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And if you read the book, it was actually even more extreme for the first few months. He only ate baked potatoes. Nothing but baked potatoes. Adding salads l
by jimmydddd 7y ago
And if you read the book, it was actually even more extreme for the first few months. He only ate baked potatoes. Nothing but baked potatoes. Adding salads later was actually loosening up his diet. :-)
- ianai 7y agoWow, I would think only potatoes wouldn’t work for even a week. Thank you for the expansion.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoPotatoes are quite satiating and reasonably nutritious if you eat the skins.
- jon_richards 7y agoI've heard that potatoes and dairy has all the nutrition you need. You could eat only that indefinitely and be relatively fine. Maybe not quite as balanced as soylent is trying to be, though.
- tomjen3 7y agoIf you dig into the historical sources for Ireland they keep mentioning how good looking and strong the Irish are compared to the English and Scots. The Irish diet was potatoes and buttermilk.
- sn9 7y agoOh man you weren't kidding. I put 2000+ calories worth of potatoes and buttermilk into Cronometer and it was surprisingly complete.
- err4nt 7y agoI think the temporary single-food diet is to break you of the addiction of sugar and other foods, and then once you've habituated your body to an extremely limited diet, you can safely re-introduce some variety again. In his case it was potatoes, but I think eating solely any one item would have served the same purpose.