My awesome and vegetarian friend Jennifer recently asked, "So, is meat really that expensive?"
Hm. Good question.
I bought groceries last night for the week. And then I evaluated what I had bought. And here's the breakdown.
Junk
Pop and sweets and all of my 100-calorie packs of evil
$9.03
Cats
Food, litter, litter bags - Hi, most expensive category much?
$13.62
Fruit and Vegetables
Apples, pears, cataloupe, celery, raisins, mandarin oranges
$7.65
Dairy
Milk, cheese, evaporated milk, condensed milk, butter - Yikes! We might eat a little more dairy than the normal family. Cheese is an easy, gluten-free snack so we use a lot of it.
$11.92
Grains
Cereal, corn muffin mix - We use a lot a lot a lot of rice, but we didn't need to buy any this time.
$4.98
Nuts/Beans
Peanut butter and beans, basically non-meat protein sources - We're also all stocked up on lentils and quinoa, which will appear in the menu if not on the shopping list.
$3.24
Meat
Bacon, a whole chicken, sandwich meat, hot dogs, bulk sausage.
$11.93
So, there you have it. I don't know how much this exactly tells you, except that if we were vegan, we'd starve to death.
Friday, February 1, 2008
How Expensive is Meat?
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3 comments:
Maybe this tells you its time to eat the cats? ;)
Bwaa ha ha!
So it is expensive. I never knew. I was too busy moaning over the cost of red peppers.
I totally almost made a joke about "repurposing" the cats, but thought it might be too distasteful. Glad you made it for me, ha ha! ;)
LOL about the cats, Jen!!
Interesting T. I tend to think the fresh fruits/veggies are my most costly. Unless I went with all bananas! ;) I LOVE green (well, red, orange, yellow, but green's my fave) peppers too J, but they do cost a lot!
Meat can be expensive depending on what you get. Does fish count? We eat a lot of fish here. I got just over a lb of haddock yesterday, it was $7.99 a lb (and that was on sale). So fish is even more costly, but good for you. We do chicken a lot, it's the "chipper" choice. hehe I'm so funny! ;) And again, not bad for you. You can stretch meats in soups and things, so it's all in what you do with it.
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