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[quote=Anonymous]It is cheaper.

ie: your mac and cheese example using the recipe I use:

8 oz box of pasta
2.5 cups of milk
2 cups of cheese (we only use one kind - typically colby jack)
2 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon ground mustard
2 tablespoons of butter
1/4 cup breadcrumbs

That's for a pan that contains around 4-6 servings for a lot less then $6

You don't use an entire bottle of milk or a whole jar of spices or an entire stick of butter - only parts. And what's left you use in other recipes. If its something like cheese, you plan another recipe to use whatever cheese you didn't use up when making the mac and cheese.

You don't need to toss spices after a week. You can keep using them therefore you don't have to keep buying them at every food shop. Produce we use a combination of fresh and frozen.

An apple costs less then a bag of chips.

Another example: Roast chicken

Small chicken, butter or olive oil, salt and spices = around $5-10 (shop sales - Wegmans often has them for pretty cheap)
Potatoes and veggies for a side = probably less then 5 dollars

That's enough for dinner and lunch and possibly some leftovers for a small family. And then you can boil the chicken carcass to make stock which makes soup - just add celery, onion, spices, carrots, the leftover chicken from the carcass, and rice or noodles and you have another 1-2 meals.

Shopping sales helps and meal planning helps.[/quote]

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