Cost of Dinner - Pot Roast Edition

So my little family and I were eating dinner tonight and we were talking about home cooked food and high-fructose corn syrup (we're a real interesting bunch, clearly...).  And we were talking about the price of food, and how it was pretty darn cheap to make things that way.

And I thought about it, and how a few years back I had costed out my bread recipe and my sweet rolls, to see just how much I saved, and I thought it might be interesting to do that for the meal tonight, too.

It's fall now, I had an in and out kind of day, so I threw a pot roast into the crock pot with potato and carrots, and made crusty bread when I got home.  I made the pot sauce into gravy and that was that.  So, here's what we had:

• $5.09-- half of a 3.4 lb. Beef Round Eye Roast at $2.99/lb on sale or $10.17 total (I cooked the whole thing but have 2/3 to 1/2 left over for another meal)
• $0.60 -- (give or take) for 4-5 fresh carrots from a 2 lb bag ($1.79 per bag), peeled and cut after purchase
• $0.90 -- (give or take) for 3 potatoes from a 5 lb bag ($3.50 per bag), peeled and cut after purchase
• $0.10 -- ok, now I'm just guessing -- what do you suppose a shake of sage, thyme, salt and pepper and a glug of cider vinegar cost?
• $0.60 -- 3.5 cups King Arthur Flour (= 1 lb) from a 5 lb bag on sale for $2.99
• $0.15 -- 4 teaspoons yeast (appx. 2 packages) -- I buy my yeast at Whole Foods in 1 lb bags for appx $5.00 a bag (a 1 lb bag is appx. 64 packets worth) --  the same amount of yeast bought in packets at $1.99 for 3 packets would come to $42.45, not much of a deal.
• $0.20 -- this is another guess, I used 1/4 teaspoon sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, and some water all around.  I also used 3 Tablespoons flour to thicken the gravy and a little butter on the bread, but how picky can you really get?

For a grand total of  $7.64 or $2.55 per person, I fed my family of 3 a beef dinner with carrots, potatoes, gravy, and fresh baked crusty French bread.  Not to bad a deal I think, and we have some leftover veggies and a bit of bread for another meal, too.