Save Money by Growing Sprouts
Posted by Wisdom Lion on October 27th, 2009 at 06:17pm
By growing and eating your own sprouts, you get a nutritious meal with a side of cold hard cash piled higher than a pastrami sandwich from the Carnegie Deli. To demonstrate, I put together a little comparison for you. I decided to compare sprouts with some lunch items. This is when I would be more likely to eat a bowl of sprouts as a meal and I figured it would make for a more realistic comparison.
To figure out the sprout cost, I started with a 10 lb bag of seeds for about $32.00. This is about 20 cups of dry seeds (give or take). To make 1 cup of sprouts, you need about ¼ cup of dry seeds. With the help of some basic math, you can figure a bowl of sprouts setting you back about 40 cents. You can buy yourself some sprouts by clicking here.
So check it out…
Sprouts: $0.40
Subway’s $5 Foot-Long: $5.00
Burger-Centric, Fast-Food Value Meal: $5.00 (approximation)
Arby’s 5 for $5 Special: $5.00
Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready Pizza: $5.00
From a lunch perspective, sprouts can save you about $4.60 per day. This translates to the following yearly savings based on how many days per week you eat sprouts for lunch.
1 Day: $239.20
2 Days: $478.40
3 Days: $717.60
4 Days: $956.80
5 Days: $1196.00 (damn!)
What’s that you say? Ramen is cheaper? Well, at about 30 cents a bag, you would be correct. And you could probably slurp up a bowl of ramen every day for lunch for a full year and live to tell about it. By the end of that year, that would net you an extra 26 bucks to go blow at the track. But, that comes at quite a cost. You miss out on all that great nutrition.
So there you have it. Every time you eat sprouts, you win at life a little bit more.
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3 Comments for Save Money by Growing Sprouts
1. Travis | November 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
While I haven’t done this with bean sprouts, I HAVE been big on growing and making my own food lately. It’s not only nutritious, but it’s a great way to save money too. It can even be fun! I enjoy coming up with new meals plans and experimenting with different things.
2. Wisdom Lion | December 4th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Growing your own food is awesome. While eating off the grid is a very distant goal of mine, my backyard garden this passed summer was a dismal failure. It wasn’t a total loss though; I feel like I learned a lot. For example, tomato plants get huge … fast.
On the sprouting side of things, larger beans are really easy – lentils, chickpeas, peas for example. Seeds like fenugreek and alfalfa take a little more finesse. Broccoli apparently takes even more finesse, as I have come to find recently. More will come on this topic in the next week or so.
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