Cheapest Form of Good Nutrition?

[kmguru]

Today I bought chicken thighs and legs for $0.58 per pound for weekend barbecue....

[iceaura]

Lets have a show of hands....how many people like hospital food?

My jaw was wired shut, I had a tracheotomy in place, hadn't eaten in 48 hours, and they brought me a pork chop with a side dish of green slurry that I think started out as green beans in its former life.

Then they woke me up every 90 minutes for whatever reason.

A couple months of that and I'd have been too sick to leave.

The best nutrition for the money is road kill and dandelions. If you are shopping in, like, a grocery store, I'd go for baby potatoes and very large bulk carrots baked and mashed with the skin on, then fried in lard with a few peanuts.

Although a mixture of brown rice and red beans is traditional, with the very poor getting the ratio exactly right.

[Carcano]

If you are shopping in a grocery store, I'd go for baby potatoes...

Yes, I'd place WHITE potatoes second to parboiled rice as the cheapest form of nutrition.

Only unpeeled white potatoes are FIRM enough to be good without deep frying.

[John99]

The best nutrition for the money is road kill and dandelions.

you can eat dandelions?

[Carcano]

you can eat dandelions?

Wild lettuce is also very good...with narcotic properties to boot!

[Mickmeister]

On a price to weight basis, what is the cheapest form of quality nutrition?

cheap nutrition <> good nutrition

[S.A.M.]

An egg. It contains little fat or carbohydrate and good quality complete protein. Rice, parboiled or not, is an incomplete source of protein and essential fatty acids.

[Absane]

cheap nutrition <> good nutrition

Look at the poor in the US. If they aren't skinny as fuck they are fatter than Albert. The theory is that all they can afford is the cheap food that contains a ton of high fructose corn syrup. Combine that with over eating due to the non-filling effects of HCF and you have lard asses on welfare.

An egg. It contains little fat or carbohydrate and good quality complete protein. Rice, parboiled or not, is an incomplete source of protein and essential fatty acids.

I eat 5 eggs every morning.. and 5 strips of bacon.

[John99]

Wild lettuce is also very good...with narcotic properties to boot!

thats interesting. seems like they wuld be bitter. have you tried the dandelions?

[S.A.M.]

I eat 5 eggs every morning.. and 5 strips of bacon.

Why?

[Absane]

Why?

Why not?

[Carcano]

An egg. It contains little fat or carbohydrate and good quality complete protein.

The fat content is only slightly less than the protein content..however its quality can be improved by feeding the chickens kelp instead of grain.

[Carcano]

Seems like they would be bitter. have you tried the dandelions?

Raw dandelions...and yes they are bitter!

[Carcano]

Rice, parboiled or not, is an incomplete source of protein and essential fatty acids.

Have you tried parboiled?

Its very popular in India.

Basmati tastes like paper in comparison.

[Carcano]

Look at the poor in the US. If they aren't skinny as fuck they are fatter than Albert. The theory is that all they can afford is the cheap food that contains a ton of high fructose corn syrup. Combine that with over eating due to the non-filling effects of HCF and you have lard asses on welfare.

Junk food is not cheap!

[Absane]

Junk food is not cheap!

How so?

In general, crap food is cheaper than healthy food. This is because crap food is processed to death to make it cheaper and last longer. People buy TV dinners because they are lazy but also because they pack a lot of calories for cheap.

Wheat bread costs more than white bread. Orange juice from concentrate costs more than orange juice that wasn't dehydrated.

Calories per dollar are higher for junk food than healthy food. Not every time, but in general.

[wynn]

Today I bought chicken thighs and legs for $0.58 per pound for weekend barbecue....

You eat meat??

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you can eat dandelions?

Sure. Not the flowers, but the leaves, early in the spring before the plants start to blossom.
For example: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/ten...ad-recipe.html

A very satiating food is a salad made of dandelion greens and potatoes.

[wynn]

Rice, parboiled or not, is an incomplete source of protein and essential fatty acids.

Exactly. Which is why I find the quest of this OP with its suggestion of parboiled rice to be misleading.
There is no one food source that could cover all the nutritional needs.

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Calories per dollar are higher for junk food than healthy food. Not every time, but in general.

Sure. But you can't live merely off of calories, so the price of calories per kilogram is hardly any indicator of cheapest form of good nutrition.

[Absane]

Sure. But you can't live merely off of calories, so the price of calories per kilogram is hardly any indicator of cheapest form of good nutrition.

Did I ever make such a claim?

My only claim was that poor people are fat because the inexpensive food they eat isn't very healthy. You can buy a bag of chips for $2 that supplies 1,500 calories. I know because I used to live off food like that when I lived in the dorms. Ramen Noodles is just as bad. I also lived on 2-liters of Mountain Dew.

[Carcano]

There is no one food source that could cover all the nutritional needs.

Yes but this thread isnt about ONE food source that covers everything...its about the BEST food source relative to its price and nutritive value.