On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:02:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>"cshenk" > wrote in message
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>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>> > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>> >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>> >>> > On 7/23/2017 5:10 PM, cshenk wrote:
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>>> >>> > >
>>> >>>>> Exactly Terry, they try to tout it as cheaper than home cooking
>>> >>but >>> they jack the price way up and it's pretty pitiful at 8$ or
>>> >>more a >>> serving for a single meal. I can eat out for less than
>>> >>that at many >>> places.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > A protiesm starch, and veggie? Maybe a bowl of soup.
>>> > > >
>>> >>> Not talking about eating out there Ed.
>>> > > >
>>> >>> > Aside from fast food or a slice of pizza I don't know of any
>>> place >>> > around here where you can get a meal for $8. Some of the
>>> chains >>> > like Applebees and Chilis have a 2 for $20 deal, but by
>>> the time >>> > you add in a beverage and tip you are about $30+
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > >
>>> >>>>> If someone here can't make a healthy meal for 3$ per person,
>>> they >>>>> probably need to learn cooking/shopping skills. Fancy
>>> meals with >>>>> steak shouldn't run over 5$ each.
>>> >>> > >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Agree you can do a lot with $3,
>>> > > >
>>> >>> Here's some real basics. Hard NOT to find here.
>>> > > >
>>> >>> 16oz frozen veggies, birdseye, hanover hills, local store brand:
>>> >>> 5/5$ (or less), 50 cents a serving but we eat a lot of veggies
>>> > > >
>>> >>> 2lb loaf bread home made, 45cents total (18 servings or 2 cents
>>> >>> each)
>>> > > >
>>> >>> 28oz tomato canned (stewed, crushed, sauce etc) 1-1.25 each (sales
>>> >>> constant). Generally 7 servings at abut 20 cents each.
>>> > > >
>>> >>> Pasta (maybe 5cents) with 5.99lb shrimp (4oz each for 1.50 each).
>>> >>> 2.25 each unless I missed something.
>>> > >
>>> > > 5 cents for pasta? I can't even make it for that. Not even with
>>> > > cheap white flour. Prices must be far cheaper where you live.
>>> >
>>> > Need to look a little harder then Julie. Barilla is on sale here
>>> > every 2 months at 5/5$ for a 1lb box (limit 10). Other store
>>> > brands are .67 for 2lbs and that's 33cents a lb. At 4oz each you
>>> > get 8cents a lb but we eat less than 1/4LB pasta each at a meal. 5
>>> > cents is about right.
>>>
>>> Nothing is that cheap here. Even if that price is right for Barilla,
>>> that would make it $1.00 per box. I never buy Barilla because it may
>>> contain eggs, which I can't have. Plus I don't like their policies.
>>> But assuming that price is true, there would have to be 20 servings
>>> in a box to make it 5 cents per person. The past that I buy usually
>>> has 4-6 servings per bag or box. Sometimes 8 servings. Cheap pasta is
>>> not something I'm interested in. I like quality pasta. I do look for
>>> good prices. I can get good stuff at Costco and Big Lots. I know I
>>> could get really cheap macaroni if I bought a huge bag or even bulk,
>>> somewhere. And I suppose I might do that sometime if I were feeding a
>>> crowd. But if I'm eating it, I want the good stuff. I grew up on
>>> cheap, overcooked pasta. Ick.
>>> >
>>> > I'll add that rice noodle in bulk runs about 3cents and would be
>>> > more common here as a 'pasta'. If it helps, the Barilla would be
>>> > about 20cents.
>>>
>>> If you want to buy a Costco sized package of Ramen or you get a good
>>> deal at Big Lots, you might come out to 5 cents per serving. But
>>> Ramen isn't what we eat.
>>>
>>> For as much as I do like a good deal, my life isn't all about cheap.
>>> But I noticed that you keep changing your prices. So no clue what
>>> those prices relate to. I had assumed per serving.
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>> Julie, .67 for 2lbs pasta is .33 per lb now split that 6 portions.
>> 5cents a portion.
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>Barilla says that two oz. is a serving. Two oz. cooks up to about a cup. A
>cup is a serving for a person who doesn't have diabetes. 1/2 is the diabetic
>serving. That being said, I have NEVER seen a any kind of pasta for 33 cents
>per pound. Let me check the Costco and Sam's prices.
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>Costco wants $17.79 for a 2 count pkg. of 10 pounds of pasta. So $17.79 for
>20 pounds. That's 88 cents per pound.
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>Sam's wants $5.68 for 6 pounds. That's 94 cents per pound.
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>Cheapest thing at Safeway is $1.00 per pound. Rice noodles are more
>expensive than any of those. So let me try Uwajimaya...
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>At Umajimaya, Rice Vermicelli is $1.49 for 300 grams. Rice sticks are $1.79
>per pound. Those are the cheapest prices.
>
>Pray tell where do you find ANY pasta for 33 cents a pound. Cuz it sure
>isn't here.
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>> Next up rice noodle is not ramen. Not even related. Among other things
>> it's made of rice. 1.57 gets you a 16pack at 10 cents each and each
>> feeds 3 normal people for a starch.
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>I know that rice noodles are not Ramen. But Ramen is the cheapest noodle
>that I've ever seen.

A packet of ramen contains 3 ounces, so it comes to about the same
price as pasta.
When I make a pasta dish for the two of us I cook the entire pound but
it's enough for four portions, depending on accompaniments. The only
times I cook less than the entire pound is for soups, that's when I
weigh it so 8 ounces remains in the box for the next soup. And
several pastas are packaged at 12 ounces, egg noodles too, that's when
I buy 3 packages and I may weigh out 8 ounces for two portions... so
it suffices for three times. Weighing noodles is about the only use I
have for a kitchen scale, and only because I can be anal about
equalizing pasta... everything else I eyeball.
I usually buy Ronzoni, that's the brand that the market in town has 10
for $10 sales, but I don't need to buy ten for the sale price but I
usually do. Of late the one pasta shape that seems to have
disappeared from market shelves is alphabets, I like those for soups