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I recently read a fun article in the brand-new All Recipes magazine. The author was doing an analysis on made-from-scratch versus store bought items. I thought this was brilliant, so I decided to test a few items for myself. Pricing below is taken from Walmart and I used recipes from AllRecipes.com  for simplicity sake. I’ve rated each item in FOUR categories: 1) cost, 2) time, 3) taste, 4) health. A few things you’ll need to know: First, I’m not a math geek. I’m good at rough numbers, so expect that what it comes to the “cost” category to find a lot of approximation going on. Second, “time” is kind of a stupid category. Generally speaking, it’s always going to be faster to drop something pre-made into your grocery cart… unless you have to make a special trip for salad dressing, for e...