Eating the same menus day after day?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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I've always felt that military rations might be the way to go, since
they are designed with much the same goals in mind. But they are
expensive to eat on a daily basis, for someone who doesn't have a
military budget.

You must not know how many calories each one contains. Just one would exceed
the original calorie requirements given.

Mxsmanic wrote:

***** charles writes:

Now the difficult part, what if it is a vegetarian diet. It seems
to be "eazy" if one eats meat but a lot more difficult if one
doesn't.

Meat is also a lot more expensive than many vegetarian foodstuffs.
Rice is cheaper than beef.

OMFG. Not you again!

***** charles wrote:

Hi all,

I was in the hospital a while back for 2 weeks.
I lost 15 pounds. I am still overweight, a male and in my 50's.

Is it possible to come up with a list of food to eat in a 24 hour
period, that I could consume day in and day out that is both
nutritionally addequate(sp?) and CHEAP. Doesn't have to
be gourmet taste quality and can be from 1500 to 1800 cal
per day? Since I don't cook that much it should be easy to
fix and cheap and something that I could make a bunch of
and store it in the 'frig? Any suggested menu's - foods will
be welcomed.

Weren't you over in the low carb newsgroup babbling about low carb
vegetarianism or something?

What you're looking for is possible, I suppose, but it's a bad idea
because it's unrealistic. Learn to cook. Learn to eat a variety of
foods. Learn to control your calorie intake. Learn to exercise
properly - and then do it. All of it.

Matthew Venhaus writes:

You must not know how many calories each one contains. Just one would exceed
the original calorie requirements given.

Then eat just part of one each day. That would lower the cost, too.

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***** charles wrote:

Is it possible to come up with a list of food to eat in a 24 hour
period, that I could consume day in and day out that is both
nutritionally addequate(sp?) and CHEAP. Doesn't have to
be gourmet taste quality and can be from 1500 to 1800 cal
per day? Since I don't cook that much it should be easy to
fix and cheap and something that I could make a bunch of
and store it in the 'frig? Any suggested menu's - foods will
be welcomed.

To go with the lowest price, think a 50 pound sack of brown
rice and a 50 pound sack of pinto beans. Both can be cooked
in a big pan and kept in the fridge. And they are dirt cheap
when purchased in quantity.

Nothing but rice, beans and water isn't going to cut it, though.
Not enough micronutrients, not enough essential fatty acids.

So add a can of sardines every couple of days for the essential
fatty acids. Essential fattty acids could be gotten from
assorted nuts or any other type of meat but all of those options
cost more per gram or EFA than sardines.

And see what fruits or veggies are on sale this week for the
vitamins and trace minerals. Don't go with a fixed assortment
of veggies or fruit because different ones go on sale at different
times. Get ones that cost less, but get different ones each
week.

Do that and you'll be bored out of your gourd but you will
stay in good health and your wallet will leak very little into
your food budget. You will *not* be able to sustain such a
process for long unless you really can't afford better. Being
forced into such a diet (starving college student symdrome)
makes it easier than actually being able to go to the store
and get real food.

Caveat - grains and legumes are problem foods for various
people so such a plan won't work for somewhere in the
range of 1-10% of the population. Before launching on such
a process consider going 1-2 weeks grain-free then add the
rice back in and see if you get any ill effects. Both wheat
and corn have higher chances of causing problems than
rice. Then go 1-2 weeks legume-free then add the pinto
beans back in and see if you get any ill effects. Legume
intollerances are more common than most think - consider
potentially fatal peanut allergies and favism.

"LurfysMa" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:55:51 GMT, "***** charles"
wrote:

"Ignoramus4610" wrote in message
.. .
how about

breakfast -- egg, cottage cheese and an apple
lunch -- cabbage soup with meat
dinner -- bananas, some walnuts and a piece of chicken

Now the difficult part, what if it is a vegetarian diet. It seems
to be "eazy" if one eats meat but a lot more difficult if one
doesn't.

There are 2 different vegetarians, those who eat dairy and
those who do not.

thanks...

What is this? Are you writing a book? Doing a research paper the lazy
way? Just a pest? If you are a vegetarian, why didn't you say so in
the original post? And why are you not saying which "kind" now?

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I am not writing a book and I am lacto-ovo-vegitarian.
Just trying to figure out a reasonable diet plan now that
my girlfriend kciked me out and I am on my own.

later....

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
oups.com...
***** charles wrote:

Is it possible to come up with a list of food to eat in a 24 hour
period, that I could consume day in and day out that is both
nutritionally addequate(sp?) and CHEAP. Doesn't have to
be gourmet taste quality and can be from 1500 to 1800 cal
per day? Since I don't cook that much it should be easy to
fix and cheap and something that I could make a bunch of
and store it in the 'frig? Any suggested menu's - foods will
be welcomed.

To go with the lowest price, think a 50 pound sack of brown
rice and a 50 pound sack of pinto beans. Both can be cooked
in a big pan and kept in the fridge. And they are dirt cheap
when purchased in quantity.

Nothing but rice, beans and water isn't going to cut it, though.
Not enough micronutrients, not enough essential fatty acids.

So add a can of sardines every couple of days for the essential
fatty acids. Essential fattty acids could be gotten from
assorted nuts or any other type of meat but all of those options
cost more per gram or EFA than sardines.

And see what fruits or veggies are on sale this week for the
vitamins and trace minerals. Don't go with a fixed assortment
of veggies or fruit because different ones go on sale at different
times. Get ones that cost less, but get different ones each
week.

Do that and you'll be bored out of your gourd but you will
stay in good health and your wallet will leak very little into
your food budget. You will *not* be able to sustain such a
process for long unless you really can't afford better. Being
forced into such a diet (starving college student symdrome)
makes it easier than actually being able to go to the store
and get real food.

Caveat - grains and legumes are problem foods for various
people so such a plan won't work for somewhere in the
range of 1-10% of the population. Before launching on such
a process consider going 1-2 weeks grain-free then add the
rice back in and see if you get any ill effects. Both wheat
and corn have higher chances of causing problems than
rice. Then go 1-2 weeks legume-free then add the pinto
beans back in and see if you get any ill effects. Legume
intollerances are more common than most think - consider
potentially fatal peanut allergies and favism.

Thank you for the best honest answer. After all the discussion
I think asking a newsgroup, in retrospect is but the first step.

later,
charles.....