Friday, February 1, 2008

How Expensive is Meat?

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.

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

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.

Unknown said...

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! ;)

huddtoo said...

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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