I’m in a Facebook cooking group and they do a theme challenge each month. April is Depression Era or Frugal. So I decided to go as cheap and gourmet as possible. Soldiers and eggs with dead nettle pesto.

Homemade: bread, butter Home raised: goose eggs Home foraged: pecans, dead nettles, wild garlic

I made a soft skin and a hard skin loaf because my wife likes a softer crust.

Paid for: Salt, pepper, EVOO, flour, yeast, heavy cream. Cost per person: $1.13

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    4·
    3 days ago

    Which is about 10 eggs v in USA?

    But in return you get chicken friends, and after 6 months, you get eggs too.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Chickens only lay for 2-3 years. So after 3 you have chickens to take care of for the next 10 years and no eggs. Or kill them for food. Which is hard to do when you’ve been caring for them.

      • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 day ago

        the meat off of hens that have stopped laying is also mostly only good for soup, since it’s pretty tough meat that said, it’s not that hard to kill them for food since you’re not exactly cuddling with them or even that close to them often like with companion pets

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      2 days ago

      Retail bottom tier eggs are currently $5 a dozen. A little bit more than the cheapest cigarettes. They are my wife’s friends. I’m the one that gets attacked by geese.