Feed the household for one week on $40. Every item shows its unit price — the real number that decides whether you're getting value. Beat the optimal basket and we'll show you what the savings become.
Unit price is just pack price ÷ pack size, expressed per 100g or per litre. Australian supermarkets must show it on the shelf label — it's the small number under the big one, and it's the only honest way to compare a 500g jar against a 1.5kg one.
But bigger isn't automatically cheaper. A bulk pack with a great unit price still wastes money if you don't use it all. The cheapest real basket is the lowest unit price among sizes that match what you actually need — which is exactly the trade-off this game makes you solve.
Prices here are illustrative and rounded, not scraped from a live store. The arithmetic works anywhere.
Checking what's actually in the cheaper pack is a different question — FoodLabelReader.com handles that one.