Time to update - so here it is.

Some things that have notably increased in price: Molasses, soy flour, brown sugar, vegetable oil, & wheat flour. A few prices have stayed the same or even gone down. Others have increased only slightly

These prices are the lowest in my neighborhood (Boston area) on a weekly basis, including a few bargains at ethnic groceries and health food stores. They do not include sale prices or any marked-down goods I might find on the discount rack. Of course, I believe in stocking up when there IS a sale, but not everyone wants to have large amounts of butter, yeast or soy flour taking up space in the freezer. (Butter goes on sale maybe 3 times a year, where I live.)

The Tightwad Gazette chart had: Price per pound, weight per cup, price per cup, price per tablespoon, and price per teaspoon. To save time, I'm only listing the price per cup or tablespoon (sometimes rounded up or down). If it doesn't say "Tb," then it means the price per cup. Since prices change all the time, the main purpose is to allow you to compare made-from-scratch foods with each other.

Why did I include powdered milk, when it's no longer a money saver? It's still sometimes NEEDED in baking (such as one granola recipe), it's useful in camping, and it can be used as a substitute for cream and condensed milk (with sugar, water and margarine). However, I only buy dented boxes of it from the discount rack. It takes 1/3 of a cup to make 1 cup liquid milk.

Eggs vary so much, I didn't include them. But...it's worth remembering that 4 jumbo eggs are equal to 5 large eggs. If you like, I can post the egg price chart later.


Baking powder 12 cents (Tb)
Baking soda 1.5 (Tb)
Brown sugar 39.3
Butter $1.50
Cocoa 7 (Tb)
Coconut 27
Cornmeal 43
Cornstarch 2 (Tb)
Cream of tartar 47 (Tb)
Honey $2.25
Im. vanilla 6 (Tb)
Liquid milk 16
Margarine 44.5
Molasses $1.99
Oatmeal 24
Powdered milk 4 (Tb)
Powdered sugar 39
Raisins 72.25
Salt 1.4 (Tb)
Soy flour 5.5 (Tb)
Vanilla 31 (Tb)
Vegetable oil: 41.5
Wheat flour 25
Wheat germ $3.32 (per pound)
White flour 15
White sugar 27.5



Lenona.