I recently began tracking my expenses and have been able to see how much money I spend on eating out. My challenge is to see how many days I can go without buying any food that is not part of my groceries. No running to the burrito shop on lunch breaks, stopping for a slice of pizza on my way home, or dining out. For now I will see how many days I can go, and establish a solid goal later. I'll use this blog to motivate and tally the days. I hope to post pictures of good meals that I make, online coupons that I find, and things that I learn!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Day seven


(This post is for yesterday) Today's eat-at-home creation is the pesto-spinach-grilled-cheese-goodness-sandwich. All ingredients from bulk quantities at Costco. Ok, this is a little obsessive, but I wanted to see how much this sandwich cost me to make when I price it out, compared to a similar sandwich at a local restaurant. Here is the itemized prices of this sandwich, (some ingredients are a rough guess).

2 slices whole wheat bread: $0.24
2 slices muenster cheese: $0.44
Tbs. pesto $0.05
half a handful of spinach: $0.05
Tbs. canola oil (for pan): $0.03

Cost of sandwich at home: $0.81
Cost of sandwich at restaurant: $5.95

That's $5.14 more just to have someone make a sandwich for you!

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