Nutrition/Examples/Cheap plant-based
cheap home cooking
A balanced diet with beans, root vegetables, and other ordinary foods.
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Notes:
- Multivitamin is essential here.
- Calcium is supplemented too (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
- This analysis shows the raw ingredients. Cooking instructions / recipes will be added to this wiki soon. In general, when you boil any food, do not drain the water; keep it for the soup. You don't want to lose some of the minerals (nutrients)
(...)( relevant info: Heat doesn't destroy minerals (...)( scientific reason: the minerals are elements (on the periodic table); the vitamins are molecules that can break down at high temperatures ) , but it does destroy some vitamins. The multivitamin fully compensates for this: Most multivitamin tablets have 100% the recommended daily intake of all B vitamins and vitamin C, which are the ones that can be lost in cooking. ) . - Yes it's all vegan!
junk food method
Yes, it is possible to construct healthy diets with junkfood, in some cases. This is one example.
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Notes:
- Multivitamin is essential here.
- Calcium is supplemented too (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
- Even if the cookies have small amounts of dairy etc., the vast majority of calories & protein are still coming from plants.