Dinner Recipes under $1 a serving

[Amaranth]

Lhamo pointed out in the Dinners for $3 and under thread that lots of SLers do even better than that. So this is a thread for meals under $1 a serving.

Bonus points if it's reasonably healthy and reasonably well balanced too.;)

If the meal is under 33 cents a serving there is a different thread especially for those.

Which of your meals are under $1?

Recently some of the food stamp challenges have been at the 50 cents a meal or less level. Got any that can help those challengers or the people that need to eat at that level on an ongoing basis?

[try2bfrugal]

Here is one idea from this week's prices in my area -

Chicken - 58 cents a pound with store coupon.
Bok Choy - 25 cents a pound Asian market
Potatoes - 10 pounds for 99 cents with store coupon at surplus store
Watermelon - 25 cents a pound at Asian market
Tea - 1.40 for 100 bags on sale at local warehouse store
Butter on sale

4 oz chicken (with bones) - 14 cents
8 oz baked potato - 5 cents
4 oz steamed bok choy - 7 cents
4 ounces watermelon - 6 cents
Cup of tea - 1.4 cents
Butter - 8 cents

Total for meal 41.4 cents

I live near a lot of ethnic markets and warehouse stores so I could really eat this amount of food for this price or less for every meal pretty easy.

[razz]

As 2Bfrugal points out, the prices paid for the ingredients really makes a difference. I find that I need to preserve food when the prices are low or grown in my garden and then the price during the off season does not make much difference.