How much did your supper cost you today

amother

Jade

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 10:22 pm

2 adults, 4 eating kids. That hardly eat.
3.42 for my ground meat (I got it on sale for 1.99/lb!)
1.50 leftover mushroom barley soup
$1 knish dough from scratch
$1 half a Jar of pickles
$2 canned fruit
Drinks =tap water
Total $9

Yesterday
$4 Gnocchi dish with vegies
$1 cut up apples
$3 tuna patties
$1.25 half a bag of french fries

$9.25 total

amother

Emerald

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 10:35 pm

bigsis144 wrote:

$1 box of taco shells
$1 bag of lettuce
$5.99/lb ground beef x 1 lb
$1 can of beans
$1 can of tomatoes x 2
$0.50 taco seasoning
——
$11.50 dinner for 2.5 adults (I’m pregnant and hungry) + 1.5 kids (one kid is only eating the taco shells 🙄)

+ leftover zucchini soup from two nights ago

Bshaah tovah! Feel good!!!

DVOM ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:01 pm

I know what we ate, but I have no idea what it costed. How are you guys so good at calculating all this??

Here is my best guess. Maybe someone can help me get a more detailed calculation:

4 kids: ricotta pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes:
half a container of ricotta cheese - 2$
2 eggs- 25 c
Half a bottle of milk (some in the pancakes, some they just drank)- 2.50$
11/2 c oatbran and flour- 2$ (???? I really have no clue how much this costs)
1/2 c chocolate chips- 50c
1 small can pumpkin- 2.50$
I think that comes out to a bit less than 10 dollars. Some of my boys ate some cheese slices and grapes too. let's say 11 dollars.

Me: 1 slice Ezekiel bread, 1 1/2 eggs, half an oz of cheese, 1 Larabar, a tablespoon a mayo. I have no idea how much this actually costs. I'm estimating around 3-4$ with the most expensive item being the Larabar, which I got in bulk for about 1.20$

amother

Amethyst

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:21 pm

We had chicken and green beans. (Usually there would be a salad

Chicken- $10
Green beans- $3
Soy sauce and mince garlic- $1

Adding a salad would be

Lettuce- $.75
1/2 cucumber- $.5
1tomato or 1/2 container cherry tomatoes $.5
Avo- $.75

We only drink water
So dinner would be $16.50

Let’s say I would add brown basmati rice.

1 cup rice- $.70
1 onion diced- $.20
Celery diced- $.50

So dinner with chicken, green beans, salad and rice would be $18 for 4 kids and 2 adults including every ingredient but spices and oil and vinegar. So let’s say $1 for all of that. Which is way less than what it is. But definitely under $20.

↑ mandr ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:25 pm

amother wrote:

mandr: What a terribly judgmental and incorrect thing to say! It is not DISGUSTING to eat leftovers from Shabbos on Wednesday. I remember a poll years back regarding what people do with leftover chulent. A high percentage threw it out. THAT disgusted me. I purposely make extra chulent so that I can serve the leftovers the following Friday nite. It is actually my favorite part of the meal. (I serve it as the appetizer.) Even my youngest who does not care for the chulent on Shabbos, enjoys it reheated the following Friday nite. NEWSFLASH: I have been doing this for over 20 years and no one has gotten sick yet.

That is not judgemental at all. It's no different from eating a petri dish of bacteria. And that's not only gross, but unsafe as well.

So the people who store cholent from week to week (reminds me of the bracha in Chaya Sara with the challah dough!), do you freeze it? Honestly I cannot even stomach the thought of defrosting cholent.

NEWSFLASH: If you do something unsafe for years, that does not mean it is safe! My friend has been driving without a seatbelt for over 50 years and he's alive, does that mean it's safe? My relative is a heavy smoker and is alive, does that mean that smoking is perfectly safe?

When you reheat so many times you keep reintroducing bacteria each time it undergoes a heating and cooling cycle. So you cannot reheat soup or cholent or anything else five times and say "oh it's reheated so it's safe".

amother

↑ Honeydew ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:31 pm

mandr:
1) I keep the leftover chulent in the coldest part of my fridge and reheat it one time - for the following Friday nite. It is not a petri dish of bacteria. It is delicious food. Unfortunately, there is so much food thrown out now-a-days. So much ba'al tashchis that goes on.

2) It is ridiculous to compare eating this hundreds and hundreds of times to not wearing a seat belt. Seat belts save lives when there are accidents. If there was no accident (you hitting someone/something or someone hitting you) and you didn't have to stop short for something, you wouldn't need the seat belt. The fact that no one in my family has ever gotten sick from it, proves it is not dangerous to thoroughly reheat chulent that was put away 6 1/2 days prior.

gold21 ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:32 pm

A box of pasta jumbo shells ($3?)
A 32 oz pack of frozen spinach ($10?)
Three jars of marinara sauce ($3 each?)
One container ricotta cheese ($6?)
Half a pack of mozarella cheese ($3?)
Two foil pans (30¢ each?)

I literally have no clue about the pricing of these items. Im not good with these things. Lol.

Basically, I made stuffed shells, some with spinach, some with spinach & cheese, and some with ricotta, all with marinara sauce over it.

Probably cost a bit of money, but I'm glad they ate it and enjoyed it. b"H.

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↑ ra_mom ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:49 pm

amother wrote:

13 people
3 pounds shnitzel 12$
3 cups rice 2$
String beans 1.5$
Salad 2$

How do you spend $1.5 on green beans for 13 people and $2 on salad?
I buy 1.25 pounds of green beans for 4 people at a cost of about $4.
What's in a $2 salad for 13 people, is it hand shredded seasoned carrots?

↑ doodlesmom ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:57 pm

Amother who likes reheated chulent- why don't you make your chulent Thursday overnight or whatever and reheat it Friday for Friday night and shabbos morning- you have the same great taste without the ick factor.

Not sure if you have dils yet, but I can just see them complaining on imamother that their mil serves week old chulent....

amother

↑ Denim ↓

Wed, Nov 14 2018, 11:58 pm

ra_mom wrote:

I buy the green beans from Costco for about 1$ a pound I used about 1.5 pounds. Not everyone eats it. Salad was also romaine lettuce from Costco. 4$ for the package. I used about 1/2 a package and 1 pepper. So it was probably 3$ + the dressing

amother

↑ Denim

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 12:08 am

doodlesmom wrote:

How can 13 people eat 3 lbs schnitzel and get full?????
And where do you get such cheap cutlets?

I got the cutlets on sale in seasons in Lakewood. It wasn't 13 adults some were kids that only ate 1 peice. 2 don't eat shnitzel at all. I actually have a few peices leftover and everyone was full

amother

cornflower ↓

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 2:32 am

Made meatballs & rice for 6 adults + 8 kids (who eat a lot). Under $35, but not enough food.

- $20 ground beef (about 3.5 lb)
- $2 duck sauce
- $2 canned green beans
- $4 - 7 cups jasmine rice
- $1 tortilla chips
- $1 salsa

Not counting the eggs, oil, spices.

Totally not enough food. I'm really bad at this. embarrassed

amother

Bronze

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 3:20 am

Wow! Wish we had such sales here in austrlia.
I think we average about $15 - $20 a night for the protein.
Ground beef is about $20 a kg on sale, chicken breast is more than that. Chicken thighs about $14, chicken wings a bit less I think.
The only 'meat' cheaper than $10 per kg is sausages. We usually have that about once a week, so it helps bring down the average Wink

(good sausages made with ground meat or chicken). When I use ground beef to make a meat sauce or meat balls I can usually use it for two nights dinner. But if we have ribs or chops it's over $30 per kg.
Salmon is $20 - $25 a kg and even cheese is $17 - $18 per kg.
If I use canned salmon it's a bit cheaper, but not much.
Even the vegetables and rice are more expensive!

amother

Ecru

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 3:27 am

doodlesmom wrote:

I suspect that the type of woman who would come on here to complain is not the type of woman that commendable amother Honeydew wants as a DIL. The fact she is getting attacked on here for reheating food is disgusting.

shabbatiscoming ↓

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 4:01 am

mandr wrote:

Plus I think it’s disgusting to eat shabbos leftovers on Wednesday. It’s so unsafe. Unless it’s leftover challah or something.

Why unsafe? Im nearing 40 and have had shabbat leftovers all of my life. Im still standing and never had food poisoning.
Chicken can be in the fridge for a few days after cooked, really.

↑ shabbatiscoming ↓

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 4:15 am

doodlesmom wrote:

Not sure if you have dils yet, but I can just see them complaining on imamother that their mil serves week old chulent....

wow, talk about judging someone.
Some people like old chulent, others dont.

I remember talking to someone once who said that she loves chulent the best on wednesdays. Meaning, she also liked it heated up after it had been sitting a few days in the fridge. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes.

Why the need to judge?

↑ shabbatiscoming

Thu, Nov 15 2018, 4:17 am

our dinner was:
tuna casserole and veggies
tuna can - 5 shekels
some cheese (out of a bag that was about 20 shekels, lets say 5 shekels worth)
milk, oil, chips - maybe 5 shekels worth
veggies - maybe 2 shekels worth

So dinner was about 17 shekels worth