She RSVP'd yes to the dinner party. Then texted the host asking what oil they cook with.

What Oil Do You Cook With

The tension between wanting to be social and needing to control every ingredient is a specific, recognizable behavior in the nutrition-conscious community that people laugh at because they have done it or wanted to.

She has a dehydrator, a mandoline, a sous vide, and a fermentation crock. She had toast for dinner.

She read that your housemates change your gut bacteria. She is interviewing her next roommate for microbiome compatibility.

Her morning smoothie has 14 ingredients. She cannot name three of them.

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