Comment on The price of a Costco hot dog has gone upparentComments−antisthenes28dI think you mean cooked whole potatoes.Potato chips are generally very low weight, and include other calorie containing products, such as oil.−ffsm827dRight, I was wrong. The best calorie/$ ratio is with a bottle of cooking oil. (7-9k calories/$)But you cannot eat that, so potato chips are a distant second (at least from the products I checked)And no, the calories in chips added by the oil offset the lesser amount of weight you buy per unit - at least in my locality.If I just look at calories per dollar, potato chips seem the most cost effective - at least as long as you take the cheapest onesPure potatoes are somewhere around 200-500 calories per dollar, cheap potato chips are around 1000/dollarPure noodles or rice might be even better, I didn't check those admittedly.−dlcarrier27dI just searched Google for "highest calorie tuber" to try and see what the best choice would be (cassava/tapioca/yucca) but Google was very insistent I see the search results for "highest calorie tube".
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I think you mean cooked whole potatoes.
Potato chips are generally very low weight, and include other calorie containing products, such as oil.
Right, I was wrong. The best calorie/$ ratio is with a bottle of cooking oil. (7-9k calories/$)
But you cannot eat that, so potato chips are a distant second (at least from the products I checked)
And no, the calories in chips added by the oil offset the lesser amount of weight you buy per unit - at least in my locality.
If I just look at calories per dollar, potato chips seem the most cost effective - at least as long as you take the cheapest ones
Pure potatoes are somewhere around 200-500 calories per dollar, cheap potato chips are around 1000/dollar
Pure noodles or rice might be even better, I didn't check those admittedly.
I just searched Google for "highest calorie tuber" to try and see what the best choice would be (cassava/tapioca/yucca) but Google was very insistent I see the search results for "highest calorie tube".