A few years ago I was in hospital, I eat breakfast, dinner, evening meal and late night snacks and had seconds on every occasion. I was not overly active and bordering on totaly inactive. I slept lots as well.
A few years ago I was in hospital, and they didn't let me eat at all for two weeks. No, not even [whatever gotcha you want to insert here]. Lost 10 pounds I didn't need anyway, and otherwise felt fine. Wasn't particularly hungry during that time. Did watch a ridiculous number of cooking shows though.
Sufficient calories are easy to come by. A 50 pound sack of rice or bread flour is $18, enough calories to keep a large male operating a normal schedule for over a month. Spend your limited money on nutrients.
Not eating for two weeks and watching cooking programs is bordering on sadistic, though if you have a strong will then I'd call you a hero.
Sadly in the UK such volumes of rice for such prices are not available at the consumer levels. As for bread flour, thats impossible, least in the UK. But you are right that rice and bread are the cheapest form of calorie intake. And yes nutients are extreemly important, though how many people right even when they have the money is probably another area and seperate issue of concern.
I would be interested in seeing a chart of a typical food shop compared country by country price wise, certainly would be extreemly interesting. I do know when I was in America that food was easily half as cheap and twice the size than what I could get in the UK and I utterly loved it.
But I'll will say it - you are a hero for being able to go two weeks without eating AND watch cooking programs, but after the first few days I suspect it was easier to endure as your bodies metabolism adjusts. But not many people could endure what you endured as it takes some extreeme willpower and not everybody has that, or even close, there again some people have no choice. There again everybody is different - even identical twins.
So +1 from me for being able to go that long and watch cooking programs, certainly something I would not want to entertain as would many others.
[EDIT ADD] I had a look at todays prices of rice, and for the cheapest, including amazon and ignoring shipping cost aspects and I truely envy you being able to get rice so cheaply as for the amount you can get 50kg for in the UK you would just about be able to get 10kg for that price and that is using a exchange rate of 2:1 $:£ ratio.
A few years ago I was in hospital, and they didn't let me eat at all for two weeks. No, not even [whatever gotcha you want to insert here]. Lost 10 pounds I didn't need anyway, and otherwise felt fine. Wasn't particularly hungry during that time. Did watch a ridiculous number of cooking shows though.
Sufficient calories are easy to come by. A 50 pound sack of rice or bread flour is $18, enough calories to keep a large male operating a normal schedule for over a month. Spend your limited money on nutrients.