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Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
So I ran out of cash two days ago (lol150 dollar steak dinner date). Given that I have a compulsion not to use my ATM card (paper trail) and I can't withdraw money till the end of next week, I've been eating canned food for a while.

Other than high salt content and avoiding the swollen up cans, anything particularly bad about canned food as diet?
>> Hankatola
Sup knifie.

Eh... Just watch the calories, no doubt they have more fat/salt in there to improve taste and shelf life.
>> The Dark One !UYklPQPVhw
Calorie count in one can isn't too bad. It's usually around 150-200 calories per can for the water-based ones.

But it's got a fuckload of sodium. I'm holding a can of Chicken Won Ton and it has 2175 mg of sodium in the entire can.
>> Anonymous
I had that problem last year. I mostly ate the vegetable soups and canned tuna/salmon. 2 bucks a day kept me alive for 2 weeks. I was starving by the end of it, but alive.
Just watch sodium levels and try to keep the diet varied. Fat/calorie wise they're not bad.
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
Yeah, the high salt's making my face break out a bit, so I've been chugging as much water as I can to try to keep it steady.

I actually also have some of those bagged pasta dinners you add milk/cream/butter to, but they're also incredibly high in salt. Blech.
>> Anonymous
I would suggest supplementing that with boil-in-bag rice and canned beans. Canned soup doesn't have too many decent carbs to keep you from being hungry, but the water content makes you feel full.

I've had brown rice in the boil-in-bag style, it wasn't too bad. It was about the same quality as the white rice. Chances are, you can get 3-4 bags per box (about $1 box) and canned beans are now about $.60 per can if you get the store brand. Unless you're a -really- hungry man, one bag and one can can split into two meals. Buy a fresh jalapeno pepper for like $.10 and you've got a southwestern dinner.

Cheaper than soup, less sodium than soup (less if you get no salt added beans), and WAAAAY healthier than soup. It's worth a try.
>> Anonymous
>>47535

There is nothing wrong with subsisting on canned food for up to a month. I mean, seriously, wtf do you think you'll get, scurvy?

However, canned food is not intended to be eaten by itself straight out of the can, and is meant to be supplemented with other foods. Make sure you invest in cheap rice and grains. The idea is to do a half-and-half deal, say 1/2 a can of whatever soup with plain rice and some steamed veggies.
>> RSI guy !HjbWRiSTJ.
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well fresh is always best. then cans/frozen if you have to. be wary of canned fruits, those are regularly disgusting with added heaps of refined sugar. frozen should generally be better than canned. frozen fish, frozen spinach, broccoli, carrots, parisienne potatoes, blue berries, strawberries, etc.

always read the ingredient list. list are written in the order of highest ingredient first to the last. if sugar or glucose/fructose is at the beginning, skip it. if it's a tiny little additive at the end, might be OK.

Really, once I gave up all refined sugars for while, I could taste when some food like in cans has "too much" sugar.
>> Anonymous
does it have Hydrolyzed vegetable protein in the ingredients?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolyzed_vegetable_protein
>> Anonymous
Canned soups are full of monosodium glutamate.