This is a chuck roast, potatoes, carrots and onions simmering for our evening meal. The total cost of what is in the pot is $8.22. Chuck roast* is on sale this week at Harris Teeter for $3.47 per pound. This roast weighed 2 lbs and 2 oz bringing the cost to $7.39. There is a pound of potatoes ($0.23), one onion ($0.30) and one pound of carrots ($0.30). A typical serving of meat is 4 ounces, so this should yield 8 servings making the per serving cost of the meat $0.92. The side items should also yield 8 servings. so the entire meal is valued at $1.03. Add some green beans, which are $0.16 per serving and we have one of our favorite meals. We have been quite pleasantly surprised that we have been able to enjoy many of our favorites during this time.
*We purchased a side of beef about a year ago about $2 per pound, so the roast literally cost us just over $4. We fully realize that families using SNAP could not afford to spend several hundred dollars for a year+ worth of beef. In the interest of being as realistic as possible, we used the current grocery store price as we have for all of the beef used during this challenge.
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