If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life based on nutritional content

Okay, so you are given the option to pick which food you eat and you get a lifetime supply of that food. I'm basically trying to see if there are any foods that -could- keep a person alive and give them all their vitamins if they only ate that one thing forever. If there isn't one thing, which foods come close?

Don't just post your favorite food, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't survive very long on pizza. (not to mention I'd count pizza as being more than one food for the sake of this thread)

 

Potatoes. And whiskey. Irish blood runs strong

 

Potatoes would definitely keep you alive, that dude did it recently to protest WIC for 60 days

 

Well since it can't be one of the major food staples such as rice, maize, potatoes, or wheat, it would have to be an animal which could provide max nutrition such as a cow which would provide you with milk and meat and its various internal organs are rich in vitamins :2thumbsup:


Hotwater

 

Why would any protest WIC?

But really I don't think there's any food that could give you all the nutrients and vitamins ideally needed. It'd definitely have to be a fruit of vegetable so make sure vitamin C intake stayed high. I'd probably go with potatoes, they taste good, and have decent amounts of vitamin C, B1, B2, B3, B6, potassium, iron, magnesium and sodium.

*edit*
Also you could survive pretty good on pizza especially if it has a vegetable topping.

 

I would go with potatoes too. They can be be baked, mashed, boiled, stewed, fried, and grilled.

 

hotwater - you can't have meat and milk, just one kind of food substance

syd - because they took white potatoes off of what you can get with WIC because people weren't getting a diverse enough selection of vegetables and were just buying potatoes and this dude sells them I think so money is the motivation, as always

 

Red meat.......... you are made of red meat so it only makes sense that it would contain most of what your body needs.

 

Actually that's not how it works and an all meat diet would probably leave you feeling terrible, as well as constipated. You'd also wind up with scurvy from lack of vitamin C.

 

ummmm this is hard. i'd say beans. perhaps soy beans because they are a perfect protein. beans contain fiber and nutrients as well.

 

Meat

 

If I can have Potatoes and Whiskey he can have meat and milk.

 

Nothing Would Change For Me, I Have Survived Quite Well So Far Eating Nothing

But "Chinese Takeout" And Am Quite Happy To Continue....



Cheers Glen.

 

you got whiskey because I don't count it as a food drink up with that potato dinner

 

I would say fried rice....if you make it the way I like it then it would probably have most of a bit of everything you need

 

that isn't the point, that would still contain multiple kinds of foods like eggs and bits of carrots I'm assuming. I don't mean one kind of dish, I mean one kind of food ingredient

 

hemp seeds!

 

I hate to say it but you would definitely starve.

 

i don't think so..

 

whole wheat stone ground bread