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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so painful to read, I can't do it. Can someone tell me if anyone suggested OP get a Costco membership because it'll more than pay for itself over the cost of a year? Because that would fit perfectly with the hummus recipes.[/quote]

Comparing apples and oranges.

Learning to make a food you enjoy and eat frequently, very cheaply (from shelf stable items), is a frugal way to live.

Buying a Costco membership for a small family is generally not.[/quote]

A quick bit of price comparison at Safeway shows that if I bought a brand that's on sale, I could buy a tub of hummus for less than a quarter of the price of buying the ingredients to make hummus. I'm glad you've been fortunate enough to never be a place where an extra ten dollars on groceries in a week would actually break your budget, but for a lot of people that is their reality. $3 for a tub of hummus on sale can be squeaked out far more easily than an extra $14 to buy the ingredients, even though the latter would make more financial sense in the long run.[/quote]

The difference is the $14 of ingredients will buy her two months worth of hummus, instead of a little container. I also don’t quite buy the $14 of ingredients, because hummus only needs dried chickpeas, lemon juice, tahini/ sesame seeds  (or peanut butter), garlic, spices, and cold water. I make hummus weekly and don’t use a stitch of olive oil, but even so..

$5-7 of ingredients coulead give me weeks of hummus.

Many ingredients could also be used to make other health meals, like the chickpeas in Chana Masala. Add the chickpeas into some kind of vegetable curry to up the protein. The olive oil could be used for MONTHS in other recipes, including more hummus. Lemon juice flavours water, gets used with the olive oil as salad or vegetable dressing. Tahini makes an awesome dressing or marinate for other cheap protein sources like tofu, as well.

$5 of flour and $1 worth of yeast yields a lot of bread.

I don’t think everyone is being as tone deaf as they’re being accused of. I had a point in my life that I was so poor I was living on bacon bit sandwiches,canned vegetables,  and ramen. I was homeless for a time. You learn quickly that most of the “splurges” people have can easily be made at home. Middle eastern and Indian food are amazing for people on a budget, as they are legume and whole grain heavy; hummus is no exception, so I’m not sure when it got to be some kind of splurge. I’m long past those years, but I still make a batch of hummus every week: something like .69 for a can of chickpeas, $1-2 for bulk sesame seeds (or a few tbsp. of peanut butter- maybe $1?) and maybe 0.20 of lemon juice, and .15 in garlic and spices? My recipe doesn’t use olive oil.

OP, I know this thread has gotten horribly off topic with the hummus discussion, but I think the point is, hummus doesn’t have to be a luxury ruined my MLP.

Please, find the community resources that you can utilize. You don’t have to go without shoes.[/quote]

I'm sure OP had oodles of time as she's trying to make ends meet to start researching middle eastern recipes she may have no familiarity with and that her child may not be willing to eat. When you can't afford to throw away food, you don't have the luxury of trying new recipes that people may end up not liking. You stick with familiar standbys you know won't go to waste.[/quote]

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