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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
As a regular reader of The Register I noted the following:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/17/quid_a_day_challenge/
which led to the Living Below the Line page at
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk/challenge
Now I can see that you might be able to do the £1 a day by eating bulk staples - which are mainly carbohydrates - but could you do this on for instance LCHF?
I am for the moment assuming that we rule out skip diving, hanging around outside restaurants begging for leftovers, mugging pensioners for McDonalds takeaways, and eating family pets.
Eating ' free' from allotments or other home grown food should probably also be excluded.
The rule I would expect is that you have to buy everything apart from condiments for the 5 day period, and not accept food from anyone not also on the challenge.
Clubbing together would be acceptable - for instance if you were living on bulk staples then clubbing together to buy a large bag of rice might be a reasonable way to go. and reflect 'real world' approaches to budget living.
So what could you eat for five days which costs £5 in total?
There are additional tricky issues such as eating free range eggs and chicken, but realistically if I was struggling to survive animal welfare would probably take second place to my own.
Shopping location is important as well - for example I can get six large free range eggs from Lidl for £1 but they const over £2 in most shops.
Anyway, my first step would be to prepare a 5 day menu which provided about 1,000 KCals per day at a total cost of £5.
Second would be to prepare a LCHF and 'no hold barred' menu for comparison.
One aspect might be to demonstrate that people under financial pressure may be forced to eat unhealthily.
Another aspect might be that taking on the 5 day challenge might be an incentive to live on stored fat - in theory most people could get through 5 days by just drinking water although that would be a truly horrible experience.
Suggestions for a diabetic friendly £5/5 day diet most welcome
Cheers
LGC
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/17/quid_a_day_challenge/
which led to the Living Below the Line page at
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk/challenge
Now I can see that you might be able to do the £1 a day by eating bulk staples - which are mainly carbohydrates - but could you do this on for instance LCHF?
I am for the moment assuming that we rule out skip diving, hanging around outside restaurants begging for leftovers, mugging pensioners for McDonalds takeaways, and eating family pets.
Eating ' free' from allotments or other home grown food should probably also be excluded.
The rule I would expect is that you have to buy everything apart from condiments for the 5 day period, and not accept food from anyone not also on the challenge.
Clubbing together would be acceptable - for instance if you were living on bulk staples then clubbing together to buy a large bag of rice might be a reasonable way to go. and reflect 'real world' approaches to budget living.
So what could you eat for five days which costs £5 in total?
There are additional tricky issues such as eating free range eggs and chicken, but realistically if I was struggling to survive animal welfare would probably take second place to my own.
Shopping location is important as well - for example I can get six large free range eggs from Lidl for £1 but they const over £2 in most shops.
Anyway, my first step would be to prepare a 5 day menu which provided about 1,000 KCals per day at a total cost of £5.
Second would be to prepare a LCHF and 'no hold barred' menu for comparison.
One aspect might be to demonstrate that people under financial pressure may be forced to eat unhealthily.
Another aspect might be that taking on the 5 day challenge might be an incentive to live on stored fat - in theory most people could get through 5 days by just drinking water although that would be a truly horrible experience.
Suggestions for a diabetic friendly £5/5 day diet most welcome
Cheers
LGC