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Bookmarking this for later use. I've always wanted to find a recipe somewhere between Soylent and Lembas Bread that can be used for long hiking or canoe trips. Unfortunately the beans and cabbage hardly sound appetizing for a bread. The obvious ideas are wheat, nuts, and dried fruits. Any good resources for this?
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(the irony of avoiding my own noprocrast settings)... For a university course, I managed roughly 600$ a year (local prices) with a (few-constraints-)diet of peanut butter and rice sandwiches. Even lower price for directly consuming spoonfuls of flour. Thus the added commentary: - you manage what you measure (linear programming is really powerful, but also simplistic for this model) - the human body is great at surviv…
Haha, the Stigler diet leaves out a couple of important items. Salt and yeast turn flour into bread, which is damn tasty. They're cheap, but not free, and should have been accounted for.
As I started preparing home-made kefir, I realized that full-fat milk has a balanced protein-fat content, and is rich in some other nutrients. Fermentation to kefir reduces the lactose content while increasing some of the good things (vitamins, amino-acids). In my calculations, about 3L of kefir per day should satisfy the energy and protein needs of an adult; for under $3/day. If that'd work, it would be the first co…
As I started preparing home-made kefir, I realized that full-fat milk has a balanced protein-fat content, and is rich in some other nutrients. Fermentation to kefir reduces the lactose content while increasing some of the good things (vitamins, amino-acids). In my calculations, about 3L of kefir per day should satisfy the energy and protein needs of an adult; for under $3/day. If that'd work, it would be the first co…
As I started preparing home-made kefir, I realized that full-fat milk has a balanced protein-fat content, and is rich in some other nutrients. Fermentation to kefir reduces the lactose content while increasing some of the good things (vitamins, amino-acids). In my calculations, about 3L of kefir per day should satisfy the energy and protein needs of an adult; for under $3/day. If that'd work, it would be the first co…
As I started preparing home-made kefir, I realized that full-fat milk has a balanced protein-fat content, and is rich in some other nutrients. Fermentation to kefir reduces the lactose content while increasing some of the good things (vitamins, amino-acids). In my calculations, about 3L of kefir per day should satisfy the energy and protein needs of an adult; for under $3/day. If that'd work, it would be the first co…
fun fact kefir is like 0.5% alcohol so that amounts to 15 mL of alcohol for 3 L of kefir! Not much at all, but probably adds up combined with other drinks
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How much would the items actually cost at today's prices, though? Edit: Okay, I figured it myself. Around $1850 Canadian, where I live. Still works out to $153 per month, which is almost exactly what I was spending on food during my frugal student days, about 3 years ago. I ate better than the pretty boring diet described here (though not by much) and I'm also quite a bit smaller than the human described in the quest…
Aren't the inflation adjustments entirely based on the cost of common goods like flour?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket
There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. It's tricky because some categories of goods or services didn't exist decades ago, but do now.
Here's a story of a guy who used the same method to come up with the optimal diet for himself: https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1990-dantzig.... The first try he ended up with a diet that required 500 gallons of vinegar a day. There was a mistake in the data that give vinegar 0 weight. The second try ended up with 200 bouillon cubes per day. He didn't put a limit on salt content. Then it gave him 2 poun…
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Haha, the Stigler diet leaves out a couple of important items. Salt and yeast turn flour into bread, which is damn tasty. They're cheap, but not free, and should have been accounted for.
If you have a sourdough starter, then you don’t need to pay for yeast (though in my experience, I always end up pouring off excess starter, ie wasting flour).