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How Little, Really?
    #18382339 - 06/07/13 09:49 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

I am starting an experiment today to see just how little I can survive on money-wise, in terms of food.

My Requirements:
  • I must get at least 1200 calories a day
  • Lunch must include a meat course at least five days a week
  • Dinner must include a meat course at least six days a week
  • I may accept a free meal (someone offers to take me to lunch or a Sunday dinner at my family's house) no more than once a week


Exceptions:
  • Balanced, healthy meals are not a requirement in this experiment.
  • I may use foods in my pantry that I already have. I have a few cans of cream of mushroom soup, 4 cans of black beans, a can of enchilada sauce, 2 cans of green peas, 3 cans of crowder peas, a small jar of peanut butter, some pancake syrup, a quarter jar of grape jelly, olive oil, non stick PAM, 2 sicks of butter, soy sauce, spices, a bag of tortillas, 2 frozen chicken breasts, and flour... that's it. When I have to replace them, those prices are included in this experiment
  • Alcohol. The price of alcohol won't go towards this experiment, but neither will the calories
  • Kids' food. My children's meals will not count in the monetary total, but they will also not eat from my cache.


I am taking $25 to Walmart today to see what I can get for it. My idea is to get the biggest bag of rice that I can find, red potatoes for boiling, chicken for cooking and freezing, and oatmeal for breakfast. I'm staying away from Ramen for now. They are just too high in sodium for me.

For lunches, I plan on steaming a big pot of rice and putting 200g into zip lock bags with 100g of cooked chicken. For lunch, I will empty one into a skillet with some hot olive oil going, add a bit of soy sauce, and make fried rice. For dinners, I'll premake boiled red potatoes and cooked chicken, putting 250g potatoes and 100g of chicken into tupperware containers with some english or crowder peas. Breakfast will be oatmeal.

I'll update this main post as I go. This experiment will end August 1st.


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$25 almost exactly spent

Food Purchased and lunches made for today, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday

Purchased


Started 2 cups of dry rice with almost 4 cups of water


I cut up 2 of the smaller chicken breasts and put the rest in zip locks


I froze the ones I'm not using. In this system, I'll pull from the right and put new chicken in on the left.


I put the cut chicken in the skillet with Mrs Dash Rotisserie spice and pepper


I covered it to cook. I won't ever flip it.


Here the chicken in cooked


I finished at the same time as the rice


Layed everything out with the scales I'm using


I want 200g of rice and 100g of chicken


Here are lunches for the next 3 days


I didn't want to waste the juices left over from cooking the chicken so I added the remaining rice and chicken and made fried rice for today's lunch


It turned out delicious!


Next up it to boil some red potatoes and cook more chicken to make dinners for the next few days

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I just finished making the dinners.

Boiling the potatoes


Cooking more chicken


After doling everything out, I put it all in the bottom of the fridge. The lunches are in bags and the dinners in containers


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OfflineTheBoomking
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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan] * 1
    #18382379 - 06/07/13 10:00 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

seems like a cool scientific experiment, just for fun?


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: TheBoomking] * 1
    #18382381 - 06/07/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

lots of bacon and eggs. Cheap and great source of protein/ calories.


bananas are cheap too


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: NWlight]
    #18382390 - 06/07/13 10:06 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

I tried something similar awhile back..I couldn't do it tho, by mid afternoon I'd be starving and miserable at work haha


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: NWlight]
    #18382395 - 06/07/13 10:08 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

TheBoomking said:
seems like a cool scientific experiment, just for fun?




Just curious, yeah

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NWlight said:
lots of bacon and eggs. Cheap and great source of protein/ calories.


bananas are cheap too




Bananas are $0.59/lb here. I want to buy one soon and weigh the actual banana outside of the peel to see the real cost of one. I'll definitely be getting eggs soon. They are great in fried rice.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan] * 2
    #18382453 - 06/07/13 10:26 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Pb&J and sunflower seeds.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan] * 3
    #18382468 - 06/07/13 10:30 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

automan said:
I am starting an experiment today to see just how little I can survive on, in terms of food.

My Requirements:
  • I must get at least 1200 calories a day
  • Lunch must include a meat course at least five days a week
  • Dinner must include a meat course at least six days a week
  • I may accept a free meal (someone offers to take me to lunch or a Sunday dinner at my family's house) no more than once a week


Exceptions:
  • Balanced, healthy meals are not a requirement in this experiment.
  • I may use foods in my pantry that I already have. I have a few cans of cream of mushroom soup, 4 cans of black beans, a can of enchilada sauce, 2 cans of green peas, 3 cans of crowder peas, a small jar of peanut butter, some pancake syrup, a quarter jar of grape jelly, olive oil, non stick PAM, 2 sicks of butter, soy sauce, spices, a bag of tortillas, 2 frozen chicken breasts, and flour... that's it. When I have to replace them, those prices are included in this experiment
  • Alcohol. The price of alcohol won't go towards this experiment, but neither will the calories
  • Kids' food. My children's meals will not count in the monetary total, but they will also not eat from my cache.


I am taking $25 to Walmart today to see what I can get for it. My idea is to get the biggest bag of rice that I can find, red potatoes for boiling, chicken for cooking and freezing, and oatmeal for breakfast. I'm staying away from Ramen for now. They are just too high in sodium for me.

For lunches, I plan on steaming a big pot of rice and putting 200g into zip lock bags with 100g of cooked chicken. For lunch, I will empty one into a skillet with some hot olive oil going, add a bit of soy sauce, and make fried rice. For dinners, I'll premake boiled red potatoes and cooked chicken, putting 250g potatoes and 100g of chicken into tupperware containers with some english or crowder peas. Breakfast will be oatmeal.

I'll update this main post as I go. This experiment will end August 1st.



It's possible to get adequate food for a little amount of money, but then you'll end up getting those same items over and over again, you'll get sick of them and want to change, which would increase your spending requirements.

If you really wanted to save money, you could go fishing (catch fish for free), grow a garden (edible vegetables for free other than the cost to plant), etc.
Depends how much effort you're willing to put into this.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #18382495 - 06/07/13 10:37 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Sell Your Soul said:

It's possible to get adequate food for a little amount of money, but then you'll end up getting those same items over and over again, you'll get sick of them and want to change, which would increase your spending requirements.




We'll see

Quote:


If you really wanted to save money, you could go fishing (catch fish for free), grow a garden (edible vegetables for free other than the cost to plant), etc.





That's not available to me.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #18382549 - 06/07/13 10:49 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Sell Your Soul said:
Quote:

automan said:
I am starting an experiment today to see just how little I can survive on, in terms of food.

My Requirements:
  • I must get at least 1200 calories a day
  • Lunch must include a meat course at least five days a week
  • Dinner must include a meat course at least six days a week
  • I may accept a free meal (someone offers to take me to lunch or a Sunday dinner at my family's house) no more than once a week


Exceptions:
  • Balanced, healthy meals are not a requirement in this experiment.
  • I may use foods in my pantry that I already have. I have a few cans of cream of mushroom soup, 4 cans of black beans, a can of enchilada sauce, 2 cans of green peas, 3 cans of crowder peas, a small jar of peanut butter, some pancake syrup, a quarter jar of grape jelly, olive oil, non stick PAM, 2 sicks of butter, soy sauce, spices, a bag of tortillas, 2 frozen chicken breasts, and flour... that's it. When I have to replace them, those prices are included in this experiment
  • Alcohol. The price of alcohol won't go towards this experiment, but neither will the calories
  • Kids' food. My children's meals will not count in the monetary total, but they will also not eat from my cache.


I am taking $25 to Walmart today to see what I can get for it. My idea is to get the biggest bag of rice that I can find, red potatoes for boiling, chicken for cooking and freezing, and oatmeal for breakfast. I'm staying away from Ramen for now. They are just too high in sodium for me.

For lunches, I plan on steaming a big pot of rice and putting 200g into zip lock bags with 100g of cooked chicken. For lunch, I will empty one into a skillet with some hot olive oil going, add a bit of soy sauce, and make fried rice. For dinners, I'll premake boiled red potatoes and cooked chicken, putting 250g potatoes and 100g of chicken into tupperware containers with some english or crowder peas. Breakfast will be oatmeal.

I'll update this main post as I go. This experiment will end August 1st.



It's possible to get adequate food for a little amount of money, but then you'll end up getting those same items over and over again, you'll get sick of them and want to change, which would increase your spending requirements.

If you really wanted to save money, you could go fishing (catch fish for free), grow a garden (edible vegetables for free other than the cost to plant), etc.
Depends how much effort you're willing to put into this.




good idea, but I don't think thats what the op's going for here. its not so much about saving money as it is about seeing if he/she can do this somewhat of a scientific experiment


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan]
    #18382583 - 06/07/13 10:57 AM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Sounds pretty horrible to me.  I'd be starving with only 1200 calories/day.

Fasting/starvation diets are no fun at all.


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Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: badchad]
    #18382916 - 06/07/13 12:18 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

I dont know how much bananas are here,  but when I buy 5-6 good sized bananas its around 1.60 or so.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: Distorted Vision]
    #18382942 - 06/07/13 12:22 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

The main post has been updated :smile:


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan]
    #18383064 - 06/07/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

So I did the math. It looks like I should be able to get almost a month and a half out of this bag of rice. That'll give me breathing room to make a casserole dish full of enchiladas next week!


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan]
    #18383279 - 06/07/13 01:45 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Just updated again. All the meals through Monday have been made.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan]
    #18383289 - 06/07/13 01:49 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Goodluck man!


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: Distorted Vision]
    #18383301 - 06/07/13 01:53 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

I would be curious as to your stats, I mean doing this as a 300 pound man is totally different than doing it as a 125 pound man with no muscle.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: zpores] * 2
    #18383308 - 06/07/13 01:57 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Damn that seems like a recipe for severe constipation if you don't add some fruit, veg or beans in there.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: zpores]
    #18383309 - 06/07/13 01:57 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

That's a very good point.

I'm 6'4", maybe 230lbs, and relatively strong. I haven't been on the scales in a very long time, though.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: automan]
    #18383313 - 06/07/13 01:58 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

Big difference between limiting calories and limiting nutrients. If you're adequately supplying yourself with fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals, calories become somewhat moot. In fact, recent studies show that regular "calorie restriction" extends lifespan. I tabbed it up recently and I know myself I almost never eat my daily recommendation of calories, but I'm careful to get my nutrients so I'm pretty damned healthy. I don't know why we even have calorie requirements, I get the impression those are made-up as an excuse to tell somebody who eats a good diet they'd be healthier if they ate a candy bar. :facepalm:

This should not be taken as an endorsement of absurd "fasting cleanses" like that lemon juice shit. People who do that are crazy, they deserve everything that's coming to them.


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Re: How Little, Really? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #18383322 - 06/07/13 02:02 PM (10 years, 7 months ago)

You should get some Sambal. Dry rice is the worst!


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