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Bulllshit.

Steak, chicken breast, cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, turkey thighs, spinach, corn on the cob, some organic peanut butters, flour, salt, zucchini, eggplant, pork chops, tomatoes, potatoes, yams, vinegar, olive oil, bok choi, broccoli, asparagus, beef liver, canned tuna fish (are we really going to split hairs over the salt brine?), ground beef, garlic, onion, shallots, spring onion, iceberg lettuce, watermelon, peaches, bananas, apples, eggs, mahi mahi, chives, cod, romaine, gem lettuce, kale, walnuts, almonds, leek, etc.

Even if you don’t apply common sense to this heuristic and include milk, cheese, bread, good quality bacon, etc., there is a veritable cornucopia of strictly single-ingredient foods available.

But yeah, you’re gonna have to buy ingredients and cook actual meals to be healthy. No way around it, I’m afraid…



Fruits, great. Many vegetables. And steak.

You're not putting anything on the chicken or turkey? You're going to have ground beef by itself? Are you biting into that onion like an apple? And the garlic? Iceberg lettuce by itself sucks. What do you mean "flour", what do you mean "salt"?


Combining the "single" ingredients into a home-cooked meal is perfectly fine.


Keep reading to the end.

I also have a hard time believing this is a genuine source of confusion…


I read to the end. If "cook actual meals" is supposed to imply combining ingredients then you broke the rule of "only eat and drink things that have one ingredient". Otherwise I don't know what you're referring to.

I'm not confused by minimizing processing via home cooking, I'm confused by how your list was supposed to be relevant to the comment you replied to. That comment had a very specific objection.

(And yes, I see that the OP has now replied saying you can combine ingredients at home. But I think the skepticism toward the original phrasing was valid.)


You're playing dumb. We know this.


I'm not playing dumb. At this point I'm accusing them of saying the wrong thing. (Though I don't mean to be hostile toward them for it.)

"Buy things with one ingredient" is one idea. "Only eat things with one ingredient" is a very different and much more narrow idea.

And don't say it was obvious what they meant. I've seen people claim much wilder things about healthy eating than "don't combine ingredients".




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