Thing is, I know spices are expensive. But honestly, by the time you buy several of these, you could have bought some basic spices for the money you spend on these little wastes of materials and money. Like this specific recipe, you could get all of those spices in the Mexican aisle for about $5. And now you have spices for MANY recipes. And it's not like you need to have a million spices. Really you only need salt, pepper, chili powder, oregano, basil, marjoram, thyme, garlic powder, cumin, sage and ginger. You can do a lot with those. That's an investment of about $25 and you have a LOT of spices for future meals. Here you spend $2 and get one meal.