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Quoted message said:George Cherry wrote:
> > Go actually price bread, canned meat, eggs, and #10 tin cans of
> > canned
> > fruit and vegetables and beans (which are perfectly nutritious).
> > Meals
> > can be made for 30 cents. If you get past 50 cents, you're being a
> > luxury hog.
> >
> > Of course, you have to do the work yourself.
>
> Also the shoplifting--to get healthy meals for under 50 cents.
>
> GWCCOMMENT
George, bread is 5 cents a slice and generic multivits are 5 cents
each. Eggs can be had for 10 cents each. If you shop at COSTCO and know
what you're doing, you can survive indefinitely on $1.50 a day, even
without resorting to canned catfood (which is perfectly nutritious but
embarrassing).I suggest a homework project for you. Come down from the irory tower.
Okay, I'll figure out what I actually spend per meal,
but it's going to add up to a lot more than $0.50
per meal. Let's take the bread I eat (bread made
from organic whole sprouted grains and zero
fat). I estimate each slice (I don't have a loaf in front
of me) is about $0.20. I put raw organic almond
butter on it and pop a couple of fish oil capsules.
Hey, I've just started.COMMENT:
Well, Jesus, George, it's going to be even more if you include the
Beluga caviar on the toast points.One hopes the point was not that a person has to shoplift in order to
continue the spouted ground bread raw organic almond lifestyle to which
they've become accustomed. The point is you can stay alive on 50 cents
a meal without becoming malnourished. Whether or not your maximum life
span will be affected is something I can't tell. Probably, if you can't
afford the molecularly distilled fishoil, wild blueberry juice,
nanoemulsified CoQ10 and the particular hand-dug Cordyceps sinensis
smuggled out of a particular Buddhist monestary in mountains of Tibet.
When we shopped today I tried to figure out what I would
buy for my next meal if I had only $0.50 to spend. I jumped
on a 15.5oz. (438g) can of Goya "Small Red Beans".
(These are the cheapest beans they sell at the Hannaford's
Super Market in York, Maine, where we usually shop.)
The can of beans was $0.49, so I was just under the $0.50
limit you set for me.
I chose small red beans because I like their taste, the 15.5oz
can would give me 24.5 grams of protein, about 85% of my
daily value of fiber, about 1/3 of my daily value of iron,
about 14% of my daily requirement of calcium, and a nice
slug of anti-oxidants (Small Red Beans are a very rich source
and anti-oxidants.) The whole can would give me only 315
calories. That's more Calorie Restriction (less than 1000
calories per day) than even this CRON practitioner wants
to practice. Furthermore, I don't think I'd hit the ON part of
CRON (Optimum Nutrition).
Of course, I could buy a #10 can of dried Small Red Beans,
soak 'em, and simmer 'em for 2.5 to 3.0 hours. But that's
a lot of trouble and a lot of propane.
But I'd have $0.03 left if I ate a can of Goya beans for every
meal. Maybe I could buy a few loose grapes in the produce
department and get a little Resveratrol. And maybe I could
collect my expelled gas and try to use it instead of propane.
Well, I think I'll just continue to be a super "luxury hog".
But I think someone impecunious should check out
Small Red Beans. I think they might give the most
nutrition bang for the buck.
GWC