# What is your food budget?

**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/what-is-your-food-budget/1018
**Category:** Life Hacking
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/what-is-your-food-budget/1018 "2018-07-11T06:13:29Z")
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#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/what-is-your-food-budget/1018/36 "2018-07-12T09:37:12Z")

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> [@Bojack](#):
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> And it’s not sustainable for the whole planet to eat so much meat. Places where animals are kept are a breeding ground for the most deadly viruses in human history.

I already had that discussion with @nugget. Here’re my arguments:

> [@Mustachian Books Collective Recommendations](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/mustachian-books-collective-recommendations/773/15):
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> [Mr Money Mustache is also on that diet](https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/05/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-supposedly-frugal-stomach/). But his version is more vegetable/nuts based - he eats lots of avocados, salads with olive oil, coconut oil, and so on. I’m not sure if it is not sustainable. The basic rule of economics is that if demand is growing with fixed supply, then the price is rising - this, in turn, attracts capital investments because of the bigger return on capital. The more capital is invested, the bigger production and thus supply - this equilibrates the market back to norm…

> [@Julianek](#):
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> Well the issue with diets is that nowadays each camp has his own set of rules, which they consider as holy as the 10 commandments.

That’s because it’s hard to make a science out of diets - it’s hard to test and falsify the hypothesis and there’re a million other factors influencing results. A major component of Gary Taubes’s books is the critique of the poor quality of scientific backup of modern dietary recommendations (especially the carbon-based government recommendations). BTW. I highly recommend his classic NYT’s article [“What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?”](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html).

I personally stick to the rule - don’t eat sugar and carbs with high glycemic index (with exception of few fruits for vitamins and minerals) which makes my diet soft-core paleo/low-carb, not necessarily keto.

> [@glina](#):
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> I admit to eating a lot of meat, I can’t even satisfy hunger without a piece of meat during the day. Salad makes for a good starter though 🙂

Totally agree!

> [@glina](#):
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> I also never put much thought about balancing carbs, vegetables, meats. I guess not buying processed foods and sweet drinks is good enough for me to feel good about my dietary habits. Oh, and I only buy BIO eggs and milk as they really taste better. Bio milk is not normalized to a fixed amount of fat, which means it’s usually 3.6-3.9% fat. This probably contributes to a significant difference in taste.

Yes. I do the same thing. I buy my milk and eggs from my farmer. Milk is even cheaper than at Lidl, which is awesome.

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