Don’t do this, you’ll be malnourished. Grains aren’t a particularly good food group.
Potatoes don’t require much prep, are generally cheap and filling, and will be much better nutrient wise. I’d still recommend rice and beans though. Canned beans work if you have no means to cook.
Potatoes are also really easy to grow. If you ever forget about your potatoes and they sprout or you leave them in the sun and they get green, you can put them in a pot and grow fresh potatoes.
Potatoes grow well in shade. Fava beans can grow in containers just fine, but may need a balcony. I would also get a short variety. A lot of things can grow in a window sill.
There’s also guerilla gardening, where you plant on an abandoned plot. Potatoes are great for this because they’ll basically grow on their own as long as they aren’t overtaken by blackberries.
that’s probably why most recipes ask to wash rice before boiling… im certain this works great… if your house’s water-pipes were not made of lead hahaha…haha… sigh ._.
I’m talking people on survival mode, as I mentioned at the end of my very short comment just eat canned beans from the tin with no facilities to cook. Also you don’t need to peel potatoes, you can microwave them also, or bury in a fire if you don’t have electricity and are using one for heat.
Cereal is a scam, it’s expensive and nutritionally pointless.
Don’t do this, you’ll be malnourished. Grains aren’t a particularly good food group.
Potatoes don’t require much prep, are generally cheap and filling, and will be much better nutrient wise. I’d still recommend rice and beans though. Canned beans work if you have no means to cook.
I seem to remember there being issues historically with poor people relying on potatoes as their food source
Yeah being on the genocide list of the English had more to do with that than the taters
(Note to the reader: they can be boiled, mashed, or simply added without ceremony to a pre-existing stew)
Potatoes are also really easy to grow. If you ever forget about your potatoes and they sprout or you leave them in the sun and they get green, you can put them in a pot and grow fresh potatoes.
Fava beans are also extremely easy to grow.
can they grow in an apartment?
Potatoes grow well in shade. Fava beans can grow in containers just fine, but may need a balcony. I would also get a short variety. A lot of things can grow in a window sill.
There’s also guerilla gardening, where you plant on an abandoned plot. Potatoes are great for this because they’ll basically grow on their own as long as they aren’t overtaken by blackberries.
Rice often contains too much heavy mettals. Canned food contains too much BPA.
that’s probably why most recipes ask to wash rice before boiling… im certain this works great… if your house’s water-pipes were not made of lead hahaha…haha… sigh ._.
I think that’s mostly to wash the excess starches off of the rice.
it does leech out (some) arsenic though.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/new-way-cooking-rice-removes-arsenic-and-retains-mineral-nutrients-study-shows
You have to peel and cook them, though. That’s a pretty big hurdle for people who would consider regularly eating cereal for dinner.
I do like instant mashed potatos, though, and they’re fairly cheap.
I’m talking people on survival mode, as I mentioned at the end of my very short comment just eat canned beans from the tin with no facilities to cook. Also you don’t need to peel potatoes, you can microwave them also, or bury in a fire if you don’t have electricity and are using one for heat.
Cereal is a scam, it’s expensive and nutritionally pointless.