Monday, August 8, 2011

Today's Cheapskate Dinner -- barbeque pork sandwiches and garlic-butter pasta

I really do need to figure out the whole picture from the phone to the blog thing.  I did post the picture of part of  tonight's dinner to my other blog: http://www.wannabecheapskate.blogger.com/
We are having barbeque pork sandwiches on wheat-white hamburger buns (homemade, 2/3 wheat, 1/3 white flour) with pasta tossed with butter and garlic.  Super yummy.
The barbeque pork came from a tub -- can't take any credit here.  I just microwaved it.  Of course, I bought it on sale, as I did the pasta. 
Here's a general run-down on the price, but I'll admit to having to estimate several items:

1 batch hamburger buns: $1.50 (I tried to overestimate on the cost of the ingredients so that it doesn't seem like I'm making up numbers.  I really do have some mathematical values in place.)
1 tub of barbeque pork: $1.75 (I might be tempted to break out a second tub since the bread is so fresh and good.)
1/2 box Barilla Piccolini pasta -- $.08
Butter -- $.15

Total cost for this dinner -- $3.48.  This made 10 buns and enough meat (according to the tub) for 5 sandwiches.  If I double the meat to match the meat, this meal would cost just $5.45 to feed up to 10.  (I doubled the amount for pasta and butter, too.)  What a deal!

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