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Calories per dollar seems like a really strange metric to use/care about. Cheaper is better, and lower-calorie is better, but those cancel each other out under
by josephcsible 3y ago
Calories per dollar seems like a really strange metric to use/care about. Cheaper is better, and lower-calorie is better, but those cancel each other out under it.
- YellOh 3y agoLower calorie is only better if trying to lose weight. I'm trying to get my daily calories (to maintain or increase my current weight) for cheap, so high-calorie inexpensive foods are preferable. Low-calorie foods are only worthwhile if they're particularly nutrient dense (ex. green vegetables). Another downside of low-calorie foods (apart from price) is that it's hard to eat enough volume of them to stay at the same weight (which negatively affects strength/focus). For example, 2000 calories of grated carrot would be ~11x the maximum stomach capacity of an average person.
- throwaway22032 3y agoWhen buying basic food ingredients, lower calorie isn't better. It's pretty hard to eat in a surplus if you're cooking from scratch, for the most part people who are intuitively eating (e.g. not tracking calories) mostly get into trouble via packaged foods, fast food, soda etc.