Calories Per Dollar

Not all "year supplies" are created equal. Here are the cold, hard facts: I want the very best value for every dollar I am going to spend, and so do you. So today, let's talk about "calories per dollar".

There are a lot of different kinds of food storage to choose from, and sometimes it's hard to understand the value of what you are getting.

For example, our Year Supply of the Basics is a great example of calorie value. The "basics" consist of large amounts of typical food storage items: Rice, beans, wheat, honey, etc. And it rounds out to be about 788 calories per dollar (920 at our current sale price). That's an incredible amount of calories. Granted, these are just the basics, the bare essentials of food storage. You will want to get a few more things to round out your nutritional content. But in terms of getting your calories per person per day, at the best possible value, this is the supply.

Now, these "basics" are a great value, but also require baking and cooking from scratch. Contrast that with our Gourmet 2000. This supply is mostly just-add-water meals (Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Stew, Pasta Primavera), so even I couldn't mess it up.

Calories per dollar is pretty easy to determine. Simply divide The total number of calories in a supply (Our handy Food Storage Analyzer makes this extremely easy to determine) by the total cost of the supply.

Thinking in terms of calories per dollar has completely changed the way I look at food storage. Understanding, and looking for, the most calories per dollar will help you shop smarter when looking at all the different options on the market. For more details and tips on food storage shopping, click here.

--Chase