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That's like the bare minimum to avoid obvious nutritional deficiency. For optimal health and athletic performance most people can benefit from significantly more.
It's not the minimum it's the recommended .
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Chickpeas are tasty but the protein quality as measured by DIAAS score is significantly worse than red meat. In particular they are deficient in tryptophan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan#Recommended_dietary... Soybeans: 0.59g/100g of food Beef: 0.23g/100g of food Chickpeas: 0.19g/100g of food Doesn't look like a vegetarian or vegan diet would cause any sort of tryptophan deficiency.
A "demography is destiny" aspect to this: Since households are smaller (we marry later or not at all; have fewer children), those who do cook are cooking for fewer mouths, which leads to more time spent per meal consumed. 5 single people cooking and cleaning for themselves put in substantially more time than a one person cooking/cleaning for 5. Also there's some amount of waste from scaling down recipes originally wr…
> what do I do with the rest of this can of tomato paste? Portion it out into tablespoon sized lumps and freeze it.
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I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg. Meanwhile I can bang out a rosemary chicken that's low calorie and delicious in like 10 minutes of actual work and a half an hour playing games on my couch, and steam up some vegetables to go wi…
Throw in all those Food Network chefs whose recipe books are full of ingredients you're, realistically, only ever gonna use for that one recipe, and the leftovers of which'll—let's face it—just end up sitting around cluttering your pantry or fridge until they go bad.
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Nah. Insane is a really heavy word to use here. Everyone is different. And 60 is really low, insane even, for the average sized human regardless.
US RDA is 0.8 grams/day per kg of bodyweight. For a 150 pound / 68 kg person that’s around 55 grams.
Personally, I have made it a point with my fiancee that we are going to make a new meal (i.e. something we have never tried making before) every week. Sometimes they are complicated meals, but sometimes they are simple. But that has encouraged us to learn more and actually enjoy it a lot.
For those that are on here who don't like or are on the fence for cooking, I would really encourage you to try it. One thing I have learned is that with a few high quality ingredients, you can make a meal that is as good or even better than all but the nicest restaurants in town.
I have made bread for friends with just flour, salt, water, and yeast that they thought came from an expensive bakery. Making a pasta with good pasta (or homemade), good tomatoes, salt, and basil has yielded me a meal that I would pay $25 at a nice restaurant for.
Even better, I can control exactly what is in it. I can make a meal for my vegan parents alongside a meat meal for me by only swapping one or two ingredients. I prefer to not have food products with preservatives in it (or heavily processed), so I can make my meals with that.
A "demography is destiny" aspect to this: Since households are smaller (we marry later or not at all; have fewer children), those who do cook are cooking for fewer mouths, which leads to more time spent per meal consumed. 5 single people cooking and cleaning for themselves put in substantially more time than a one person cooking/cleaning for 5. Also there's some amount of waste from scaling down recipes originally wr…
If you're cooking for one, I recommend buying tomato paste in toothpaste-style metal tubes, rather than cans. Keep the tube in the fridge and it lasts quite a long time (whereas tomato paste from opened cans goes bad quickly).
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I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg. Meanwhile I can bang out a rosemary chicken that's low calorie and delicious in like 10 minutes of actual work and a half an hour playing games on my couch, and steam up some vegetables to go wi…
Well modern America has no real food culture. Most countries combine the same 5 local staples like rice, vegetables meat, local seasonings etc so they always have it on hand and know how to easily make something. Here check an Nytimes recipe and it will have you doing hours of prep and ridiculous steps like getting one pan out and dirty just to slightly toast something to make it restaurant quality presentation. Don’…