Find out what cooking at home really costs
Posted
Dec 13 2007, 07:09 PM
by
Karen Datko
If you make a coffee cake, the cost of the ingredients in one slice is just 8 cents. How do we know this? Sense to Save has prepared a recipe cost calculator. File this away under "cool tools." In an example, she demonstrates how to figure out the cost of ingredients for tacos for two people. It's only $2.47. That doesn't include the cost of using the stove or your labor. (In our case, it's free. No one is paying us to be a chef.) She also provides her weekly dinner menus and the cost of each.
As another aid, Sense to Save directs us to the Food Stamp Nutrition Connection, where you can find the cost and nutritional benefits of more recipes. She also charts her savings at CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens after using coupons and rebates. The results are impressive. And if that weren't enough, this blogger snagged an interview with B.J. Clute of Erie, Pa., declared "America's Biggest Cheapskate" after winning a contest at Ollie's Bargain Outlet.
