Using New York's calorie-disclosure regulation to get the most for your money.

The overall winner in our survey in the Pizza Hut Meat Lover's Personal Pan Pizza, at a price of $4.09 for 890 calories. Prices do vary somewhat: We sighted the same pizza at $4.59 at a second Pizza Hut, which would put it only in the middle of the pack. A number of choices cluster below that in the 200-calories-per-dollar range. Burger King's (BKC) Double Whopper stands out. It's basically tied for the No. 2 spot with Taco Bell's Fiesta Taco Salad but clobbers it in the protein count with 53 grams.

The good old Big Mac is a mediocre deal. It's got what by contemporary standards is a very modest 540 calories, putting it closer to Subway's Footlong Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sandwich from the chain's low-cal menu than to many other options. In fact, you can have a sit-down meal with IHOP's 1,535-calorie chicken fried steak and eggs and do about as well as with the Big Mac.

The new Bacon Cheese Angus Burger did much better. It comes in at the upper end of the range, and is, in addition, an excellent burger. It's been tested in New York and other cities for a while and is now getting rolled out nationwide. I was hoping very much it would win in the value category. It doesn't, but if price is your main but not sole concern, it deserves special consideration. Three of those will nicely fill the daily caloric needs of a teenage boy.