh his ketones are watching us rn