As someone who has suffered from pernicious anaemia, I heavily recommend against this diet. Vitamin B12 is extremely important and is not necessarily well absorbed through supplements (if you went to a doctor for B12 deficiency, you would be given either supplements or injections well beyond the 100% RDA amount). Eat food with it in instead, or even better, consult with a doctor or other relevant medical person before taking such risks with your health.
Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
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Re: Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
So how come we were thinner back when we had a high carb, low fat diet? https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnpp.usd...
Different types of carbs, man, different types of carbs. =)
So processed white flour [1] isn't the culprit? Good to know.
Maybe the real culprit in the obesity epidemic is fats, oils, and sugar. It certainly fits the data.
[1] At the beginning of the century, whole wheat flour was uncommon except in rural areas. It spoiled too quickly.
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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.
Where do you buy those beans at? Online or a local coffee joint?
I get mine at the green beanery in Toronto. They do online orders but I'm betting if you're in the US there are better options :)
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love to find a community of like minded individuals in the bay area that meetup regularly to shop in bulk and divide. We did this on reddit recently with herbs/spices sold in bulk where people basically committed 20 bux and got a healthy personal portion of the loot. It would be great to do the same with a costco bill....
Won't you spend as much on gas driving to wherever you decide to bulk shop (Bay area isn't tiny) compared to your neighbourhood supermarket, as you'd save by bulk shopping?
It really depends on what you are buying and the nature of the 'market'. It's not only bulk buying either; if you buy in a different way, you can save money depending on the market.
An example I am involved in is with wine. It is cheapest to buy wine by the case, en primeur (basically buying in advance). Yet many wine lovers don't want a whole case. So consortia are set up on wine forums to buy several cases and split them across tens of people. They are often setup when one member of the forum spies a 'parcel' of wine going for a good price at a reputable retailer. This can typically save around 40-50% and given these wines are generally £15/bottle, and in some cases a LOT more, the savings are pretty good. Normally delivery is arranged to go to one person in a given area, who then distributes to others or waits for the others to pick-up.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard this too, actually. I haven't tried it yet though. I've actually been terrible at the dry bean angle, opting for canned way too often out of sheer laziness.
Canned beans seems cheap until you buy a pound of dry for about a dollar. Canned food is essentially salt and water with a bit of overcooked vegetable.
I don't actually care about cost for this, opting for convenience. I often store ingredients at work so I have no excuse to go out.
Anyway, several of our Canadian brands are ultra low sodium, that this is a nonissue.
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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)?
Hah sorry. Yeah, as pointed out, I mean 12 eggs.
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#217Random tangential thought: There are many areas in the world where you can eat a lot more than this for $3 a day. I lived on $2/day in India for a year (was working in microfinance and wanted to live like my borrowers). I got full vegetarian meals made for me in a major city (Ahmedabad) at that price. Something to consider.
This metric isn't really useful unless you can account for the different buying power of the dollar in a country like India vs. US.
It is useful because in our global world you can often live anywhere for certain jobs (at FeeFighters, our designer is in Bulgaria, for example)...
There are many opportunities to earn in USD while living abroad.
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#218My 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…
Good lord, is the point of this kind of thing to see how much money you can move from your food budget into your health care budget?
Of all the places to save money, food is the absolute last on my list.
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#219> Maintains the standard caloric ratios: 20-30% of calories from fat, about 10% from protein, and the rest from carbohydrates
This is the weirdest breakdown I've ever seen.
If you are at all concerned about lean muscle mass, and you should be if you want to be even the slighest bit athletic, then the minimum amount of protien you'd want is a half gram per pound of body weight.
Most people who work out or play sports try for closer to a 1 to 1 ratio.
This diet is severly messed up.
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#220Can I ask: What is the motivation of trying to limit the cost of your food to such a low (for first-world) amount? I am really weirded out by the number of me-too responses, the philosophy of such extreme saving on food is alien to me. For me, delicious food is near the top of my priority list. I really do not stint at all, my grocery bill is abt $40/day for 2 people... that is $15k/yr, such a bargain considering: re…
A few things.
1. Perhaps they have substantially less spending money than you do. (I never understood cutting back on food expenses until my wife and I went through some tough financial times.)
2. Perhaps they don't value food as much as you do. I enjoy good food, but I'd never say that it is near the top of my priority list. I'd much rather have cheap food and a better broadband connection than the reverse.
3. Perhaps they are trying to scrape together every bit of money they can to put towards their startup. There is a reason that PG uses the phrase "ramen profitable."