Cheap, nutritious foods.............

[Piranha]

Well within a month I will be moving to a completely new area, starting a new slate.

I've been checkin craigslist for apartment prices, as well as the expenses involved in travelling, and my budget for the first month is gonna be REALLY tight.

But at the same time I'm gonna need to eat, and I looooooove food....

Im thinking of eating a SHITLOAD of canned beans, they have a lot of fiber, protein and other nutrients in them, and they are quite cheap.

But obviously I don't want to live off of beans for a month.........does anyone have some suggestions on other types of food that fit my criteria?

[Bckpckr]

I don't know for sure but I'd imagine canned beans to be quite salty. Just buy the dried beans, they're probably cheaper by weight.

And while you're at it get some rice.

[Mellow_Fellow]

Chickpeas? Get canned ones or soak your own dried ones, you could make home made hummous (or just buy that) and you can use them in tons of dishes and stews, salads n stuff. Kidney beans are good stuff as well.

Lentils too? Plenty of opportunity for soups and nice spicy stuff.

Potatoes in various forms. Sweet potato too; fried up and crispy it's just so lush with some mayo.

Get some good deals on fish too, at a market or something, or just get them frozen. Good fish can be cheap n pretty damn nutritious.

[Crystal Antlers]

french bread is really satisfying. You can buy a.....loaf?......for 99 cents from a grocery store. Its all complex carbs too, so it will keep you full after eating it.

[Martian Luger King]

There's no such thing as healthy food, buy multivitamins instead.

[Anarky]

eggs.

[Jsmooth744]

There's no such thing as healthy food, buy multivitamins instead.

Elaborate.

[ShroomLove]

There's no such thing as healthy food, buy multivitamins instead.
What the fuck? No. Vitamins are meant to supplement your already good/shitty diet. You want nutrients stick with fruits and vegetables. :rolleyes:

[auraplane]

high fiber low sugar cereal in bulk

[Martian Luger King]

Vegetables have low nutritional value despite popular belief. Cite a vegetable and I will prove this to you. I'm certain you will deny it, and quote incorrect sources, given that you are gullible enough to fall for these western myths regarding nutrition. There is no difference in absorbing multivitamins or vegetables, you cannot cite a source to the contrary. I will gladly argue this with every single willing member at once, on my own, because I am so confident in my knowledge.

[Mellow_Fellow]

Gtfo.

[TheVizier]

Cereal, milk, potatoes, eggs, tuna, those Chef Boyardee cans with Raviolli and Spaguetti, and kool-aid is all you'll ever need :)

[Jsmooth744]

"Shit in, Shit out"

"Don't you hate how milk is Homogenized?"

[alexoner]

buy a bag of rolled oats and grow ur own veges/condiments, whatever.
:)

[whocares123]

macaroni and cheese with cut up hot dogs in it.

at least it fills you up and you get some protein. :confused:

[mkrwii]

Whenever I'm broke I stick to buying these ingredients:
- Canned crushed tomatoes
- Frozen pollock
- Special offer mincemeat
- Canned beans (you hardly get dried ones here)

If you live (like me) close to the sea, you should consider buying/borrowing/stealing a fishing rod. Might get you a few very tasty, nutritious and very cheap dinners.

[Death Insurance]

Vegetables have low nutritional value despite popular belief. Cite a vegetable and I will prove this to you. I'm certain you will deny it, and quote incorrect sources, given that you are gullible enough to fall for these western myths regarding nutrition. There is no difference in absorbing multivitamins or vegetables, you cannot cite a source to the contrary. I will gladly argue this with every single willing member at once, on my own, because I am so confident in my knowledge.

Carrots.

I don't doubt you, I'm just curious to see what you have to say. Its a change of pace.

[Bckpckr]

Now that I think about it, beans and rice wrapped in tortillas. :)

[NoSkills]

majadarah. look it up. delicious and cheap.

[Martian Luger King]

Carrots.

I don't doubt you, I'm just curious to see what you have to say. Its a change of pace.

The only noteworthy nutritional value carrots bear is forty one percent of the RDA of vitamin A. They have virtually no nutritional value aside from that. Vitamin A is one of the most widespread, available nutrients one can ingest. It's hard to miss.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/3026/2

Another example, spinach. It's considered by every dumbfuck vegetarian and human in general to be one of the most nutritional foods available, but it is virtually worthless. Eating thirty grams of spinach will allot one three percent of the RDA of calcium, five percent iron, and fourteen percent Vitamin C, the most abundant vitamin there is. It, like carrots has a decent amount of Vitamin A, fifty-six percent, but that is once again the second most abundant vitamin there is. Spinach is not worth eating.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2626/2

Another example, peanuts are widely hailed as protein nuggets. Vegetarians always cite them as an adequate source of protein. Let's look at the data.

http://www.peanut-institute.org/NutritionBasics.html

There are about forty peanuts to an ounce. This contains 6.7g of protein. It's recommended that a person get around .5 to 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight. This means that someone at a bodyweight of 140 pounds would have to eat twenty one ounces or, 840 peanuts daily to get the protein necessary to live healthily.

I can do the same exact shit for legumes, any seaweed, any fucking vegetation you like. I haven't eaten a single vegetable for thirteen years and I am fine. I never get ill (I have been ill three times in my life, mono, food poisoning and influenza) and I am about three thousand percent healthier than EVERYONE around me who eats SO MANY FUCKING VEGETABLES IT'S DISGUSTING. Like it or not they're fucking worthless, they don't improve your health in the slightest, and they are not necessary to live healthily. Whether you or anyone else chooses to accept it or not, I could care less, I know it for myself and I will continue to live this way for the rest of my life and I will continue to get stares when I tell my doctor's that my blood tests are above average despite the fact that I live on little more than fatty fried fast food and water. Living healthily is about exercise and only that, your diet amounts to fuck all. Just look at the fucking nutritional data for ANY vegetable you find, you will see that it is worthless. It's only because of dumbfuck western medical doctors and the media that people believe vegetation is worthwhile.

[WritingANovel]

you can try those pre-sliced, pre-packaged turkey breast thingies, I love them. they are about 3 dollars each and they weigh 175 grams. they have about 8 slices in them. They are very delicious and i believe, nutritious too.

[whocares123]

I can do the same exact shit for legumes, any seaweed, any fucking vegetation you like. I haven't eaten a single vegetable for thirteen years and I am fine.

Haha, you mean to say that you don't even get tomatoes, onions, or lettuce on your greasy cheeseburger? I suppose you at least eat french fries...

You have to think about how eating unhealthy foods a lot is bad for you as well. I mean, even assuming that vegetables lack the nutrients people think they have, eating a shitload of grease and fat instead can't be good for you, now can it? That's how people have heart attacks.

But I think another big part of it is genetics.

Sounds like you just aren't old enough yet to hit the stage where your metabolism will slow down and you will gain weight and feel the effects of eating a shitty diet.

[Death Insurance]

That's quite interesting. You should totally make a separate thread for this, but firstly:
Swiss chard.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2399/2


So what do you think is the healthiest food?

[Martian Luger King]

Haha, you mean to say that you don't even get tomatoes, onions, or lettuce on your greasy cheeseburger? I suppose you at least eat french fries...

I do not, I find onions, tomatoes, lettuce to be the nastiest fucking shit ever. Every time I see an onion I want to throw up. I don't really eat french fries either.

You have to think about how eating unhealthy foods a lot is bad for you as well. I mean, even assuming that vegetables lack the nutrients people think they have, eating a shitload of grease and fat instead can't be good for you, now can it? That's how people have heart attacks.

It doesn't really matter, man isn't meant to get all of the nutrients he needs (as prior to human exploration and expansion man had very little access to all of the vegetation around). Man actually evolved to his present enlightened state by eating fatty meat, as it was meat unlike vegetation is digested much faster which allows a greater blood allocation to the brain. If we never began eating meat we'd be huffing jenkem right now. As for heart attacks, it obviously isn't so that you exercise vigorously, my triglyceride/blah blah blah are all in optimal parameters compared to my compatriots who eat nothing but salad.


But I think another big part of it is genetics.

Sounds like you just aren't old enough yet to hit the stage where your metabolism will slow down and you will gain weight and feel the effects of eating a shitty diet.

Maybe, but one's metabolism can be stimulated via anaerobic exercise which I hope to be doing well in to my 200's.

[Martian Luger King]

That's quite interesting. You should totally make a separate thread for this, but firstly:
Swiss chard.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2399/2


So what do you think is the healthiest food?

Thanks, perhaps I would but I feel it would just be degraded by some of the populace here, it's very uplifting to see that there are very intelligent and open minded people on this forum specifically in this sub-forum. I feel that there is no use in looking for a "healthy" food, just what is tastiest for you and so long that is has a decent macronutrient makeup. Clearly someone cannot live off of snicker bars, although Richard Ramirez did it for quite a few years along with a serious coke habit and he's fine today. So as long as you do strength training it really doesn't matter what you eat, your cholesterol levels will be balanced out and your metabolic rate will increase significantly. I do not believe micronutrients are a necessity, but what is my opinion worth in a society that clings to the feet of flawed western medical doctors, a society that believes whatever the television/a "professional" tells them.

[whocares123]

Martian, allow me to refer you to Jack Lalanne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjeyn1juEE&feature=related

Now do you mean to suggest he, who is now 94 years old and in great shape, I think he's about 40-50 in that video, would be like that with exercise alone? I mean I dunno, it seems logical to me that food being the only thing your body takes in would have an effect on how you feel and your health.

But god damn is cottage cheese some nasty shit.

[Martian Luger King]

Jack Lalanne is in about the same shape as any other ninety something out there. I could refer you to Jeanne Calment who ate two pounds of chocolate a week and went on to live longer than any other human being, or Shigechiyo Izumi, an avid smoker and drinker even in to his final (120) years. Individual results don't mean much at all I'm afraid. There's not a lot of evidence (that isn't tainted) that suggests longevity is anything other than hereditary. In my family a sizable amount of people have lived passed one hundred years old eating little more than zucchini and bacon, and sugary fruit juice, one notably during the great depression. I do fail to understand why people concern themselves with longevity, for I believe life past age thirty-eight let alone the average life-expectancy rate is nothing to look forward to. I would be much more content living an adventurous, natural lifestyle even if it meant I would die in my thirties, but given the overfeminized and motherly nature of today's society even expressing a desire to live in such a manner is considered "unhealthy". What can I say, it's a sick world.

And yeah cottage cheese is pretty awful.

[face_smack360]

Mi Goreng or Ramen is your best friend on a low budget.

[kafka]

I believe life past age thirty-eight let alone the average life-expectancy rate is nothing to look forward to. I would be much more content living an adventurous, natural lifestyle even if it meant I would die in my thirties, but given the overfeminized and motherly nature of today's society even expressing a desire to live in such a manner is considered "unhealthy". What can I say, it's a sick world.

And yeah cottage cheese is pretty awful.
I don't necessarily believe that vegetables are worthless (though I agree with some of your observations, e.g. the examples of how alot of the food that can supposedly replace meat doesn't scale too too well), but I certainly agree with that. I mean, personally, I find longevity interesting and wouldn't mind it -- assuming general maintenance of the faculties -- but the mentality you speak of has done alot of good in our world and without it we'd probably still be flinging crap at each other in the jungle (as one of my favourite teachers was fond of pointing out, it was the crazy monkeys who dropped out of the relative safety of the trees to begin civilization, not the cautious ones who died old monkey deaths) and urinating upon each other. Kudos for pointing out how meat-eating was necessary to our evolution. People forget -- and it isn't just the processing speed/blood-flow: the extra protein is needed to build the brain itself. And ditto the idea that longevity is largely the product of good genes; while environment may have some effect, ditto diet and exercise, the data seems to indicate that the vast majority of potential originates in your genes. That said, I do love a good zucchini fried with olive oil and chili. Nevertheless, the nanny-state sucks ass for the most part.

For cheap foods: get a good cut of meat, beans and some cheap vegetables and make yourself a stew. Peasant food in general is pretty damn good -- be it European, Asian or otherwise.