Well… no. Not at all.<\/p>\n
I recently bought a 9.5lb ham for about $10 including tax. I simmered it for 4 hours, making it literally fall-off-the-bone tender. I stripped the meat off the bone, dropped the bone back in the pot, added a little white vinegar, and simmered the result for 2 hours. I pressure-canned 5 quarts of ham stock, and had about a pint leftover. I used the leftover pint to make red beans and rice.<\/p>\n
For a total cost of about $12 we have had 4 evening meals and 5 lunches so far<\/strong>. I still have 5 quarts of awesome ham stock to use in soups, red beans and rice, or whatever. <\/p>\n To compare: a recent meal at Arby’s consisting of a small sandwich for the munchkin, a medium sandwich for my wife, a large sandwich for me and a shared large fries cost us $14. A similar meal from one of the hamburger places would cost around $10.<\/p>\n It comes down to a simple phrase – “Good. Fast. Cheap. Choose any two.” A meal of red beans and rice takes hours to cook – but you can toss everything apart from the rice into your slow cooker in the morning and come home after work to an awesome tasting, healthy, and CHEAP<\/strong> dinner – the only preparation you need to do is to cook the rice. Or you can spend $4 to $6 per person on something that only loosely resembles food and leaves you with no leftovers for other meals.<\/p>\n I know what choice I prefer. I will go for cheap and good and cherish my slow cooker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well… no. Not at all. I recently bought a 9.5lb ham for about $10 including tax. I simmered it for 4 hours, making it literally fall-off-the-bone tender. I stripped the meat off the bone, dropped the bone back in the pot, added a little white vinegar, and simmered the result for 2 hours. I pressure-canned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[30,35],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-living","category-information","tag-cheap","tag-leftovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}