The off-grid survivalist dude in invidious video ID “YOXkcz8j3Gc”
[https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=YOXkcz8j3Gc] says milk & potatoes are
“nutritionally complete”, which if I understand correctly means that pairing
covers the 9 essential amino acids. That’s cool… but not vegan. A pescetarian in
my family was hospitalized for malnutrition. Not sure what he did wrong or what
he was short on, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who would be overly
negligent. IMO, as a non-vegan outsider looking in, a vegan diet is easy to
screw up & requires some research to stay safe. You can’t just live on rabbit
food. So I wonder if the title-linked article
[https://cleanplates.com/nutrition/complete-protein-combinations/] has the
answers. In short, it claims these pairings are nutritionally complete: 1. rice
& beans 2. tofu & veg (questionable¹?) 3. chickpeas & wheat 4. peanut butter &
whole wheat toast² 5. pinto beans³ & corn 6. whole wheat pasta & peas 7. lentils
& rice ←I’m bummed it’s not lentils & couscous, which I often use in lentil
salad 8. oatmeal & pumpkin seeds Note that all links referenced in this post are
Cloudflare-free and openly accessible to all. Also no big cookie popups or
similar garbage.
footnotes (with questions!): 1. I find tofu & vegetables suspicious. There are
countless vegetables, so this is quite vague. How can we expect any given veg to
have whatever tofu is missing? This makes me somewhat skeptical of the whole
article. 2. Why toast? Why not bread? 3. Or skip the pinto beans and just make
sure your corn is infected with a purple fungus containing lysine
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/24/433232707/scourge-no-more-chefs-invite-corn-fungus-to-the-plate],
assuming #lysine is the reason pinto beans are paired with corn.
Crossposting here because an off-grider is relying on milk and potatoes for nutrition completeness. I suppose getting nutritional completeness with as few ingredients as possible is generally interesting to off-grid living.
In my experience with limited diets, it is always advisable to take in as much variety as possible. So even if I only had milk and potatoes, for example, I would scavenge for some edible greens to add. Nutrition is not just about amino acids - there is a whole range of vitamins, minerals, and other less well known substances in foods that keep us healthy. I think if a person is down to having only one of your listed parings available to eat, they have a lot of problems to solve!
I lived a number of years in the rural Dominican Republic, and befriended some very poor Haitians who migrated there illegally. They subsisted on rice and beans to a great extent, but substituted a variety of other starch vegetables (green banana, various root vegetables, bread) when they could - and also learned through community collaboration, which wildly growing green plants were palatable. They would also sometimes buy the local “sausage” which contained about 10% meat byproducts, and the rest was mostly rice with probably some corn and other grains and spices). My point is that nobody reading this is ever likely to be as destitute as an illegal Haitian living off the land, but they still ate a somewhat varied diet.
In my experience with limited diets, it is always advisable to take in as much variety as possible. So even if I only had milk and potatoes, for example, I would scavenge for some edible greens to add. Nutrition is not just about amino acids - there is a whole range of vitamins, minerals, and other less well known substances in foods that keep us healthy. I think if a person is down to having only one of your listed parings available to eat, they have a lot of problems to solve!
I lived a number of years in the rural Dominican Republic, and befriended some very poor Haitians who migrated there illegally. They subsisted on rice and beans to a great extent, but substituted a variety of other starch vegetables (green banana, various root vegetables, bread) when they could - and also learned through community collaboration, which wildly growing green plants were palatable. They would also sometimes buy the local “sausage” which contained about 10% meat byproducts, and the rest was mostly rice with probably some corn and other grains and spices). My point is that nobody reading this is ever likely to be as destitute as an illegal Haitian living off the land, but they still ate a somewhat varied diet.