Replace the egg by a croissant, add a cigarette after each meal. Become condescending. Move to France. Blend in.
So passé, it’s ecig now.
Imagine that being your fuel for every day. Oh, and while you’re at it, wrangle one or more small [animal-like] children all day, keep the entire house clean, and dinner better be ready when I get home–it’s been a hard day at work. And stop being such a bitch, eh?
The booze was less of a diet aid and more of an anti-psychotic, I assume.
This diet was easy with a health dose of amphetamines. Wine took the edge off.
With a healthy enough dose, you can speedrun this by cutting the eggs, coffee, wine, and steak.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Replace the egg by a œuf.
Three eggs a day? In this economy!?
Trump is going to bring the egg price down any day now
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Egg in a hole is the new avocado toast
Wait how expensive are eggs in the USA? In Germany I pay 3.50 Euros (3.65$) for a dozen organic eggs. Make that 2.20 for non-organic not free-range
I was at the grocery store yesterday $6 a dozen was the lowest price one they had
$8.99 for 12 in California
The average dozen is about 3 USD
2 daily eggs, give or take, is about 30 usd a month
So they have to be a total destitute to not reach that in a month given the complexities on preparing the eggs (iev boiling). Ironic, given that they seem to have a good internet connection and a device for it
I think your math is off. At 3$/dozen 2 eggs a day is 1doz/6 days 30/6 =5 5x3 = 15$/month
The reason it hurts when egg prices go up is because eggs were (and are still) some of the most cost-effective protein (especially as a whole protein) you can buy and eggs are in everything.
That’s the average in (early) 2024. With bird flu the current commodity price is 7/dozen and expected to rise. The joke above was meant to reference the sudden and alarming spike in egg prices. Without public health intervention things could get pretty bad.
This guy gets it
I got curious and asked chatgpt to calculate things for me. It suggests that if doozens of eggs cost you more than 5$ you can save money if you raise your own chicken.
In the first year, considering initial costs for setup and equipment, you may not save much—perhaps only $10 to $50. However, after the first year, the ongoing costs (mainly feed) could result in savings of $50 to $100 annually for each hen you keep.
Chickens get sick extremely easy and require a LOT of time for extra care and maintenance of their boxes.
For an amateur, the first years will be as much if not harder.
But my guess is if someone can’t make the 30 USD a month it takes to eat 2 daily eggs, they surely are not struggling for free time
Growing up we had 4 egg laying hens. We were swimming in eggs. Literally had to plan meals and baking and whatnot around how many eggs we had. We fed them to our dogs. Granted, it was just my mom and I, but damn we had eggs.
Unspoken component of this diet was an array of experimental opioids and uppers that were handed out to housewives like tic-tacs.
Unlike now, when the target demographic for pharmaceutical stimulants is mainly children.
Coffee candies were promoted to acclimate children to the taste of coffee (and the bitter caffeine molecule)!
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted but you’re right
Mother’s Little Helper
This is what is now called a keto diet. Eggs, due to high protein, work as an appetite suppressant for several hours. Sugar causes cravings in a few.
There was never, among other things, a high population of obese people until the recommendation of the low fat diet (pyramid diet). Usually you would just see them at carnivals.
I’ve gone back to the 60’s diet several years ago. Lost 95 lbs, have increased energy levels, feel great.
10/10 recommend
The wine is probably 500 Calories in carbs though. Edit: in addition to the alcohol.
True, but I don’t drink alcohol unless it’s a dry wine, or a low carb seltzer.
Low calorie seltzers dont exist. They just aren’t required to include alcohol in the Calorie count. One ounce of pure alcohol is about 250 Calories.
I could 100% live on this diet. It is probably almost as healthy as I eat now.
What ties it together for me is suggesting that poached egg for Lunch is acceptable, as if they understand the horrors of war experienced during breakfast
I’m also intrigued as to why they think hard boiling vs poaching the egg has any bearing on its calorie content.
I heard some foods have more calories when they’re cooked versus uncooked because it puts them in a form that is easier for your body to process, but I don’t think it’s anywhere as granular as hard boiled versus poached lol.
Yeah, that’s plausible for cooking in general, but boiling vs poaching is a pretty fine distinction.
Pochwd has high probability you will eat the yolk which has the highest calories of all the egg
Hard boiled you can just take out the solid yolk out and not eat it.
I keep thinking of the old rolling ball on the bottom of mice when I see hardboiled yolk
Yeah same, those old rolling balls were delicious.
you are over cooking your eggs if they come out with grey yolks
Man, my mom has been ducking up my eggs
Why would you do that? Are there people who prefer the white? If so, they need to be my friends, we would be compatible.
On a hard boiled egg? yes. HB yolks taste like butter chalk to me. I don’t mind yolks in things, but their individual flavor and texture in HB is lacking to me.
You have boiled it too long then. Hard boiled doesn’t need to be taken literally as boiled until tough and rubbery. I aim for just past “jammy” yolks, the white completely set, the yolk fully cooked but only just. That is done by putting them in boiling water, 9 minutes or a little less, immediately cool by draining them filling the pot with ice.
I’d certinly give that texture is configurable. But there’s something in that yolk that I don’t care to deal with without some serious masking. I don’t even like deviled eggs.
For textbook perfect boiled eggs, place the eggs in a pot of cold water. Bring to a boil then cover the pot and remove it from the heat. Wait 10 minutes since the eggs under cool water and peel immediately.
I used to do that but lowering them into boiling water works a lot better for me, can get ramen eggs, soft, hard boiled, the timing somehow always works out even though they can’t possibly be going in at exactly the same temperature every time. The boil and wait 10 gets them too cooked.
I do also poke a hole in the empty end of the egg, with a pin, and this makes 'em easier to peel.
I hate the yolk of a hard boiled egg unless it’s mixed into something (like tuna salad). If I am eating hard boiled eggs, I usually give the yolks to someone else. They taste like sandy farts.
Many reasons really. health reasons is the first one that comes to mind. Others don’t like the texture, while being fine with the runny yolk using it as a sauce in other situations. The reduced surface area also heightens the flavor of salt, so you end up eating less salt per egg overall
In any case yeah. There are people who prefer the white part as well
Are there people who don’t prefer the white??? I love boiled egg whites so much I could just have a bowl of them next to me if I wasn’t so lazy to boil and peel
Ok, deal, I get the yolks, you get the whites. I’ll even boil and peal to get the yolks!
I am coming over to give you a kiss on the lips rn
Why not on the eggs?
But they don’t even say to do that lol.
Steak, eggs, and wine? I can’t afford a billionaire diet.
French wines were much cheaper in the 1970s.
I bet eggs were less than $8 a dozen too.
I think we could do a chicken thighs, chicken breast, and plastic bottle rum version of the diet for cheap
I don’t like chicken, so sounds like 3 bottles of rum a day.
Buy bottom round, Sutter Home, and eggs from a backyard chicken farmer; very cheap.
TIL I’m a billionaire
Poached if necessary
I wonder when poached eggs are necessary
Tired of boiled maybe, like necessary for your sanity
Just throwing in a little shame for free
I choose to see it as stealing eggs from the nests of eagles and condors.
Would be more efficient if she’d also smoke 30 cigarettes a day.
It’s the 70s. The cigarettes are implied haha
That wine is gonna kick like a mule on an empty stomach.
And the coffee to really make you going.
Coffee to get you up wine to bring you down, everything in balance.
A bottle of wine a day is a lot of empty calories
Could always cut down on the eggs and add some tequila
Key point is that while ethanol can easily be turned into triglycerides, it’s not so easy to do gluconeogenesis with it. Since you can’t turn it all into glucose, you can’t refill your glycogen stores with it. Every gram of glycogen comes with 3 grams of water. You’ll end up losing a lot of water weight in a few days even if you’re in a calorie excess because of the relatively low carbohydrate profile of this diet. If you drink enough wine, the sugar from the wine will allow you to rebuild your glycogen stores so that’s why this diet limits it to a bottle.
I keep telling my parole officer this but he won’t listen.
I mean, at least the wine and coffee have some antioxidants.
3 eggs is a lot of empty protein
70s keto
Yeah it is keto + OBOWAD. Alcohol inhibits fat metabolism so I would expect this to be less effective than keto for fat loss.
When I was keto I could have 1 serving of alcohol a day and that seemed to actually help prevent plateaus, probably due to diuretic effects. However, 2 or more drinks in a meal and I wouldn’t lose or would even gain due to inflammation. I don’t think I tried drinking 1-2 per meal for more than one meal a day.
I can already smell the deadly farts. The force is strong with this one.
After a whole bottle of wine, you wouldn’t care, and you would care if anyone else cares :)
Does wine cause farts? News to me.
eggs and nothing else certainly does
my wife and I tried this for a couple weeks and it works but I’d recommend putting the steak at lunchtime or breakfast if you’re at all active before dinner.
I nearly passed out when I tried to exercise before dinner steak. Next time I had the steak for lunch and was A OK.
- Brought to you by the American Egg, White Wine and Steak Association.
Feels like the Lucille Bluth diet.
“It’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner…”
When is it “neccessary” to poach an egg instead of hard boil? I guess the 70s was a strange time. It was half a century ago and no one had computers or cell phones back then. I think people sat around and played monopoly.
One bottle a day per person. Boooo. Maybe get the double sized bottle then. The cheap ones they sell at the drugstore. And drinking wine and coffee in the same meal, nice. Maybe mix them together. It says chablis only, a regional subset of chardonays. Seems a little bit strict-- I again blame the 70s.
OK damnit, I’m in with you OP. First one to -5 pounds (or death) wins. Shall we bet?
Winner gets the others leftover eggs
I have to forfeit. just went to 3 stores, no eggs to be had till wednesday I heard. I guess you win, and you get all my leftover eggs.
I think the poaching was only mentioned cause it’s in vogue and it had to make the reader feel bougie.
