Re: Food Checkout Week

In article <ddfr-591733.12044206022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>If they were referring to a minimum cost full nutrition diet, the 
>relevant week would be in January.

Really?  Would you happen to have a url to a site that specifies
what's in this "minimum cost full nutrition diet"?  Until I
looked up at the header, I thought this post was from Keith, who
AIUI subsists almost entirely on dry cereal, certainly never
eats anything that requires refrigeration (whereby he reduces his
power bill), and doesn't seem to grasp that everyone else
doesn't/can't/won't do the same.

 My guess is that "average American" 
>is simply averaging over the actual expenditures of Americans, but I 
>wouldn't be surprised if they are only counting groceries, not 
>restaurants, or if for the restaurants they only count the cost of the 
>ingredients.

That's what I meant by my post a bit upthread, where I pointed
out individual differences in what people eat, where they buy it,
how often and where they eat out, etc.

For a take way out in another dimension, see

www.sunset.com/pollan

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]