Recipe Cost per Serving
Find the cost of each serving from total recipe cost.
About Recipe Cost per Serving
Dividing total ingredient cost by servings gives the price of one portion to compare against eating out. Per-serving cost makes home cooking's value concrete and helps with budgeting for regular family meals.
Formula
Recipe Cost per Serving
Cost per serving = total cost / servings; per 100g = total x 100 / yield
- batch yield
- Total weight the finished recipe makes
Worked example
With the default values below, Recipe Cost per Serving returns Cost per Serving of $6.25. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Total recipe cost
- 25
- Servingsminimum 1
- 4
- Batch yieldminimum 1 g
- 1,000 g
Results
- Cost per Serving
- $6.25
- Cost per 100g
- $2.50
- Total Cost
- $25.00
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Recipe Cost per Serving
- 3Cost per Serving= 6.25
- 4Cost per 100g= 2.50
- 5Total Cost= 25.00
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Recipe Cost per Serving calculated?
Cost per serving = total cost / servings; per 100g = total x 100 / yield Dividing total ingredient cost by servings gives the price of one portion to compare against eating out.
Why does Recipe Cost per Serving matter?
Per-serving cost makes home cooking's value concrete and helps with budgeting for regular family meals.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Total recipe cost, Servings, Batch yield. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.