Hot take: my $3.10 rice and bean pot hit 14 meals, and I only found out by counting the lids

Oscar Ellis · 2026-10-08T18:00:03.661773+00:00

I started keeping a tally on my fridge with a dry erase marker every time I pulled a container of my Sunday pot out of the freezer, and last week the count hit 14. That is under a quarter per meal from a bag of store brand pinto beans, a five pound sack of rice from the Aldi on 8th, and half an onion that was going soft. I almost tossed that onion twice and I am glad I did not. The part that got me was the math on my old habit of grabbing a $4 frozen burrito on the way home, which was more than the whole pot. Does anyone else track servings like this, or am I the only one with a weird marker tally on my fridge?

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Hot take: my $3.10 rice and bean pot hit 14 meals, and I only found out by counting the lids | Cheap Dinner Wins - Opinions Matter