Food and Budget

[cjsmith]

Am I the only person I know who picks up TV dinners and divides dollars by calories?

Big ol' Tombstone extra-cheese frozen pizza: $3.50. Two meals.

Two bell peppers: $3.98. Mistake.

Comments

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person I know who picks up TV dinners and divides dollars by calories?

hmm, no, haven't tried that! i will geek out over the cost of a recipe or a meal every once in a while.

*tucks a calculator in my purse for my next shopping trip*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

One thing I like about the Safeway food chain is that they do a lot of math for you and are perfectly willing to put it in a useful reference location. On all the shelf-labels for paper towels, for example, there's a price per sheet. On all the shelf-labels for fiber capsules, there's a price per capsule. Oddly enough, a lot of the things that are packaged to look inexpensive (just one color on the box, for example, or very plain fonts) are not cheap by comparison to their competition!

But they don't do dollar per calorie on TV dinners. Fortunately, that's usually pretty easy math. Above a penny per calorie is just not worth paying. I can go to a cheapy restaurant for that price! Half a penny is getting pretty good, especially if it's not all fat and starch.