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Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Hence why the only semi-healthy vegans I know are those that cheat.

I wonder if naturally occurring animal deaths would be sufficient to provide meat for the planet otherwise living on a vegan diet?

Some people don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons, others because they think it's bizarre. Would you eat a dog, a horse, or another human if you didn't have to worry about the conditions of it's death? Probably not. Many vegans and vegetarians feel the same way about chickens, cows and pigs.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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This is a tough one but I have several thoughts: 1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you eat (other than calorific content); 2. Eating the same thing every day gets real old real fast; 3. There is an investment required in co…

It is so much cheaper to cook your own food even if you take into account buying the supplies. I have a cutting board ($5), a small non stick pan ($20), a medium non stick pan ($30), and a 6"-8" diameter 4" deep pot with a lid. I have some nonstick spray, some spices, a knife or two, a spatula, flipper thing, and tongs.

My total investment has to be under $100. I've been using the same stuff for 5 years now. I assume you have a toaster, a microwave, and a coffee maker already.

You'd be surprised the difference in your day between having a bowl of cereal to start off, and having a bowl of cereal, an english muffin, and a bannana. That doesn't take any extra time to do (toast the muffin while you eat the cereal).

For lunch I make myself a sandwhich and throw in some other stuff. Sure, that takes 2 minutes.

Dinner is the only meal you actually cook. You definitely save money cooking yourself. Compare $7 to $15 for chinese, sushi, pizza, burgers etc to $3-5 per meal. If you can cook pasta (boil water, add sauce, its the same as ramen. throw some freezer meatballs in the oven at the same time and your're done), chicken (throw a little olive oil in a pan, put it on medium, flip once in a while, cut it and make sure there is no pink left, don't over cook it) and steam vegetables (boil a little water, put the lid on top, steam it to taste) you can eat 3-4 nights a week really healthy with some variety.

Then fish is just a variation on cooking chicken, you just do it quicker. Your variety comes from the spices or condiments you throw on the chicken.

Total time is around 1/2 hour per day including cleaning up and eating. Each of those meals takes under 10 minutes.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Try Rock Climbing. You get all the benefits of the gym (it works pretty much everything), plus all the leveling up benefits from WoW. Every sport climb and boulder problem is graded. Most of them you won't be able to do. You'll need to spend weeks at first to get good enough to even do the easy ones. The hard ones will take years to get strong enough for, and even then will still require you dedicate a month of speci…

Definitely agree that some kind of sport which is fun and requires and rewards fitness is the way to go. Rock climbing is great, but biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. would all work as well. SCUBA sort of works, but isn't really strenuous enough.

Really? I think SCUBA can be one of the most exhausting. You work your legs hard if there is a current. Not a cheap sport you can do anytime you want though.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Try Rock Climbing. You get all the benefits of the gym (it works pretty much everything), plus all the leveling up benefits from WoW. Every sport climb and boulder problem is graded. Most of them you won't be able to do. You'll need to spend weeks at first to get good enough to even do the easy ones. The hard ones will take years to get strong enough for, and even then will still require you dedicate a month of speci…

Definitely agree that some kind of sport which is fun and requires and rewards fitness is the way to go. Rock climbing is great, but biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. would all work as well. SCUBA sort of works, but isn't really strenuous enough.

Biking would also work, since performance is measurable. Though probably not to the same degree as climbing. Hiking and Kayaking are great, but probably wouldn't fit the World of Warcraft-esque requirement for measurable improvements to simulate leveling up.

SCUBA has measurable goals, but alas they mostly just measure how much money you've spent on SCUBA diving instruction. (I've spent enough to get myself to Rescue Diver.)

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. The best way to use the microwave is for meals that will benefit from being steamed, like vegetables. Failing that, regular stirring and occasionally protecting some thinner bits with foil are the way to go.

Foil? In the microwave?

Plastic

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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I totally agree with the argument. I totally disagree with the cost estimates. Unless you're actually going to the grocery store every day (and you need to incorporate that into the amount of time involved), vegetables go bad. For example, the amount of cilantro they sell at the grocery store is for a dozen servings of this meal. I just finished throwing out pretty well every ingredient (except the chicken) given in…

I think you have to seperate vegetables from herbs. I would never finish even cilantro, parsley, basil etc.

But I can finish vegetables and fruit. I shop once a week and it takes like an hour, and everything I get lasts all week. Get your bannanas a little green and it will be fine. Vegetables usually last longer than that.

I also get a lot of frozen broccoli, green beens, peas, corn. They last forever and are simple to make but very healthy. They also double as ice packs if you hurt yourself.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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post #46

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It may sound expensive, but the Tupperware™ FridgeSmarts are fantastic and they do actually work. The combination of keeping the food up out of any condensate and regulating the correct amount of airflow around the food actually keeps fruit & vegetables fresher, longer. Weeks and weeks out of things like carrots & celery & broccoli, etc. Tupperware™ may seem expensive in comparison to other plastic products (especial…

I actually tried a comparison ('cause I thought they were bollucks): Broccoli in one, broccoli in a bag next to them beside the original. The results: in 3 weeks the bag was a sloppy mess, the container florets had loosened up. After 5 weeks, the container florets started to bloom . Then I ate them. They were a little bitter. Cest la vie. And yeah, the way it works it's basically a perpetual license.

Any covered bowl will work as well. What you need is to keep the vegetables out of direct contact with the condensation moisture inside the container. That is why I rarely use bags any more for vegetables in the fridge, but even recycled sherbet containers work very well. It does need to be covered, and preferably airtight, or they'll dry out and wilt (though wilted veggies are perfectly edible, they just don't look as good or have as good a texture).

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Kind of a dearth of facts here... "The biggest reason is by only fueling your body with shit, you’re also fueling your brain with shit" I'd like to see some kind of evidence to support that. I'd be all for preparing the meal he suggests, but with shopping, prep, cooking, and cleanup it's a significant time investment compared to pizza so I'd like evidence it's doing my startup better.

All I got is this: "Fatty foods slow down the brain and impair mental function, nutrition researchers have found. But they also make people more sociable." - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/28/081.html "Eating fatty food appears to take an almost immediate toll on both short-term memory and exercise performance" - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fatty-foods-affect-... "The greater your weight, the lower…

FWIW ramen isn't fatty (hot pockets are, however).

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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post #50

Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW…

You've gotten a lot of answers, but nobody's given you the best one yet: Dancing. With others of the opposite sex.

For exercise purposes, you might want to look into energetic dances, like collegiate shag or the lindy hop. But even slow waltzes provide a surprising amount of exercise, and nothing motivates like interacting on a physical basis with the opposite sex.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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post #52

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Most plant-derrived protein sources have an incomplete profile of amino acids. Humans have eight essential amino acids (amino acids that we must get from the diet as we cannot synthesize them) that are plentiful in animal sources and lacking to various degrees in plant sources. Plant sources of protein, even when combined to provide all the essential amino acids, are too heavy in carbohydrate, irritate the gut, and s…

Source? I'll take just one peer-reviewed article, please.

Cordain has done a lot of great research in this area:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10489816

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