I’ve been sitting here totaling my eats for the day and I’m doing it minus a couple of prices. After about 5 minutes of trying to figure out how much two oranges costs, I’m giving up and gonna guesstimate! I’m accurate on most things, so you’re just gonna have to deal!
Chris and I did some much needed grocery shopping yesterday. We spent about $130 yesterday, but that includes some meat we froze for Chris to use over the next few weeks AND we hadn’t gone shopping in over two weeks. But, I’d like to point out that the meat cost almost as much as our produce! Our pocketbooks would be much heavier if I could get Chris to go Veg!
Okay, let’s get this show on the road!
First up, juice! We hadn’t juiced in two weeks, and I was almost giddy as I was making this!
- 1 beet – $0.62
- 2 apples – $0.67
- 1/4 bunch kale – $0.57
- 2 oranges – $0.95
Total cost: $1.41 (for one glass)
It was hard to get back in the swing of things after a three day weekend, so breakfast was eaten at work. Plus, having to clean your house before you leave in the morning in case strangers potential Buyers are going to be touring it takes more time than I thought!
- 1 cup strawberries – $1.00
- slightly less than 1/3 cup raw walnuts – $0.44
- 1/2 cup TJs Greek yogurt – $1.00
- crappy work coffee – free!
Total cost: $2.44 The strawberries we overpaid for – they were a last minute addition to our cart on our way to the 4th of July barbeque.
I didn’t have time to make something to take for lunch, so I had my ‘ol standby $5.00 foot long, veggie on wheat from Subway.
Total cost: Duh!
My snack was another standby – Dark chocolate square from TJs. I was less hardcore as this was just the 70% dark as opposed to the 90% I’ve come to love.
Total cost: $0.40
Despite having gone grocery shopping, I was kind of at a loss as to what to do for dinner. I did a fridge and pantry round-up and found some older produce items that needed to be used before they went bad.
I broiled a diced potato seasoned with coriander, garam marsala, tumeric, and S&P. I reheated the chickpeas and red pepper with some onion in a saute pan and had the quinoa as my base. A squirt of sriracha kicked it up a notch.
- 1/2 cup quinoa – $1.00? I have no idea on this one because my kitchen scale is broken!
- 1/2 red pepper – $0.48
- 1/3 can chickpeas – $0.66
- 1/4 onion – $0.13
- 1 russet potato – $0.82
Total cost: $1.55 (I ate half and the rest will be for leftovers). Okay, even I’m impressed by that total! Dinner under 2 bucks? Hell yeah!
July 6th total: $10.80
Obviously, not bringing my lunch completely inflated my total. Also, I think I overestimated the items I wasn’t sure about, but I couldn’t say for sure. Regardless, it wouldn’t make a huge difference to my totals. Please bear with me as I start this cost analysis process!
Thanks for all the positive comments on our house! Keep your fingers crossed that we’ll have a quick and profitable sale! We have our eye on a couple of homes, but really, we have no plan! This might prove to be very interesting 
And finally, a BIG congratulations to everyone’s favorite Salad Girl! Bobby popped the question and Maggie has the nice rock to prove it! So happy for you both!
Posted by Sarah on July 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I’d say the orange prices are grossly underestimated
Maybe if you take Chris to “Food Inc.” he’ll go veg? It’s possible…
Posted by MarathonVal on July 6, 2009 at 10:45 pm
You must put so much time into calculating all of these prices you give us, but I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated!
Posted by Maggie on July 7, 2009 at 12:04 am
Aw, thanks
I love how you’re doing prices now… but if it gets to be a hassle don’t worry about it!
Posted by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on July 7, 2009 at 4:07 am
The prices are quite interesting! Things out by you are waaaaaayyyy cheaper than things here.
Posted by VeggieGirl on July 7, 2009 at 4:34 am
I’m the same way with chocolate – I prefer 80-99% cacao content.
Posted by Shelby on July 7, 2009 at 5:41 am
I’ve only gotten up to 70% dark chocolate but I’m hoping to find even darker. I haven’t even seen it anywhere!
Posted by brandi on July 7, 2009 at 6:08 am
even with the $5 footlong, that’s not bad for a day!
at least the crappy work coffee was free, right?
Posted by justine on July 7, 2009 at 6:21 am
That chickpea mixture looks yummy! Lovin the cost analysis so far. I spent about the same at the store yesterday but it included cat food, cat litter, and some toiletries.
~Justine
Posted by Rose on July 7, 2009 at 6:49 am
I like that dish you tossed together. Looks easy and really tasty – plus SUPER cheap. Wow!
Posted by ksgoodeats on July 7, 2009 at 7:07 am
Whenever I go grocery shopping with my mom our bill is HUGE and I have a mini heart attack because I’m used to just buying veggie things. Meat is outrageously expensive in comparison to other foods. I love seeing your end of the day totals though!
Posted by carolinebee on July 7, 2009 at 7:40 am
dang 10 dollas a day, nice! Love your house, I hope it gets snatched up quick like!
Posted by Yools on July 7, 2009 at 11:15 am
Yeah food cost analyses! I think I overestimate when I eyeball prices on stuff too, but even when I do, I don’t feel like its that bad. But doing all this over the last month has really opened my eyes to how EXPENSIVE eating out is! I had an omelette, some fruit and some wheat toast on Sunday at brunch – $14.00 after tax and tip! That’s 25% of my weekly (all organic) grocery budget! Eep. Doing cost analyses has been such a great learning tool – thanks for inspiring me!
Posted by Heather Eats Almond Butter on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Andrea,
I’m still so impressed with cost analysis. Eating healthy is not as expensive as I thought it was. I think my problem is all those last minute trips to the store for random items – I just need to start making recipes with foods I already have before buying more.
Best of luck with the house. I know those showings are a pain, but it will be so worth it in the end!
So excited for Maggie!
Posted by verbalriot on July 7, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Dude, publicize this shit in McDonald’s. It’s cheap as hell to be fab and healthy!
Posted by Jenny on July 7, 2009 at 2:52 pm
wait, so.. how much was that 5 dollar footlong??
Posted by Sarah on July 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm
It’s so handy to see your cost analysis! Keep up the good work!
Posted by Alison on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Love your lunch!
90% chocolate sounds great! Actually I bought some 86% Ghiradelli squares the other day. It’s been quite awhile since I had such dark chocoalte that I thought it was very bitter. I’ll enjoy it once I get used to it though.
Posted by Rebeca on July 7, 2009 at 8:25 pm
10.80 and half of that was a ‘5 doll-ah’
I’m impressed! I think that makes ’splurging’ a bit on strawberries worth it.
I can’t believe you eat 90%, 80-something and I’m done!