Eating well for less
Gah! I keep forgetting that LJ is still a thing!
Anyway, I figured I'd share this with all of you who are still here...about as many as you can fit in an average phone-box, then.
Last night I cooked myself an actual meal for dinner, which is not unusual I grant you. What is slightly less unusual is the amount of people who say that they "can't afford" to eat like I do.
Really?
This is what I cooked for myself last night:
That's two pork steaks with blue cheese and apple-sauce, braised cabbage, fried onion, mashed potato and a little gravy.
If you think it cost me a lot in ingredients, it didn't.
Pork: £1.25
Potato: £0.12
Onion: £0.09
Cabbage: £0.52
Gravy: £0.90
Cheese: £0.80
(All these were bought at Tesco)
In the case of the gravy and the cabbage, the price quoted was for the whole lot and, as I only used a little of each, there's more left for other meals.
The cheese was £2.00 for a pack of 5 slices, which works out at £0.40 a slice. I used two, hence £0.80.
The pork is trickier as it was part of a "any 3 [packs of meat] for £10 deal". However, had I bought the pack of 8 pork steaks on it's own it would have cost me £5, which works out as £0.625 per steak and so two would cost £1.25.
And that's the without allowing for the price adjustment of the aforementioned deal.
So in total, even if the meal contained the entire cabbage and gravy sachet, it would still only come to a grand total of...
£3.68
That's only £0.08 more than the Tesco stone-baked pizzas I like and most likely a damn-sight better for me, not to mention more filling.
A Medium Big Mac meal at McDonald's costs £4.69, for the record.
I know I didn't include the apple-sauce in the above calculations but that's because it only cost £0.55 for the jar and, considering I only used 2 teaspoons (one for each steak), then the overall effect on the grand total would only be a few pence, tops.
The point I am making is that you don't have to spend a lot to eat well if you use a little savvy.
Anyway, I figured I'd share this with all of you who are still here...about as many as you can fit in an average phone-box, then.
Last night I cooked myself an actual meal for dinner, which is not unusual I grant you. What is slightly less unusual is the amount of people who say that they "can't afford" to eat like I do.
Really?
This is what I cooked for myself last night:
That's two pork steaks with blue cheese and apple-sauce, braised cabbage, fried onion, mashed potato and a little gravy.
If you think it cost me a lot in ingredients, it didn't.
Pork: £1.25
Potato: £0.12
Onion: £0.09
Cabbage: £0.52
Gravy: £0.90
Cheese: £0.80
(All these were bought at Tesco)
In the case of the gravy and the cabbage, the price quoted was for the whole lot and, as I only used a little of each, there's more left for other meals.
The cheese was £2.00 for a pack of 5 slices, which works out at £0.40 a slice. I used two, hence £0.80.
The pork is trickier as it was part of a "any 3 [packs of meat] for £10 deal". However, had I bought the pack of 8 pork steaks on it's own it would have cost me £5, which works out as £0.625 per steak and so two would cost £1.25.
And that's the without allowing for the price adjustment of the aforementioned deal.
So in total, even if the meal contained the entire cabbage and gravy sachet, it would still only come to a grand total of...
£3.68
That's only £0.08 more than the Tesco stone-baked pizzas I like and most likely a damn-sight better for me, not to mention more filling.
A Medium Big Mac meal at McDonald's costs £4.69, for the record.
I know I didn't include the apple-sauce in the above calculations but that's because it only cost £0.55 for the jar and, considering I only used 2 teaspoons (one for each steak), then the overall effect on the grand total would only be a few pence, tops.
The point I am making is that you don't have to spend a lot to eat well if you use a little savvy.