Lunch
We decided to go out for lunch, for no particularly good reason. Our favorite is The Country Deli. They serve a 10 oz marinated skirt steak that is always good when cooked rare. Served with three eggs, home fries and a bread/bagel, it’s a huge meal.
Foodie Greg’s corned beef sandwich was likewise excellent, although he was thankful he ordered a half!
- Lunch at the Country Deli runs out around $20 a serve with tax and tip.
Dinner
Tonight we revisited Bacon and Black Bean Chili. Again we doubled up on the beans. This is an amazingly good chili. The recipe officially makes four serves (and that’s what I used to calculate pricing) but we find it makes six serves with the extra beans, and the ‘fixins’: avocado, sour cream, and spring onion.
- Bacon ends cost $4.99 for the container, but this recipe used about 1/2 of that, or 63c per serve
- Onion and garlic – about 5c a serve
- The beef we used is expensive – pasture raised, dry aged ground beef from our monthly meat delivery – at $8.95 for slightly over a pound, or $2.24 a serve
- Spices – about 10c a serve
- Diced fire roasted tomatoes are $2.19 the can, or 55c per serve
- Tomato past was 89c or 22c a serve
- The beans were 99c a can, or 50c a serve
- Each serve got half the 99c Avocado or 50c per serve
- Cheese was 55c per serve
- Sour cream – 20c per serve
All up dinner cost us $5.53 for a very filling serve.