What was the joke again…

“Humans can survive off a diet consisting of potatoes and butter, as demonstrated by a years long case study commonly known as Ireland”

Something along those lines.

Does Soylent count as 1 item?

Listen, taco bell has maybe 10-15 ingredients and has an infinite menu item…

I know this is Lemmy and all, but, uh, beans.

• Rice
• Beans

end of list

Potato

Breastmilk should be enough. Just difficult to source.

Eggs and potatoes?

I read once that a person could survive indefinitely on potatoes and milk.

I don't have the expertise to answer the question, but I'm sad that so many answers here are jokes, or five word answers that aren't at all helpful :-(

Was really interested in this and hoped there'd be some knowledgeable people out there to educate us on this stuff!

Egg-bread & scrambled-eggs ( with a multivitamin every other day ) can get you FAR, ultra-cheap ( if you ever need to get through a month on nearly-nothing ).

( obviously this isn't long-term, this is short-term-survival stuff )

add-in carrots, if you can.

A bit of broccoli makes a BIG difference in one's health.

Do what you can to get some omega-3's into you: our bodies can't make them, & if our bodies have to make omega-6's & omega-9's, apparently they just run mitochondria backwards, to do it.

Even a tablespoon of olive-oil / day will help your body keep functioning.

Alls I know is it isn’t ichiban noodles. I ate those for 3 straight weeks and almost lost my nails and hair.

Nutrition is really important yo. Eat your veggies and balance your fibre and protein.

Potatoes, butter, salt, molybdenum.

Gasoline has all the calories you need to survive for the rest of your life.

I pretty much live off energy drinks and rice rn.

Chicken, broccoli, coffee, cream, cashews, olive oil, some cheese and spices, blueberries. That's 95% of my diet right now, and for the past four years or so.

Could I "survive" on less? Of, course. Do I want to? No. But, I may need to in the future.

Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.

So glad I don't have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.

Pizza. Endless variety.

You can survive off any single food item for some non-zero amount of time. Nothing we know of can allow you to survive forever. The question is always: how long?

For real, steak.

Its the ultimate elimination diet

Beef is very nutrient dense and contains all the nutrients a human needs

The carnivore diet is a thing, and it is just: beef, water and salt.

Most people who do this, do branch out after a while and add eggs, fish, liver etc

Peanut butter, jelly, bread.

But if I'm doing it healthy, then add eggs, spinach, blueberries, yogurt.

I believe 2, chia seeds and water, although I don't know if you will meet calories requirement so might be 3.

Assuming stuff like vinegar or salt doesn't count?

Rice

Chicken breast

Cheese

Pasta noodles

Tomato sauce

Soy sauce

bread

I am not going to say "blood" because I don't want any to discover I am a vampire ha so I will say sliced meat between bred, butter on various hot objects and various vegetables/fruits depending on the time of day.

Fortified soy milk, vegetable oil, popping corn and chaat masala. Apples would be nice too but not vital.

Just one, I guess. As long as I don't have to survive for very long

Eggs chicken rice mixed greens broccoli

Well, not rabbit, anyway.

I'm not sure but i guess milk might be fine.

Consider how babies live off entirely milk for a few months, i guess it has everything they need. There might be a difference between cow/human metabolism or adult/baby metabolism though.

I just eat whatever cook serves. Breakfast was pretty simple this morning: a choice of cereals, pastry basket, kippers with a poached egg, full English (just the standards - eggs to order, bacon, herb sausage, black pudding, white pudding, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, grilled lambs kidneys, fried bread, buttered beans), followed by toast and marmalade, washed down with freshly squeezed orange juice. Oh, and coffee. So important. Just a normal 'breakfast', you know, whatever one's finds in the chafing dishes plus the eggs. So 'breakfast', does that count as one food item?