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$5 Challenge Meal: Roasted Winter Vegetables and Brown Rice
October is always a crazy month for us, and I succumbed at the end to my hectic, overscheduled life. I’m due to post two $5 Challenge Meals, and here is the first, Oven Roasted Winter Vegetables with Brown Rice. Total cost was $8.48, and it served two adults and one child, for a per person [...]
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$5 Challenge Meal: White Bean Soup
This soup, a melange of several recipes that I looked at, provided four very generous servings over two days, eight in all, at a total cost of $12.52, for $1.57 per plate. I doubt I’ll be able to top this one for cost…or perhaps I should say undercut. A note on the soup, which is [...]
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$5 Challenge Meal: Black Bean Tacos
This week I’m going for the classic meal on the cheap, wrapped in a tortilla: black beans and rice. The total cost was $9.02 for three people (two adults and a child), or $3.01 per person, and even less when you consider that there was a healthy portion of beans and rice left over for [...]
$5 Challenge Meal: Butternut Squash Soup, Garlic Greens, and Cracked Whole Wheat Bread
This week, I’m featuring a farmers market-based meal starring butternut squash and turnip greens. The total cost was $10.15, for an average of $2.54 per person, and that’s even including organic cream and butter. Sadly, I forgot to take a photo of this meal. Here’s the cost breakdown for this meal for four (three adults [...]
Market Update and My $5 Challenge
We had a wonderful turnout for the Midtown to Market ride this morning – 16 people out enjoying the lovely fall morning – and there was an additional crew that came from Cream and Sugar. Bikes were lined up all along the cathedral fence. Produce was a bit on the thin side but there was [...]
Bittman: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?
Mark Bittman covered the recent Slow Food USA $5 Challenge in the NYT Opinionator column, preceded by the Op-Ed Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? In both pieces, he explores what drives the U.S. fast food obsession, and what could drive people to kick it. He writes: Real cultural changes are needed to turn this around. [...]
Notes on Growing a Community Garden Talk
I attended the Earth Day talk in Fairhope given by Ed Marty, of Jones Valley Urban Farm in Birmingham. He is an inspiring, visionary guy with a ton of energy. Here are some notes I took, though since I’m roughly paraphrasing I’m not going to apply any quotes to this. He began by saying that [...]
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Can we afford to eat ethically?
At Salon, a journalist answers the question “When shopping for food, did I have to choose between my budget and my beliefs?”:http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/04/25/pinched_ethically/index.html It’s part of their ongoing series “Pinched,” about life during a recession.
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Cheap Eats
In the spirit of the times, if not exactly in the spirit of local food, at “Culinate”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/cheap_eats_blogged there’s a link to this list of “Top 100 Blogs for the Frugal Gourmet”:http://www.culinaryschoolguide.org/blog/2009/top-100-blogs-for-the-frugal-gourmet/. Of note, seven items in the “Healthy and Green” section, and a blog I had previously flagged for mention here, “30 Bucks a Week”:http://thirtyaweek.wordpress.com/, [...]
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$5 Challenge Meal: Chicken and Dumplings