{"id":987,"date":"2014-03-21T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:04:50","slug":"nutritional-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/nutritional-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritional Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking more about convenient, healthy alternatives to <a href=\"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/anti-paleo-diet\/\">Soylent<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mealsquares.com\/\">MealSquares<\/a> that are closer to the kind of food we&#8217;ve evolved to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some food that exceeds the recommended daily intake of most vitamins and minerals with only about 1300 calories (leaving room for less healthy snacks):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 bags of Brad&#8217;s Raw Chips, Indian<\/li>\n<li>1.5 bags of Brad&#8217;s Raw Chips, Sweet Pepper<\/li>\n<li>6 crackers, Lydia&#8217;s Green Crackers (vitamin E)<\/li>\n<li>1 oz Atlantic oysters (B12, zinc) (one 3 oz tin every 3 days)<\/li>\n<li>1 brazil nut (selenium)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caveats: I&#8217;m unsure how accurately I estimated the nutrition in the processed foods (I made guesses based on the list of ingredients).<\/p>\n<p>This diet has little vitamin D (which I expect to get from supplements and sun).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s slightly low in calcium, sodium, B12, and saturated fat. I consider it important to get more B12 from other animal sources (sardines, salmon or pastured eggs). I&#8217;m not concerned about the calcium or sodium because this diet would provide more than hunter-gathers got and because I don&#8217;t have much trouble getting more from other food. And it&#8217;s hard not to get more saturated fat from other foods I like (e.g. chocolate).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether it has enough iodine, so when I&#8217;m not having much fish it&#8217;s probably good to add a little seaweed (I&#8217;m careful to avoid the common kinds that have added oil that&#8217;s been subjected to questionable processing).<\/p>\n<p>It has just barely 100% of vitamin E, B3, and B5 (in practice I get more of those from eggs and sweet potatoes).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possibly too high in omega-3 (10+ grams?) from flax seeds in the Raw Chips (my estimate here is more uncertain than with the other nutrients).<\/p>\n<p>The only convenient way to get oysters that keep well and don&#8217;t need preparation is cans of smoked oysters, and smoking seems to be an unhealthy way to process food.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I chose this list without trying to make it affordable, and it ended up costing about $50 per day. I don&#8217;t plan to spend that much unless I become too busy to cook cheaper foods such as sweet potatoes, mushrooms, bean sprouts, fish, and eggs.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, I&#8217;ve been relying more on Questbars for convenient food, but I&#8217;m trying to cut down on those as I eat more Brad&#8217;s Raw Chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking more about convenient, healthy alternatives to Soylent or MealSquares that are closer to the kind of food we&#8217;ve evolved to eat. Here&#8217;s some food that exceeds the recommended daily intake of most vitamins and minerals with only about 1300 calories (leaving room for less healthy snacks): 4 bags of Brad&#8217;s Raw Chips, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}