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killahkosha
09-03-05, 02:59 AM
I am wondering which EDIBLE (no pure vegetable oil) food is the cheapest for how many calories it gives you. Currently I'd have to say french bread, which is available at my local WinCo for $0.99 and provides 900 or so calories. Anyone have anything that can top the roughly $0.0011 per a calorie?

-Jason Keller

DannoXYZ
09-03-05, 03:33 AM
Try a sack of potatoes...
phinney
09-03-05, 05:04 AM
Potatoes have to be close. I lived on them in college for about $2/week.

Patriot
09-03-05, 12:22 PM
Rice?

Ramen noodles?
jrennie
09-03-05, 12:34 PM
Straight flour
MyFeetAsJello
09-03-05, 12:43 PM
Spaghetti?
DannoXYZ
09-03-05, 01:18 PM
If you cut out the little buds on the potatoes and throw them in the backyard, you'd have an infinite amount of potatoes. Divided by zero cost and it approaches infinite infinity.
BeTheChange
09-03-05, 01:18 PM
Rice. 20 lb bag for 7 or 8 bucks.
Patriot
09-03-05, 01:53 PM
Rice. 20 lb bag for 7 or 8 bucks.


Exactly. My wife bought a big bag of sticky rice from costco. I coudl feed a small Army with that thing for a few months. :D
Eatadonut
09-03-05, 01:55 PM
I am wondering which EDIBLE (no pure vegetable oil) food is the cheapest for how many calories it gives you. Currently I'd have to say french bread, which is available at my local WinCo for $0.99 and provides 900 or so calories. Anyone have anything that can top the roughly $0.0011 per a calorie?

-Jason Keller


Sam's Club has a triple-chocolate bundt cake that is intensely good for about $0.0012/cal.

of course, I can't bring myself to eat even part of a 3900-calorie cake, but oh well.
dagna
09-03-05, 03:49 PM
If you are looking for good nutrition as well as calories, oatmeal supplies close to everything you need at a very low cost.

Dagna
jrennie
09-03-05, 04:29 PM
If you are looking for good nutrition as well as calories, oatmeal supplies close to everything you need at a very low cost.

Dagna
Gotta love the oats. And to think they use to one feed that stuff to horses.
Roody
09-03-05, 04:41 PM
The neighbor's dog?

(Not suitable for vegans.)
late
09-03-05, 04:47 PM
I can tell you how to eat cheap.
Pedal Wench
09-05-05, 09:39 PM
peanut butter
msparks
09-06-05, 07:00 AM
peanut butter

I was thinking that too, but I didn't know the cost per calorie.

Good Idea on the Oats, now if you can just make them taste good. LOL

(I wonder if you could get feed from the feed store, with molasis and oats and stuff. I bet that's pretty cheap when you get a 50 lb bag. Just eat it raw like you would trail mix. LOL
kf5nd
09-06-05, 09:00 AM
Go to an Asian food store, buy 25 lbs of rice for $12 for really nice Thai jasmine rice