I don't suppose this is an enormous eye opener. I'm sure there are many "dinner clubs" out there that do this. Most times my friends come here as they know I love to do the cooking plus they have different lives to deal with than I.
So tonight was one of them. A friend came over and it was basically a plain meal - just mussels, fries and some wine.
Ok I did not calculate the price of the large onion, 2 cups of tomato (from the garden, frozen) and a thai red bird chili x 2. So perhaps... add $1.50 / by 2? makes it $.75 ea.
For a single serving:-
a grand total of $$7.25 oops forgot the wine - well, I make my own to a calculated cost of approx. $4.00 a bottle. Already opened was a young Pinot Blanc, some of which went into the mussels. So we had a glass while cooking then a bottle of Muller Thurgau for the table. (she's gone home and I'm finishing the rest of the bottle so that only counts as a 1/2 bottle for the meal...
You cannot eat a huge meal like that in a restaurant for $9.25... no tip necessary but you do your own dishes.
I can honestly say we have never had a meal that has cost us over !0$ each. From Cornish Hens done in the clay cooker to Duck a l'orange, and many others. We could be just 2 or up 6 or rarely 8. Sometimes it is "assigned dishes" - bills are supposed to be kept to be totaled and divided. That was a bit of a failure as many of us didn't have the bills or "oh, don't worry about it - it wasn't much!" I sort of felt that defeated the purpose - so that idea hit the tubes.
Anybody else do something like this?
So tonight was one of them. A friend came over and it was basically a plain meal - just mussels, fries and some wine.
Ok I did not calculate the price of the large onion, 2 cups of tomato (from the garden, frozen) and a thai red bird chili x 2. So perhaps... add $1.50 / by 2? makes it $.75 ea.
For a single serving:-
$5.00 Mussels (approx 1.5 lbs each)
$1.50 Frozen McCains Fries (1/2 pkg ea.)
$.75 onion, tomato, chili
a grand total of $$7.25 oops forgot the wine - well, I make my own to a calculated cost of approx. $4.00 a bottle. Already opened was a young Pinot Blanc, some of which went into the mussels. So we had a glass while cooking then a bottle of Muller Thurgau for the table. (she's gone home and I'm finishing the rest of the bottle so that only counts as a 1/2 bottle for the meal...
You cannot eat a huge meal like that in a restaurant for $9.25... no tip necessary but you do your own dishes.
I can honestly say we have never had a meal that has cost us over !0$ each. From Cornish Hens done in the clay cooker to Duck a l'orange, and many others. We could be just 2 or up 6 or rarely 8. Sometimes it is "assigned dishes" - bills are supposed to be kept to be totaled and divided. That was a bit of a failure as many of us didn't have the bills or "oh, don't worry about it - it wasn't much!" I sort of felt that defeated the purpose - so that idea hit the tubes.
Anybody else do something like this?
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