around 2 Canadian dollars
You can get twenty pounds of long grain white rice from Walmart for $9.98. That works out to just shy of 0.50¢ a pound, and nine pounds of arborio rice for $23.71 which is $2.63 a pound.
There are two cups that equal one pound of uncooked rice. There are six cups that equal to one pound of cooked rice.
1.22 to 3.45 pound/500 g
There are 0.565 quarts of rice in 1 pound. Rice is a grain and one of the most widely consumed foods by the human population.
I just bought a 2 lb. bag of Jamine rice last night and I paid 2.29, But if I would have gotten regular long grain rice ... a 2 lb bag was 1.49. Wholesale cost for more common varieties around $0.20 per pound. Typical grocery store cost for larger (10 pound) ~ $1.00 per pound. Sale price (5 pound bag, short grain) ~$0.50 per pound.
According to Producers Rice Mill, Inc. of Stuttgart, Arkansas, USA, there are over 29,000 grains of rice in one pound (based on long grain white rice). Brown rice (which is unhulled and has a larger diameter) should be somewhat less.
One cup of dry rice weighs 6.9 oz. so 1 pound of dry rice is about 2 1/3 cup. From: http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/s810.html
The mass of one grain of rice is 25 milligram or .025 grams. There are about 29,000 rice grains in approximately one pound of long-grain white rice.
well one half of rice and another half of chicken would be good because half plus half equals 1 pound
A pound
About 2.24 cups
You can create one, or adopt one from the pound for a small price