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I began last Thursday at 10:00 am by going to ALDI and the Dollar Tree. I got everything on the list except yogurt, peanut butter, chicken drumsticks and ground turkey

I’ve completed two days of my SNAP Challenge, gained one pound (probably from last night’s pasta with ground turkey dinner) and experienced a low grade headache for most of yesterday,

One meal to go and our SNAP Challenge is over, but even a week of eating on such a limited budget is telling. My family is tired of peanut butter

Day 2 so far so good. I ate a PB& J sandwich and a banana for breakfast. Lunch will probably be pasta and some left over ragu. Dinner will be

There is a reason for the adage – a picture is worth a thousand words. My lunch on Thursday (pictured here) consisted of a peanut butter sandwich (.07 cents), a

I like many other people on this blog have decided to take the SNAP Challenge. I will be eating off of a budget of $27.65 for the next week. I

Tonight was our “Looking Forward To It” dinner meal – meatloaf with ketchup/brown sugar glaze, mashed potatoes and fresh steamed broccoli. The excitement? It had to be the meat! And

Since Tuesday, Max (our 11 year old, 6th grade son) has been forced to eat school lunch. He feels like he’s won the lottery. Our thinking was that if we

Last week I announced in a church newsletter article that I would be joining Kevin’s SNAP challenge to live on $27.65 worth of groceries for a week. It sounded easier

My SNAP Challenge began this morning by measuring one cup of raisin bran cereal and a half a cup of skim milk to go along with it. (I actually could

I’ve been wondering about the intent behind the new food stamps acronym, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). When they renamed it, where they trying to imply, “Lucky you, getting assistance

Remember the old business adage: “Time, Money and Quality … pick two”? I’ve been thinking about that adage this week and seeing if it applies at all to my SNAP