Friday, September 10, 2010

Homemade brownies are expensive

(yes, I got weird looks for photographing my kids in the food store)

























Jason wanted to make brownies, so as his math today I let him do so. While at the store to buy the semi sweet bakers chocolate I saw boxed brownie mix for $1.







Our brownies cost:
semi sweet chocolate $3.49
organic sugar $.50
all natural baking powder $.05
salt $.01
organic eggs $.99
organic cocoa powder $.05
organic whole wheat (I ground it) $1.00
organic vanilla $.50
1 cup organic butter $1.00

$7.59 total

YIKES!!! Sure with the $1 box, I would have to add oil and eggs, making them cost about $2.50. I did use a lot of natural and organic ingredients, but still. I thought cooking from scratch was cheaper.

No matter what they cost they look delicious.
half of top has chocolate chips, half has caramel

update: they taste delicious too!!!

2 comments:

ritakk said...

looks delicious but look at it like this you took the effort and I'm sure they were delicious right and your son loved the experience with you. Have a great nite. RW

Becky R said...

Absolutely, plus my son actually did all the work (except grinding the grain), so it was a lesson for him. (I had him double the recipe too.)

He also makes awesome hot chocolate from scratch.

Plus it was fun shopping and I got a blog post out of it. lol.

Bad thing I ate too many yummy brownies and now can't sleep. lol.