"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Man, that red curry sounds delicious. Is Asian food prominent in Germany? I was told the Netherlands had like one Chinese restaurant.


Protein Roll

http://imgur.com/BwOMyZk

Beef from earlier post
Egg
Coconut Shrimp
Cucumber
Mint leaves
Horseradish
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Here's a good meal for when you guys are constipated from all that protein. It takes a long time to cook, but it makes meals that cost about 25-50 cents and have a massive amount of fiber.

One bag, your choice of dried lentils, green split peas, or any dried beans. Cover with a generous amount of water and bring to a boil.
Add:
a splash of oil, I use olive oil
a big spoonful of fresh chopped garlic
Worcestershire Sauce
Soy Sauce
Bacon Bits - the real kind, I like Hormel brand
black pepper
a good amount of salt, and you'll probably end up adding more.
Sirachi Red Chili Sauce and/or jalepeno peppers if you like hot stuff

After it's boiling, reduce to a low boil and simmer 2-3 hours. I like anything dried to be cooked a long time. The peas and lentils will break down on their own. Sometimes with beans I will use a stick blender when they are done to give them the right consistency.

A word about dried beans, when you soak or boil them, the white foam on the top of the water is what gives you gas. White beans are good with a little chopped up ham steak, but if I ever enter a farting competition, that is definitely my pre-game meal.

You can eat any of these by themselves, or over rice. Black beans are good with cheese or any salad dressing as a topping. I tend to eat leftovers cold in the summer months.
 

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I just picked a handful of collard greens from the garden and ate them for dinner with some rice. I looked them up, and holy sh!t this stuff is healthy: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=138

I cooked a bag of boil-in-bag brown rice first, chopped up the collards and added them to a pan with a little water. To that I added garlic, 1/3 stick of butter, bacon bits, black pepper, soy sauce, and salt. The water keeps the butter from burning. Cook them down until they taste ok, then add the rice. I put Tony Cachere's seasoning salt on the rice as well.

The butter is 250 calories, the rice 300, and the collards about 100. That's a 600 calorie meal, and I couldn't eat all of it. And it cost me less than a dollar.
 
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