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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by vricius »

crunchiebones wrote: post #127
caymanjim wrote: post #119

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There are no single foods that humans can live on, due to nutritional requirements. At least some desire for variety is necessary for basic survival.

I guess this means the 'meat maximalist' carnivory diet will eventually 'die off'

No, it won't. Meat has everything the body needs.

Owsley Stanley was a soundman for the Grateful Dead. He also had one other claim to fame… he ate nothing but meat for 47 years. Let me repeat that, he ate nothing but meat for FORTY-SEVEN YEARS. He wrote all about his diet on a low-carb forum back in 2006. He died in a car accident not too long after but his words of wisdom still live on. You can read how he came to the conclusion that the natural human diet is a totally carnivorous one. It is fascinating reading and I have read it (over 300 pages) multiple times.

Read it here: https://eatmeatdrinkwater.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-be...

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Post by thunderbong »

RobertRoberts wrote: post #98

I lived on the streets for a time as a teen. When I got off and had my first real place to live, I couldn't afford much. I had potatoes, butter (was like heaven) soy sauce and mustard. So that was my dinner for months. My co-workers thought I was crazy when I microwaved a potato and put soy sauce and mustard on it. I simply didn't have anything else. Later I got pickles and cheese (the greatest thing I had ever had u…

Thanks for that. It brought back some memories!

One point though, looking back at both those phases of my life, I noticed that I became aware of my snobbery only after I could afford everything, not while I was going through the tough times.

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Post by icebraining »

peterwwillis wrote: post #166
lambda_lover wrote: post #114

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As an aside, I could save $XXXX a year by having a roommate/living in a worse house/having a crappier car/never going out for drinks/etc. The list goes on. There is an incredible number of things your average first world worker could give up to save money per year. The reason people spend money on these things is that they spend 40+ hours a week working so they CAN afford to spend those unnecessary dollars a year on…

I often hear my co-workers complain about their bland green smoothies or salads without enough walnuts. Meanwhile, for lunch I prepare moroccan lamb stew, chicken cordon bleu with pasta, szechuan tofu and green bean stir fry, ham and gruyere with tomato soup, pear and blue cheese salad with rotisserie chicken, loaded sweet potato with curried fried cauliflour, and quiche lorraine, among others. I'm not saying nobody…

They spend money, you spend time. Maybe they find your expense wasteful.

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Post by rabi_penguin »

nkurz wrote: post #200
rabi_penguin wrote: post #139

Obligatory link to a BBC article about the Danish matpakke: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190103-the-norwegian-art-... I personally end up eating the same thing everyday quite a bit. Lunch is there to make me feel good and give me fuel to continue my day, so I feel like I can't really risk trying something out of the ordinary, at least on a workday. There's too high of a risk that I'll be hungry or cranky in the…

You illustrate in interesting psychological effect. Given that the title of the article is "The Norwegian art of the packed lunch", the subtitle is "Could we all learn something from Norway's culture of ‘matpakke’?", and the first sentence is "Every day, across Norway, something strange happens", and even the visible link includes the word 'norwegian', how did you accidentally write Danish instead of Norwegian? Or is…

Whoops, that's embarrassing. I was thinking it was Denmark and then copied and pasted the article and typed out my response while I was doing something else. People good at multitasking: not me.

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Post by justtopost »

black-tea wrote: post #197
RobertRoberts wrote: post #98

I lived on the streets for a time as a teen. When I got off and had my first real place to live, I couldn't afford much. I had potatoes, butter (was like heaven) soy sauce and mustard. So that was my dinner for months. My co-workers thought I was crazy when I microwaved a potato and put soy sauce and mustard on it. I simply didn't have anything else. Later I got pickles and cheese (the greatest thing I had ever had u…

Yes, as we get richer we lose something. We lose the ability to like those simpler things. A 17 year old kid loves his clapped out 1.2 Clio at least as much as you love your BMW Super Truck X Series.

So true. I sold my exotics and drive cars I always wanted as a kid. Its more fun, and cheaper to boot. I can't help but smile every time I see one of my cheap little cars.

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Post by ska »

chrisseaton wrote: post #151
ska wrote: post #146

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Not really. I would file this under misleading-but-true (although when I checked your numbers I came up with 630, not 588, still a bit shy of 2000cal/day so a little low for most people. However, it really relies on two things (three, if you count "no snacks at all or other drinks") 1 - diet drinks only. If you change your diet code to a medium coke you are now at 2500cal/day. So instead of a deficit, you have a surp…

I thought their hamburger as signature item would be what most people would get, but maybe not. I don't actually go to McDonalds myself so I was just going off their website.

I can understand how you would get there, and the McDonald's site (intentionally?) doesn't make it easy to see comparisons and product lines.

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Post by ska »

viraptor wrote: post #160
ska wrote: post #121

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I wondered the same thing (how do so many people buy lunch daily) but concluded - at the time and the context I was observing it - that there were two main factors. Number 1 was social. People went out for lunch in groups, and it was an "enforced" break in the day. It's a cultural issue that can be hard to replicate for "lunch bringers" in some places. Not so fun to eat alone in a drab lunch room if your friends and…

> Number 1 was social. This is what I liked while working in HP. We had a canteen where pretty much everybody went. You could buy a number of simple cheaper meals, a fancy expensive meal, or bring your own thing. Everybody could still sit together.

Yes, I think there is a different dynamic when your company scale runs to "I work on campus". In smaller offices, particularly in dense cities or "business parks", I think it's more common to go to the restaurants nearby. Those are really not open to people bringing food.

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Post by jordanpg »

It simply doesn't matter to me very much what I eat. I find dwelling on the specifics of food to be incredibly tedious (even if cooking itself is occasionally fun).

Some things I like more or less than others, but taste and variety is a distant second to tasty enough and fast.

When choosing where to get lunch, my primary criteria are usually (1) is the expected wait negligible and (2) is there at least one thing on the menu I know for certain I'll like.

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Post by theNJR »

ArrayList wrote: post #132
charlesju wrote: post #109

I'm on a low carb diet for both losing weight and better budget. I've tried so many things over the years, but having a consistent routine every day seems to be the easiest for me to follow. I've found that having a "yes" list is WAY easier to manage mentally than having a "no" list. For those interested in my diet plan, I eat the following: 7am 3 cups of water followed by 3 cups of coffee. 10am 1 cup bone broth + 1…

Keto diets are sketchy science at best. I can't believe anyone still falls for it.

You can't "fall" for a metabolic state. While there are plenty of people pushing faux keto diets as a means to sell you something you don't need, putting yourself into a metabolic state is a biological reality.
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