Nutrition/Examples/Cheap plant-based

This is an example nutrition analysis of cheap plant-based food.

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cheap home cooking

A balanced diet with beans, root vegetables, and other ordinary foods.

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Notes:

• Multivitamin is essential here.
• Calcium is supplemented too (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
• This analysis shows the raw ingredients. Cooking instructions / recipes will be added to this wiki soon. In general, when you boil any food, do not drain the water; keep it for the soup. You don't want to lose some of the minerals (nutrients) (...)( relevant info: Heat doesn't destroy minerals(...)( scientific reason: the minerals are elements (on the periodic table); the vitamins are molecules that can break down at high temperatures ), but it does destroy some vitamins. The multivitamin fully compensates for this: Most multivitamin tablets have 100% the recommended daily intake of all B vitamins and vitamin C, which are the ones that can be lost in cooking. ).
• Yes it's all vegan!

junk food method

Yes, it is possible to construct healthy diets with junkfood, in some cases. This is one example.

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Notes:

• Multivitamin is essential here.
• Calcium is supplemented too (typically costs about 10 cents per day), because the cheap foods aren't naturally high in calcium.
• Even if the cookies have small amounts of dairy etc., the vast majority of calories & protein are still coming from plants.

Tl;dr: If you eat the right cheap foods in the right amounts with the right supplements, you can easily achieve a balanced diet at very low cost.