We're coming into the home stretch on our Reverse Snap Challenge. By Day 5, most of the food we ate had already been sampled earlier in the week, so I didn't have to do the calculations over again. However, I did need to modify a few of them to account for the increased price of fresh milk over powdered (about 1.25 cents per cup). I also discovered that I'd used the wrong price for rye flour when calculating the price of Brian's homemade rye bread, so I went back and revised the numbers for Days 1-4 Here's our menu for Monday:
Amy's breakfast (toast and cocoa): 27 cents
Brian's breakfast (cereal with upload-ins and juice): $1.07
Lunch: the relaxation of the leftover spinach casserole from Day 1, some of the leftover pasta from Day 4, about 3/4 cup of 99-cents-a-pint blueberries from Aldi (we finished off one pint of them on Day 4, but they had been so cheap that we offered two extra), and a tumbler of seltzer (approximately 1/2 a can) with a touch of orange juice (approximately 2 oz.). Total: fifty one.6 cents.
Amy's afternoon snack: popcorn and an egg cream (39.Three cents), plus graham crackers (10.7 cents) and 1 ounce string cheese (29 cents). Total: seventy nine cents.
Dinner: a couscous salad made with a bunch of veggies from our garden. This is our first big harvest for the year: 1 medium zucchini (and one baby one that fell off the vine), two medium cucumbers, two scallions, and a small bunch of parsley. Brian modified the couscous salad recipe from The Clueless Vegetarian , substituting the zucchini for the two green peppers the recipe called for, and it came out pretty well. The other ingredients were about 6 ounces of whole wheat couscous ($2.56 a pound at the Amish market, so 96 cents), two cups of home-cooked beans (equivalent to about 1/4 pound of dry beans, or 25 cents), the juice of one lemon (50 cents at the H-Mart), 6 tablespoons of olive oil (35 cents), and about a teaspoon of cumin (I found the weight of ground cumin here, but I didn't know the price, so I used the price for coriander—$17.17 per pound—as a wild approximation and got a price of 7.5 cents). Total: $2.14, and as usual, we have plenty of leftovers.
Dessert: Same as the day gone by?Ice cream with chocolate syrup for Brian, ice cream soda for me. Total: 60 cents.
Additional snack: 2 graham crackers (10.7 cents) and 1 cup milk (20 cents). Total: 30.7 cents.
TOTAL COST FOR MONDAY: $five.69, properly beneath the restriction for these days.
TOTAL FOR DAYS 1-five: $39.Sixty 3, or about sixty three percentage of our $63 finances for the week.
One sample this is becoming pretty clear is that we spend a lot much less on days when we use a number of lawn produce. We came in under $6 on each Monday and Friday?Friday because the bulk of our dinner modified into made from lawn veggies, and Monday due to the fact dinner emerge as a potluck that we provided our manner into with a pie made from domestic-grown rhubarb. This indicates that, if we upload inside the supermarket price of our garden produce, our fashionable for the week might also become nicely over $sixty three?However it additionally is going to reveal that our garden genuinely is saving us cash, especially now that it's properly installation and we aren't placing a lot cash into it each year.
