FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Things that are cheap to make from scratch

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:58:35 GMT, (Curly
Sue) wrote:

>On 10 Sep 2005 04:53:06 -0700, wrote:
>
>>I started making cornbread a while ago and found it's very cheap to
>>make from scratch. You get a 4 lb bag of cornmeal for $4 and 4 pound
>>bag of flour for $2 and some other stuff and you can make many big pans
>>of cornbread.
>>
>>I just bought a can of Hershey cocoa powder for about $4.19, and OMG it
>>goes a long way. You can make a cup of hot cocoa with only 2 or 3
>>teaspoons of cocoa. That's a helluva lot cheaper than Swiss Miss, isn't
>>it? I wish I had found this out a long time ago, cuz I would've had hot
>>cocoa more often. I made a couple of batches of chocolate pudding and
>>still have most of the cocoa left.
>>
>>Can you guys name other stuff?
>
>Sushi
>
>Sue(tm)
>Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Rice. I get a 25 lb. bag for about $6. Short or Med. grain.