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Math problem - calculating cost of apples

Posted: Mar 20, 2016

Trying to figure out how much this will cost me for my budget.

A couple weeks ago I bought 5 applies - they were 3.99/lb and came to $12. (eeks! - they were very good applies - Honeycrisp)

I am near broke (no rather I AM broke with a very limited amount of money), but I need to buy another 5 applies. This time I see a sale for Pink Lady apples (another very good apple). These applies are on sale for 1.29 a pound. If I buy 5 of them can someone tell me how much 5 will cost. Is that even possible to know?

Told DH (who did the shopping the last time) - No more 5 applies for $12!!!

I am so broke, but have to buy food. Been scouring the sales ads. So tired of living this way. Lots of stuff on sale I can't eat cos I'm diabetic. Cannot afford much meat either. My job has really taken a downturn for the worse. Wish things would get better.

Just thought I'd ask on the applies if anyone knows how much 5 applies at 1.29 a pound would cost.

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Depends entirely on...SM - Old Anon

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how much those 5 applies weigh. No way to tell ahead of time. It sounds like your original example of 5 applies costing $12 at $3.99 a pound that those 5 applies weighed 3 lbs. (3 x 3.99 = $11.97. Doesn't your grocery store have scales in the produce department? You must bag the applies and weigh them to get the total weight times the cost per pound.

Do you get out to shop much? - Depends on size/weight

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You did not know this?????

Apply for foodstamps and educate yourself on how to calculate costs of food, particularly produce and meat.

Just want to say Pink Lady apples are my FAVE. So very - crisp and juicy. Yum. nm

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If they weighed the same per apple as your expensive ones, sm - Budgeter

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then your 5 apples would cost $3.90 or so.

If they are smaller than your extravagant ones, and they probably are, 5 would cost less. Small apples are about 4 to a pound, medium-sized apples are about 3, and large apples about 2 per pound. If your 5 apples at 3.99 a pound cost $12, then they were very large apples at only 1-2/3 apples per pound, and you should have been eating only half a one as a serving, especially if you are diabetic.

If your $1.29/pound apples are medium-sized, then 5 would cost you about $2.15.

But if you're really broke, what you need to do is learn to buy 5- or 10-pound bags of cheap apples and store them properly to last you several weeks--and make applesauce out of any that start to go bad. Even better, buy a bushel from a farm when they're in season and put those up for yourself. Or you could buy a case of the cored, peeled, and sliced dried apples that the LDS sells for food storage. A third cup of those equals a large apple, would cost you about $1.60 for the equivalent of 5 large apples, and a case of 6 cans would last you about 9 months at 5 large apples per week. At a more normal 1/4 cup dried apple slices per serving of apple, it would last you a whole year at 5 apples per week, and they would cost you just $5 a month.

FWIW, apples here in 3 to 5 lb bags run between sm - Budgeter

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40 cents a pound for Delicious to $1 a pound for Gala, with Rome, Empire, McIntosh, and Granny Smith varieties at around 60 to 85 cents a pound. They're generally medium-sized apples in the bags, so 5 apples would cost from 65 cents to $1.66, with the intermediate-priced varieties at around $1.20 for 5, a tenth of what you paid for your 5 apples last week. If you like Delicious (I really don't), you could get it down to 1/20th of what you spent.

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