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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not to scold you but hummus is cheap and easy to make. Tahini, chickpeas, oil oil, lemon juice. [/quote]

Is it even cheaper if you buy the ingredients rather than the premade?[/quote]

Tahini is the only ingredient with a more-than-negligible cost and even that is cheap. [/quote]
Olive oil is $8+ a bottle, Tahini is $4+ a container, chick peas are $0.50 - $2.00 depending on if they are dried or canned, a lemon is around $0.50.
Total cost to make would be $13-$15 at the cheapest. Premade hummus is less than just the olive oil. Are you familiar with the concept that it costs more to be poor?[/quote]

You don't need to buy fancy olive oil and tahini to make decent hummus, though--you can buy inexpensive oil and tahini at Trader Joe's [b](and even at Whole Foods!) [/b]You can get a bag of dried chickpeas for $1, and that will make hummus for weeks.

I don't disagree conceptually with the idea that it is sometimes more expensive to buy things in quantity and/or to take the time to cook something yourself if you don't have cash on hand, but in this case you can literally buy all of the ingredients for a few dollars more than the finished product, and you get enough to make that tub of hummus many times over.

OP, if you have a working freezer, it is definitely helpful to cook and freeze food even if the recipe makes more than you and your DD will eat. That has gotten us through many tight financial stretches in between jobs. We spend far less if we make a meal plan, shop just for those ingredients, and then prep the meals all at once. It also helps to make sure we use all the leftovers, which is an area that we are not great about much of the time.[/quote]

Please stop posting in this thread.[/quote]

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