Lunch
You can’t make just one sardine and avocado sandwich, so we each had one.
- An avocado is $1.49 or 75c per serve
- Lightly smoked sardines in olive oil are $1.69 per can, or 85c per serve
- Two slices of bread are 39c.
Lunch today was pretty good – it’s an Alton Brown favorite – for $1.99 per serve.
Dinner
We generally get pork chops in our Prather Ranch meat delivery: sometimes thin sometimes thick cut with bone in. Tonight was thick cut night and grilled on our (relatively) new grill.
- The pork chops average $10.47 each
- The sweet potato was $1.81, but the mash makes four serves, or 45c per serve.
- An Envy apple was $1.08 or 54c per serve
- The frozen pearl onions were $1.69 or 85c per serve
- The sparkling cider was $2.89 for the bottle, but we needed 1/3 of that for the recipe (a little less because we offset with the apple cider vinegar) or 48c per serve
- A little fresh rosemary came from our herb garden.
Every component of tonight’s meal was full of flavor. The pork chops were perfectly cooked with fat rendered soft; the sweet potato provided some carbs while the apple and pearl onion braise had an almost pickled quality about it that perfectly offset the pork. A great meal for $12.79 per serve.