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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Yea, I'm quite aware and have talked to him about that.

The Grant "prison gruel" diet wouldn't be that different to my rice diet. I actually thought I was doing a low-vA diet, but then I found out tomato sauce has an insane amount of vA as well. Not as much as cream, but still I think I came out to about 6,000iU per day, which is VERY high by Grant's standards.

So I'd have to cut the sauce, possibly eat some beans (although he seems to be getting away from them?) and add a small bit of (lean) beef.

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Marthinwurer's avatar

That does seem like it would be an interesting experiment. What would you use instead of your beloved tomato sauce for seasoning?

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I actually wondered about this today; I'm not sure. Grant himself doesn't seem to use any sauce at all, he just eats his "prison gruel" with a little bit of water, sort of like a stew I suppose. Since both tomato- and cream-based sauces are out...

Maybe I could make due on the prison gruel diet for a month? The handful of times during my rice month that I ate only plain white rice it wasn't particularly bad.

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