Wow, a lot of unintended privilege in this thread. Not you, Eniko, but in the replies.
I'm at 0-1. I live and eat alone. Having a disability that prevents walking with heavy loads, I have my groceries delivered. Delivered groceries do not generally offer single-servings of vegetable or fruit, and larger quantities tend to go bad before they get used, because see above re: disability. It's rare I can cook twice in a day.
Which waste I cannot afford, because I am on disability.
So most days, I eat chicken strips from the microwave. They're $10 for a supply that will last me five or six days. Sometimes, for a treat, I'll make tuna mayo sandwiches, or toast with marmalade. I live on less than $100 of food in a month in general. Once a month I might treat myself to a shawarma with onions and tomatoes, if it's been a good month.
So I see your "healthy diet", and raise you late-stage capitalism and a poverty diet as one of those useless mouths they talk about.
I am not interested in your suggestions for how you'd look after this in my shoes. Saying things about that will only confirm you have no idea what shoes I wear. Thanks for your attention to this paragraph.
@eniko In the past week, I've only been eating mostly a whole tomato and a piece of lettuce a day. That's because I'm having simple homemade sandwiches for lunch. I don't know how many grams that is though. Some weeks, I'm too lazy to cook and so my vegetable consumption is nonexistent. Other weeks, I'm eating a meal of homemade curry, veggie soup, stir-fried veggies, etc. a day, but they consist of mostly the same ingredients (onions, paprika, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms; and occasionally lettuce, cabbage, rucola, spinach).
@eniko Being a vegan who cooks nearly all my food and almost always has whole veggies / greens in the fridge, im definitely on the higher end of this scale, but im not exactly sure where. Not a lot of fruits eaten typically though.
@eniko in winter? Not much, because it’s all imported, gross quality, and ridiculously expensive. I end up dehydrating a lot of summer foods, because it tastes a bit better and is cheaper.
In the warmer months? About 95% of my diet is fresh fruits and vegetables.
I always feel it’s mean when the news starts throwing up articles about how we ‘don’t eat enough vegetables’ when it’s the end of winter.
@Scatterseed@PacificNic i mean i only eat 2 meals a day and today one of them was a slice of bread with cheese and an egg, and another was yakisoba which has about 50 grams of cabbage and carrot in it
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