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Originally Posted by opendoor
That's not really enough food to survive on though. Just doing some quick math and that looks like 8000-10000 calories which is only about 4 days for the average person.
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If my interpretation is right, I think that's also 5 days of food given the 5 apples.
I think one way to look at this is calories per dollar. Looking online, someone did the math for me.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...=sharing#gid=0
Rice seem to the best at just under a dollar per day if you ate it pure. Of course, cleaning or washing rice in any way will likely drop that to a more reasonable value. The calculation I had for the "Mac and Cheese" diet I alluded to before was 780.
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Originally Posted by opendoor
I do agree with the premise that you can eat real food for about the same price as fast food, but cost of food is only one part of it. The bigger issue is people who aren't equipped to actually plan and cook healthy meals. If you're brought up living off of junk you're probably going to live like that as an adult as well.
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Certainly this is a huge effect. Every time I've been to the US, I've been shocked by the easy accessibility of fast food.