Save Money On Home-Made Pies, Made Simple
In a recent post I told you how I bought a Sunbeam Pie Maker and how I was going to be using it to save myself some money.
Well, I have.
And today I wanted to share with you the fruits of owning a Sunbeam Pie Maker.
I love a good hot savory pie. And I have bought many over the years, as have a lot of Australians. You could say it’s our National Dish. And like many others I usually buy mine from corner stores, bakeries or (more recently) dedicated pie shops.
But no more! This Sunbeam Pie Maker will be saving me a lot of money over the coming months and years.
I made my first patch of pies from it today and to be honest (and less than modest) they were great! And it was probably the cheapest lunch I have had in ages. Each pie cost me only $1.00.
I bought the pastry sheets for $5.00 for a pack of 5 sheets. Each sheet will make 3 pies, so there are potentially 15 pies in each $5.00 pack. If you divide 15 into $5.00 you get each pie costing approximately 33 cents for the pastry. But you also have to fill it.
Today I used left over Kangaroo meat and roast vegetables from a mini-roast I cooked two nights ago. I didn’t figure out the exact cost of the roast meal but it would of been in the vicinity of $10.00 for the ingredients. Halve this as I had one good meal out of the roast already, and that leaves you with a cost of $5.00 for the pie filling. Divide this by the number of pies made, which was 8, and that comes out at a cost for the fillings at approximately 63 cents per pie.
Add that to the 33 cents for the pastry and you get a grand total of 96 cents per pie. Or close enough to $1.00. And only about 30 minutes of my time.
Not bad considering that I bought a Big Dad’s pie for $5.00 the other day for lunch. Two of mine would be equivalent of one of those pies at a cost a mere $2.00. Less than half the price.
The great thing about the pies you make is that you can freeze them and re-heat them later. Great for taking to work for lunch.
And how good did the pies look? Well, see for yourself:
And they tasted as good as they look!
Image credit: Sunbeam
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