An interesting read, and I would still prefer spending an year with this diet than a week on Soylent.
How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
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Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#22Lets flag last time's discussion of v0.1 ahead of time, so we can move on and advance rather than rehash. 1) A little too much oil/fat to be politically correct, a bit too little to be nutritionally correct. Canola oil? I wouldn't put that in my car. Eat half as much olive oil if you have to, but don't eat that rot. 2) Carbs about right to be politically correct, WAY too much grains/carbs to be nutritionally correct.…
I had to Google Canola oil as I'd never heard of it, but it seems to be a product name for rapeseed oil. If so what have you got against rapeseed oil. It's a great oil and every bit as 'valid' as olive oil and I use both when cooking all the time.
Sure you can buy shit rapeseed oil, but you can also buy equally shit olive oil, and I fail to see why you would think one better than the other. Or is it just that the Canola brand produces bad rapeseed oil.
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#23Lets flag last time's discussion of v0.1 ahead of time, so we can move on and advance rather than rehash. 1) A little too much oil/fat to be politically correct, a bit too little to be nutritionally correct. Canola oil? I wouldn't put that in my car. Eat half as much olive oil if you have to, but don't eat that rot. 2) Carbs about right to be politically correct, WAY too much grains/carbs to be nutritionally correct.…
What's wrong with canola oil?
Absolutely nothing. It's really strange that HN is filled with people who think they're experts on nutrition, even though their beliefs are often directly contradicted by scientific research.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fats-and-cholest...
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#24I wonder what the "5-a-day" vegetable recommendation is based on - surely it can't be as simple as 5x80 grams of any plant?
It's a UK government health recommendation: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Whatcounts.aspx
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
"How much would it cost to throw a multivitamin in there?" Supplements would be an interesting v0.3 or perhaps appendix to her next plan. I am well aware of body builders consuming 500 grams of protein/day in the form of weird expensive powders. But I wonder as a supplement to the existing diet how it works mathematically to eat perhaps 5 grams instead of 500 grams of supplement "complete" protein powder per day and…
Whatever happened to "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." ? One of the things that worries me is the focus on cost as opposed to nutrition . As it stands, we have relatively poor ways of measuring the nutritive value of any particular meal vice measuring the cost. We've trained entire generations to shop for food on taste and cost rather than nutrition. If you've ever watched those documentaries on morbidly obese…
> One of the things that worries me is the focus on cost as opposed to nutrition.
Well, this is just an experiment to see if a nutritionally adequate diet can be made for £1 per day.
I hope no-one is going to actually eat it.
I think it could actually be useful if the author increased the amount of money available - say £2 per day. Or if the author did plans for 2 people.
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#26Very interesting! I'm currently on a strength training/bulking diet, so I'll need about 3-4 times as much protein, but there are some interesting tidbits in here that I'll probably try and incorporate into my diet. I currently spend probably 10-15 dollars per day on food, so if I can cut that down to something like $5 that would be a huge accomplishment. If successful maybe I'll make a blog post about it ;)
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#27Lets flag last time's discussion of v0.1 ahead of time, so we can move on and advance rather than rehash. 1) A little too much oil/fat to be politically correct, a bit too little to be nutritionally correct. Canola oil? I wouldn't put that in my car. Eat half as much olive oil if you have to, but don't eat that rot. 2) Carbs about right to be politically correct, WAY too much grains/carbs to be nutritionally correct.…
The fact that you got caught by poe's law is not reassuring.
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#28I wonder what the "5-a-day" vegetable recommendation is based on - surely it can't be as simple as 5x80 grams of any plant?
It's a UK government health recommendation: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Whatcounts.aspx
Yeah, I know. But that's just nanny-language telling me to eat my veggies (and I do and that's all fine) - it doesn't tell me the "why".
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#29I must have been drunk or dyslexic when I read the original article. I could've sworn that the URL was supplementacos.com and throughout the article, I was wondering, "OK, where is the call to action to buy a 1 euro supplement-taco?"
That said, virtually all of the ingredients listed (even oranges, in a citrus salsa) could be combined to make some tasty tacos.
Re: How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
#30I really want to see some meat on that menu. I hope they do a 1.5£ or 2£ version.
for an extra 25p /day you can spend an extra 1.75GPB a week.
so then you can buy these from asda and add it to whatever you want.... why wait for the OP to do the work?
http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecon...