The Thirty Day SHTF Test Diet: Day 11

Today was Day 11 for my test of Mountain House food packets as emergency food, The Thirty Day SHTF Test Diet. Lots of preppers recommend storing food for a disaster; this series tests it out. As detailed earlier, this diet has turned into a weight-loss diet too.

Perhaps it's anticipation of tonight's Steemit Meetup Toronto, but I did a little better today. Once again, there was no real difference between the taste of the meals and the taste of regular. The vim came back, and there's no sign of heath issues.

I've stuck with this diet so far, but part of the reason is falling into a routine. As I'll explain below, this routinization is going to be put to a test.

Today's Meals

After yesterday's flip, the flop: Scrambled Eggs with Ham and Green Pepper:

As per usual, it took a cup of boiled water, two stirrings, and a wait of eight minutes to reconstitute:

I can't say why, but the more of these I eat, the more excess fluid there is. Before eating it, I had more "scrambled egg soup" fluid than usual. It could be the luck of the draw. In passing, the ham chunks in this meal were fairly big.

The dinner was the Lasagna with Meat Sauce:

As per usual, the same reconstituting process as per above except with two cups of water instead of one. But not before removing the oxygen absorber packet, which occasionally is hard to find. They're normally at the top of the food in the packet, but there are times I've had to dig for them.

[Unfortunately, I missed the pic for this one - guess I was too absorbed in eating it.]

The lasagna tasted like the kind you buy frozen, but it did have one wrinkle: the cheese glued itself to my spoon when I stirred it. Not gooily or globbily, but film-like. This is a wrinkle of the freeze-drying, I'm sure.

The Nutrition facts for both, with the lasagna on the left and the scrambled eggs on the right:

show a total of (310 x 2) = 720 calories for the lasagna and 380 calories for the eggs-and-ham. As with all the dinners, the Nutrition Facts numbers for the lasagna (left) are per half-pouch.

Effects, So Far, And Announcement:

So far, somewhat better. Though prolly due to the impending meetup, I got through the day with a little more vim than yesterday. The night-owl phase was reverted, and the insomnia lessened its grip. No sign of malady and the feelings of hunger were mild. Although my weight did bounce upwards:

it increased from a pretty low figure. I can live with another stretch on the plateau.

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As I mentioned above, tomorrow is going to entail a change in routine. Because I'm attending an extended-family dinner, I'm going off the SHTF diet for one day. Tomorrow will be a hiatus day.

The day after tomorrow will be a test day. After climbing down from the wagon, can I get back on and proceed? It's an important question for any dieter. True, dieting breaks slow down the diet. But it's also true that a dieter who can fall off and get back on is more antifragile than the charge-ahead-at-all-costs dieter.

I'll find out Tuesday how robust I am...

Thanks for reading.

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