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Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by selimthegrim »

6510 wrote: post #81

I ended up cooking for next to nothing by accident one time. I didn't notice it until I discover all my money was still in the bank end of the month. To make things more ironic my goal was to create superior food which absolutely worked. The main invention was this: For most meals we take a bunch of ingredients and mix them into a deliciously flavored mix and give it fancy names. The grand mistake we made is that the…

Yeah my cousin has been dong this for years. He started as a way to feed homeless people at scale but downsized the pizzas and started doing it at home too.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by belltaco »

Demiurge wrote: post #54

What about toilet paper? Someone should add guidance how to stay hygienic when all the toilet paper is gone. This doesn't make any sense, I have been able to find everything, except the toilet paper, for two weeks now. This is the most idiotic thing, why can't someone make a public announcement not to hoard toilet paper, of all things?

You can take a shower instead, in many places the shower is right next to the toilet.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by Zenst »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #83

If you have a way of measuring your body fat to a reasonable degree of accuracy, you can ration your food by knowing how much stored body fat your body can convert into energy per day. Your body can convert roughly 0.9% of your body fat into energy in a day. So if you're 180lbs with 33% body fat, you have 60 lbs of fat on you. You should be able to convert ~0.54lbs into energy, which at ~3500 kcal per lbs comes out t…

That's based upon normal metabolism and if you calorie reduce your metabolisim will also slow down, you also need vitamins to help the body work and some will be need to break down fat into energy.

Vitamins and minerals are not something you can reduce without effect/impact. So do factor that into any calorie reduction.

This and body fat only goes so far and as a metric is often flawed in measurement as any rugby or certain sports physics can attest. This is large muscle mass often mess's up those scale calculations and with that, many a fit muscular person will fall into the obese box as muscle weighs more than fat.

Also it's not just fat that gets broken down into energy, muscle is affected as well.

As everything it is a fine balance.

Given all that, eating normal alternate days is a safer approach for many.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by earthtourist »

czbond wrote: post #86

Do intermittent fasting - no need to eat for 3-5 days at a time.

Careful giving medical advice. Fasting can be dangerous in some cases.

The advice I got from my doctor is to start with 24 hour fasts. And then try 48 hours. And then probably stop there.

(I am not a medical expert)

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by captainbland »

BurningFrog wrote: post #42
captainbland wrote: post #7

Good list. The problem, at least here in the UK, is that these cheap foods/ingredients are exactly what we're seeing empty on the shelves now. Unfortunately for those who live cheaply, expensive things go last.

Does the UK also have price gouging laws in this crisis? Those are what produce the empty shelves.

Price gouging seems like a good way to incentivise the five-finger discount if anything.

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

wormseed wrote: post #62
nimbius wrote: post #28

Its worth clarifying that the article is specifically addressing the fallout from the pandemic: Unemployment and poverty due to failing economies and shuttered restaurants and bars. In the US, Despite our country having vast and endless supplies of food from megafarms and their accompanying subsidies, there is very little safety net in America to ensure anyone is fed at all once they are unemployed. worth posting, a…

Most Americans live in a state where unemployment benefits is easily enough for food.

any self-employed person who sees a dramatic reduction in income (perhaps even 100%) is also (AFAIK) not eligible for unemployment benefits.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by three14 »

rolph wrote: post #59
Tenoke wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends where you are. In some places (us) you have to refrigerate them in others (eu) you don't. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/should-you-refrigerate-...

reality prevails here CYA regulations are not something to cling to for a little while

The article explains - in the US, the eggs are washed, which removes a protective layer from the eggs. They are therefore less safe when kept at room temperature than in other countries.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by mellavora »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #58
jniedrauer wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is good advice for people who make a living wage. But for many people, an emergency fund is a luxury. I remember not too long ago when I had to decide between paying utilities and buying food. Every single month. Saving just wasn't an option. Many of my friends and family are still in this position, and they've all lost their jobs simultaneously. I'm not surprised that people are scared right now, because they'r…

You're literally commenting on an article called "Eat for $1.50 per day". If you can't, over years of plenty, build up a few weeks reserve then we're having a different discussion because a mere broken bone or car battery failure will then wipe out your independence. And yes there are people in that situation. But most people are a little beyond that. And even those WAY beyond that are helpless and dependent on rushe…

You might want to check official govnt stats on this. A surprising number of american households are not a little beyond that, they are exactly there, where a $400 expense would put them over the edge. Or, in this case, $400 in lost income.

Looking at the person you are replying to, who for many months had to choose between utility bill or food, please show a little compassion for how difficult saving can be when you have an unstable income (i.e. you are a shift worker at any of the many US companies that uses shift workers and computer algos to only schedule people for when there is workplace demand).

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by megous »

smnrchrds wrote: post #75
BurningFrog wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the UK also have price gouging laws in this crisis? Those are what produce the empty shelves.

Do you have any evidence for this? I don't meant referring to economics textbooks. I mean concrete evidence that empty shelves right now due to this epidemic are the results of price gouging laws. For example, showing that states with price gouging laws have empty shelves and states without do not, when controlling for other factors.

You can't control for other factors in an economy.

Every economic textbook will have a demand and supply graph, it's not hard to see what happens when you fix a price arbitrarily and shift the demand curve in that graph to simulate a higher demand. Demand and supply no longer meet -> shortage.

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Post by rolph »

three14 wrote: post #97
rolph wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reality prevails here CYA regulations are not something to cling to for a little while

The article explains - in the US, the eggs are washed, which removes a protective layer from the eggs. They are therefore less safe when kept at room temperature than in other countries.

yes and washing like that is not nessecary and removes a protective layer of albumen. regulations that are about promoting quick consumption are out of place in this situation, so in US unless you produce your own eggs, parboiling/blanching, and oiling will keep it good.
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