Updated Cost of Food Page

I’ve updated my Cost of Food page to allow you to define who is in your fam­ily. So, for exam­ple, you can say that your fam­ily has one male age 19–50, one female age 19–50, and one child age 2–3. My cost of food cal­cu­la­tor will use USDA data to deter­mine the aver­age national monthly cost of food for 4 dif­fer­ent pric­ing plans for your spe­cific fam­ily. It will graph this data and show you how the price of food has gone up and down since Sep­tem­ber 1997. Hover over the graph and you can view spe­cific pric­ing for any month.

I’ve writ­ten some code to keep this auto­mat­i­cally updated as new data is released by the USDA, and am work­ing and flesh­ing out some addi­tional fea­tures (abil­ity for the site to remem­ber who is in your fam­ily, maybe some sort of noti­fi­ca­tion when new data is avail­able, etc).

Check it out on the Cost of Food page.