Re: only a constant factor worse than optimal

> It's well known that you can buy sufficient nutrition for a
> dramatically lower cost than a normal diet.


FWIW, we recently bought a 25 kg animal feed bag of rolled oats for  =

under 20 CHF (~110 ARS for ~400 MJ?), and, with Samuel Johnson's  =

definition in mind, tried some.

They're actually very palatable, far better dry than I remember  =

instant oatmeal ever having been.  We're tempted to take some* home  =

to use for oatmeal or m=FCesli.

How does this compare to the staples in your spreadsheet?

-Dave

PS.  Unfortunately I've lost the reference but apparently there was a  =

ca. WWI or WWII british cookbook that contained at least one recipe  =

that was called a variation of "life-sustaining glop".

* but certainly not a bag's worth. Note that for agricultural  =

purposes, this is retail, not bulk.  Bulk comes palletized,  =

(600-800kg?), and the next step up are large sacs delivered by  =

integrated truck/crane units, followed by trucks that directly load  =

small silos.  Keep in mind that although bovines and equines eating  =

hay prepared with the other species in mind will survive, they won't  =

thrive.  But I doubt oats have as many parameters as hay.  Some  =

differences between livestock and human oats (pace Johnson) seem to  =

be given by: http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/ =

content/fcp/cer/oat/oat_grain_quality.pdf

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