Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
Been eating cheap from before the COVID-9
pandemic.  Here I will contribute two
recipes:<p>(1) Pizza.<p>This pizza is good on cost and preparation
time, okay to good on nutrition (I&#x27;m
thinking mostly of calories), and, IMHO,
flavor.<p>Can make a pizza for one for about 9 cents
of flour and the whole pizza for 40 cents.<p>For the dough for 8 such pizzas, I use 650
milliliters of water, 1 kilogram of flour,
1 tablespoon of active dry yeast, and 1
tablespoon of salt.<p>For one pizza, I form the dough into a
flat circle about 8&quot; in diameter, pre-cook
in a microwave for 2 minutes, add tomato
sauce, Mozzarella cheese, and sliced
pepperoni, place on a cast iron frying
pan, add a cover, and cook at 1&#x2F;3 power on
a common, large electric stove-top burner
for 14 minutes, slice, add 2 tablespoons
of grated Pecorino Romano cheese.<p>More details at<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20666008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20666008</a><p>and the responses there maybe from some
people who assumed I was claiming to do
better than their favorite pizzeria.<p>Also more details at<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18851878" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18851878</a><p>with a cost analysis indicating that one
pizza costs 39.203 cents.<p>(2) Pork BBQ<p>At Sam&#x27;s Club I got two fresh pork &quot;Boston
Butt&quot; (shoulder) pieces.<p>One at a time, I put them on a wire
roasting rack in a big &#x27;granite&#x27; covered
roasting pan, placed in an oven at 221 F.
About 10 hours later a fast reading meat
thermometer reported that the internal
meat temperature was 195 F (I was shooting
for only about 185 F), and I declared the
meat done.<p>Meat was soft and juicy.  There was a lot
of liquid in the bottom of the roasting
pan.<p>I used a slotted kitchen spoon to scoop
the (soft) meat from the wire rack and
roasting pan into a clean plastic dishpan.
From there I moved batches one at a time
to a cutting board.<p>There was a small, thin, clean, dry
<i>shoulder bone</i>; discarded that.<p>On the cutting board, I included and mixed
in the fat still with the meat.<p>With a chef&#x27;s knife with a 12&quot; blade, made
parallel cuts about 1&quot; apart and then at
90 degrees again.  I grew up in Memphis
and there the BBQ sandwiches were from
picnic pork shoulder BBQ chopped
essentially as I did it here.<p>From the two pieces, scooped into a total
of 6 covered plastic containers, each with
2 quarts of volume.  Put 5 of those in the
freezer and the 6th in the main part of
the refrigerator.<p>Data:<p><pre><code>     Raw Weights:

          9.69 pounds

          10.14 pounds

     Costs:

          $11.41

          $11.97

     Cooked weights:

          2,466 grams

          2,810 grams

     Yields:

          100 * ( 2,466 &#x2F;
          28.3495 ) &#x2F; (
          9.69 * 16 ) =
          56.105%

          100 * ( 2,810 &#x2F;
          28.3495 ) &#x2F; (
          10.14 * 16 ) =
          61.095%

     Total cost per pound
     of cooked BBQ:

          ( 11.41 + 11.97 )
          &#x2F; ( ( 2,466 +
          2,810 ) &#x2F; (
          28.3495 * 16 ) )
          = $2.010

     Total cost per ounce
     of cooked BBQ:

          ( 11.41 + 11.97 )
          &#x2F; ( ( 2,466 +
          2,810 ) &#x2F; (
          28.3495 ) ) =
          $0.125,627
</code></pre>
One sandwich can do well with 2 2&#x2F;3 ounces
of the BBQ or costs<p><pre><code>     ( 2 + 2&#x2F;3 ) *
     0.125,627 = $0.335
</code></pre>
or 33.5 cents for the BBQ pork.<p>Add a bun, some BBQ sauce, some hot BBQ
sauce, and some homemade coleslaw
(shredded green cabbage and bottled Ranch
dressing), and have a good soft, moist,
chopped, BBQ pork sandwich.<p>So the effort put<p><pre><code>     ( 2,466 + 2,810 ) &#x2F; (
     28.3495 * 16 ) =
     11.632
</code></pre>
pounds of cooked, ready to eat, soft,
moist, chopped pork BBQ.<p>Let&#x27;s see:  At 2 2&#x2F;3 ounces per sandwich,
what I put in the refrigerator in the six
containers is good for<p><pre><code>     ( ( 2,466 + 2,810 ) &#x2F;
     ( 28.3495 ) ) &#x2F; ( 2 +
     2&#x2F;3 ) = 69
</code></pre>
sandwiches!