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Comment author: CellBioGuy 27 August 2015 04:12:55PM *  5 points [-]

Grow what you will actually eat, not what you wish you would eat but won't actually eat. Learned this the hard way.

As such I now primarily grow tomatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes, malibar spinach, and strawberries despite being good at producing other things that would go to waste with some regularity.

(Still working on winter / fall gardening. Gonna try turnips and Fava beans.)

Comment author: Romashka 27 August 2015 04:49:05PM *  4 points [-]

(OTOH, if you need to lose weight, eating what you grow rather than buying something you might like a little better should help. At least it pushed me from 44 to 40 kg (I am 157 cm high).)

ETA: there were other reasons, too, but I think this was what did it.