Monday I cooked one and a half chicken breasts with a handful of mushrooms, half an onion and two thin rashers of bacon. I added some flour and milk to make a white sauce. I cooked enough pasta for four people and we had this for our evening meal on Monday and for lunch today.
When CHS was eating his lunch his colleague announced that the same meal could be purchased for £1 ready made so I'd wasted money making it from scratch. So I added up what I'd spent.
Chicken £1.50
Bacon 20
Onion 8
Mushrooms 23
Spaghetti. 30
Milk. 25
I haven't added in the cost of butter and flour to make the white sauce of the cooking costs but even allowing for those I think I'd still be under £4 for 4 meals and my meals are more substantial than the ready meals and a lot tastier
Scrimping and saving, ranting and raving. Past retirement age.
9 comments:
You also know what is in it, and it very likely tastes better and has less sodium than readymades. Some people are very uninformed...
Barb
Gawd...do they live on ready meals...yuck! x
I know quite a few people who have no idea what rubbish is in ready meals!
I make most of my meals from scratch too.
The other day I showed my husband the farm foods leaflet with £1 meals, I said would he like a few in the freezer for emergencies? He said 'no way I'm not eating that c**p! Says it all!
Admittedly we do have a few ready meals in the freezer, but they're from the 'COOK' range. They're not cheap, but while I was ill with flu, follwed by pleurisy and then bronchitis (which I am only just starting to recover from, on my third course of antibiotics) they were an absolute life saver!
DH can cook, but as we look after our 17 month old grandson three days a week, and he was doing that on his own as well as looking after his 87 year old dad, it would have been ridiculous to have expected a decent meal every evening too!
'COOK' frozen meals are available from their own specialist shops, and they sell a limited range in some garden centres too.
I certainly wouldn't buy any ready meals, or anything for that matter, from Farm foods, I've never walked into any of the shops, but that's because they don't look clean!
Hester, you may want to remove the spam on you Moment of panic post ...... Wendy
I do home made jam during the summer and on a Facebook group I used to be on, a young woman said that I could buy it in the supermarket for 27p when I'd said that mine cost 11p per jar ...... Obviously she'd never tried home made jam....... She said it wasn't worth the effort!!!!! ....... Wendy
Wendy obviously everything in that young woman's world comes down to money and quality and taste don't matter. How on earth could she compare home made jam to the bottomest range of 27p jam. Dopey moo.
My son’s MIL said she does not cook because it is cheaper for her and husband to go out to eat. She made it sound like this is every night! First, neither are a healthy weight, he has heart probs and money is an issue....what is wrong with this picture.
I can feed my DH and I a yummy dinner for $3.00 and this includes chicken! When I make soup, it is way less than that.
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