spartan diet

But that doesn't mean a spartan diet of thin gruel.

His cholesterol has soared despite a spartan diet and endless exercise and, finally, medication.

For example, although a person cannot be happy while starving, if the nutrition is adequate people can be quite happy with "only a Spartan diet."

People who choose to adhere closely to the Hannaford ratings will have Spartan diets indeed.

Sally believed that Mrs Mackay's disapproval of Creggan was due to his Spartan diet.

His spartan diet consists of cooking a pot of beef stew or chili every Sunday to last a week of dinners with an apple each day for dessert.

Just a tiny reminder that in spite of their killer schedules, spartan diets and seven- or eight-figure incomes, even Uber Masters of the Universe are human.

The rebels appear to live on a spartan diet of rice, beans and river water, hoisting heavy packs and weapons over narrow mountain trails and marching for days at a time.

The spartan diet of boiled rice and chopped vegetables was also easy to digest, and this time, in contrast to their trip across the Great Lakes, they managed to keep most of it down.

He had grown thinner on a spartan diet, so that the sharp angles of his jaw were even more pronounced; in the dimming light, shadows gathered in the hollows beneath his cheekbones.

This was what most Germans wanted and they were willing to make the sacrifices which the Leader demanded of them to get it: the loss of personal freedom, a Spartan diet ("Guns before Butter") and hard work.

Despite a spartan diet of dried and fresh fruits, milk and orange juice, his capacity for work was enormous: he would be up at 4 every morning, spend an hour in yoga and meditation before tackling the business of the day.

Its monastic practices included adult baptism by treble immersion, the wearing of Catholic-style monastic garb, Sabbatarianism, long days of work and prayer, a Spartan diet of one vegetarian meal a day and accommodation in tiny, sparsely furnished cells.

In fact, with my spartan diet and my gentleman's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs (a freedom I thought, compared to others' great domed rucksacks), I began to feel like some travelling ascetic, roaming through 'the vast cinema of sensation.'

To earn money to buy some "real food" to supplement the spartan diet the nuns are able to provide him, Smith gets a part-time job with the nearby construction contractor, Ashton (director Ralph Nelson, uncredited), who is impressed that Smith can handle nearly every piece of heavy equipment he owns.