Frugal Meals @lemmy.world RunningMan @lemmy.world 1y ago

White Rice Is The Ultimate Frugal Food

TLDR: A 5lb bag of white rice comes out to $0.10/cup cooked.

Doing the cost breakdown for the last post left me a bit shocked at the price of rice per cup. Especially when you think of the $4.00 or more companies charge for premade rice cups.

The breakdown— Kroger sells a 5lb bag of white rice for $3.69. You can get it for $2.99 on sale but for the sake of argument let’s use retail pricing.

5lb of rice = 12.5 cups dry rice ≈ 36 cups cooked rice. Based on this, each cup of cooked rice costs about $0.10/cup cooked.

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You should see the price at Costco!
Add in some beans, which are also cheap (but no where near as cheap) and some spices and you have a flavorful meal.

A pound of pinto beans here are around $1.75 and will make a heck of a lot of food.
- Exactly! Dry beans are VERY cost efficient.
  
  Add some eggs to that and you got yourself a healthy meal for bulking up. It's not cheaper than rice, but all in all it's cheaper than proteins shakes.