somnilogical:
ive been having fun calculating food costs per kcal
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huel 4.24 μ$/kcal
soylent 3.8 μ$/kcal
eggs 3.2 μ$/kcal
rice 1.6 μ$/kcal
ramen 1.11 μ$/kcal
lentils 1.0 μ$/kcal
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humans consume ~2*10^3 kcal/day
1 μ$/kcal foods let you live for 2 $/day
humans consume 6*10^4 kcal in a month
there are 8.1*10^4 kcal in a human
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i like getting a sense of things
I do this too! Since my post-2012 appetite is pretty good at adjusting for the calorie density of my food, the intuitive unit for “how *big* is this food relative to other foods” is the kcal. (Which runs into problems when I’m trying to figure out relative food prices *in general*, because Mom’s intuitive appetite unit is the “serving” (whatever *that* means) and Dad’s is the “millilitre”, so we sometimes can’t even agree on whether one piece of food is bigger than another. But as long as I focus on only my own eating I can get a good sense of it.)
A lot of things turn out to be cheaper than they look because of high calorie-density. I was especially surprised by peanut butter: I figured it would be *somewhat* on the cheap side, but it’s as cheap as ramen. (In my own circumstances, that is; I notice your figure for ramen is higher than mine, if I moved the decimal places right (I work with “cents to two decimal places”). Both peanut butter and ramen were 0.06 cents/kcal.)
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#food #adventures in human capitalism #reply via reblog #disordered eating #(I’m okay but I expect people blocking that tag do not want to read this)
