A friend of mine at a party started initiating icebreakers and one of them was asking people this theoretical question:
"If you had to eat only one meal everyday for the rest of your life, and it had to be the exact same meal every single day, what would it be?"
The objective, of course, was to find out what everyone's favorite food was. My answer was pizza.
However, the question did get me thinking... would it be possible to live one's entire life on one meal everyday, that meal being exactly the same everyday? If we had the freedom to choose how the meal would be presented, what would be the best choice? What would this "Ultimate Meal" be like?
So I'm asking you all, if you had the freedom to construct a single meal in which all the basic food groups and necessary vitamins and minerals were contained, because this would be the only meal you had to eat for the rest of your life, and you could only eat it once a day, how would it look like? I'd imagine it would have to be under 2000 calories in total, and consist of a wide variety of ingredients. Assume that money is no object and you can literally put anything you want into this dish, even extremely rare or exotic food items.
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
2 glasses of milk
A pitcher of water
A slice of pork chop.
1 whole grilled Salmon
A slice of Roast beef
1 banana
1 apple
1 cup of rice
3 slice of Bread
1 serving of salza w/ chili
a plate of green salad
1 serving of maple syrup or pure honey
this would be nice for an everyday meal. i could eat fish everyday, but in case i get tired of it, i got pork and beef on the side plus green salad.
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TheEndIsNear has the right approach to this. I would definitely have it be a meal of at least 50 different things that I could not possibly eat in its entirety in one sitting, thereby making it effectively at least 25 different meals.
Because the fact of the matter is you cannot eat the same things day in day out and not get sick of them, even if it were a concoction of beer, manliness, french fries, and the liquified version of that feeling you get when you walk slowly away from an explosion without turning around and have dark glasses on.
That's just not the way human beings are wired. We need a variety of food. It's why diets will usually fail past the second week, provided the dieting person even makes it that far. We crave variety, and if we don't get it, we will seek it out.
Can you cheat and ask for a ridiculously huuuuge meal with tons of things in it, and then just eat part of it each time.
If we could, it would ruin the point of this exercise, since then we could each ask for an unlimited amount of food and say that is "one meal".
Let's try to keep this hypothetical "one meal" as somewhere under 2000 calories total (the benchmark by which most diets are measured), but it also has to be consumable in one sitting, because otherwise we could just pick a day's worth of food and classify that as "one meal" too.
That's just not the way human beings are wired. We need a variety of food. It's why diets will usually fail past the second week, provided the dieting person even makes it that far. We crave variety, and if we don't get it, we will seek it out.
Okay, as stated above, I changed the parameters a bit. The objective now is to pick one meal which we could eat everyday (and only that one meal, just once per day) to live as long as possible (or as long as you want to, your choice). If it's not possible to create a single meal under 2000 calories, entirely consumable in one sitting, which would sustain you every day until you die of old age, then the idea is to make one that would, at least theoretically, keep you alive for a very long time.
This would also allow the possibility for other answers, such as if you are content to live out the remainder of your life on your favorite food and/or alcoholic beverage, as a few of the others have already mentioned.
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
This is easy, anyone who has lived on their own should be able to answer this. Mine is a half of a sausage/onion pizza, a side salad consisting of lettuce, cucumbers,bell peppers, radishes and onions, and a pitcher of beer. I could easily eat that everyday for the rest of my life.
Either a nice big bowl of pho or red curry & Thai Iced Tea.
Either that, or a Medium Combination Pizza with a Side Salad & a mug of mountain dew.
Or a big bowl of down home southern beef stew or chicken pot pie with all the fixin's with a side of corn bread, slice of apple pie and a tall glass of milk.
Or maybe even a giant breakfast burrito with eggs, chorizo, potatoes, onion, rice, pico de gallo, guacamole, mexican blend cheese, black beans, green chile & chipotle sauce. And a cup of coffee with cream & sugar.
Now that I think about it, a nice boneless new york steak with a half rack of baby back ribs, a fully loaded baked potato & seasonal vegetable medley with a flask of hard lemonade.
If not any of the options above, then a footlong french roll sandwich with smoked turkey, turkey bacon, baby swiss, roma tomatoes, red onions, romaine lettuce, cucumber, haas avocado, black olives, horseradish mustard, olive oil mayo, salt & pepper. And a thermos of green tea with ginseng and honey.
If we could, it would ruin the point of this exercise, since then we could each ask for an unlimited amount of food and say that is "one meal".
Well hang on, we have a paradox here. Because the thread asks for, "The Ultimate Meal." So if you plan your The Ultimate Meal, and I say what you say and add one thing, is that not more ultimate? And if someone says what I say plus one more thing, is that not more ultimate?
Sushi. Lots and lots of sushi. With miso soup of course.
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Well hang on, we have a paradox here. Because the thread asks for, "The Ultimate Meal." So if you plan your The Ultimate Meal, and I say what you say and add one thing, is that not more ultimate? And if someone says what I say plus one more thing, is that not more ultimate?
The wording of the OP is poor. But I can't really see the satisfaction of having your answer be "I pick everything" as your ultimate meal.
I think a meal means a set criteria of food up to the point of making you full. So if you choose something that is so overwhelming that you have leftovers, that would cease to make it just ONE meal. Ya feel me?
The Thai Chopped Chicken Salad from Panera, sauce and dressing on the side:
All-natural, antibiotic-free chicken, romaine, Thai cashews, fire-roasted edamame, red peppers, carrots, fresh cilantro & wonton strips all tossed in low-fat Thai Chili Vinaigrette and drizzled with peanut sauce. Macintosh apple as the side.
It's got everything I need:
-Protein: chicken provides protein and the cashews give a little bit too, I think.
-Vegetables: red peppers, carrots, lettuce, etc.
-Fruits: That's why I got the apple on the side.
-Sweets: Not much here, but enough to get by. You've got the apple for something naturally sweet if you need that. The sauce also provides a sweet taste.
-Crunch: The apple to an extent. But here you also get the cashews and the wonton strips.
-Versatility: Add or remove wonton strips. Add or remove cashews. Add or do not add the sauce and dressing. -Dairy: The Romaine cheese.
The one thing missing here is hot food.
At Panera they have this "You Pick 2" thing where you can get a combination of 2 of these 3: soup, salad or sandwich. You get 2 things, but they are both half the size they are normally. If I can do that, then I will make this meal a You Pick 2 with half Thai Chopped Chicken Salad and half Broccoli Cheddar soup. If not, I will just take the full salad.
Well hang on, we have a paradox here. Because the thread asks for, "The Ultimate Meal." So if you plan your The Ultimate Meal, and I say what you say and add one thing, is that not more ultimate? And if someone says what I say plus one more thing, is that not more ultimate?
The wording of the OP is poor. But I can't really see the satisfaction of having your answer be "I pick everything" as your ultimate meal.
I think a meal means a set criteria of food up to the point of making you full. So if you choose something that is so overwhelming that you have leftovers, that would cease to make it just ONE meal. Ya feel me?
Apologies about being unclear in the OP.
To clarify, the "Ultimate Meal" should fit the following criteria:
1) The entire meal has to be consumable in one sitting.
2) All the ingredients have to amount to a total of less than or equal to 2000 calories (side dishes and drinks included), which is more or less universally accepted as the maximum amount of calories an average person should eat in a day.
3) Once selected, you would have to eat this entire meal (and only this meal), every day (and only once a day) for the rest of your life (or as long as you can possibly live just by eating this meal).
With these limitations, one has to be specific enough to limit the options to a reducable size, there can be no limitless additions to the "Ultimate Meal" (since 2000 calories as a limit means that you can't add anything without exceeding it, nor can you add so much that it would no longer be possible to eat it in one go), and it has to cover the basic tastes and food groups so that it is both healthy enough to sustain you, while tasty enough to eat without getting bored.
Due to the variety of substitutes, you can make suggestions or additions to other proposed "Ultimate Meals", until we come up with something a person could literally eat forever without getting sick from it or bored from the taste (if this is even possible).
The main questions of this exercise: Is there an "Ultimate Meal" that a person can eat once a day to sustain themselves in a healthy manner, and if there is, how would it look like? Or if there isn't any such thing, what would be the best alternative?
This also allows people who don't want to spend the rest of their lives eating one "health food" meal a day to be able to pick their favorite meals or even junk food and be content eating only that meal for the rest of their lives (even though potential lifespan length upon selecting this choice would be questionable). The eternal argument of living long versus being happy, I guess?
So, what would be your "Ultimate Meal"?
EDIT: "Ultimate" has two meanings, one being "maximum" and the other being "final". Thus, the thread can go both ways; you can try to create a "perfect" meal to sustain you forever (not necessarily tasty), or select a meal which will be your "last" meal for the rest of your life (not necessarily healthy). I think the best idea would be to try to go for both. Remember that, for this theoretical exercise, costs of production and access to rare or hard-to-find ingredients are not limitations.
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
The main questions of this exercise: Is there an "Ultimate Meal" that a person can eat once a day to sustain themselves in a healthy manner, and if there is, how would it look like?
Chocolate/Vanilla/strawberry milkshake.
There are already several brands of drinks of total nutrition, often used for chronic/debilitating illnesses.
However, not getting bored of something after several years of it is probably not possible.
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1/2 cup of white low starch rice,
1/2 grilled salmon fillet
1/2 lb baked garlic chicken (Skinless/boneless)
1 tomato, steamed
1 green apple
1/2 banana (green)
16 oz. of tomato juice
I feel that this would give me adequate nutrition and food to eat while still consisting of things I like very much (yes, tomato juice is my favorite drink...I know it is an odd choice)
Have a helicopter drop you off out front. Light your cigar with a small Indonesian boy holding a black lotus. Then bust out a craw wurm deck with no sleeves. Raw dog shuffle, loose terribly, flip the table, leave in a hovercraft.
"If you had to eat only one meal everyday for the rest of your life, and it had to be the exact same meal every single day, what would it be?"
The objective, of course, was to find out what everyone's favorite food was. My answer was pizza.
However, the question did get me thinking... would it be possible to live one's entire life on one meal everyday, that meal being exactly the same everyday? If we had the freedom to choose how the meal would be presented, what would be the best choice? What would this "Ultimate Meal" be like?
So I'm asking you all, if you had the freedom to construct a single meal in which all the basic food groups and necessary vitamins and minerals were contained, because this would be the only meal you had to eat for the rest of your life, and you could only eat it once a day, how would it look like? I'd imagine it would have to be under 2000 calories in total, and consist of a wide variety of ingredients. Assume that money is no object and you can literally put anything you want into this dish, even extremely rare or exotic food items.
What would be your "Ultimate Meal"?
How well do you do against one?
2 glasses of milk
A pitcher of water
A slice of pork chop.
1 whole grilled Salmon
A slice of Roast beef
1 banana
1 apple
1 cup of rice
3 slice of Bread
1 serving of salza w/ chili
a plate of green salad
1 serving of maple syrup or pure honey
this would be nice for an everyday meal. i could eat fish everyday, but in case i get tired of it, i got pork and beef on the side plus green salad.
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Buy All the fetches!
Create tons of EDH Decks!!!
Eat Nothing but Oats!! (LOL, not true)
Train MMA!!!
Marry My girlfriend!!!
Get her Pregnant only Once!
Teach my Son/Daughter Sports and magic cards!!!
Continue my legacy son!!!/Daughter!!
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Turkey
Steak
Ham
Salmon
rice
pastax3
soupx5
fruit x10
vegetable x 10
bread x 3
so on?
And a Coke.
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Thoughts on proxies:
In this hypothetical exercise, is inevitable mercury poisoning from fish an issue?
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Because the fact of the matter is you cannot eat the same things day in day out and not get sick of them, even if it were a concoction of beer, manliness, french fries, and the liquified version of that feeling you get when you walk slowly away from an explosion without turning around and have dark glasses on.
That's just not the way human beings are wired. We need a variety of food. It's why diets will usually fail past the second week, provided the dieting person even makes it that far. We crave variety, and if we don't get it, we will seek it out.
If we could, it would ruin the point of this exercise, since then we could each ask for an unlimited amount of food and say that is "one meal".
Let's try to keep this hypothetical "one meal" as somewhere under 2000 calories total (the benchmark by which most diets are measured), but it also has to be consumable in one sitting, because otherwise we could just pick a day's worth of food and classify that as "one meal" too.
Okay, as stated above, I changed the parameters a bit. The objective now is to pick one meal which we could eat everyday (and only that one meal, just once per day) to live as long as possible (or as long as you want to, your choice). If it's not possible to create a single meal under 2000 calories, entirely consumable in one sitting, which would sustain you every day until you die of old age, then the idea is to make one that would, at least theoretically, keep you alive for a very long time.
This would also allow the possibility for other answers, such as if you are content to live out the remainder of your life on your favorite food and/or alcoholic beverage, as a few of the others have already mentioned.
How well do you do against one?
Because we care about facts.
Seafood for me.
Either that, or a Medium Combination Pizza with a Side Salad & a mug of mountain dew.
Or a big bowl of down home southern beef stew or chicken pot pie with all the fixin's with a side of corn bread, slice of apple pie and a tall glass of milk.
Or maybe even a giant breakfast burrito with eggs, chorizo, potatoes, onion, rice, pico de gallo, guacamole, mexican blend cheese, black beans, green chile & chipotle sauce. And a cup of coffee with cream & sugar.
Now that I think about it, a nice boneless new york steak with a half rack of baby back ribs, a fully loaded baked potato & seasonal vegetable medley with a flask of hard lemonade.
If not any of the options above, then a footlong french roll sandwich with smoked turkey, turkey bacon, baby swiss, roma tomatoes, red onions, romaine lettuce, cucumber, haas avocado, black olives, horseradish mustard, olive oil mayo, salt & pepper. And a thermos of green tea with ginseng and honey.
Man I am such a fat kid.
So bread and wine. Of JESUS.
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Well hang on, we have a paradox here. Because the thread asks for, "The Ultimate Meal." So if you plan your The Ultimate Meal, and I say what you say and add one thing, is that not more ultimate? And if someone says what I say plus one more thing, is that not more ultimate?
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The wording of the OP is poor. But I can't really see the satisfaction of having your answer be "I pick everything" as your ultimate meal.
I think a meal means a set criteria of food up to the point of making you full. So if you choose something that is so overwhelming that you have leftovers, that would cease to make it just ONE meal. Ya feel me?
It's got everything I need:
-Protein: chicken provides protein and the cashews give a little bit too, I think.
-Vegetables: red peppers, carrots, lettuce, etc.
-Fruits: That's why I got the apple on the side.
-Sweets: Not much here, but enough to get by. You've got the apple for something naturally sweet if you need that. The sauce also provides a sweet taste.
-Crunch: The apple to an extent. But here you also get the cashews and the wonton strips.
-Versatility: Add or remove wonton strips. Add or remove cashews. Add or do not add the sauce and dressing.
-Dairy: The Romaine cheese.
The one thing missing here is hot food.
At Panera they have this "You Pick 2" thing where you can get a combination of 2 of these 3: soup, salad or sandwich. You get 2 things, but they are both half the size they are normally. If I can do that, then I will make this meal a You Pick 2 with half Thai Chopped Chicken Salad and half Broccoli Cheddar soup. If not, I will just take the full salad.
Epic.
Apologies about being unclear in the OP.
To clarify, the "Ultimate Meal" should fit the following criteria:
1) The entire meal has to be consumable in one sitting.
2) All the ingredients have to amount to a total of less than or equal to 2000 calories (side dishes and drinks included), which is more or less universally accepted as the maximum amount of calories an average person should eat in a day.
3) Once selected, you would have to eat this entire meal (and only this meal), every day (and only once a day) for the rest of your life (or as long as you can possibly live just by eating this meal).
With these limitations, one has to be specific enough to limit the options to a reducable size, there can be no limitless additions to the "Ultimate Meal" (since 2000 calories as a limit means that you can't add anything without exceeding it, nor can you add so much that it would no longer be possible to eat it in one go), and it has to cover the basic tastes and food groups so that it is both healthy enough to sustain you, while tasty enough to eat without getting bored.
Due to the variety of substitutes, you can make suggestions or additions to other proposed "Ultimate Meals", until we come up with something a person could literally eat forever without getting sick from it or bored from the taste (if this is even possible).
The main questions of this exercise: Is there an "Ultimate Meal" that a person can eat once a day to sustain themselves in a healthy manner, and if there is, how would it look like? Or if there isn't any such thing, what would be the best alternative?
This also allows people who don't want to spend the rest of their lives eating one "health food" meal a day to be able to pick their favorite meals or even junk food and be content eating only that meal for the rest of their lives (even though potential lifespan length upon selecting this choice would be questionable). The eternal argument of living long versus being happy, I guess?
So, what would be your "Ultimate Meal"?
EDIT: "Ultimate" has two meanings, one being "maximum" and the other being "final". Thus, the thread can go both ways; you can try to create a "perfect" meal to sustain you forever (not necessarily tasty), or select a meal which will be your "last" meal for the rest of your life (not necessarily healthy). I think the best idea would be to try to go for both. Remember that, for this theoretical exercise, costs of production and access to rare or hard-to-find ingredients are not limitations.
How well do you do against one?
Chocolate/Vanilla/strawberry milkshake.
There are already several brands of drinks of total nutrition, often used for chronic/debilitating illnesses.
However, not getting bored of something after several years of it is probably not possible.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Re: People misusing the term Vanilla to describe a flying, unleash (sometimes trample) critter.
1/2 cup of white low starch rice,
1/2 grilled salmon fillet
1/2 lb baked garlic chicken (Skinless/boneless)
1 tomato, steamed
1 green apple
1/2 banana (green)
16 oz. of tomato juice
I feel that this would give me adequate nutrition and food to eat while still consisting of things I like very much (yes, tomato juice is my favorite drink...I know it is an odd choice)