Originally Posted by
mgidm86
Walmart:
Cookies: about $3.50 / 18 oz.
Apple (1): $0.59
Fresh carrots: $0.82 / pound
Which is the better investment? Even if you can buy that box of cookies for a dollar it's still more money and it is not at all good for you which makes it a much worse value.
It looks like the carrots are pretty comparable even in the metric of calories/dollar to the cookies. But carrots aren't a calorie dense food as compared to, say, potatoes, which have about twice the number of calories/pound (as well as being cheaper/pound than carrots). Most people eat meals with not just low calorie foods like carrots, but also higher calorie dense foots like potatoes. Given that sort of a mixed diet, the $/calorie on average will be much less than for cookies.