2014 Plan: The daily diet

Last week's 2014 post was about how I'd reduced the amounts of food we are planning on getting.

Allow me to explain...

When cooking, this will be the weekly dry goods allotment for 2 people:

• Flour products:  27 servings
• Oats, 14 servings
• Popcorn:  14 servings  (good thing this stuff keeps for longer than a year)
• Legumes:  10 servings
• Rice:  12 servings
• Cornmeal:  4 servings
• Hummus or garbanzo sprouts:  3.5 servings
• Quinoa:  2 servings
• Millet:  1 serving

This breaks down to, per person* per day:

• 1 serving oats for breakfast
• 1 serving for lunch (quinoa/millet/bean salad, soups, vegetarian sushi)
• 1 serving for dinner (burrito/taco salad fillings, stews/chili, veggie meatloaf or burger patties, cornbread, corn chips)
• 2 servings of wheat (bread slice, pancake, tortilla, pot pie crust) 
• 1 snack (hummus, sprouts, popcorn)

Throwing it up on a Fitday calculator, that's about 1050 calories.

But wait, there's more! 


We're still probably adding in:

• 2 eggs
• 0.5lb meat
• 1 cup yogurt
• 1 cup rice milk
• 1.3lb produce
• 1.5T oil
• various condiments and spices.

Adding these things to Fitday, it looks like a day's calories are 2530 with no added condiments.  All vitamins are well over 100% RDA besides Vit A (77%), Vit D (37%), and Vit E (85%).

But is it balanced?

Here is what the fat/carb/proteins should be vs. what this diet is:

• Fat:  20-35%.... 31.1%
• Carb:  45-65%... 45.8%
• Protein:  10-35%... 23.1%

Not too bad!  My system tends to do better (and I am less hungry) with lower carbs and higher fats/proteins, so this is probably a good balance for us.  That said, the calories are too high for me to lose weight on unless I am doing some extreme daily exercise.


What do you think... could you live on this?


*Ryan gets 5-7 meals a week "free" at work, but I am not counting that in these calculations.