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eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

Research has led me to believe that 90% minimum of their diet is mutton and milk. In all seriousness, doesnt the human digestive system require some roughage like cabbage, spinach, squash, etc? How do they not become quite bound up? If these things arent available I would be surprised. As for fruit, I assume apples must be present.

ithos · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 40

They have barley which is good ruffage and slow releasing carbohydrate, protein and lots of very necessary fat from mutton, maybe horse, yak or camel, game like rabbit maybe? Also I heard drinking the blood of those animals is normal, not sure how accurate that is but if true that may provide necessary vitamins and minerals they do not get from fruit and vegetables which i presume just can't grow in their climate. Also milk, cheese, yogurt, etc from yak, goat is probably common and good for the immune system.

Seems like an ok diet to me but I like meat =)

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

Im a mutton and goat and wild game lover, no doubt, and boy I love cheese and yogurt. BUT>>>>>>>>>>>

I sure do love plums and peaches and grapes and watermelons and figs and cherries and melons and nectarines and pears too.

Are you saying those peopel NEVER EVER EAT FRUITS???? Shocked

peder · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 45

In UB you can find a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, in fact you can get pretty much anything in UB. Outside of you UB you are limited to potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage if your lucky. I have heard that fat has a lot of vitamin C. So there you go. And contrary to what one would think, a diet of dairy and meat doesn't really bound one up, in fact my research (looking down my outhouse and countless others) tells me that a diet based on mutton, flour and milk leaves one in a perpetual diarrhetic state.

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

well shiver me timbers, it sounds like I could do it, then. As long as I can "go", I have no complaints. OCnstipation not only effects the body but the mental state as well.

well carrots and cabbage are damn good enough for me. Where should I start? Love to spend a year there with my wife. She loves mutton.

UB? Just show up? How long should it take to start work?

traveler106 · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 46

Give it some serious thought. Mongolia isn't quite like what the tourists make it out to be.

khmerhit · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

How do you mean please? Surprised

hrvoje4 · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 6

I concur with traveler; give it some serious thought.

You got to be a tough nugget to stick it out there...in UB or in the country.

You can run into "trouble" in the city as well as outside. The growing economic disparity of the "Greatest Depression" is another factor. I only had minor incidents, but nothing to worry about if you keep your wits about you. Cultural assimilation helps and the people are fantastic.

It gets real cold. Transport in the country really really really sucks. For some people, the romance of the steppe might get boring. But then again, people who get bored are boring.

I was actually very healthy on country food there...except for when I went overboard on vodka and the smattering of homemade meats, cheeses, noodles and alcohol for the week long "White Month" or tsagaan sar of February.