Living on noodles, pork and onions, what else do I need?

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I’m eating a bowl of the wife’s Thai rice noodles with cut up pork and whole onions. It’s such a delicious combination I wonder how complete it is as a diet?

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I’m no nutritionist, but I know we need variety in our diet. What are ‘whole onions’, exactly? White and yellow onions provide a good amount of nutrients, but I’d say you need more colorful vegetables in your diet to get some more varied vitamins and flavanoid compounds. Also, neither onions nor rice noodles supply much fiber.

Just add a few more different types of vegetables, or ask your wife to do so, and you could probably live on noodles, pork and vegetables for a good long time. Some peppers, mushrooms, ginger along with the onions. Mix it up with some bok choy or Chinese broccoli occasionally.

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Theoretically, the pork by itself would be enough, if it were raw. But cooking destroys some of the vitamins.

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You would probably be lacking in dietary fiber.

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I could live on marzipan, but I assume I’d need other nutritional constituents eventually.

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What if the marzipan were in the shape of those other food items?

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Definitely need chocolate. Dessert is the most important part of any meal.

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At least the OP is not living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine. All a fella could say to that is “ain’t it a shame”.

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Seems like you’d need Vitamins A and C.

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The full meal deal:

BONUS:

Marzipan dragon

Huesos de Santos (Bones of Saints)

Cassatella di sant’Agata (St. Agatha’s Breasts)

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Looks like a varied meal plan to me, other than missing the dark chocolate food group (see my avatar).

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I am, in fact, eating one of those right now, as the conversation provoked me. These here are my fave:

I have even visited their factory/museum in Lübeck, Germany.

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Now I want a Ritter Sport chocolate bar! Milk chocolate with cornflakes would be good. (And then you get all the vitamin fortification from the cereal, right?)

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No, you need more colors than just red.

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{Every 17- and 1800s sailor who died of scurvy has entered the chat.}

ETA I guess the 15- and 1600s, too.

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The onions are a decent source of Vitamin C.

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Do cooked onions retain their C?

ETA: Looked it up and yes.

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No kidding? I did not know that, learned a thing, etc.

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Happy doperversary there, Shoe!

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Thanks! Considering how much onion I eat, apparently I’ll live to be on the Dope another fiddy years.