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 müesli.
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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