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$3.00 per person. That's $12.00 for a family of four. So let's compare. Last night I made for dinner: 1) 4-pack of boneless pork chops, about $5.00 2) 1 cup
by derekp7 13y ago
$3.00 per person. That's $12.00 for a family of four. So let's compare. Last night I made for dinner:
1) 4-pack of boneless pork chops, about $5.00
2) 1 cup (2 cups cooked) yellow rice (rice with some seasonings) -- less that 50 cents
3) A couple potatoes sliced up. About 50 cents worth of potatoes (got the 10 lb bag for 5 bucks)
Browned the meat, put the rice in a skillet, cut up meat and put it on top, put potato slices on top of that, covered and baked for 45 minutes. Total prep time, 5 minutes, cost about 6 bucks. Feeds family of four, and had leftovers.
Some other recipes include things like a ham and noodles w/ cheese casserole (egg noodles, and a ham steak cut up on top), for around $6 to $7 or so; beef stew -- $4 to $6 for the stew meat, plus $1 - $2 for a bag of frozen mixed veggies and a couple potatoes; and variations on chicken fried rice, and even fajitas are all less than $10 a meal. Actually, the fajitas can go up to $15 if you get beef instead of chicken. And these all feed a family.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoI wonder why nobody ever counts the cost of the electricity/gas they used when they talk about how cheap they were able to cook a meal.
- iand 13y agoFor the same reason they don't count the cost of refrigeration of soylent
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoSoylent does not require refrigeration.
- iand 13y agoAn earlier commenter mentioned that he/she found it unpalatable unless it was cold
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoIf we are talking about refrigerating the left overs then that would be after the fact. Lots of meals that people cook will need to be refrigerated if there is left overs. I think that is a wash. The Soylent itself does not require refrigeration.
- dustcoin 13y agoNo one talks about it because the cost is negligible. Running a 1.5kW stovetop full blast for an hour costs 19 cents at the average electricity price in the US.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoSo costs get included when they reach a level somewhere greater than 19 cents but less that 50 cents. Got it. Thanks.
- untog 13y agoGiven that he wouldn't have been running it for anywhere near an hour, nor at full blast, it's not 19 cents either. Do you pay for shipping for Soylent? Because that's already going to cost more than cooking multiple meals.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoYou may have missed the part where he said after browning the meat he baked it for 40 minutes. That is pretty near an hour. But I can't say what level it was being run for that near hour. And shipping is included in my Soylent order.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoI don't really understand the downvotes. The person that talked about the meal they cooked listed items that were "less than 50 cents" as being important enough to list the cost of. However it seems that 19 cents is not important enough to list the cost of. Am I missing something that makes my statement factually incorrect and worthy of a downvote? or do people just not like the facts?