We put forward a general procedure to obtain an approximate free energy
density functional for any hard-core lattice gas, regardless of the shape of
the particles, the underlying lattice or the dimension of the system. The
procedure is conceptually very simple and recovers effortlessly previous
results for some particular systems. Also, the obtained density functionals
belong to the class of fundamental measure functionals and, therefore, are
always consistent through dimensional reduction. We discuss possible extensions
of this method to account for attractive lattice models.Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps figure, uses RevTeX