Just like the titles says. Cooked up leg quarters, jasmine rice with rotel and onions and some baked beans. I made 2 plates, one for dinner tonight and one for lunch tomorrow. Price per serving:
Leg quarter $0.85
Rice $0.20
Rotel $0.37
Onion $0.12
Beans $0.25
TOTAL=$1.79
I got the leg quarters for $0.85 a pound at heb. 25% off discount
Rice i bought at H-Mart. $22.99 for a 25lb bag. 226 servings per bag makes a serving 10 cents. Rotel i got on sale a while back at Randalls for $0.75. Used a whole can. Onions were $2.99 for 3lbs 50 cents an onion i used 1/4 of the onion. Bean were $1.49 about a year ago. They were in the pantry and decided to make them today. Better late than never. 6 servings a can i had one so $0.25. Let someone tell me its cheaper to eat out than at home. 2 plates totalling $3.58. This is how i roll.
by fusillijhericurl
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Looks good to me! Cheap, tasty, and filling. HEB & H-Mart are my favorite stores. You must be in Texas like myself!
I’d say way under $3 for one serving
I seasoned the leg quarters in a salt water brine with herbs and garlic
2 cups water
35 grams kosher salt
1tsp thyme
1tsp herbs de provence
Spoonful of garlic
Soaked for 3hrs then dried on a wire rack in the fridge for about 4hrs
Before cooking i seasoned the chicken with a littlw black pepper and brown sugar. Cooked covered for 50 mins at 300 then uncovered for 25 mins at 350
The rice i made in a rice cooker with diced onions and a can of rotel
The beans i heated up on the stove.
FYI to those not near HEB- Walmart also has leg quarters, usually for 87cents a lb in 10lb bags
This is why BBQ became a thing. That is until people started paying $59.68 for plates like this because “it’s one of the top spots.”
What’s the total price before portioning it out and breaking down per serving?
Yes. Looks like one of my meals. I’ve been using cherry tomatoes from my neighbor’s garden in pretty much everything lately and loving it.
This looks great!
So jealous of the states food prices. On sale you’d be lucky to get 3 legs for 7$ here in canada
I buy a 10 lb pork loin for 25 dollars and butcher it down to get a couple 1 lb loins to slow roast, the ends I cube up for stews and tossing into beans, the rest become 1 inch chops, and a couple meals of 2 inch chops for stuffing. Id say we get roughly 8 to 9 meals worth of meat from that, so it comes down to 2.77 per meal worth of pork for four people.
0.69 cents per chop, but usually less than that if I pay close attention to the prices and find a deal. Gotta find deals, or else the four people I feed 6 nights a week on a thin budget wouldn’t eat.
We only go out to eat maybe once a month or every other month. Crockpot gets a lot of exercise.
Beautiful
You can also make the beans on your own if you presoak, then cook with mustard and brown sugar.
I love your placemats!