I pretty much live off energy drinks and rice rn.
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Buy dried legumes to get proper protein. Both cereals and legumes have protein, but not the full set of essential amino acids. However they complement each other in this regard, hence people living their entire life on rice, beans, and some fish.
I'd also advise looking into cheapest vegetables and making a salad out of them. Where I am, it's potato, carrots, and beets — coincidentally the ingredients for a traditional salad. They can be cheaper than rice.
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Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.
So glad I don't have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.
Fortified soy milk, vegetable oil, popping corn and chaat masala. Apples would be nice too but not vital.
Assuming stuff like vinegar or salt doesn't count?
Rice
Chicken breast
Cheese
Pasta noodles
Tomato sauce
Soy sauce
Potatoes, butter, salt, molybdenum.
oatmeal, rice, beans, tomatoes, spices, broccoli. each of those foods is truly non-negotiable for me and without one life is not worth living. thanks.
I believe 2, chia seeds and water, although I don't know if you will meet calories requirement so might be 3.
You can survive off any single food item for some non-zero amount of time. Nothing we know of can allow you to survive forever. The question is always: how long?
potatoes. indefinitely.
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I love food way too much it's probably like 15 to 20.
spoiler
- soya milk
- one type of cereal
- lets count uncooked eggs as 1 food type because i get to process them into any type i want
- dairy free butter
- olive oil
- rapeseed oil
- salt
- pepper
- pork ham
- chicken
- onions
- peas
- spinach
- sweet potatoes
- normal potatoes (i can now fabricate various flavours of crisps, yippee!)
- sultanas
- bananas
- tea OR coffee! Toss-up between the two.
- carrots
- wheat flour
- rice
- tomatoes
- pasta (some limit to what I'm willing to make myself)
- sourdough bread
- soya yoghurt
- apples
- oranges
- strawberries 28... i'm gonna stop listing stuff before I sound like a fat ass
Peanut butter, jelly, bread.
But if I'm doing it healthy, then add eggs, spinach, blueberries, yogurt.
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Just one, I guess. As long as I don't have to survive for very long
Chicken, broccoli, coffee, cream, cashews, olive oil, some cheese and spices, blueberries. That's 95% of my diet right now, and for the past four years or so.
Could I "survive" on less? Of, course. Do I want to? No. But, I may need to in the future.
Ah yes. The low carb low cholesterol diet of diabetics with cardio trouble.
I can do this when everything else in my life is on track, but when I'm depressed or anxious it's all I can do to put any kind of food in my belly. I fell off the wagon about a year ago.
Keep fighting the good fight.
I am not going to say "blood" because I don't want any to discover I am a vampire ha so I will say sliced meat between bred, butter on various hot objects and various vegetables/fruits depending on the time of day.
I just eat whatever cook serves. Breakfast was pretty simple this morning: a choice of cereals, pastry basket, kippers with a poached egg, full English (just the standards - eggs to order, bacon, herb sausage, black pudding, white pudding, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, grilled lambs kidneys, fried bread, buttered beans), followed by toast and marmalade, washed down with freshly squeezed orange juice. Oh, and coffee. So important. Just a normal 'breakfast', you know, whatever one's finds in the chafing dishes plus the eggs. So 'breakfast', does that count as one food item?
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I'm not sure but i guess milk might be fine.
Consider how babies live off entirely milk for a few months, i guess it has everything they need. There might be a difference between cow/human metabolism or adult/baby metabolism though.
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