I have high hopes for today’s recipe 🙂
It’s also Meat-Free Monday over at Chez Wright…
Despite the UK embarking on a mini-heatwave, I stuck with my guns and made my favourite slow-cooked soup. How could I not do a comparison on my signature dish?
SimplyBeingMum’s Carrot and Ginger Slow Cooked Soup – Serves 4
Ingredients + Cost
- Approx 7 (1lb/500g) Medium/Large Carrots = £0.50
- 1 Onion = £0.15
- 8oz (200g) of Dried Red lentils = £0.35
- 2 cubes of Frozen Crushed Ginger = £0.13
- 1 Vegetable Stock Cube = £0.08
- 1 Large spoon (approx a heap tablespoon) of Curry Paste = £0.20
- Blackpepper = £ Negligible
- Hot Water = £0.00
Total for 4 Large Servings = £1.41 (£0.35 per serving)
Now the same rules apply as yesterday – this recipe probably (definitely) isn’t made up of the cheapest ingredients. Frozen Ginger isn’t the cheapest way of adding ginger, but for me is more economical long-term as it is frozen. It’s also more convenient and labour-saving. The curry paste I know could be purchased cheaper from another supermarket as they do own-brand, I use Pataks Paste as I use it for my other dishes, equating to less storage and using up the paste etc… I acknowledge that using a paste and stock cube technically means this dish isn’t from scratch, more half scratch?
It’s also going to be hard to find an exact match to my soup. So for this comparison I will select the closest I can find. It will be a quality soup as I believe my soup is of great quality, texture, sustenance and flavour.
There are a lot of fresh soups to choose from, and I can see why. It makes commercial sense without a doubt to a food retailer. I have selected to take the average of two different soups to compare the price.
1. Sainsbury’s Dhansak Soup 600g at £2.20 (contains toms, squash and lentils)
2. Sainsburys Carrot and Coriander 600g at £1.70
An average of £1.95 per 600g which I believe is 2 servings so £0.98 per serving.
I knew my soup wouldn’t let me down!
SimplyBeingMum’s Soup £0.35 per serving
Sainsburys Soup £0.98 per serving
(And I bet mine tastes better!)
Add to this the very large 2/3 white 1/3 wholemeal baps I made and there’s a meal for under 50p per person.
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