The recipes for this meal were on my menu plan for the week of 5/11. They turned out to provide a rustic, hearty, very inexpensive dish.
I have not made homemade bread for several years because I always end up making dense, heavy bread, but I decided to try again with this no knead version. I got annoyed when the bread stuck to my kitchen towel even though I had floured it heavily, and I couldn’t get all the flour off of the loaf before I put it in the oven, so in my mind I had labeled this yet one more bread failure.
Here is the price break down for our meal that will feed four for $3.56. (There was plenty of bread left over for another meal. We actually ate it on the side with two other meals)
Parker’s Split Pea Soup = 2.46
½ cup onions = .20
1 garlic clove = .05
1/16 c. olive oil = .30
¼ tsp oregano = .10
2 carrots = .20
1 red potato = .30
½ lb split peas = .33 (we prefer the yellow over the green)
1 can chicken stock = .98
3 cups water = 0
No Knead Bread = 1.10
4 cups flour = .60
¼ tsp yeast = .25
¼ tsp salt = .05
Olive oil = .20
Water = 0

I haven't had split pea in ages.
The bread looks crusty and tasty to me!