I was hoping to get this last post up yesterday (Sunday) but I wasn’t able to. (I worked on getting my Facebook and Twitter page updates) But I did want to finish this series so here is our last day of the challenge. Today is the last day of the challenge. I have enjoyed figuring […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 6)
One more day to go on the challenge. I changed up our menu a bit today as I usually do on the weekends. I like to make something special for breakfast on the weekends for my family. So today I prepared pancakes with eggs and sausage. I also made the pancake syrup. Since we have […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 5)
Today is day 5 of the challenge. I was asked by a reader what is the purpose of doing this challenge. I first saw this challenge on The Non Consumer Advocate and it intrigued me. I guess my purpose of doing this challenge is to help bring awareness that you can eat healthy on a […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 4)
Now we are half way through this challenge. Most days of this challenge are just like any other day at our home. We eat the way I describe in this post on a regular basis. I didn’t change our menu to adapt to the challenge but I thought it would be fun to see how […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 3)
Going through day three of this challenge is pretty much like our average everyday meals. I try to plan our meals from what we have on hand and then only purchase items during the week that are on sale to use at a later time or to fill in with our meals for fruit and […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 2)
For our second day of the food stamp challenge we had enough leftovers from dinner last night to have for lunch today for the kids and myself. So I just added some fruit and dessert and that made a very inexpensive meal. We eat leftovers quite often in our house. Some days I will even […]
Food Stamp Challenge (Day 1)
Today was the first day of the SNAP Food Stamp Challenge with The Non Consumer Advocate. You can see my first post on this series to see the rules of the challenge. Since I shop by stocking my pantry and then eating what we have on had along with purchasing fresh items each week, I […]
Food Stamp Challenge
Can you feed your family on $4 a day per person? This past week I saw the article in our local paper. It was about how a family of 4 took the SNAP challenge sticking to the amount allotted to those receiving food assistance. So I thought well my family should give this a try. […]
