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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 whatusername »

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.

Also - do a quick google for B17 -- Since this whole chain of comments is a bunch of anecdotes - I've met two people who have been 'cured' of cancer taking that. After chemotherapy had failed / they had been written off.

(B17/Laertrile is banned in a lot of places US/Aus/etc - for links/containing/Cantbebotheredreadingthestudies Cyanide).

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

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Post by tvtyviktgfv »

xiaoma wrote: post #72
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #58

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In fact, you can eat all "unhealthy" food and be far healthier than 95% of the people around you by keeping a calorie budget and exercising enough. So you're telling me that if you eat McDonald's for every meal for thirty years, you'll experience no health issues as long as you exercise enough? Tell you what: let's have this conversation again in thirty years, provided you're still around. An anecdote about a persona…

According to one 32,000 person study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999), "fit persons with any combination of smoking, elevated blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol level had lower adjusted death rates than low-fit persons with none of these characteristics". The same study found that aerobic fitness had a far more important impact on longevity than obesity did. Fantastic Voyage, Kurzweil and Gro…

Fit and a BMI of 30 isn't obese it's 100m sprinters, NFL players, boxers and heavyweight class martial artists.

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

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Post by mchristoff »

andrewhyde wrote: post #25
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…

I wholeheartedly agree with you now, but at the time it just seemed like the thing to do (during a 25 credit term at college). I didn't have a ton of time to think about it, was just trying to get by. Flip to now where I eat 5-6x a day and have a nutritionist. Time and a place.

i'm interested to hear more about having a nutritionist. would you mind expanding on that a little?

where exactly do you go about finding one? how much does it cost? what exactly do they do for you - plan meal by meal?

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Post by gwern »

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.

> Care to provide some more details for your statement?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Super-size_me...

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Post by physcab »

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.

I live in Gainesville, Fl which is pretty much the cheapest place to live and drink, and $20 is still the norm. $4 cover + 3 beers x $4.00 a piece + $4 tip = $20. Now, recently I found a good bar without a cover charge and if I drink straight Old Milwaukee then I can do 4 x $2.00 + $4.00 tip = $12.00. Even so, doing this once a week is about $48.00/month which is more than the OP paid in food costs per a month.

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Post by alexbosworth »

randallsquared wrote: post #67
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fact, you can eat all "unhealthy" food and be far healthier than 95% of the people around you by keeping a calorie budget and exercising enough. So you're telling me that if you eat McDonald's for every meal for thirty years, you'll experience no health issues as long as you exercise enough? Tell you what: let's have this conversation again in thirty years, provided you're still around. An anecdote about a persona…

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

super size me did include a guy who ate mcdonalds every day for decades and was perfectly fine

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Post by indiejade »

lsb wrote: post #108
kingkawn wrote: post #81

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hell yeah 2 bucks, what was she expecting?

For a tipped waitress, not at a fancy place, the federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr.

No. Actually, it varies by state. I have worked as a pizza delivery "expert" in three different states and as a restaurant slave in five; basically, employers get away with paying people as little as possible, regardless of their "tips". Most servers don't claim their tips (for tax purposes) thinking that doing so will "help" them. But in actuality it actually harms them.

No matter how "noble" a diner might feel in tipping his or her server, it basically amounts to nothing, especially when she splits her tip with the rest of her co-workers.

The unfortunate fact of this circumstance is that most "tipped" workers earn sub-minimum wages. There would not be an illegal immigration problem regarding restaurant workers if it were any other case. But most Americans are fat, lazy, oblivious and don't care.

So. The next time you go out to eat, especially if it's a large nationalized chain (like Denny's or McD's) take a look around at how many of your fellow diners speak Spanish. Look at your hostess/cashier who is making federal minimum wage without tips . . . then look at the restaurant and kitchen workers who are serving you, and decide just how "valuable" it is to go out to eat. Don't pat yourself too much on the back for being a fan of capitalism.

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