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OMAD Meals (Mostly One-plate): June 17th-July 19th, Part 2
A month of one-plate days, from frito pie to sardines and rice — including the burnt chicken and soggy fries Joe refused to eat past, and his defense of occasional soul food.
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A month of one-plate days, good and bad
The second installment of Joe's June-to-July meal documentation, delivered out of order and without ceremony: photo after photo of entire days' meals, most confined to a single plate. Frito pie — corn chips, cheap cheddar, hamburger meat, and chili seasoning — earns his highest praise as "a true American heroes meal." Elsewhere the month includes hot dogs with walnuts and BCAA capsules, lasagna made with rotini because it holds more sauce, sweet rolls dosed with his D3 drops, and homemade Chinese food built from plain rice, store-bought orange chicken, and nine-dollar Tyson breasts.
Joe is candid about the failures. A discounted rotisserie chicken turned out burnt beyond eating, so that day's meal was whatever he could pick off plus a sweet roll. A fast-food burger with soggy fries left him badly wanting to eat again — and he notes plainly that he wanted to but did not. Even the worst days stay inside the structure: a small meal, then the fast.
Soul food without apology
The recurring theme is what Joe calls soul food — meals that are admittedly unhealthy but personally meaningful. His signature example is deer sausage and french fries piled onto a piece of bread, a habit since early high school that he indulges once every month or two without worrying about the fat and calories, backstopped by B12 and BCAA supplements. He asks viewers to name their own true soul foods in the comments, whether or not anyone else approves.
The counterpoint is his cheapest triumph: two cans of sardines with a half cup of rice, doused in oil, scooped up with crackers — one of the most satisfying meals of his month. To viewers who dislike sardines he offers only a shrug: he hates cinnamon and doesn't complain when they eat it. The video ends with a weigh-in, the quiet point of the whole exercise — a month of frito pie, burnt chicken, and sardines reconciled with the scale by the single plate and the single daily meal.