Did his answer strike you as out of touch with reality?

We state a cute result that can be derived from our calcuations. It is not applied anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering coefficients have large cores.

[S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it.

Ballpark what you need in each category and average those amounts by 12 months.