Complete dinner for 57¢
Grain, vegetables, leafy greens, and milk, under 500 calories, good nutrition, real food, whole food, good dinner for 57 cents.
In a pan:
1/4 cup barley (93¢/lb at Walmart) – 9 cents
1/2 cup water
1 stalk celery – 8 cents
1 small potato (4.5 ounces), cut up 5 cents (potatoes 1.69/10 pounds)
1/4 onion – 6 cents
1/4 cup chicken stock – 0 cents. You can use water if you don’t have stock. (The stock is virtually free if you count the cost of the whole chicken for the meat alone. )
1 oz carrot, cut up – 4 cents (carrots 50¢/pound at Aldi)
I cooked that for about 20 minutes. The entire meal took a total of about 25 minutes to make, most of that time spend doing other things in the house while waiting for the food to cook. Maybe 5 or 10 minutes actual time in the kitchen.
With that dish, I had a cup of whole milk (13 cents) and a half cup (1 serving = 12 cents) of collard greens I cooked previously and froze.
Nutritional analysis from NutritionData.com:
421 Calories; 16g protein; 9g fiber; 72g carbohydrates; Vitamin A: 281% Daily Value (DV); Vitamin C: 68%; Vitamin D: 24% ; Vitamin E: 7%; Vitamin K: 685%; Thiamin: 26%; Riboflavin: 41%; Niacin: 27%; Vitamin B6: 37%; Folate: 32%; Vitamin B12: 18%; Pantothenic Acid: 20%; Calcium: 50%; Iron: 16%; Magnesium: 26%; Phosphorus: 38%; Potassium: 38%; Zinc: 16%; Copper: 23%; Manganese: 52%; Selenium: 27%
