I am super tight on money right now and I've been thinking of going back to my roots and eating only rice...

I am super tight on money right now and I've been thinking of going back to my roots and eating only rice. My dad used to tell stories of when he was younger and living off of just rice for months, but I'm curious to what sort of problems I might encounter in doing this. My intention is to make rice my main source of food, and occasionally supplementing it with a can of tuna or something.

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You want to mix in something else with every meal, eating just rice will leave you extremely deficient in many micro nutrients and vitamins

Nothing wrong with rice for every meal, as long as you have some kind of protein every meal too

why not lentils? the cost is pretty much the same and they are insanely healthy and full of protein

I do brown jasmine rice, black beans, corn, jalapenos, ground beef, and green beans as my meal prep. I also have 2 1100 calorie shakes a day as my other 2 meals.

Dried beans/lentils, maybe some eggs , and a multivitamin baby.

I remember hearing about vitamin a deficiency affecting asians because of rice. Not sure if it's the most common resulting ailment though. Apparantly it can cause blindness so be careful OP

Besides tuna, and pickled plum, what are some (cheap) things I can add in. When I said occasionally add a can of tuna, I was thinking once every couple days but it seems like the consensus is I would need something in addition to the rice every day

My neighbor gifted me a 15lb bag of Nishiki rice a while back, as we are both japanese and I mentioned that I miss it. Now i've hit a tight spot with money and I really need to be pinching every penny.

I'd reccomend offal, like lamb's liver - very cheap, protein and micronutrient rich. Watch for excessive micro intake if you eat a lot of it, some offal is overly rich in certain micronutrients to be consuming too often. Choose different canned fish to tuna, like sardines, salmon, mackerel etc. more omega 3 and less mercury.

Tamagokake gohan - i.e. raw egg and onions sauce over steaming rice. You get the fats and proteins from the egg and the carbs from the rice. Fuck fiber and all those other micronutrients.

Also get sardines. There's chicken of the sea lightly smoked in oil on amazon, 36 pieces for something like $1.09/pc.

Oatmeal my guy.
and Get some daily vitamin pills, it's like 12 bucks for 4 months worth. was worth the investment when I was in your shoes.

beans

Eat some offal God damn it's so cheap
I'd be willing to bet your dad/grandparents are pretty short right?

dad is short yes, around 5ft, but I'm exactly 6' when i don't slouch. I don't know my grandparents because they died from cancer (hometown is a small farming town in nagasaki prefecture) way before i was born so i don't know if they were tall or not

I' guessing your point though was that eating only rice will stunt your growth?

Get some cheap offal, chicken livers, lambs hearts etc. All veg is cheap af. Dont be pathetic. If you can only afford to eat rice then get another job or sell your ass you little twink

Frozen chicken breasts, rice & broccoli.
Cheap af you can survive and THRIVE on that easily. Rice itself is missing a lot of macro/micro nutrients

Man, don't be a nigger. How long are you going to be in this ruck for?
Find different areas to cut costs. Don't fuck up your health though.

just some frozen mixed vegetables aren't very costly you would think

How tight, you still need meat for protein, beans will help though

>nagasaki
>died from cancer
hmmmmm

What I would do is use ~$2 of addins a day:

18 eggs is about $3-4 depending on where you live. Throw 1 or 2 eggs in your rice for breakfast.

1 small can of mixed vegetables is ~89 cents. You can toss one of those in your rice at lunch time.

Bag of 10 frozen chicken breast is also really cheap. Eat one of these a day with dinner. If you want, alternate daily between chicken and tuna.

If you can afford it, buy a bag of frozen fruit and eat a little bit of that each day to get your micronutrients. It's worth it if you don't want to feel like shit.

Good luck based Japanese user

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Just give us an estimate on how much you can spend per month on food, all this bulshit excuses "I'm tight on money, my neighbor gave me a bunch of rice.." won't help you.

>what sort of problems
Beriberi and kwashiorkor.
>Cons: can be fatal, ruins gains
>Pros: both are fun to say

You are an idiot. You can buy dry legumes for a dollar per pound. Eggs are still cheap as long as you do not shop at a store that is trying to price gouge you.
I bought USDA larges at $0.70/doz just yesterday.

>going back to my roots and eating only rice
Are you a fucking coofer?

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lmao you're gonna be fucking miserable. not only will you be malnourished, but you'll be so sick of rice. You gotta have sauces, spices, meat, veg, eat some fucking fruit too. You'll go nuts. Maybe I'm just an undisciplined fuck, or its my euro blood talking, but I'd resort to violence for chili powder and garam marsala and other spices to mix with chicken and yogurt if I couldn't just buy it all at Hy-Vee. You gotta have flavor. Rice, Christ. I ate a bowl of rice once. Just jasmine rice. I ate the whole bowl, I was stoned and hungry and broke and I didn't have shit in my flat. Miserable, stuck to my cheeks, my teeth, my tongue. Didn't make my mouth water at all. Totally bland and unappetizing. You gotta have flavor. Get that saliva running, stoke that appetite so you actually want to shovel your face full. Cause if you don't, its just a chore. And if it's a chore to eat, will you really bother that often, or just when you have to? Food isn't just fuel, it's a morale boost. A man is not an island. He needs to enjoy himself.

Egg noodles, salt and pepper.

Get beans, lentils and other protein-rich cheap stuff.
Mix with rice.

Ad cheap chicken/tuna can/sardine can/ ...

Also, dried onions for breakfast with oatmeal. I know onions is baad but 45g of protein for 100g of that shit, and it's cheap.

For 3 days:
500g of rice, 500g of lentils, 1000g canned tuna, 1000g yogurt, 50g olive oil
Salt, pepper, garlic.
You can add vegetables like cucumber or anything, I don't count them because nearly no macros.
Cook rice and lentils separately, put everything in a big container, mix it all up and put in fridge.

So you have:

1825 + 1765 + 1280 + 610 + 884 = 6364 kcal
3.3 + 5.3 + 29.6 + 32.5 + 100 = 171g of lipids
339.8 + 300.4 + 0 + 46.6 + 0 = 687g of carbs
35.6 + 129 + 236.2 + 34.7 + 0 = 436g of brotein

This is for 3 days, so 2121 kcal, 57g lipids, 229g carbs, 145g brotein per day.

You can find other recipies in that vein, i just made that on the spot, you can make your own, the goal is to have something cheap, good when cold, that you can make in advance and the base ingredients can be stocked up (exept yogurt) for extensive time.

You can replace lentils with beans or chickpeas, same shit.
Indian people eat a lot of chickpeas with spinach and meat, it's good macros and as long as you can source cheap meat it's cheap.

I didn't mention veggies because they are mostly calorie-free if you don't eat 10kg of it.

Lastly, rice alone has a very high GI, with lentils or beans you are effectively lowering the mean GI. It's also nice to mix 3 sources of brotein, legumes, meat/fish and dairy.