What's the reduction on tea?

Jsmth - is the veggie burger brand Veggie Patch? I've bought a few things from Costco from that brand - falafel, veg burger, etc - and it's all been excellent.

store bought prepared foods with all the extra unnecessary crap thats in them & the cost - thats what.

Why not make your own veggie burgers [lean ground substitutes], or your own falafal, hummus, pakora, corn chips, salsa etc & not the ever so easy prepared salad in a bag or thats in a plastic container.

BTW JSmith, I'm OK with most all foods, espically anything that I can prepare from raw ingredients - we do home made pasta & pasta sauce, not the ever so convenient pre-packaged prepared crap from the store.

But didn't we just show it to be half the cost?

Knitted?
I'm all for doing your own (within reason) but there's usually a brand available for 99c for 454g. Is it worth the effort? It's the sauce that matters surely?

yeah we do our own for special occasions but it's quite a lot of work and there are some boxed pastas that are very good. No doubt that your own is better, but it takes quite awhile and makes a bit of a mess! (Plus then at least for us we are restricted to spaghetti/linguine or lasagne/cannelloni/etc as we don't have the attachments to do shapes like penne or fusilli etc.)

On the veggie prepared with all the non-essential prepared ingredients (label in my earler link)

You said $4 for 12 oz (340g) [was that frozen when bought or did you stick it in the frezzer for use later] thats per pound $5.33 on the basis zero shrinkage from water or the additives in cooking it.

Of course you wouldn't know what the shrinkage is on that veggie pack after its cooked - or did you weigh it?

Take the lean ground beef that I buy at $2.99/lb at a cost to the prepared veggie taco mixture $5.33/Ib which I would make from fresh with zero additives.

I make my own veggie stock & veggie meat subsitute - but thats me

Maybe my maths suck on this one

On the pasta & sauce 100% every time, make what you eat today, unless its raw meat [chicken, beef, pork, goat] bought in bulk into portions & freeze.

Veg the same way, bought today - gone in one or two days max. No throw outs from my fridge

Fish bought the same day cooked & eaten, or fish into a big pot of home made fish soup, dived & frozen.

I went to No Frills for the sales, bought 2 packs of pork ribs, a family pack of chicken wings, a box of Highliner fish fingers ($7 off!) and a duck ($10.50 not on sale) and the bill was $38.50.

Add in some spuds, pasta, rice & veg - thats enough food in dinner meals for two people for two weeks.

From all of that, there is enough bones (from the leftovers or stock) to make a pot of soup

I save the tips from the wings and when I have a few cartons (and maybe a carcass [eyes the duck :-)]), I'll boil them down for stock.

I like sausage rolls.

I am doubtful I could make each patty from scratch cheaper, looking at the ingredients on a recipe to make 4 patties the can of beans and the onion alone already cost more then the entire package of 6 pre-made patties.


There are certainly some things I can make cheaper at home, but the whole mindset of it's always cheaper to make at home is wrong, take pasta, there is no way I can make the same amount of it for 99 cents which is what the dry stuff costs that we buy.

Sometimes financially it makes sense to buy pre-made.

Living in an apartment with limited kitchen space, freezer space and just space in general, cooking complicated or long meals is too difficult, time consuming, and rarely cost effective, generally better but not always, pasta making isn't my thing, anything in the store will taste better...lol

2.99 ground beef would be ideal again, on sale it's 3.99/lb here, not on sale nearly 5/lb pound.

I think that might be it. I happened to try a sample once and asked what it was, and couldn't believe it was a veggie patty...lol

Agreed, the veggie burgers were fantastic and tasted no different, they were really tasty!