ForgeCorvus wrote:
While some of us on here would probably love to live on 300 to 400 grams of chocolate a day (No names, no packdrill) its not something we should put our digestive system through
SHURUP.
does this mean I need to take this back?
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Nope, but you do need a bigger fridge.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
ForgeCorvus wrote:
While some of us on here would probably love to live on 300 to 400 grams of chocolate a day (No names, no packdrill) its not something we should put our digestive system through
SHURUP.
does this mean I need to take this back?
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Herself will fight you for it
I saw Greg Thingee off Masterchef doing a program on BB, we as a nation eat more per capita then anyone else..... Which is why 57 Varieties has the biggest BB factory in the world right here in Britain.
He also said they're the only food that people are willing to eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner
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Londonpreppy wrote: At its core all prepping is, is making sure you're not down to your last sheet of loo roll when you really need a poo.
ForgeCorvus wrote:
While some of us on here would probably love to live on 300 to 400 grams of chocolate a day (No names, no packdrill) its not something we should put our digestive system through
SHURUP.
does this mean I need to take this back?
IVEbxBI.jpg
Herself will fight you for it
I saw Greg Thingee off Masterchef doing a program on BB, we as a nation eat more per capita then anyone else..... Which is why 57 Varieties has the biggest BB factory in the world right here in Britain. He also said they're the only food that people are willing to eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner
Must admit I like beans BUT they can't contaminate anything till I'm ready.. Its beans with toast or beans with jacket spud.... Highlight of my pub full English a few days ago was the beans coming in a ramakin
The all day breakfast in a pouch or can are just grim
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Yorkshire Andy wrote:Mmmm curry. You seen how much salt is in that
Must admit I like beans BUT they can't contaminate anything till I'm ready.. Its beans with toast or beans with jacket spud.... Highlight of my pub full English a few days ago was the beans coming in a ramakin
The all day breakfast in a pouch or can are just grim
Better than nothing but aye, they're not the best. I've taken the odd can away when walking as a breakfast treat but not a patch on doing it properly, you can't always lug eggs and bacon up the hills though.
I must be a freak, I like ADB in a can...... Hot or Cold
But heres the thing with storing BB rather then BB with sausages, ADB or any of the other "Beans &...". You can use the beans as an ingredient or part of a meal, if theres already something else mixed in you're a bit more limited
My point is not that anyone would eat just beans or just pork'n'beans. My point is not that anyone would not try to eat a diet with the correct percentage of the different food groups. The points I was trying (not very well evidently) to draw out and discuss were:
1) Calories are vital. Without them you will lose energy, muscle mass, weight, and suffer psychological problems, and eventually die. It's true that not just calories that count, but a diet with the correct % of the different food groups is not an alternative to eating enough calories where lack of calories leads to starvation. It kinda looks to me that when some preppers store food they haven't counted the daily calories stored and so may suffer the effects of lack of calories - it won't matter whether the food groups are eaten in the correct proportion.
2) I had no idea how to get a decent amount of calories other than from predominantly meat-based foods. Thank you to those who gave alternative suggestions to meat in obtaining necessary calories. My desire is to find out how, as preppers, we can ensure that the food we are storing contains enough calories to avoid starvation; so far I think we've got peanut butter, chocolate, cheese, meat (incl. fish), and an oily diet. Furthermore, I've got a vegan mate who is trying to put on muscle mass; he eats huge amounts of chick peas, avocado, eggs and buckets of quorn, along with whey protein shakes - so I guess those can be added to the calorie-rich list.
edit/ thanks Brambles - changed "balanced diet" to "diet with the correct % of food groups".
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If you are eating a balanced diet, then you are getting enough calories, that's why it's called a balanced diet. You eat enough of each food group to 'balance' what you are expendening in energy and nutrients, so if you are eating a balanced diet, you are consuming sufficient calories and nutrients for your lifestyle to maintain body mass and health.
Regardless of whether you are a carnivore or vegetarian, you will need to increase your daily food intake if your lifestyle becomes more acive and reduce it if you become more sedentary, unfortunately, not many of us (me included) take heed of the latter.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
