LOL, well I am an accountant working for government contractors, with a hell of a lot of experience with cost proposals and indirect rate management. Think service centers. Those prices at H-Mart are amazing. A huge head of cabbage for $0.84? Costs at the HT and Safeway are easily twice the price and this stuff looks good!
The place is probably at least 9 miles away, so I picked up the other vegetables not needed for the cook. I certainly did not need the extra cucumber and potatoes. The cilantro, as I mentioned in my post, was sitting in fridge when I found it and was trying to figure where it was supposed to be used. One of my guests does not care for it and when I looked through my lists, it was supposed to go in the marinade which I made hours earlier.
I divvied up the other pack of chicken, into 3 packs for freezing and used one of them this evening to make chicken salad and an awesome chicken parm this evening. Both packs contained 10 thighs. The larger one I used for the cook, I was able to cut up into 3 or 4 pieces each.
I fed 4 people with that dish and had probably half the salad and 4 or 5 pieces of chicken left over. I still have about a 1/4 size chunk of the cabbage left, cubed potatoes from the salad that will make a single serving of hash browns one morning, a handful of blanched string beans which I had with my parm, and maybe half the beans sprouts left (found the receipt in the car, 42 cents not 62). The stuff I had on hand were "incidentals":wink: and were no more than a tablespoon or two and the oil was 1/4 cup. The eggs were a material addition and I added them in my final costs. Reminds me of my CPA exam years ago in Practice and Theory. One of the accounting problems required in that exam was a cash flow statement. I was off a bit and my totals didn't balance. The amount was not material, so I added an outflow item in Operating Activities called "Plug" and entered that amount. I got full points for that problem.
My saving grace was the peanuts. The guy at Five Guys okayed their acquisition and I didn't have to steal them.
I've got complete confidence in my estimates and feel I would succesfully survive an audit. You know they send people to jail for this thing they call fraud.
Thank you for your compliment. It was awesome! But my God, shelling peanuts and deboning 10 thighs?:doh: My back was killing me. I don't think I sat for 8 hours.