in experimenting with the idea of trying to work out a way to eat on a buck a meal, I was doing some calculations on food prices.\u00a0 I’d always heard beans and rice were a cheap meal.\u00a0 I often wondered about that and did the math.\u00a0 You know, if you make it from dried beans, you’re looking at about a $1.20 for a pretty filling meal. That’s figuring in onions, garlic, peppers, spices and all that smack.\u00a0 I think beans and rice are going to show up in the menu rotation a lot more often. At least, unless someone in the household complains too much.<\/p>\n
I then did the calculation on my typical breakfast.\u00a0 This wasn’t looking for sales, but simply what I got.\u00a0 I usually have steel cut oats, nuts and some sort of dried fruit.\u00a0\u00a0 The oats themselves are about .21\/serving.\u00a0 The nuts and dried fruit (if I’m not eating raisins and I usually don’t.\u00a0 Dried berries or apricots are GOOD) drive the price up to somewhere around $1.75\/serving.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I need to get my lazy ass to a bulk food store at some point because I know I can do better than\u00a0 that<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, not too bad when compared to the Starbucks liquid dess^h^h^h^h^h drinks so often favored by the rushed among us.<\/p>\n Still, it was sobering to realize that’s still<\/em> considerably over a buck a meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" in experimenting with the idea of trying to work out a way to eat on a buck a meal, I was doing some calculations on food prices.\u00a0 I’d always heard beans and rice were a cheap meal.\u00a0 I often wondered about that and did the math.\u00a0 You know, if you make it from dried beans, … <\/p>\n