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How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by metachris »

sound2man wrote: post #20
physcab wrote: post #12

Something that always amazes me is how people are willing to sacrifice quite a bit when it comes to monthly food costs, when in reality these costs are incredibly low compared to the benefits you get (nutrition and health). Why don't people reconsider getting trashed on Friday and Saturday nights, where bar bills can run up to $20/night or find less convenient housing and save themselves $50/month. Or how about getti…

With the audience on here, I doubt that internet is considered "non-essential". It sounds to me that he ate a pretty balanced diet. Not gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, but plain, and for the most part, healthy food.

yes! i'd much rather save $30 somewhere on food than cutting off internet, if i had to

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by aardvarkious »

luccastera wrote: post #24

A trick I learned from a friend while in grad school. When they have football games, walk around the tailgate parties right before the game is about to start, people will almost pay you to take their extra food so that they can get to the game. And it's usually pretty good food... For better results, go next to the ones thrown by corporations. They usually order too much food and the employees do not care and do not…

I had a friend in college who went everywhere with two tupperware containers. When he was asked whether or not he wanted left overs he would feign a no, but as soon as he was asked a second time he would say "I guess so" and pull out his tupperware.

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by wvl »

cpach wrote: post #45
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that it sounds like he ate pretty healthy, but stuff like this really freaks me out: Lard is the highest calorie per cent food you can buy. That just seems to be the epitome of penny-wise and pound-foolish for 99.9% of people, who would be far better off trimming their budget in other categories so they could eat healthier instead of viewing food as just a source of calories.

I don't think I would ever eat lard, but some proponents of the low-carb diet surely would approve.

If you're losing weight, you're at a calorie deficit. Where does your body get the extra calories from? You got it, your own lard.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by derefr »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #85
randallsquared wrote: post #67

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In spite of the faux-documentaries like Super-Size Me , eating McDonald's food doesn't actually make you fat and unhealthy.

Care to provide some more details for your statement? I've never seen the film in question, but I've seen (and eaten) McDonald's "food". Fast food has been implicated in weight gain and insulin resistance by numerous studies. Hopefully your argument isn't that you can just exercise more.

My argument is that I really did eat McDonald's food (almost) every day for a month--and lost weight. Anecdotes are anecdotes.

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by derefr »

321abc wrote: post #82
jonknee wrote: post #75

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It's a natural fat used around the world, nothing to be scared of. If you get "real" lard (not hydrogenated), it has no trans fats and can be quite useful in the kitchen. Hispanic grocery stores or butcher shops are a good spot to find it.

So what that it's "natural"? All sorts of things that can harm or even kill you are "natural". - Cyanide is "natural". - Hemlock is "natural". - Mercury is "natural". - Cobra venom is "natural". But none of these are things I'd want to spread on my toast in the morning.

The word "natural" doesn't mean "part of nature" when speaking of nutrition, it means "part of our evolutionary history." We ate lard in the past(and survived because of it, and evolved toward making use of it.) We did not eat cyanide.

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by randallsquared »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #85
randallsquared wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In spite of the faux-documentaries like Super-Size Me , eating McDonald's food doesn't actually make you fat and unhealthy.

Care to provide some more details for your statement? I've never seen the film in question, but I've seen (and eaten) McDonald's "food". Fast food has been implicated in weight gain and insulin resistance by numerous studies. Hopefully your argument isn't that you can just exercise more.

I know more than one person who have eaten virtually nothing but McDonald's for long periods of time, and who are not especially overweight. Mere anecdotes, of course.

I'm not saying that eating lots of fast food isn't correlated with being fat. However, I would say that since it's quite possible to be skinny and eat enormous amounts of fast food, fast food cannot be making people fat. I would expect that the same character traits which lead someone to eat lots of fast food would lead to being fat for people predisposed to that body type.

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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Post by 321abc »

derefr wrote: post #96
321abc wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what that it's "natural"? All sorts of things that can harm or even kill you are "natural". - Cyanide is "natural". - Hemlock is "natural". - Mercury is "natural". - Cobra venom is "natural". But none of these are things I'd want to spread on my toast in the morning.

The word "natural" doesn't mean "part of nature" when speaking of nutrition, it means "part of our evolutionary history." We ate lard in the past(and survived because of it, and evolved toward making use of it.) We did not eat cyanide.

That's not the meaning of the word "natural" in the context of nutrition, from my understanding. Perhaps the word you're looking for is "traditional".

Semantics aside, I'll gladly grant you that lard is a food that has been eaten in the past. But, once again, that doesn't mean it's necessarily better than other foods that haven't been eaten in the past.

An good example is "golden" rice. An argument could be made (and has been made) that golden rice could save millions of people from devastating vitamin deficiency which they would continue suffer from were they to avoid golden rice for their "traditional" foods.

Plenty of traditional foods just aren't very nutritious or healthy.

Re: How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food

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kingkawn wrote: post #59
physcab wrote: post #12

Something that always amazes me is how people are willing to sacrifice quite a bit when it comes to monthly food costs, when in reality these costs are incredibly low compared to the benefits you get (nutrition and health). Why don't people reconsider getting trashed on Friday and Saturday nights, where bar bills can run up to $20/night or find less convenient housing and save themselves $50/month. Or how about getti…

Super-mega-lol at $20/night as bar costs. Maybe if you and your date have a drink each.

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