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Calories per cent?
Cheezy
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I'm running through a bit of a bad spot financially and I'm trying to find a chart of some sort that gives an average of food calories per cent. Anyone know if there is one out there or if I should start making my own?
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1. Clip coupons. I've seen people save a ton doing this just by standing in line next to them.
2. Look for things that you can easily make pots of stuff out of. For instance a couple of cans of spaghetti sauce mixed with pasta and cheap hamburger can last for days! And sap or dab the grease out of the cheap 80/20 hamburger and you can save yourself some needless fat.
3. Look at the protein values on stuff. This will help ensure you're getting actual food, not just empty calories that won't keep you satisfied.
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Bananas and onions tend to be cheap and are, again, healthy.
Tuna and Eggs can provide additional protein. Plain white rice can be added to anything for cheap additional calories.
Oatmeal should be pretty efficient as well.
Try to sneak in some leafy greens (I'd recommend spinach: cheap and you can add it to almost anything) to round out your diet.
The "cheapest calories per cent" is probably Ramen or cooking oil. A better question is "what foods can I eat that are cheap and won't destroy my body?" I've listed a few above.
You can easily buy a ton of cheap fatty foods that would be high in calories and low in price, but just pack in your stomach and not really fill you up.
1. Beans
2. Rice
Eat them in the same meal; when metabolized together, they form (edit for clarity) a "Complete Protein," in otherwords a protein that contains the nine essential amino acids you need to keep your body running. You can pair them easily with dairy products if you want, or vegetables. It's cheaper than chicken, and there's an abundance of Southwest/Mexican/Creole recipes out there that you can use to prepare them.
When my dad lost his job when we were growing up, we ate a lot of beans and rice.
added: Recession Cuinine Tuesday Feature: Red Beans and Rice
Fast food and what not is actually very expensive.
Real food, the good stuff, is relatively cheap.
Hell, esspecially if you look for deals.
I remember getting a couple shark steaks and the local super market for like $2 a piece.
It was the deal of the day or some such. This is awesome, does any bean work really?
It's not that fast food is cheaper per se, it's the other cheap shit in grocery stores that gets people. People looking to capitalize on calories per cent. Things that companies will subsidize to stay cheap while other foods rise in price. Mac and cheese, you can get a huge box for about 50 cents per serving. Complete meal, but almost devoid of any nutritional value. You could probably get ramen cheaper than that though. But point for point, pasta with your own ingredients will be better for you and marginally more expensive. Like, cents more than ramen.
If you shop at a place like Aldi's you can get a lot of staples pretty cheap. Ground turkey there is significantly cheaper than ground beef, and can be substituted easily into any ground beef recipe, almost unnoticeably. Less fatty too.
If you have an Asian market nearby, you can usually get big sacks of rice there for relatively cheap, that will last you quite a while.
This is pretty much what I've been subsisting on for a while. Also I guess that I should've mentioned that I'm looking for food, not foodlike substances like ramens or poptarts.
99c Double Stack from Wendy's: 330 Calories = 3.33 Calories/ Cent
Any legume will work, yes. And actually, most grains will also work. So if you don't feel like rice, you can go with bread instead -- just keep in mind that you're paying for someone else to bake your bread for you, which isn't necessarily cost effective.
The idea ratio is 1/3rd legume, 2/3rds grain, but if your ratio is off that's okay. As long as you're eating enough to maintain body weight (not too much, not too little) you'll probably get as much protein as you need out of beans and rice.
There was some conversation in the "can't believe this is food" thread earlier about Ramen actually.
I, and several people on the board, have used some great little tricks to make Ramen awesome.
You can toss out the packet if you want (the source of all the salt) or use a quarter or half the packet.
You can toss eggs in as well as tons of other vegetables.
I usually buy the cheapest seafood my market has that day and boil the noodles then fry them together in a pan with some peppers.
I actually enjoy shopping around for cool meals.
It creeps me out.
Edit: also healthiest thing you can do which will put some cash in your wallet for food, drink water.
Just drink water. Most juice and stuff is loaded with sugar anyway so isn't really as healthy as you'd think. Awesome, I'm not huge into beans but I like 'em. Usually something that goes into one of the Ramen dishes I was mentioning.
Rice has always been a staple so this should be sweet and easy to work in a bit more beans with 'em.
He could buy nothing but butter and the calories per cent value of his shopping list would be OVER 9000!
You don't actually have to eat in the same meal to get the benefits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_combining
For vegetables, consider nutritional value per cent. Cabbage is very healthy and very cheap. Carrots and onions too. Tomatoes, lettuce, and many others are not such good value and don't last so long. Many vegetables are very cheap frozen, and just as nutritious as fresh. I also find that frozen meat is generally cheaper than fresh.
As I was mentioning earlier, there are LOADS of recipes around for beans and rice. Chili over rice, vegetarian burritos, vege gumbo. Poor people have been living on beans and grains for millenia all around the world, from the plains of Ethiopia (flat bread and lentils) to the Bayoux of Louisiana (red beans and rice) to Central America (refried beans and Spanish rice) to inland China (soy beans and white rice). Whatever cuisine you happen to like, you can find a suitable recipe to incorporate these staples.
It tends to help, though--if you don't have enough lysine, tryptophan, and methionine in your system at any one time, you can't metabolize the nine essential amino acids into the other eleven amino acids you can produce internally. The easiest away to make sure you're not wasting one limiting amino acid is to make sure you're taking in the other limiting acids at the same time.
Gimme a sister can't resist her/Red beans and rice didn't miss her
And now I want that, but I didn't soak any beans last night. Fuck. :x
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20 chocolate glazed timbits = 1400 calories = 7 calories per cent
1400 calories, 50 grams of fat (20 saturated), 100 grams of sugar, 20 grams of protein.
Large bottles or cases of soda would be another good choice, but not as nutritionally balanced as Timbits. Soda is not much other than sugar.
I'm assuming you don't want to directly consume something like crisco or maple syrup? Both would be incredibly high calories per cent. Cheap vegetable oils might be a good choice too. Just be sure that you are getting a balanced diet (see Timbits info above).