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Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by Evgeny »

jhuni wrote: post #92
Evgeny wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. There is evidence that humans started eating meat about 2-2.5 million years ago. There is a theory that the addition of nutrient and calorie dense animal foods provided the opportunity to develop large brains which require significant energy to r…

probably by picking up small crawling animals and scavenging Emphasis on the word scavenging. There is no question that ancient hominids scavenged when they were starving. However, this obviously couldn't be a significant part of their diet because there are so many diseases that can transfer from one animal to another. And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be probl…

And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be problems like they are now.

And they were not ... until very recent times. If you look at the data available about the hunter-gatherer tribes, they did not have heart disease, diabetes, obesity, even cancer - despite sometimes having the higher saturated fat intake compared even to today's US. Look up the Kitavians, Masai, the Inuit ...

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by TeHCrAzY »

kgermino wrote: post #44
orenmazor wrote: post #29

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honestly, I'm not sure. I've seen studies both saying egg yolks are high in cholestrol, and I've seen studies refuting that claim. considering the levels I ingest, I figured better safe than sorry (and cheaper 12 dozen eggs = 750ml of egg whites. crazy!) and just went with the egg whites.

>12 dozen eggs = 750ml of egg whites I just want to make sure (12 and dozen right next to each other confuses my tired mind) is this 12 Dozen (as in 1 gross) eggs or 12 (a typo)?

I think the meaning was more towards "12 eggs is ~= the price of 750ml of egg whites."

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by eyeareque »

If you live in Mountain View (or the bay area for that matter) go to 99 Ranch. It's an asian supermarket that smells like fish due to their huge live seafood section. If you can get past the smell you will be able to buy fruits and vegetables for extremely low prices. I can't believe how low their prices are some times. It is by far cheaper than Costco, Farmers markets, Safeway, and Nob Hill (from my experience).

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by photophotoplasm »

charlieflowers wrote: post #17

I'd really like to see someone do an analysis like this, but including meat. I'm a meat lover, but would like to get an idea of just how cheaply I could eat healthily.

I live on ~9AUD per day, AUD being roughly equivalent to the USD.

$3 of that goes towards a coffee, $3 goes towards meat, and the other $3 goes towards vegetables and other foodstuff (rough estimates).

The only issue I have is that most of the meat I buy is cheap - frozen chicken pieces, ground beef/pork, sausages, chuck steak, etc. - and cheap meat can be pretty horrible until you know how to cook it properly. You'll find yourself doing a lot of pot roasts, goulashes, ragùs, etc.

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by adrianN »

photophotoplasm wrote: post #114
charlieflowers wrote: post #17

I'd really like to see someone do an analysis like this, but including meat. I'm a meat lover, but would like to get an idea of just how cheaply I could eat healthily.

I live on ~9AUD per day, AUD being roughly equivalent to the USD. $3 of that goes towards a coffee, $3 goes towards meat, and the other $3 goes towards vegetables and other foodstuff (rough estimates). The only issue I have is that most of the meat I buy is cheap - frozen chicken pieces, ground beef/pork, sausages, chuck steak, etc. - and cheap meat can be pretty horrible until you know how to cook it properly. You'l…

You spend 33% of your food budget just for coffee? Have you thought about doing something about your caffeine addiction?

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by georgieporgie »

orenmazor wrote: post #31
mmaunder wrote: post #22

My wife and I tried to do this recently on $1.70 per person per day. We didn't last our intended 28 days. A few observations we found: Meat and organic food was too expensive. Fruit is crazy expensive so we bought OJ from concentrate with no additives as a cheap source of Vitamin C. Eggs were are very expensive, but we needed the protein and nutrients, so rationed ourselves to 3 each per week. We had to remove all su…

if you want to save on coffee, buy green beans and roast. I pay around $30 for 5lbs of green beans that are extremely high quality. you can do far cheaper than that though.

I save money on coffee by not buying it. ;-) Instead, I found Jet Alert 200mg caffeine tablets. They're about $3.70 for 90 tablets. Each tablet is equivalent to two cups of coffee, which really means one cup of coffee, the way we tend to serve it. I usually take one around 10am, and another around 3pm.

The good: no, uh, 'intestinal distress', whiter teeth, better breath, no buzzy feeling like I get with coffee, and I feel like I'm alert for longer and more consistently. Also, I generally feel mellower than when I'm drinking coffee, and I have no explanation as to why.

The bad: I still crave the taste and ritual of coffee once in awhile. I have one or two cups per week, skipping the caffeine pill, of course.

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by beagle3 »

He follows (old) USDA dietary recommendations, which stipulate no saturated fat, and 60% carbs. That is really, really bad. The ultimate reference is "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes - it is meticulously researched and referenced, and is likely 40 years more up-to-date than your nutrition or medical professional.

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by burgerbrain »

jhuni wrote: post #107
davidmathers wrote: post #89

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Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. Watch and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo

I don't know about you but I think I would rather pick fruit then spend eight hours in the hot sun hunting... I also would rather eat fruits then the dead animal. Fruits are absolutely delicious to anyone whose taste buds aren't maladapted, and dead animals stink, are hard to eat uncooked, and carry diseases/bacteria. Carnivores have 10 times the hydrochloric acid of humans so they can eat meat without worrying about…

Your preference in food has pretty much nothing to do with the fact that our ancestors most certainly hunted food.

Hell, even chimps hunt.

Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

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Post by harold »

jhuni wrote: post #55
richcollins wrote: post #43

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Evidence for your assertion that our ancestors ate mostly fruit?

Try living primitively, without technology, no stove, no refrigerator, no guns, no tractors, none of this stuff. What are you going to eat? Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. And even if you manage to capture it somehow or scavenge one that is already dead, there are tons of bacte…

Humans have been trapping animals for food for a very long time. For example, the "promontory peg" deadfall is a simple trigger based trap that can easily be made with stone tools. No guns, arrows, spears or bare hands required.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gosp/research/prom_peg.htm

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