The standard 2000kcal diet is not realistic, and the standard 3 square meals/day narrative is not either. Both are nonsense suggestions. Yes the FDA publishes t

The standard 2000kcal diet is not realistic, and the standard 3 square meals/day narrative is not either. Both are nonsense suggestions. Yes the FDA publishes them. These are general guidelines that you should not be following if you actually want to be fit and healthy. If you want to become fat, you could follow these sure. > For someone who has a standard large lunch or large dinner, 750kcal is NO WHERE NEAR "a ton" but is rather an extremely healthy meal when we look at the breakdown of ingredients and their nutrients. No. Looking at the ingredients for many of these meals does not tell you much. Well, except in some cases where you are eating a pound of cheese over two meals. That should be telling you a lot. >Then in 2 months of Blue Apron we'd tried dozens of new ingredients and cooking methods we'd never thought to try ... And I love food bloggers, food Youtube, trendy cookbooks These are contradictory, or your sources here are the fault of your own poor research. > If you have to shell out $15 for $2 worth of an ingredient...massive farmers markets and buying in large bulk Why would you do any of that? Do you not have grocery stores? Even generic big box grocery stores carry everything that I've seen. And why would you go to a farmer's market? You don't actually think that the food you're getting from Blue Apron is like, fresh food from independent farmers do you?