Breakfast

Kitchenette

This is the kitchenette in our basement. My wife and I used this for a year while the main floor was being remodeled. Now it serves me breakfast, snacks, and popcorn in the evenings for my wife. We picked up the microwave at Fred Meyers a couple of years ago for something like $100. I bought the toaster from Amazon for $25 three years ago. The food scale has been around forever. You can buy something similar from Amazon for $25. The glass pitcher to the right of the sink is an old hot pot that quit working. I use it to refill my coffee maker and our hot water pot. Next to the pitcher is a hot air popcorn popper. I have no idea how old it is.

At the other end of the counter is our first refrigerator we bought sometime in the late 1980s, 86 maybe? It's still going strong.

What else is on the counter?

• bottle of ginger ale for when I am feeling poorly. Pour a couple-three ounces in a cup and fill it with hot water. Good for what ails thee.
• Small bottle of Dawn dish soap that gets used like once a week.
• Scrubber sponge and brush for cleaning.
• Coffee cup used to support popcorn bowl so the popper doesn't spew popcorn hither and yon.

The coffee maker is not here because there just isn't enough power or room for it. It's around the corner in the workroom, which means I get another few dozen steps in every day just going to get coffee.

Breakfast

This is my typical breakfast. I have this more days than not. 620 Calories. Costs $4 and I can prepare it in five minutes in my kitchen. I mix two eggs with a splash of milk in a Corning Ware bowl and microwave for two minutes. The precooked bacon gets 15 seconds in the microwave. The red on the eggs is Heinz Ketchup.

Breakfast				Total	4.04
Item	Package Price	Items/Ounces per package	Cost per item	Items/Ounces per serving	Cost per serving
Bacon	14.79	50	0.30	2.0	0.59
Butter	3.99	8	0.50	0.1	0.05
Catsup	4.99	32	0.16	0.2	0.03
Coffee	43.98	100	0.44	2.0	0.88
Eggs	6.89	12	0.57	2.0	1.15
Mandarin Oranges	5.49	48	0.11	4.0	0.46
Milk	4.02	64	0.06	6.0	0.38
Toast	8.00	16	0.50	1.0	0.50

The Corning Ware gets very hot in the microwave. This has the advantage of keeping your food hot for a bit. Microwave safe dishes that don't get hot start sucking the heat out of your food as soon as it starts getting warm.

Update a few minutes later fixed error in spreadsheet.