Tonights dinner is a delicious vegetarian dish, Mini Farfalle with Roasted Peppers, Onions, Feta, and Mint. Its another Cooking Light recipe I got from myrecipes.com.
This is the second time I have made this dish and it turned out really well both times. The fresh mint and fresh basil and toasted pine nuts add such wonderful aromas to this dish. Its a hearty meal and after a bowl of this pasta dinner, I felt full.
I left to go grocery shopping at Whole Foods at about 5pm to buy the ingredients and had dinner on the table by 6:45pm. Here's my grocery bill:
16oz Box of Farfalle Pasta... $2.50 (I used only 1/2 a box... so let's call it $1.25)
Organic Fresh Mint... $1.99
Organic Fresh Basil... $3.99 (The Whole Foods near me sells fresh basil in a container which always has 3x as much fresh basil as I need. Unless I make something else which uses fresh basil soon, I will end up throwing the rest out).
Organic Pine Nuts (.09lb @ 29.99/lb)... $2.70
Red Onion... $2.00
Feta Crumbles... $2.79
Thompson Raisins $.30
Jar of Roasted Peppers... $3.39
Total.... $18.41
Made 3 servings... $6.13/serving if include the cost of all the basil I bought, $5.25/serving if I include the cost of the basil I used.
Now since this dinner made only 3 servings, I don't have enough left over for dinner for my wife and I for tomorrow night. I have to remember to make more than the recipe calls for next time.
See you Thursday.
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