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38 points

Ok but for real tho. The average American severely underestimates how far you can get on rice, beans, lentils and chickpeas.

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Serious question, if I live off just that, I end up feeling like absolute garbage. That’s even with supplementing it with greens like spinach and some other veggies and vitamin supplements. What am I missing?

Like, macro-wise, I can replace meat and other things, but it doesn’t seem to hit the same?

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8 points

Get a blood test. You could have a micronutrient deficiency. It is common to develop either vitamin D, B or iron deficiencies when you cut meat since they just aren’t as abundant outside of red meat and organ meat.

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Would you care to elaborate on what you feel like when you try living on plants? What do you tend to eat? How long does it take before you start feeling like shit?

Judging by your last comment about it “not hitting the same” my initial thought is that the issue might not even be nutritional, possibly more psychological/subjective.

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I end up feeling like absolute garbage.

Maybe, not cooking it well enough? Try changing your recipes, perhaps? Maybe more variety in spices?
Gram, pulses and dried beans (rehydrated before eating) with rice, tend to make my favourite recipes
and even though I use milk products, I feel pretty good even if it is lemonade with black-salt instead.

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Oh, it tastes fine, I’m saying like…energy-wise and sugar-crash-wise I feel bad. Just wondering if I’m missing something.

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4 points

Don’t know what you’re missing because we don’t know everything you eat

Spinach gives iron so based off the information it’s not that

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2 points

Maybe a shot of insulin, from the sounds of it.

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Every plant is trying to kill you. It doesn’t want to be eaten. It especially doesn’t want you to eat its seeds. We can detoxify most of the ones that people eat, but it costs

Eating the same plants over again can make you sick

You may not be as good at detoxifying those plants as the people who do well eating them

I know I’m a lot healthier with no plants in my diet than I have been with lots of plants

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6 points

If I could get us all to protest grocery store prices by eating nothing but staples whenever there is a random price increase I would die happy XD

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Rice amd beans is the most important thing on my region’s diet. You just can’t live without eating it at least once.

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-4 points

YOU ARE A FOOL AND THE REBELLION DEMANDS YOU EAT LAGUMES!

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Capitalism demands you eat legumes or go into debt.

The rebellion demands you stay alive how you need to and organize, which in the US means eating cheap proteins as you gotta.

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