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Kryptos
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Re: Living off of smoothies instead of cooking food [Re: filthyknees]
#23151685 - 04/24/16 09:35 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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I had a bodybuilder/ex-football player/football coach roommate in college that ate one or two solid meals a week and got the rest of his nutrition from various smoothies. I have also messed around with soylent. It can be done.
Though, expect some physiological confusion while your body adapts. When I first started on soylent (DIY) it gave me horrible, horrible gas for the first few weeks. I could (and regularly did) clear a room and have people coughing from it as they ran outside. It also tasted really weird. After a while, the gas went away, and the taste got better and better.
When I went back to regular-people food, it was mostly for social reasons. People would be like "wanna grab lunch?" and I'd hold up a water bottle with an off-white liquid, and they'd just kinda treat me like the homeless guy that whips his dick out on the bus. When I said "sure" but proceeded to not order anything, they similarly tended to get weirded out and stop inviting me. Regular food tasted pretty bad at first, and the physiological confusion came back, this time in the form of me suddenly needing a whole lot more than a daily serving of fiber.
Honestly, I'm probably gonna go back to soylent at some point. I hate spending time cooking, when I could be doing literally anything else. I've started cooking 20L batches of chili in my presto, and then canning it for easy reheating and putting on rice just to cut down on my daily cooking. Weighing out a third-kilo of powder that you make a month in advance and adding some oil and a gallon of water is much easier, and you can just sip it throughout the day. It's also way cheaper.
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Re: Living off of smoothies instead of cooking food [Re: filthyknees]
#23155878 - 04/26/16 03:42 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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filthyknees said: here is one of the top o the noggin
two frozen bananas (peel & freeze bananas in bulk when ripe) an avocado about two cups of frozen blueberries hemp seed, a lot a couple unpeeled long carrots an apple ginger (size about half your thumb) add spinach until drink is green (as much as is palatable- goal here is to have lots of greens) mix using plain water or if you wanna get real fucking gourmet use coconut milk or fill in the blank nut milks.
oh you added a fruit/vegetable supplement powder to make the biodiversity exponentially expanded?? wow such a good idea you're a smart one. your gut will thank you.
and get this. no fucking kidding, when I was eating like this (after a few weeks) my farts wouldn't stink ladies?? ;)
Without actually looking up protein contents, seems a bit low. Remember, you need fats (brain) and proteins (muscles) to live. Carbs are optional calorie filler. Though, if you get most of your calories from fats, you'll go ketogenic, which will make your breath smell like acetone, and if you get most of your calories from protein, you'll need to drink lots more water to get rid of all the nitrogen compounds from the amino acids. Carbs are pretty neutral in this sense, they'll keep you running.
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Re: Living off of smoothies instead of cooking food [Re: micro]
#23187376 - 05/04/16 02:44 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Radiation is a big scary word and the dictionary is all the way in the other tab. Most people just reach for the posterboard. That being said, why are cooking and smoothies mutually exclusive?
I'd also argue that cooking was primarily developed as a way to remove pathogens from food and preserve it, which is much less important nowadays. I'm not advocating a raw only diet, or any specific diet for that matter. If what you eat gives you the nutrients you need, you're good. If it doesn't, well, you'll be good while you're young I guess...
I think soylent type smoothie meals are perfectly valid, as they are a much easier way to consistently get a day's necessary nutrition into you than watching your diet and cooking whole meals. I also think it's a bit of a cultural thing-the idea of fast food is much less prevalent in some countries other than the US, where meal times are seen as less of a stop at the gas station for your body and more of a ritualistic social gathering or some other form of affirmation of life.
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