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Eating the same menus day after day?
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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! |
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***** 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. |
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Eating the same menus day after day?
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. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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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. |
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"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? -- For email, use 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.... |
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"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..... |
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