On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Frogleg wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:38:49 -0500 (EST), Lena B Katz
> > wrote:
>
> >1. How much should i feed someone at supper?
>
> How hungry are they? :-) For entertaining, there should usually be at
> least a bit more food than one would calculate for a 'regular' meal.
> Given currently rising rates of obesity, serving smaller portions
> attractively arranged is doing most people a favor.

I'm not talking about entertaining. How much is a regular meal?

> >2. What kinds of food should a poor shopper mix together?
>
> Here's something that may be of interest:
>
> http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Pubs/Cookbook/thriftym.pdf
>
> (note that this is a .pdf file and takes a while to d'load.)

The USDA Lies! It Lies, I tell you!

Seriously, that's written for obese poor Southerners (catsup? i don't
think I can even _find_ catsup here!)... it says so in the back.

The USDA doesn't give honest information, it gives the type of information
it thinks will make americans more healthy. Thus, its RDA of calcium is
four times as much as the WHO's recommended amount... mostly due to the
USDA thinking that people only take in calcium from milk (and whose fault
is that, oh wonderful USDA?). It will routinely recommend you eat foods
without nutritional value, simply because its goal is to increase the
overall health of the public (diet foods, like salads, make people feel
fool). I fall quite outside the range of what the USDA considers normal,
and so many of their recommendations don't make much sense to me, and in
fact would be quite unhealthy for me. Were I to blow my budget buying
cucumbers, lettuce and raisins (all foods with little nutrional value),
I'd be in serious trouble.

> Search on "frugal meals" or "thrifty meals". There are a lot of sites.

Thanks for the search keys!

lena