Or delivered on a pallet for about $1000/person-year: https://www.costco.com/THRIVE-1-Year-Food-Storage-31%2C500-S...

Note that that's $1000/person-year for 1300 calories per day, vs. 3000 calories on the Stigler Diet!

The diet I created and posted here is only $2,000 per year and includes fresh, nutritious foods that don't detract from your health like most of those foods loaded with carbohydrate and sugar would in your example.

Obviously they aren't comparable, I just think it's cool you could live in perfect health for a year for $2,000

(the irony of avoiding my own noprocrast settings)... For a university course, I managed roughly 600$ a year (local prices) with a (few-constraints-)diet of peanut butter and rice sandwiches. Even lower price for directly consuming spoonfuls of flour. Thus the added commentary:

- you manage what you measure (linear programming is really powerful, but also simplistic for this model)

- the human body is great at survival (general requirements are easily achievable, but surely something is wrong with the spoonfuls-of-flour approach)

Haha, the Stigler diet leaves out a couple of important items. Salt and yeast turn flour into bread, which is damn tasty. They're cheap, but not free, and should have been accounted for.

If you have a sourdough starter, then you don’t need to pay for yeast (though in my experience, I always end up pouring off excess starter, ie wasting flour).

It doesn't even need to be sourdough: you can make a starter for regular bread, too!

I mention this because I'm not typically a fan of the sourdough style, but I am a fan of starter-leavened bread.

Me too. Someday I hope to have a kitchen, life, and workflow that allows me to bake sourdough every week, but I'm not there yet.

How much would the items actually cost at today's prices, though?

Edit: Okay, I figured it myself. Around $1850 Canadian, where I live. Still works out to $153 per month, which is almost exactly what I was spending on food during my frugal student days, about 3 years ago. I ate better than the pretty boring diet described here (though not by much) and I'm also quite a bit smaller than the human described in the question. Still, it's good to know that I couldn't have done much better than I did.

Numbers and assumptions: https://imgur.com/a/udCL3

Aren't the inflation adjustments entirely based on the cost of common goods like flour?

Yes, but also a lot of non-food items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket

There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. It's tricky because some categories of goods or services didn't exist decades ago, but do now.

I'm not sure that food is so cheap anymore.