RE: The Extropian Menu Challenge [was: Land of let's only talk about whats wrong with the US]

From: Barbara Lamar (barbaralamar@sanmarcos.net)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 11:10:24 MDT

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    Samantha wrote:

    > > Huh? I can feed a familly of four 50 meals/month in a
    > restaurant on that kind
    > > of money! I can and have fed a family of four on $500/month.

    Robert wrote:

    > Ok, this sounds like a very *interesting* challenge.

    When I was a young adult I worked two low-paying jobs for a while so I could
    save money to start a business. Office job during the day, waitress job at
    night.

    Since I was trying to save money, I kept my food bill to a minimum by eating
    brewer's yeast, bread, and vitamin C. .

    I only did this for a year or so. Don't know what the long term effects
    would've been, but during the time I was eating this way, I felt great and
    never got sick. Both my food expense and prep time were almost nothing (I
    bought already made bread rather than baking my own). For the sake of full
    disclosure I should add that I supplemented this diet by eating leftovers at
    the restaurant (I used to pitch the dishes I especially liked, in hopes that
    the customer would leave some for me), but the leftovers made up a fairly
    small % of my overall diet.

    Barbara

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