Michael David Talks Food #7

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The 50 Cent Meal Part 6

Ok, We've now made 30 meals out of one chicken, some rice, half bag of noodles, few beans, salt, pepper and maybe a couple spices.

We hit 30 cents per meal in the United States. In California. In 2023.

We now have a carcass left without really any meat left on it.

We were debating throwing it out.

I need to say a few things here.

First of all, if you don't have refrigeration you won't actually have a carcass left after eating this many meals unless you are feeding a ton of people and it's only been like a day or two.

When I mentioned earlier in this series about heating it up daily if you dont have refrigeration... this is really last resort and it won't last long.

If you don't have refrigeration I've been there. To really hit the 50 cent or 30 cent meal without refrigeration you will need to preserve in some way. The most likely candidates being canning and freezing.

If you are off grid or without electricity then freezing is off the table. You're left with canning or maybe you have a fermentation tech you use.

Personally we can in ball jars. If this is a luxury for you I'm sorry. Other techniques will have to work for you to preserve the chicken and broth from the chicken in a way it can last that is achievable for you.

Onto the remaining carcass...

This thing has already boiled twice. Once for noodles and once for rice.

What did my mom say when I called her?

"Boil it till you can't taste chicken."

Here's what I have to say to that.

If you boil it to many times, or in waaaay to much water, then it will start to lose flavor. As it loses flavor it's also losing nutrition.

I'm personally not in a place that I really need to stretch a chicken for more than 30 meals.

For my son and I that is fine and we don't always go that far.

However, if food is hard enough for you then you should totally boil this chicken once or twice more. If shit is super hard then maybe you should listen to my mom and boil it until you can't taste chicken anymore and use that broth for things like noodles, beans, rice, soup base or any other meal it would be appropriate to add it.

We usually boil it a third time for our cat. Chicken broth is great for him and a third boil is actually still pretty tasty and full of nutrition. We usually boil a bit longer each boil

Remember, nutrition is in no way tied to flavor in un natural foods like candies or processed items.

Yet, when you're dealing with a natural product like a chicken...

If you can taste it then there is also still nutrition there. Nutrition that can help to sustain you when combined with carb foods like rice. The amount you can taste it is relative to the amount of nutrition it still holds in it.

Whatever nutrition the animal has, or the plant has, is throughout. With obvious concentrations of this or that in this or that region of their bodies.

That broth you boil each time is liquid gold if you don't have a lot of food.