If you are like me you get tired to taking peanut butter and jelly sandwich to work. There are times I just want some kind of meat. However, I do get lazy and don’t want to fix a foot long deli sandwich beforegoing to work.

A Bologna sandwich is good quick filling sandwich.

• Whole wheat sandwich bread is 9 cents per slice
• 2 slices of regular cut Bologna – 50 cents
• Mustard and Mayo – 5 cents

That makes the cost of the sandwich cost 73 cents, along with a soda which is 25 cents. That gives you a light for lunch to cost 98 cents.

There is nothing more that says America than the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich.

What makes the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich so great is its’ nutriutional value at such a low price.

• Strawberry jelly cost 8 cents per ounce
• Peanut butter cost 9 cents per ounce
• Whole wheat sandwich bread is 6 cents per slice

I like to have 2.5 ounces of equal parts of peanut butter and jelly. That makes a good peanut butter sandwich cost 54 1/2 cents per sandwich.

Now add a 25 cents for a soda plus 54 1/2 cents for the sandwich, that is a nice little snack, for under $1.

The price of bread is pretty much the same. What is inside the wrapper varies from light almost air, to large amounts of whole wheat and other healthy things. Now the number and thickness of slices in that loaf of  bread also vary.

When I went to Yahoo Answers, I was told about 20 slices of bread per loaf depends on whether thin, medium or thick cut. I always new there was different thicknesses of sliced bread, but I did not know there was so many. After a little research with a caliphier I found bread in 1/2″, 5/8″, 3/4″ and 1″ thickness. The 1″ thickness is bread that is labeled Texas Toast. Sandwich bread comes at 5/8″ thick.

Now the length of  loaf of bread varies also. This will result the number of slices in a loaf. However on the average a loaf of bread will vary from 11 to 21 slices.  This does not include bread ends.

We get sandwich bread with 21 slices. That gives bread for 10 sandwiches, then we use the remainder to make bread pudding. That is why I figure bread for a sandwich to be 19 cents.

When I see major fast food joints offering a large sandwich for under $5, I think what a rip off. I could make that same sandwich for a whole lot less and still have enough money for a something to drink.

This is what I mean.

• Bread – 45 cents
• 3 different types of meat – $2
• Slice of tomato – 10 cents
• Cheese – 12 cents
• Mustard and Mayo – 5 cents
• Pickeles, onions, and peppers – 20 cents

I can make a similar sandwich for $2.92. Then I add a sports drink for 88 cents. There you have it a good healthy lunch for $3.80.  I have saved $1.20. That is a $1.20 in my pocket.