Barbecues, another option to do with family or friends this holiday, with budgets of $ 10, $ 20 and more than $ 40

The Barbecues are another alternative for the last hours of the holiday, more if you are with family or friends. And do them with moderate budgets, ranging from $ 10 (for four people), it is possible. Even hThere are combos or barbecue packages of meats and sausages that some specialized meat stores in Guayaquil have ready and whose prices range between $ 7 (in the case of sausages of various varieties) and the $ 20 (variety of meats plus sausages) the most economical and ideal for six people. There are also other barbecue combos from $ 40 and up for groups or families of more than 15 people.

Everything goes to depend on the combinations, portions, cuts, varieties and types of meats and sausages you want consume, as well as the companions for your barbecue, which can range from salads and cooked or roasted potatoes to rice with stew or moors, in addition to the drink.

Here part of the prices of the ingredients for a grill in stores in Guayaquil and the economic or savings options that some families implement to taste this preparation.

From a pound of meat (for example, brown pulp) up to 6 thin fillets; From a pound of a chicken breast, an average of 4 fillets are produced and up to 5 if you choose to make them smaller. One pound of pork can also produce six small fillets, while if you opt for cuts of chops with leather in a butcher they come out on average two chops per pound and up to five chops in two pounds. In traditional butchers, for a pound of sausages they give 6 units.

And in neighborhood butchers prices averages are: pound of filleted brown pulp, $ 3.50; pound of chicken breast already filleted, $ 1.40; pound of pork (boneless) $ 3; pound of chops with leather $ 2.50; pound of sausages for barbecue or grill, $ 2.50. Prices also go down or up depending on the sector, on whether there is more competition in the same block or neighborhood, and on the service and quality.

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Thus, in a barbecue for four or five people, and up to six if portions are reduced, an average of $ 12.50 is spent on the purchase of the base ingredients in the neighborhood butcher shops. TO This adds up to $ 1.20 in two pounds of potatoes; $ 2 for salad if it is with lettuce or less, depending on the ingredients. And another $ 2 for toppings or dressings. Of the latter there are those that come already prepared and cost from $ 0.60. A) Yes, you can make and eat a barbecue for four or five people with $ 18.

Another option for which many citizens, families and friends choose is the purchase of barbecue combos What do you sell on supermarkets specialized in meat.

On Maranatha, for instance, They have different barbecue combos that start at $ 13.50, going by $ 20 and $ 40, until more than $ 70 (for more than 20 people).

Nayren Brizuela, 30, a saleswoman at the local Maranatha at 33 y Portete (southwest), one of the ten that this chain has in Greater Guayaquil, says that the so-called $ 13.50 Papaya combos (for six people), and Reposi, from $ 40 (for 15 people)They are the most demanded when it comes to putting together family or friends barbecues.

First (Papaya), the one for $ 13.50, has 6 beef steaks, 6 chicken steaks, 6 pork chops and 6 beer chorizos. The second (for 15 people) has 15 beef fillets, 15 chicken fillets, 15 chops, 15 beer chorizos and 15 Cuencano chorizos. They also have other combos and varieties of combinations. Or users can assemble their packages, to their liking.

In Fernández, which has more than 28 establishments in Greater Guayaquil, also have chorizo ​​or sausage combos, one of the star and popular options in this chain.

One of the barbecue sausage combos is worth $ 6.99 and has 3 Cuencano sausages, 3 brewers, 3 ranchers, 3 Argentines, 3 sausages paisa, and half a pound of Creole longaniza.

The Another barbecue sausage combo costs $ 7.25 And contains 3 units of Cuencano sausages, 3 grills from res, 3 sausages brewers 3 sausages Argentines, 3 blood sausages, and half a pound of longaniza.

Instead, in meats for barbecues, Fernández, sell a $ 19.99 combo, what includes 6 pieces of brown pulp, 6 pieces of pork loin, 6 chicken breast fillets and 6 brewers. Here also other options to combine or for the customer to buy as they please.

Sonia Mejía quoted prices, last Friday, for the family barbecue what you expected to do on the last day of the holiday at home to 22 persons. She was going to carry two combos of grilled sausages and two breasts large filleted chicken. I was hoping to invest $ 20 between the chicken and chorizo ​​combos. And about $ 10 more between rice, lentils, vegetables and dressings. A) Yes, He was not planning on spending more than $ 30 on roast with rice and stew for his 22 diners.

“To each one I give two roasted sausages with their plate of rice and stew, or else a chorizo ​​with a piece of chicken, plus the salad. They (family members) bring drinks as well as other little snacks ”, the woman said.

Others citizens, on the other hand, they buy for fixed prices. For instance, $ 2 meat You are welcome, $ 3 chicken filleted, $ 3 of pork arm or pork meat, $ 2 or 3 of chorizos, among others. Some, first weigh what they want and then ask to have fillets made for them or at home they cut them to their liking.

“At home we stretch everything, the important thing is to eat and share. Also so that we can buy the whole chicken and we ask that they make it prey and in prey, and after it is seasoned, we put it on the grill … The giblets, legs and chicken wings are also delicious roasted (to charcoal) and they are very cheap, less than $ 1, the trifles, (in the butcher shops) ”, he says Magaly Aguilar placeholder image, inhabitant of Mucho Lot 1, who affirms that he is “Expert” in making money and meat “stretch” for your 7-member family to eat a roast under $ 10. (I)