Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• TauZero@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d love these! I’m the target audience but they cost even more per calorie than microwaveable frozen meals do.

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  • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You seen very focused on the “cost per calorie” measure. Have you never heard the phrase “empty calories”?

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    • TauZero@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You misunderstand the idea of cost per calorie. The expectation is that you start with something nutritionally-complete, like these soylents, the frozen rice+vegs+chicken dinners, or even the frozen apple pies (how ever nonconventional these may be), or if that is not possible then a combination of several foods in a ratio that makes them nutritionally complete, and then scale up to hit that 1500cals/day target. A single item or known ratio of items so I don’t have to think about this ever again. If I didn’t care about nutrition I’d just be chugging high fructose corn syrup (<$1/day) which you never saw me say. My daily meal ends up being rice and beans drenched in olive oil with some raw vegetables-of-the-day on the side, since I can’t afford the soylents.

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      • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was planning to eat this pie as my sole food over the course of 2 days for my One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD)

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