CSA: Week 15, Post 2
Right now I’m eating lunch and I’m excited about how inexpensive it was to make and how delicious it is. What am I eating? I’m enjoying a bowl of chana dal with assorted vegetables. The chana dal was very inexpensive at the Indian grocer (we usually have a lot of different types of dal on hand at the house) and the carrots, tomatoes, Swiss chard, potatoes, and hot peppers used in the dish all came from our CSA share. Some non-CSA ingredients in the dish were onions (we used some supermarket onions because we had some we needed to use up) and cumin seeds (also very cheap at the Indian grocer).
Here’s how the cost of the dish breaks down:
1 cup chana dal: $0.60 (assuming a 2 lb bag costs $3 and there are 5 cups of dal in 2 lbs)
1 organic onion: $0.60 (based on the $3 price tag for the bag in the fridge)
carrots, tomatoes, Swiss chard, potatoes, & hot pepper (approx. 1/6 of one week’s share): $3.33
1 tsp cumin: $0.04 (assuming 1 tsp cumin seeds = 2g, cost of $4 for a 200g bag of cumin seeds)
Total Cost of Dish: $4.57
We each had a serving last night and I brought one for lunch today. That’s about $1.52 a serving. Not bad at all.
I have to admit we had quinoa with the dal last night, though. We used half a box of quinoa, so I guess that set us back another $1.50, or $0.75 per serving.
Here’s how the cost of the dish breaks down:
1 cup chana dal: $0.60 (assuming a 2 lb bag costs $3 and there are 5 cups of dal in 2 lbs)
1 organic onion: $0.60 (based on the $3 price tag for the bag in the fridge)
carrots, tomatoes, Swiss chard, potatoes, & hot pepper (approx. 1/6 of one week’s share): $3.33
1 tsp cumin: $0.04 (assuming 1 tsp cumin seeds = 2g, cost of $4 for a 200g bag of cumin seeds)
Total Cost of Dish: $4.57
We each had a serving last night and I brought one for lunch today. That’s about $1.52 a serving. Not bad at all.
I have to admit we had quinoa with the dal last night, though. We used half a box of quinoa, so I guess that set us back another $1.50, or $0.75 per serving.