Eggs, Toast & Hash Browns

Day 129

It was my night to cook, so I knew it was going to be potatoes and something. Laura came up with the breakfast idea, and I happily agreed to go with that, quick and simple as it is.

Eggs, Toast & Hash Browns

Tonight's Ingredients

3 eggs
4 Eco-spud potatoes (our feature ingredient)
4 slices potato bread
1 onion
1 tbsp sunflower oil
Butter for the toast and 1 tbsp for frying the eggs

Hash Browns

Potatoes inspired the meal tonight. I just cubed them and put them in the new beloved electric frying pan with a chopped onion and 1 tbsp sunflower oil. Put the lid on, did some dishes, unloaded the dishwasher, flipped them, covered them again, loaded the dishwasher up again. Took about 15 - 20 minutes but they were both tender and browned. Good with ketchup.

Potatoes frying

Eggs Over Medium

We both like eggs fried over medium. That means that the whites are completely cooked and the yolks are partially cooked. That's what it means to me anyway, and how I cook them. Laura says I make them perfect.

Eggs frying

Eggs frying

Toasted Potato Bread

Potato bread's our fav. We luff it so...

Toast toasting

Eggs, toast & hash browns

How Cheap Is It?

Ok, let's figure this out within about a dime.

Potatoes: $6.00/bag. Probably 30 potatoes in a bag. That's about $0.20/potato. We used 4 potatoes tonight which is about $0.80.

Eggs: $3.63/dozen. That's $0.3025 each and we used 3 eggs tonight which is $0.91.

Toast: Potato bread is $3.99/loaf. There are 13 slices in a loaf. That's roughly $0.31 per slice. We toasted 4 slices tonight which is about $1.24.

Onion: Onions are $2.99 for 2 lbs, which is 5 onions. That's about $0.60/onion. I used 1/2 an onion tonight so that's about $0.30.

Butter: Butter is 4.89/lb. There are 64 tbsp in a lb of butter, so that's almost $0.08/tbsp. We probably used 1 tbsp to fry the eggs, plus whatever we used for our toast, which I'm guessing is about 3 or 4 tbsp (I use less than 1 tbsp per slice), so altogether we would have used 4 or 5 tbsp - let's just say 5. That would be $0.40.

Sunflower Oil: This is 9.99 for a gallon. There is 256 tbsp in a gallon and I used 1 tbsp of it to fry the potatoes so the oil cost $0.04.

Total

$0.80 (potatoes)
$0.91 (eggs)
$1.24 (bread)
$0.30 (onion)
$0.40 (butter)
$0.04 (oil)
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$3.69

That's $1.85 per meal. Do you love it? I LOVE that!

Reviews/Comments

We were hungry and we both thought it was good. Yummy bread. I give it a 7.5. Then I bump it up to an 8.5 for being quick. Then I bump it up to a 9.5 for being easy. Then I bump it up to a 10 for being cheap,

Laura: 7; the usual breakfast, got the job done; it was good. The bread was yummy and the eggs were perfect.