The recipe costing and pricing spreadsheet for UK food businesses.
Price It Right gives you — to the penny — what every product costs to make. Enter your real numbers. Set prices that actually pay you.
Instant download · Google Sheets · UK pricing throughout · PDF guide included
| Ingredient | Qty | Unit | Cost/unit | Line cost | % of cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biscoff spread | 400g | g | £0.00873 | £3.49 | 35.9% |
| Dark chocolate 70% | 200g | g | £0.01245 | £2.49 | 25.6% |
| Unsalted butter | 250g | g | £0.00756 | £1.89 | 19.4% |
| Free-range eggs | 3 | each | £0.48000 | £1.44 | 14.8% |
| Caster sugar | 150g | g | £0.00230 | £0.35 | 3.6% |
| Plain flour | 80g | g | £0.00057 | £0.05 | 0.5% |
| Biscoff Brownies — Batch 16 | Batch cost | £9.71 | |||
| Ingredient cost per brownie | Per unit | £0.61 | |||
You're probably undercharging. Find out by how much.
Most food businesses set prices by guessing, copying competitors, or hoping for the best. Fill in two numbers — and see what that's likely costing you every year.
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How the food costing toolkit works — from ingredients to selling price.
Ingredients
Watch a Biscoff Brownie recipe being costed in full below ↓
Watch a real recipe go from ingredients to selling price.
Real numbers. Real spreadsheet. Every tab, start to finish.
Everything in the toolkit.
Every tab feeds into the next. Your ingredients flow into your recipes. Your recipes feed your margin calculator. Everything connects.
Ingredient Master List
- ✓Know your cost per gram, ml, or each for every ingredient — type in the pack price and size, and it calculates the rest.
- ✓Update one price and every recipe that uses that ingredient updates automatically.
- ✓Comes pre-filled with common baking ingredients so you're not starting from a blank page.
- ✓Handles any unit — weight, volume, or individual items like eggs.
| Ingredient | Supplier | Pack size | Unit | Pack price | Cost/unit | Cost/100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark chocolate (54%) | Callebaut | 1 kg | kg | £8.99 | £0.00899 | £0.8990 |
| Unsalted butter | Anchor | 250 g | g | £1.95 | £0.00780 | £0.7800 |
| Plain flour | Tesco | 1 kg | kg | £1.19 | £0.00119 | £0.1190 |
| Free-range eggs | Tesco | 6 | each | £1.89 | £0.31500 | — |
Recipe Cost Builder
- ✓Know to the penny what it costs to make one batch of anything you sell.
- ✓Ingredients pull straight from your master list — no retyping, no stale prices.
- ✓See which ingredient is eating the most into your margin, highlighted automatically.
- ✓Type in your planned selling price and instantly see whether your ingredients alone eat up too much of it.
| Ingredient | Qty | Unit | Cost/unit | Line cost | % of cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biscoff spread (400g jar) | 400 | g | £0.00873 | £3.49 | 35.9% |
| Dark chocolate 70% | 200 | g | £0.01245 | £2.49 | 25.6% |
| Unsalted butter | 250 | g | £0.00756 | £1.89 | 19.4% |
| Free-range eggs | 3 | each | £0.48000 | £1.44 | 14.8% |
| Caster sugar | 150 | g | £0.00230 | £0.35 | 3.6% |
| Plain flour | 80 | g | £0.00057 | £0.05 | 0.5% |
| Total batch cost | £9.71 | ||||
| Cost per Biscoff Brownie | £0.61 | ||||
| 🟢 At £3.50 — ingredients are 17% of price. Strong margin headroom. | |||||
Overhead Allocator
- ✓Enter your monthly overheads once — kitchen costs, packaging, electricity, pitch fees — and see what each one costs per batch.
- ✓Automatically shows which overhead is eating the largest share of your costs.
- ✓See a sensitivity table: what happens to your overhead per unit if you double your output?
- ✓The per-unit overhead figure feeds directly into your Margin & Pricing Calculator.
| Category | Monthly cost | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen / workspace contribution | £50.00 | 12.3% |
| Packaging & labels | £120.00 | 29.6% |
| Gas & electricity | £60.00 | 14.8% |
| Market stall fees | £80.00 | 19.7% |
| Business insurance | £36.00 | 8.9% |
Labour Rate Calculator
- ✓Enter your hourly rate, batch time in hours and minutes, and units per batch — and see your exact labour cost per unit.
- ✓See what happens to your labour cost if you batch larger or charge a higher hourly rate.
- ✓Handles hours and minutes separately so your batch time is always precise.
- ✓The labour cost per unit feeds straight into your Margin & Pricing Calculator.
Margin & Pricing Calculator
- ✓Pull in your costs from all other tabs and get a suggested selling price — rounded up to the nearest 50p.
- ✓See the full cost anatomy: exactly what percentage ingredients, overheads, labour, and packaging each take.
- ✓Enter any price you're considering and see whether it hits your target margin.
- ✓Use the multibuy panel to price bundles properly — and check whether the deal is actually profitable.
| Component | £ cost | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Ingredients | £0.65 | 16.3% |
| Overhead | £0.48 | 12.0% |
| Labour | £0.99 | 24.8% |
| Packaging | £0.08 | 2.0% |
| Wastage | £0.12 | 3.0% |
Platform Pricing Calculator
- ✓See your net margin after fees for Direct, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and a custom platform — all on one screen.
- ✓Platform fees are broken down line by line: commission %, payment processing %, and flat fee per sale.
- ✓See the minimum price you need to charge on each platform to hit your target margin.
- ✓Instantly know whether a platform is working for you — or costing you more than it earns.
| Direct / Market | Uber Eats | Deliveroo | Just Eat | Custom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selling price | £4.00 | £6.00 | £6.50 | £6.50 | £5.00 |
| Commission % | 0% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 15% |
| Processing % | 0% | 3% | 2.5% | 1.9% | 2% |
| Flat fee/sale | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.30 | £0.50 | £0.25 |
| Total fees | £0.00 | £1.98 | £2.41 | £2.57 | £1.10 |
| Net received | £4.00 | £4.02 | £4.09 | £3.93 | £3.90 |
| Margin after fees | 42% | 42% | 43% | 41% | 41% |
| Hits target? | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
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Most food sellers charge what feels right — until they actually cost their recipe. Price It Right shows you what you're really making.
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Most food business owners who use Price It Right adjust their prices within the first week. For many, a single price correction pays for the toolkit many times over.
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Frequently asked questions about food costing and pricing.
What food businesses is this designed for?
It works for home bakers, market stall sellers, cottage food producers, and anyone making and selling their own food products — jams, sauces, confectionery, granola, baked goods, and similar.
It's designed for people who make the same products repeatedly. It's less suited to restaurants or high-volume catering operations with complex, changing menus.
If you've ever wondered whether you're actually making money on what you sell, this will tell you.