How do you figure out the price per meal?

i've heard of people figuring out how much each serving in a meal costs or how much the entire meal would cost. how do they go about doing this?How do you figure out the price per meal?
The second answer is kind of correct. If you buy everything in the exacta mounts for every meal that would work.





But say you buy a bag of rice for a 3.00. How often are you going to use a whole bag of rice per meal.





I am making this up just for easy numbers.


So if there are say three cups of rice per bag. Lets say you use 1 cup of rice for dinner. So the rice for that meal is 1.00. rice will make 4 servings. That makes it .25 a serving.





So then you buy 5 pounds of bulk hamburger for 10.00


You use 1 pound of burger for the meal, that makes it 2.00.





Then lets say you add in 2 bell peppers at 2.00 each. So 4.00 dollars for bell peppers for the meal.





And 5 lbs of cheese for 5 bucks. You are only going to use 1 pound of cheese. So 1 buck for the cheese.





Okay then say your meal makes 4 servings.





So the cost of the entire meal is 8.00 Divide that by your servings (4) and you get 2.00 per serving.





You can break down everything this way.





I hop that makes sense to you.How do you figure out the price per meal?
Lets say you pay:


$5 for 4 chicken breasts


$2 for barbeque sauce





$2 for 4 baking potatoes





$2 for 4 ears of corn


$1 for a stick of butter


Total cost of this meal = $12 divided by 4 people = $3 per person


Sometimes you'll have other costs like time and labor or other materials.
I usually add up the total cost of the ingredients used in the meal then divide it by the amount of servings I can get out of it.