Plant-based
Plant-based food could mean many things. There are countless dietary choices that could be healthy, unhealthy, cheap, expensive, low-calorie, high-calorie, low-protein, high-protein, etc.
This page is about ways to eat well with at least 95% of protein/calories coming from plants.
Balanced diets
Despite a lot of misinformation out there, It is possible to meet 100% of your nutritional needs with just plants. It also doesn't have to be expensive.
To eat more healthy and more cheaply than most people do,
Use these principles as a guide:
If this doesn't seem balanced on first glance, here are some examples to show it is:
- Note: These examples may not be perfect, but they are far more balanced than a typical diet in most countries.
- Note: You can also play around with the nutrition calculator to analyze your own options.
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Notes:
- 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. ) . - Calcium is supplemented (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
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Notes:
- This works regardless if the cookies have small amounts of dairy etc. The vast majority of calories & protein are still coming from plants.
- Calcium is supplemented (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
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