Updated Interactive Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) Calculator: Design a Food Plan Using Your Own Criteria for Cost and Health

Parke Wilde and Hayley Fryling

No 360911, 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: The Thrifty Food Plan Calculator is a simple Excel-based tool that allows you to create your own TFP-style model diets. The calculator uses nearly the same price, food composition, consumption, and dietary guidance data as USDA’s 2021 TFP update. After entering your model diet’s daily calorie consumption for 97 modeling categories and selecting an age-sex demographic group and cost reference period, the calculator will show how your model diet compares to the official TFP model diet in relation to daily cost, food group, energy and nutrient requirements, and distance from current consumption.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360911

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