tai pei frozen meal for under a dollar Eating Poor With Reviews and More

Tai pei beef and broccoli
$3.69 for 10 oz ($5.90 per lbs)
1 oz of beef (cooked)
3 oz of broccoli (and onion)
6 oz of rice with sauce (~.5 oz of sauce)

Homemade version

Beef
---Bottom round $4.28 per pound raw
-----7 oz reduces to 5.2 oz after cooking ~$0.37 per oz
-------$0.37 total cost for the beef in copycat recipe

Broccoli
---1.69 per pound
-----~$0.11 per oz
-------~$0.33 total cost for beef in copycat recipe

Rice
---$22 for a 50 pound bag of rice = 0.44 per pound dry
-----10 oz dry = 0.27
-------Becomes about 25 oz when cooked
---------Assuming 5.5 oz of rice (leaving .5 oz of sauce) 5.5/25 = .22
------------0.22 x 0.27 = ~.06 total cost of rice

Sauce and beef cooking
---Assume $0.20 for soy sauce, sugar and whatever sauce you put into the rice.

0.37
0.33
0.06
0.20
—------
0.96 Total cost per serving

3.69-0.96 = $2.73 savings per serving