Sunday, July 20, 2008

Dog Food Continued

This is how I arrived at a price for the homemade food. It occurs to me that I could probabaly find some less expensive meat and mess with the proportions a bit to bring the price down.

Homade Raw Diet Costs
IngredientsPoundsPrice per poundTotal cost for 8 pounds of food
70% Beef5.6$2.99$16.74
10% potatoes0.8$0.60$0.48
10% squash0.8$1.50$1.20
10%broccoli0.8$1.50$1.20
Totals8$6.59$19.62

1 comment:

K said...

Dear God, that, that is a beautiful chart. It attains a sublime chart-ness, the Platonic form of being a chart, the Zen of chart. Thank you, L, for bring those neat lines! the even columns! the perfect width! to the interwebs.