Japanese Diet

Ampontan at Japundit writes in Feast or Famine about Japanese food self-sufficiency.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, if Japanese stopped eating imported foods a typical menu would have to be as follows.

Breakfast

Bowl of rice, potatoes, pickled vegetables.

Lunch

2 sweet potatoes, baked potato, 1/4 apple.

Dinner

Bowl of rice, sweet potato, slice of fish.

Special treats

Udon noodles (1 bowl every other day), miso soup (1 bowl every other day), milk (1 glass every 6 days), egg (1 each week), meat (1 serving every 9 days).

Sounds healthy, in a Mahatma Gandhi kind-of-way. Actually, I get the impression that's about how Japanese ate 150 years ago before Americans introduced them to junk food. That diet would do me a lot of good, if I survived it.