Monday Night Chicken

Cost analysis-
Chicken thighs and legs 3 packages @ $1.30/pkg=$3.90
Apricot Glaze (jar of apricot preserves $1.69+bottle of Western Dressing $1.97+1 envelope dry onion soup mix .40= $4.06. I should have only used 1/2 of preserves and dressing, live and learn!)
1 bag of frozen stir-fry veggies .79
Rice- I'm going to just say the rice cost .25. because that will give me a nice even grand total amount. We buy it in bulk and I'd have to go figure it all out and I don't want to but I know its just probably pennies per serving.
Grand total= $9.00
Cost per person= $1.80

It would have been much less if I would have halved the glaze ingredients. I poured alot of it down the drain afterwards. I wouldn't have thought that the glaze would cost more than the meat.

And just for fun, I was playing around with the photoshop.

Sunday Night Supper (posted on Monday morning)

I'm running behind, as usual. Here is what we had for supper Sunday night (last night)-





Pizzas- on sale $4/$10
(1 cheese, 1 supreme, 2 4-meat)
Salad- .79 (aldis)
Total $10.79
Cost per person $2.16

I know I could go ahead and make pizzas from scratch for less money and they'd probably be healthier too. I could, but I don't. Frozen pizzas and salad is one of my super-quick-and-easy meals that I like to do when I just don't feel like cooking up a storm. Frozen pizza's bought on sale are still a much cheaper option than picking up the phone and having pizza delivered.

I didn't count beverages, the kids had Kool-aid, grown-ups drank water. I also didn't count the salad dressing, croutons or bac-o's that we sprinkled on our salads. I'm sure that would add a few more pennies to the price.

Typing all this up just made me realize I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer to thaw for tonight's supper. See, I told you I'm always running behind.......

St. Patty's Day Sustenance

Corned Beef-$6.63
Cabbage-$2.29
Red Potatoes-$2.45
Carrots-.99
Meal Total-$10.27
Cost per person-$2.54

I had lots of veggies left over, I could have gotten away with only making half of them. That would have taken the price down quite a bit. Ah well, live and learn. Now what to do with the recycled veggies! :)

Goodwill had half-price Saturday today.
I bought 9 new shirts, 2 jumpers and 2 skirts for $23. I think I am going to ebay one of the skirts. Its an Oilily and it doesn't fit. :( That brand name seems to do pretty well on ebay, so I may just try my hand at selling. It cost me all of $1.50, surely I can recoup that!

I could have bought even more tops. I really needed some spring/summer tees, so those were a good find at $1.50 each. Skirts were $1.50 each and the jumpers were $2.50. Sometimes I can walk out of that store with the mother load and sometimes its nada. I love a good thrifting day!

Fish on Friday

Inspired by the Iron Chef Moms challenge running all this past week at Like Merchant Ships and MotherLoad, I decided I am going to spend the next couple of days doing my own cost analysis on my family's supper dishes.

Tonight was
Fish Almondine
Black Bean Compote
Buttered Noodles

It came to approximately $10.75, that fed the 5 of us, full. With leftovers. I have a couple of fillets left that I'm saving for a chowder later this weekend, about half of the beans and noodles that we can eat for lunch tomorrow or the next day. That totals out to $2.15 a plate, not counting the leftovers.

It breaks about like this, keeping in mind that I threw the fish wrappers away so I'm going off memory. I also didn't count EVERYTHING, seasonings, a slosh of olive oil, etc.

Fish- $6.50 (pollack that I bought on sale and froze. I don't remember how much it was or how much I'd bought. I had 5 packages of it and they were all priced at about $1.25 or $1.30 each, so thats just a guess-timate)
Almond topping-$1.00
Noodles- $1.00
Bean Compote- $2.25
(can of black beans .67
can of green chilies .66
can of diced tomatoes .50
butter, garlic clove, lime juice aprox. .25