What does a portion cost you ?

Steveswift

Hi all,

I was searching the forum for cost per portion of home made food but couldn't find anything specific so thought that I should start one myself.

I know this is not an exact science but thought it might be interesting to find out. I seem to recall that I made bread and butter pudding at a cost of 35p a portion ( it could have been 15p a portion actually I can't remember but did price it up at the time.) I seem to recall making a pizza at just over a £1 but again a little hazy.

Having said that and to put a bit more meat on the bones so to speak, I am going to make a couple of meals tonight or tomorrow pending on family commitments and I will post a breakdown on all costs to give a price per portion PPP ! and see what you think

"Tonight Mathew I will be mainly making Irish stew and Beef Goulash" Watch this space, you may even get photos if I can suss it out.

Steve


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Steveswift

Stolen from another thread hope you don't mind


QUOTE=Glamazon;30090711]I can make a nice chilli to feed 11 people at 67p a portion. Make it the day before as it's always better reheated![/QUOTE[]

FairyPrincessk

Great thread idea! I rarely cost things out this way, but I did once when I was trying to show my OH which meals were economical and which were not. For awhile I used oven pizza as his gauge, although now he makes things much more cheaply, but it made sense to him that a meal wasn't cheap if it cost more to make than oven pizza. I would love to see costings of recipes!

BitterAndTwisted

In my home an individual portion usually costs about fifty pence

cazj80

Last night I made a sausage and rice one pot, it cost £1.56 for 4 portions, so 39p per portion

This is the recipe I used:-

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9527/fragrant-pork-and-rice-onepot

Steveswift

cazj80 wrote: »

Last night I made a sausage and rice one pot, it cost £1.56 for 4 portions, so 39p per portion

This is the recipe I used:-

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9527/fragrant-pork-and-rice-onepot

wow impressive, can't do mine tonight but deffo will tomorrow night

quintwins

The girl on this blog costs all her meals and portions (even before she was doing the living below the line challenge so it's worth a look threw)

http://agirlcalledjack.com/

Popperwell

Sometimes its more or less and depends on how much I eat or make something last over a number of meals.

Tonight I had egg and cress and tuna and cucumber sandwiches worth approx £2.50 I paid approx £1 that's 25p per sandwich. Now what would that cost if HM(which I would often do?)I have to buy cucumber, at least an egg, cress, tuna and use 4 slices of bread.

Most of my meals once the intial cost is out of the way cost me approx 50p(at their cheapest)£2(at their most expensive)but I use food that is reduced/on offer a lot.

moments_of_sanity

cazj80 wrote: »

Last night I made a sausage and rice one pot, it cost £1.56 for 4 portions, so 39p per portion

This is the recipe I used:-

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9527/fragrant-pork-and-rice-onepot

This recipe looks lovely, going to add this to my menu list for next week :beer:

cazj80

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

This recipe looks lovely, going to add this to my menu list for next week :beer:

It is really nice, I used Lidl's Lincolnshire sausages, I buy them when they are half price (74p) and I use all 8! I do drain off some of the fat from the sausages though after cooking them and before cooking the onion

joedenise

There was a spreadsheet on here for doing this some time ago. Can't remember who posted it but I have it on my PC. I can't work out how to add a spreadsheet to a post, otherwise I would add it here:( for everyone.

Denise