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Before even going into the side-effects of such a diet let's just have a look at the numbers used: Olive oil (extra virgin)(price per kg quoted) 3.30 (price pe

by fpp 13y ago

Before even going into the side-effects of such a diet let's just have a look at the numbers used: Olive oil (extra virgin)(price per kg quoted) 3.30 (price per kg actual) 6.39 (weekly quoted) 1.96 (weekly actual) 3.80 Yellow split peas (dried)(price per kg quoted) 1.16 (price per kg actual) 0.98 (weekly quoted) 1.62 (weekly actual) 1.37 Bananas (price per kg quoted) 0.68 (price per kg actual) 0.68 (loose / leftover 2+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.38 (weekly actual) 0.50 (1) Carrots (price per kg quoted) 0.46 (price per kg actual) 0.80 (loose / leftover 2+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.26 (weekly actual) 0.50 (1) Onions (price per kg quoted) 0.42 (price per kg actual) 0.90 (loose / leftover 5+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.23 (weekly actual) 0.50 Red cabbage (price per kg quoted) 0.80 (price per kg actual) 0.96 (loose / leftover 3+ BBD 1 piece) (weekly quoted) 0.45 (weekly actual) 0.96 (1) Tomatoes (chopped, tinned) (price per kg quoted) 0.78 (price per kg actual) 0.93 (3 400g cans est. BBD of opened can 4 days) (weekly quoted) 0.87 (weekly actual) 0.93 (1) this requires you to go to the supermarket twice a week for e.g. 3 bananas, 3 carrots + 1 cabbage - it also assume that the cheapest offers are always on sale (which is not the case) plus that none of the food goes bad. weekly total quoted: 5.78 weekly total actual (no transport cost, cheapest goods always on sale) 8.56 at this point you're already far over the proclaimed budget and if I call this rightly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck) you're on a diet that the protagonist (Woyzeck) was put on to find out if he will be going crazy by just eating that kind of food (peas). (update) sorry forgot the rice and oats Long Grain Rice (price per kg quoted) 0.40 (price per kg actual) 1.39 (weekly quoted) 0.25 (weekly actual) 0.88 Oats (price per kg quoted) 0.75 (price per kg actual) 0.75 (weekly quoted) 0.42 (weekly actual) 0.42 weekly total quoted (updated): 6.45 weekly total actual (updated) 9.86

a_c_s 13y ago
Did you read the full article or just the data? 1. The author assumed NO sales. 2. Aside from bananas everything else will easily last a full week. If you wanted to say you are only shopping once a week then that means you either are willing to eat very ripe bananas by the end of the week (some people do this), or if you are like me then you would have to just eat bananas the first part of the week and not eat them the end of the week. 3. Including transportation costs is beyond the scope of a diet - the author already minimized costs by limiting things to a single supermarket (as opposed to the original article which would have required multiple trips to multiple stores to track sales and get deals). 4. The assumption that there is no waste is explicitly discussed by the author as a drawback that needs to be addressed in subsequent iterations (Edit: formatting)
- fpp 13y ago
  I have neither included transport cost nor sales nor waste. If you live in the UK you might immediately know what including these in that completely unrealistic article would mean. (1) You have to go to one of the superstores to get these prices - Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local e.a. almost never store the cheapest goods and normally mark up all other goods by a substantial amount (30%+). Next cheapest goods on the list are often 100%+ more than the prices used in the article (that's the superstore price of course) - most extreme (from my own experience) with rice - the cheapest rice you most likely find in a Tesco Express is £4+ vs. 40p quoted, that's 1000%. (2) Getting to a superstore can be rather costly - assuming about £3.2 for bus tickets (that's £6.4 per week uups just doubled your weekly budget by only adding the transport cost) - you might alternatively walk about 10-16 miles each time (both ways, can be more if you live on the countryside) - guess that's the healthy part of that diet - walking 32 miles each week (you should than of course also adjust you calories / fat / vitamin intake which gets us to about e.g. £12 actual vs £7 and 12 hours spent walking). (3) To use sales most effectively you have to have a budget to vary your diet, buy larger quantities when available etc - neither of this is possible in the constraints of this assumption - hence I also did not use sales prices.

by fpp 13y ago

a_c_s 13y ago

Did you read the full article or just the data? 1. The author assumed NO sales. 2. Aside from bananas everything else will easily last a full week. If you wanted to say you are only shopping once a week then that means you either are willing to eat very ripe bananas by the end of the week (some people do this), or if you are like me then you would have to just eat bananas the first part of the week and not eat them the end of the week. 3. Including transportation costs is beyond the scope of a diet - the author already minimized costs by limiting things to a single supermarket (as opposed to the original article which would have required multiple trips to multiple stores to track sales and get deals). 4. The assumption that there is no waste is explicitly discussed by the author as a drawback that needs to be addressed in subsequent iterations (Edit: formatting)

fpp 13y ago
I have neither included transport cost nor sales nor waste. If you live in the UK you might immediately know what including these in that completely unrealistic article would mean. (1) You have to go to one of the superstores to get these prices - Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local e.a. almost never store the cheapest goods and normally mark up all other goods by a substantial amount (30%+). Next cheapest goods on the list are often 100%+ more than the prices used in the article (that's the superstore price of course) - most extreme (from my own experience) with rice - the cheapest rice you most likely find in a Tesco Express is £4+ vs. 40p quoted, that's 1000%. (2) Getting to a superstore can be rather costly - assuming about £3.2 for bus tickets (that's £6.4 per week uups just doubled your weekly budget by only adding the transport cost) - you might alternatively walk about 10-16 miles each time (both ways, can be more if you live on the countryside) - guess that's the healthy part of that diet - walking 32 miles each week (you should than of course also adjust you calories / fat / vitamin intake which gets us to about e.g. £12 actual vs £7 and 12 hours spent walking). (3) To use sales most effectively you have to have a budget to vary your diet, buy larger quantities when available etc - neither of this is possible in the constraints of this assumption - hence I also did not use sales prices.