turd world peasant food

TURD WORLD PEASANT FOOD

I've written on this previously, but felt perhaps it couldn't hurt to revisit it in light of the next great depression, coming 90% unemployment and other such trials and tribulations. To be clear, this isn't a survival stockpile food storage plan, but rather the cheapest way to shop at the grocery store when money is tight. Your diet is going to be starch. At its worse, 95% starch and 5% oil. If you are slightly better off, 90% starch, 5% fat and 5% protein. I've experienced an even worse diet than this and did fine.

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Actually, it might have been better, health wise, but it was worse as far as variety. I lived a month just on potatoes and margarine, when unemployed. Of course, margarine nowadays is wretched swill. It has almost no oil and is no longer cheap. I would NOT recommend that. You are better off with some other crap oil like liquid soy or shortening. Very bad for you, so I'd try for the best oil you can get. But of course, you'll do what you can with what you have. And it will depend on how long you must keep up this diet. The longer it is, the better the oil I'd try to use.

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I've gone a week at a time with other single foods, always when unemployed. The stress of that took a lot of stress off of the crap I was eating. But I can tell you, a diet of white foods, even just for a week, is a REALLY good diet tool. When I ate just white rice or Top Ramen that week, my body fat took a nose dive. That crap is filler only. It is a Haitian mud pie. Try to do whatever, to avoid just eating a single White food ( white rice, white flour-which includes pasta, white instant potatoes, white sugar ). If that is all you have, at least it is calories. That will get you to the last in line for the stew pot. But it is sub-optimal.

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When you are looking at a calorie chart, white flour and whole wheat flour are the same. And if you eat a lot of other foods, JUST eating white flour only matters as far as lack of fiber. BUT! If you are getting most of your calories from white flour, your body will be able to tell the difference. White will NOT satisfy. It won't stick to your ribs, nor will it produce energy you can use. I've tried all of this, people. I'm my own guinea pig. A few days, no big deal. But this diet, long term? You will be screwing yourself.

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Here's a story for you I got from YouTube. I knew this already, from our just discussed book “King Rat” following prisoners of war, but perhaps this one will stick in your mind better. Before WWII, the Japanese military had problems with its troops becoming malnourished and sick. It took awhile to figure out why. The naval personnel were studied, with their beri-beri. Conscripts were peasant farmers, who were used to eating brown rice. When they joined up, they had unlimited access to as much WHITE rice as they could eat ( which stores much longer, having no oils ).

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They thought they were pigs in slop, as white rice was a delicacy. The equivalent of Wonder Bread rather than a half burnt lump of whole wheat bread that is dense, chewy and made you feel like a masticating cow. Hell, you barely have to chew Wonder, it just dissolves and slides right down. But here is the thing. They got all the calories they wanted, BUT, they had to pay for anything other than rice, out of their own pocket. You can't do that with eighteen year old's who grew up in poverty. They piss away all their money.

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So, the enlisted ranks were constantly getting sick, so sick they couldn't work. This was a military readiness issue. One doctor finally figured out that while brown rice had protein, white did not. They needed protein. The tight assed admirals finally realized a tiny bit of funds to better rations kept 20-50% of the troops out of sick bay. And no, the military doesn't care at all about you today. They are no more enlightened. They are just protecting their investment in training.

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All of the above is to illustrate that while you can eat cheap foods, you need to eat the RIGHT cheap foods. Potatoes will go a LONG way satisfying your protein needs. I didn't crave meat on my potato diet. But, I did it wrong by just eating one food. The potato is ALMOST the perfect food, containing all but some vitamins and minerals ( and no fat ). Fry up a potato, and get a dark green veggie, and you pretty much can survive on just that. I won't dwell on Taste Fatigue, other than to remind you that it is an overblown problem. BUT. If you do have a choice to avoid it, by all means do so. It will help tampering stress.

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For myself, the ideal butt poor diet would be potatoes, whole wheat flour and white rice. I love whole wheat. My body craves it, especially since I started grinding my own ( and keeping the flour in the fridge-the oils and vitamins on fresh ground give your body what it needs ). I prefer potatoes to other starches besides wheat. Rice, I'm not crazy about. But I can eat SOME. If I only ate ONE of the above, I would get tired of it, real quick. It took me five years before I ate another potato after my month diet of them, not even eating french fries which I consider food from the gods.

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I haven't liked rice since I ate nothing but for a week, over thirty years ago. A twelve pack of Top Ramen will last me a year, now, after eating those for a week twenty-five years ago. I can eat whole wheat every single day, but after about 25% of my calories from that not only am I over that taste wise, I get a hefty case of running to the crapper. As I said, taste fatigue is NOT real, not for poor people. Only spoiled Americans. But it IS real, until we have no choice but to accept it. Eat three different foods a day, to avoid this. Not ONE, like I did, but three. Learn from my mistake. Better nutritiously and better psychologically.

Continued tomorrow ( teaser-$20 a month grocery bill )

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note: Sam, and L.S. in VA, got your snail mail.  Crazy day, busy as a one armed paper hanger.  I'll reply soonest-thanks
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note: totally by accident, but here is a grocery trip report to go along with the above.  I went shopping yesterday.  Not because I had to but because I felt I still could ( although we'll know for sure in 28 days- LOL ).  I couldn't even spend $200.  There was barely any food.  If it wasn't a snack food, or a condiment, it was pretty much out at Wally.  No one was on that side of the store, hardly.  Kroger was starting to get Wally overflow and will look like them very shortly.  And this was a week after most folks payday ( no restock from the initial panic buying ).  Wally did have plenty of frozen, but ALL the dry goods except the above really took a giant hit.  
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note: continued from above.  I mostly just bought luxury goods.  Coffee ( they had plenty-foolish customers! ), Masa flour for variety.  Flavored diet water for the bidet bottles.  Taco seasoning, jello, whole wheat crackers, gum for the NOL, sugar and butter just because a few were left.  Comfort/luxury foods mostly.  At Kroger, they still had flour although it is probably already gone by now.  Cans of enchilada sauce, chicken soup, soy sauce, last of the lentils. They were wiped out of Top Ramen except the soy flavor, which sounded good to me.  I bought two cases.
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note: continued.  I went to the feed store and wheat was still $11 a fifty pound sack.  I would have gotten more but lack storage containers.  This was just for daily eating anyway.  Now, for sure, except for produce, I have no reason to go grocery shopping again unless stores by a miracle restock.  I can't see how they can all do so, with this kind of hit. I hope I am wrong.  So, potatoes and whole wheat are still well stocked.  I would have to pick something besides rice, if I didn't want to dip into my stockpile.  If you must still shop, go to the less frequented stores that sell at higher prices.  You might still have a chance at getting dry/can goods.  But do it NOW! End babbling.  
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