10 Hutterite Dishes That Cost Less Than $1 a Serving

Seventeen cents. That is what the most important food of the week costs on a Hutterite colony, one bowl at a time. Here are ten dishes from Hutterite kitchens that cost less than a dollar a serving, counted down from the dearest to the cheapest, with enough of the method that you can make every one of them this week. My name is Eva Wurz. I am the head cook on a Hutterite colony of 150 people in southern Alberta. THE LIST (cost per serving) 10. Prairie cabbage borscht – 93¢ 9. Cottage cheese pockets with cream and syrup – 87¢ 8. Strankl soup (green bean and potato) – 85¢ 7. Potato pancakes with onion – 83¢ 6. Kartoffel knedel in milk sauce – 68¢ 5. Thursday fries – 54¢ 4. White knedel with potatoes and gravy – 51¢ 3. Cinnamon rice – 37¢ 2. Baked rice – 29¢ 1. Sunday noodles – 17¢ a bowl All ten together: $6.04 How I priced them: U.S. average retail prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (August 2026) and Walmart store-brand prices (October 2026), down to the salt. Your prices will be different. The order is what matters. Tell me in the comments: what is the cheapest thing your family saved for a special day? And what did you guess the ten would come to? 📘 All ten recipes, with exact amounts and costs, are in my e-book Cheap Meals From Almost Nothing: 31 colony dishes and a week of suppers for about $9.50 a person: [E-KİTAP LİNKİ] The e-book is written in Eva's voice. Eva is a composite character. The recipes are adapted from published Hutterite sources; several are household methods of our own, and the book says which. SOURCES Patricia Looney, Hutterite Women and Work (University of Victoria, 1986): https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstreams/... Giselle Waldner, colony cook, Manitoba (YouTube):    / @gisellewaldner9406   Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen (Mary-Ann Kirkby) – Manitoba Co-operator: https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/country-... Taste & See, Baildon Colony cookbook – MooseJawToday: https://www.moosejawtoday.com/opinion/tast... Linda Maendel, Hutterite heirloom seeds – hutterites.org: https://hutterites.org/history/hutterite-h... Linda Maendel interview – Amish America: https://amishamerica.com/manitoba-hutterit... SD News Watch (2026): https://www.sdnewswatch.org/p/1e4c1d60-736... Joanita Kant, The Hutterite Community Cookbook (Good Books, 1990) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, average price data: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ About the narrator: Eva Wurz is a composite character. Her voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.