Your Health comes first. Losing 13 lbs. in 30 days is hard on the body. It thinks you are starving and you will put the weight back on likely a lot more, because your body is prepping for being starved again. You don't have to make the challenge harder, it was already too hard. Instead show off the range of meals you can make with the food. So maybe some clips of recipes you liked best. Or even a full video. Maybe collaborate with a local cooking channel or innovative restaurant that could use your exposure. Show the variety you can have in potato dishes. You have chickens, so your ability to barter is greater. Most IMPORTANTLY don't harm yourself for your show. None of your viewers want that.

Kinda feel like you should get a certain amount of money like $2 a day (that you can save up and use or use everyday) that can be spent at a farmers market or on things you could never grow yourself. like wheat or rice or hell even cheese or milk. So that youre still eating everything you can grow and youre still buying locally from people who can grow those things (like the eggs). I mean providing one staple grain that you can have unlimited amount of and one animal product that you can also have unlimited amount of like eggs or cheese which are amazing for health and calories and frankly surviving famine foods wouldnt be cheating it would be good for your body and health and also prevent you from having seasonal issues with food like climate weather and dangers like fishing from definitely contaminated water sources etc even if you just buy a set amount of grain or starch and animal product before starting and making it rationed like i get 1 cup of dry rice a day and 2 eggs and 50grams of cheese and you could save those daily rations up if you wanted but you could really and should really work out how much you need as a baseline calories and have at least half your calories be your total daily ration and the other half be garden forage fish or barter. That way even if you dont eat it you have that option in lean times or if your sick or injured whatever AND you wont stress your body. Maybe you could incorporate an intermittent fast into this time or better yet preserve lots of jams chutneys dried fruits hell even meals like MRE type but solely from your garden like beans chilli or such i mean make it realistic. Even pioneers and settlers had rations of basic grains like flour and and sanity keeping coffee or honey. And even when they had big kitchen gardens and fruit trees they still bought canned goods and animal products and little treats and long term grains flours and spices. Maybe you could pair up with a friend or local green grocer or hell a farmers market or something and take scraps or even a resturant and help prevent food waste and really make use of things less eaten like carrot tops or peels for veg stock and other such things that usually get binned or composted and instead eat them use the whole plant.

I think the only challenge should be that you can't eat the same meal every day. That way you get creative without causing too harm to yourself

I saw a recent video of yours saying that you want to limit yourself to what comes strictly off of your property. You're doing a great job Eric (sorry, Kevin. I always do that), but I don't think that's wise right now, IMO. I think your previous rules were quite good, allowing you to barter, forage, and fish. My only critique of that is to go fishing for larger fish, man! WTH?!? You have chickens now, so that's going to help a whole lot. I've only got four chickens, and it takes no time at all to have so many eggs you don't know what to do with. At $7/doz. in value, they're a huge barter item. One last comment, I don't think that I've seen you grow amaranth past the microgreen stage yet. A high protein grain, the leaves are edible and it reseeds like gangbusters. If at all, convince Jacques to do it too. That should be a comedy. #Hunger Games Boys Are you planning on doing it in Vlog form or one video?

I want to do this!!! I've never done this, but I am currently challenging myself to eat I thing from my garden everyday during harvest time and once a week other times.

The grunions mate on the wet sand

when I was stationed in San Diego in the 1980s going on a grunion run was a rite of passage. you haven't lived till you've seen a dozen drunk sailors trying to catch fish with their bare hands by the light of the full moon. The experience wasn't complete without an appearance by the Shore Patrol and a call to your Chief. Good times, lol

@@texasred2702 thanks for telling the story sir

@@clashoclan3371 lol imagine you''ve spawned 1000 miles, just about to finally get busy and fulfill your life's purpose, when some random hangry guy grabs you for dinner

​@@nottheone582 hangry guy:dont worry bud you'll spawn back once im down

Yes, tilapia farm!

Use the run off to water as its rich in nitrates and will increase yields

@@joe_schmoe_420 please don’t, that causes algal bloom, decreased levels of oxygen, and severe reductions in water quality and in fish and other animal populations.

@@eidelrose using pond run off for your plants??? Because that's what he was talking about. The dirty fish water actually makes a wonderful fertilizer for plants hence the "increased yield" they were taking about.

@@trixiebewitched I misread, my bad

He was probably more active as well going out and trying to find food

Image if he had more land and a community though :)

​@@hannahwillis9838or hens! Or at least knowing someone with hens. An egg is around 70-75 calories. 5 eggs/day would give you around 350 extra calories to work with

I bet he lost weight because he was eating much healthier including lean protein. I also never heard anything about bread! Very interesting

He could have grown legumes. For protein and calories. He said he had 90 days to prepare. His garden is big enough to grow enough food for 30 days even without fishing and bartering. I guess he needs to forage BC he doesn't really have fruits in his garden. Berries and nuts would be a great help. I don't know if he can grow berries in his zone and nut trees take forever to produce.

Yep!

Like any society in the human history

I'm impressed how well he did. He was smart

This post reminds of that one time some rich asshole told me that it's fine if farmers stopped their jobs because we got the grocery stores. Like bitch, where did you think those foods in the grocery stores came from??

​@Disabled-Megatron That's why it is important to push for self sufficient communities, not (almost) self sufficient people.

My Sims first few meals usually are fish on a stick or fried fish😂😂

Pov: Your a Stardew Valley Enjoyer

Dumpster meals are S tier

So true 😂

Exactly what I commented. 🤣

Lol

I had intense "The martian" flashbacks

He may look insane, but they're the ones playing $100 for 5lb of berry's lol

Lmao. I feel the same way when I eat blackberries off the bushes around my neighborhood!

@@sarah_noodle that's awesome though lol

That will never happen any time soon. People will only do what they see as beneficial to them. No one wants to pay 50% of their income to a local farm. Not unless they have specific values which push them to do that.

@@AJ-ox8xy Thats the problem. You cant count on individuals because its governments and companies that cause these price hikes of ethical and local economy supporting programs by allowing unethical products. Its up to working through the government to get mass beneficial societal change.

@@josjos-x5s I agree. But traditionally that takes a highly united society that is bound by blood tradition and history. It's not possible right now on any grand scale. I do agree though we need to unite and focus on supporting local agriculture. But that will happen on the small micro scale for now. Good luck 👍.

@@AJ-ox8xy I think the problem is that people are too bound by tradition. An unwillingness to share with others outside ones own circle and people still falling for the lies or charisma of higher powers in society that don't have their best interest in mind. In truth social progress has only ever happened through denying higher powers. Even in feudalistic times you weren't guaranteed your own crops. Of course you need a united society but usually progress avoids tradition and the tradition of powers that keep people at bay.

thats what taxes are for

The system WILL fail, especially given how fast we burn fossil fuels. Good to know how to grow food

LOL!

I think if you brought em in and put in a tank for a couple weeks feeding them out, they'd be a better option, kinda like a grass finish on beef cattle

@@ohnonotagain8935 exactly! That will clean out their system. I do this with live Crab. I feed them chopped of raw corn kernels. Because corn doesn't digest so when it comes out, it scrapes their intestines, cleaning out their system.

Oo all the plastic they probably ate ewww

@@kra_hme just think of all the plastic we eat and don't know it. Plus the new push for cricket flower in a lot of foods as well as commercialized cockroach coffe grounds. I swear KZfaq is having me read labels at the grocery store and garden in my kitchen far more than I ever thought necessary

Well, he IS surviving off his garden, like Ryan Trahan surviving on one penny challenge

Ahaha 😂

​​@@ZBREAD. well except ryan needs to build a garden for 90 days and then sell shit for more pennies

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Funny 😐

😂😂😂 comments did not disappoint

if 1 single person is spending $900 a month on groceries then its no wonder people piss through all their money

@@BubbaJoe69420 depends where you live and if you’re doing something like bulking.

Yeah $900 for a month of groceries is far to much for any single person. That would be $225/week for a four week month. Assuming there are 30 days that month that devides up into $30 every single day. No one should be spending $200 or more every single week on groceries for just one person.

@@damperemu4445 no. any single person could live on much less but people r so entitled nowadays that itd be impossible for them to.

@@acorneroftheinternet4179 for 3 of us I lived with a couple that probably spent over a grand a month on food she would make really intricate dinners and they'd be completely different each day so she made a tone of food waist by not using food from a previous meal just buy new vegetables etc. Every couple days because they old ingredients weren't needed for to long and went bad

You def. need some prickly pears on your property somewhere. They are so tasty!

Don’t they take a long time to grow? Is it worth it? How often can you harvest them?

Prickly pear grow very fast especially in full sun light and tropical climate

​@@redherringbone problem: I live in Ohio

@@AnythingButBecky1127 don't quote me on this, but I believe you could grow 'em just fine... I know a lot of people love 'em, but they aren't my cup 'o' tea

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To be fair he did stay within his own guardrails on the rules 😆

He’s in San Diego, if he learned to fish the shoreline he’d had much more access to fish.

I bartered 2 weeks of pet/house sitting for a 50-gal fish tank and later 1 week for a pair of Doc Martin boots and all the raspberries I wanting for canning. (Late season/ would have gone to waste and got permission to pick) i like bartering, too!

In my area of my country and even over the border in my sisters area, we have cherry plums coming up everywhere. They're alongside rivers and some of the older people see it as poor people food. You get a cherry pitter and go for your life and boil them up. But most people don't bother. I have numerous plum trees and one is taller than my house. You get sick of eating them but regardless, I have a ton in vacola jars (British thing similar to ball mason but usually far bigger). Between that, the jarred rhubarb and about 11 dozen jarred pickled eggs and a bunch of Jerusalem artichoke, never mind the hidden rice stash, I'll be right for a month.

Unfortunately i dont have the rights to land I live on that allows me to grow trees 🗿

@@gameseeker6307I’m kinda poor but we own land somewhere by Utah with a house but my sister is acting like a bitch I could grow trees and show you if we do go since my mom decided to listen to my sister

@@Mimix-o i wish I had my own forest 😔👍

That's what we do in Indonesia if we own wide yard. We'll grow our fruit tree.

Probably got a little from it.

Oh he definitely got some rads from that fish

Around my area and even far further north, we have cherry plums growing all around rivers in public. I have one tree in the front yard taller than my house in red, another one in yellow, a whole ton I have put tree guards round that I don't even look at, and damson plums.

@@OffGridInvestorThose are so delicious. I donot understand how people can leave them uneaten.

I bit into a crab apple once and it had a bug in it. 🤢 How do you avoid bugs? 🐛

@@SS-pw8en all fruit can get bugs or worms in them. You have to cut the fruit. All the crabapples I used had been cut in 4ths and I sliced the cores out, as the seeds from any apple are toxic. Also. You cut away any bad portions, holes, bruises...then you can use what's left to process into whatever you are making. Also, worms mean that the fruit wasn't treated with any pesticides. That's a good thing. The stuff from the grocery stores, are treated and have been modified to resist many things that can affect the final fruit. Very few of the apples from our 2 golden delicious trees come off nice. They are all imperfect in some way. We don't use chemicals on them. Still good apples for pies, jellies, butters, and canning...also cut for eating.

@@mindylafler3456 Thank you! 🤍

Can you bowhunt urban deer? They like acorns too.

And have a garden bigger than most in the city

Cry about if

@@spjr99 I'd be worried that guy would try and trade me a sewer fish to lick my tears!

Why are you guys all so salty about this?

That’s what I was saying lmao

Dumbshit, the point is it can't be done in URBAN SAN DIEGO

With urban gardening, I don't think the goal is to totally replace the food system, but supplement it with healthy, sustainable alternatives where manageable. Market varieties of many crops are bred for what stores and travels well, not what's most delicious or nutrient-dense.

To be fair he said he can only eat things he grows, fish, forage or barter for.

@@lizlazz to be fair he shouldn’t have named the short “Surviving off my garden for 30 days” if he was finding nutrients from other sources

And still loses a ton of weight due to lack of nutrients

@@manuelcorrecher1333 bro isn’t even surviving 🤣😭😭

@@jimjimsauce so he should’ve named it living off of fishing foraging and gardening for 30 days and that would’ve made you happy?

That's so sad!

As in actually sick or it just got boring?

@@giannisparanis3373 got boring

@@citricx6447 thankfully, lol

New students will be able to enjoy them too. It would be great ,if all schools with land start the practice of planting fruit trees and berries.

Ma'am!

reading this i missed my days at the farm . ImO this lifestyle is very good. Love it that you are thoughtful of your family. wishing you the best!

I wish this is the lifestyle everyone has. It would be a happy world to live in. 😢

I've learned so much in this one comment. Thanks for writing it!

Beeeeens 😂😅😍

I think foraging is an age old way that people survived and although there's not like orchards of apples around here there's definitely citrus and things you can't pick off trees that nobody picks so why not.

@@eileenwineinger3173 nothing at all wrong with foraging! I just meant in order to make the rules more difficult for the next challenge, now that he has a larger property with his own fruit trees.

I think foraging would help put things into your body that it needs that you aren't normally getting. Going more natural to be the most ideal health as we were made

foraging is a really good way to get fresh and local food too! It's something that's quite common in my country, even if a little changed. In the Czechia it's normal to go mushroom picking (if you know what to look for! especially watch out for poisonous mushrooms and plants) and then we have other things like picking wild blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. Trees such as apple, pear, plum and or cherry trees are planted around the roads and villages. And then there's something we call paběrkování.( I don't think there is a literal translation, because the translator gives me 4 different possible names, and none of them make sense.) It is an activity where people go to fields that have been harvested recently and collect what the machines did not collect. This is a legal activity and you are not paying anyone for it. So you can bring home carrots, radishes, beets, potatoes, corn, etc... Of course, it doesn't look like a bought thing because it was thrown in the field, but it is a good food. And I'll admit that when we walk around the field, sometimes you pick up something before harvest. Young corn is delicious! Of course it won't provide food for people on a daily basis, a lot of this stuff is seasonal. But if you know how to can and dry and freeze, you don't need to buy some things. In general, it is mainly about diversifying the diet during the year, free of charge and healthy. I'm honestly happy that these things stick around because they are really beautiful experiences. Finding blueberries in the woods, ripe and sweet, or just picking up a bunch of carrots from the field. Or stop along the way and enjoy an apple or a plum...

@@marketasimkova8040 Collecting what the harvesters left behind is called gleaning in English

Why care what other people think? If it’s not illegal then do what makes you happy.

@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 homeless people literally have to forage like this to survive because they are receiving no community support and get harassed and beaten, meanwhile this dude is doing the same thing for clout but its "different" or "quirky" because he has money

@@b100dROSE - idk about where you live, but here I’ve never heard of a homeless person getting harassed for fishing.

@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 it's more of a western countries problem, like America and Canada, because people often look down on the poor or homeless. because "they didn't get a job" or "worked hard enough", meanwhile, the same people preaching this rhetoric are the same reason why houses with 2 bedrooms in the suburbs cost over 500k American, they gouged all the prices as far as they could, and whine when they can't sell their house that was previously 50k in 1990, for 1million in 2020 because "the area is nice". It's basically the difference between Haiti, and the Dominican republic, one side is inherently more wealthy then the others. therefore,despite them being the same race, despite them being all descendants of slaves who didn't wanna be there, the Dominican republics people treat the Haitians incredibly poorly, because "theyre poor" "they don't work hard" "they smell funny so I chase them away" among many other holier then thou sayings. Haiti fought for independence and paid the price by being put into severe debt, that ravaged their side of the island, and the Dominicans stayed under the heel of Europeans, thus, they inevitably benefited when the world decided that colonies weren't very kosher and were given all the stuff left behind by the Europeans, including vast infrastructures and education, all of which, were stripped from Haiti when their rebellion won. This was just a simplified summary, but that should show you just how bad humanity can be, even to our own relatives and friends, the second someone becomes wealthy, 7 out of 10 times, they start to look down on everyone else for being poorer them them.

“No community support” Rose I don’t know where you’re from, but here in San Diego the majority of homeless people remain on the street because they don’t take advantage of public services. They’d have to give up their drugs in order to be in public housing and most choose the drugs over help. I’ve been here for years, that’s how it is.

Local climate changes=weather 😅

Foraged

A person living as independently as possible would need at least ⅓ acre of land dedicated just to farming in order to get by. He obviously doesn't have that kind of space. Keep in mind, he still lived predominantly off his potatoes and never bought so much as a single clove of garlic. The only bought things he had was olive oil for cooking fat and iodized salt. Yeah his title is a tough misleading, but its still impressive as hell he was able to get by as much as he could. His full video goes into far greater depths and I reccomend you watch it

@@acorneroftheinternet4179 not even misleading. This is how it was done for millenia. These kids just click a KZfaq video and expect Bear Grylls drink his piss instead of the tap water

He proved he could do it. He needs find a few more things to complete his experiment.

@@acorneroftheinternet4179 Thanks for mentioning a full video!!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦

Not really challenge was to survive off his garden.. he ate fish and barter items and foraging he might as well went to the store

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Is it sustainable? He lost weight.

​@@thomaswhite3059 if we say 3 lbs water weight and 10 lbs actual loss, 3500 calories/lb of fat gives us a deficit of roughly 1167 calories/day. Since he's 6'4" and 225 lbs, we can put his TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) at roughly 2863 calories/day, assuming light exercise and ~30 years old. Subtracting that out, that means that he ate, on average, around 1696 calories/day, which is sustainable for a 5'3" 140 lb woman. 2000 calories/day is a rough benchmark, and it's too low for many men and too high for many women. Overall, he did get fairly close to his goal, but he didn't account for the number of calories he actually needed.

​@@ae3qe27u3Completely wrong on his exercise. Gardening, foraging and so on takes a lot of energy.

@@JuMiKu Likely wrong, yes. I wanted to err on the low side, just in case. The total deficit could easily be higher.

@@ae3qe27u3 Understandable. Upon rereading I came across way more strongly than intended. Sorry!

He lost 13 pounds. Even able to leave his property, it's not sustainable

This is a rerun from quote a while back. The video is in his channel already.

Did you see the quality of his crops? It is mediocre. He needs to learn gardening

@@YevgeniyShcherbakov or bad years happen.

@@macandfries6765 Yeah, it happens, but usually affects some crops. I grow stuff. Sometimes when I fail to fertilize or water properly, the yields would tell. But given that there is access to water and fertilizer, the swings in yield should be minimal.

@@YevgeniyShcherbakov This was a bad year for nightshades in the States. The tomato, potato, and pepper crops were all hit hard.

You win. Hilarious

Or if the city really United an acted as a village to help each other

@@octavianicole6958 imagine society living in community again, and not being so dam autonomous.

if a third of yall spent the time to make a garden like his maybe you'd have an easier time.

I think it would actually be easier... more people to trade with

@D E that sounds like what society already is 😂😂😂

To be fair, things haven't always been that way and it's no guarantee to stay that way. The Great Depression happened and it's possible it could happen again. Better to prepare yourself and not need it than need it and not have it

I will definitely consider this!

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