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Re:Soylent Campaign by papsosouid on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:45PM (#5752047)
Show me a shopping list that provides 100% RDI of all vitamins and minerals (without dangerous excesses of any of them), a reasonable balance of protein, fat and carbs, sufficient omega3s, and 2000 Kcal/day. You don't even need to worry about making actual meals out of this random assortment of ingredients, just the ingredients themselves. I do not believe you can do it for $230/month.
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Re:Soylent Campaign by Avshalom on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:08PM (#5752669) 

  Multivitamin ~10$
  1 gross eggs ~20
  30 cans refried beans ~20
  ~100 small tortillas ~7
  5 lbs rice ~5
  3 lbs sour cream ~9
  salt ~.7
  pepper ~1
  garlic ~2
  10 lbs potatoes ~10
spend the remaining ~3/day on whatever you feel like. suggestions include: pasta and sauce at ~1 a meal. whole fat chocolate milk at about ~2 a day. a pint of olive oil a day. a case of ramen a day. a pint of ben and jerry's (there's 2000 kcal by itself).

Prices sourced from an H.E.B. supermarket in Austin Tx. Oh, also, I've been living on less than 3$ of food a day for the last year, so this isn't exactly theoretical. 230 per person per month would the height of luxury for me.

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Re:Soylent Campaign by papsosouid on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:10PM (#5752696)
Read the requirements again. You aren't even approaching them.
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