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Originally Posted by jlieb88 I know this has been posted before.. But here goes.. My budget for food per month is about 50$ for 2 weeks.. When there are 2 grown men plus me in the house, this is hard. Plus, im not a very good cook. So any easy, affordable supper ideas would be sooo great..I have to figure out how to make 50$ last for 14 meals (2 weeks)
Absolutley any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also if you just want to help me be a better "house-girlfriend" haha.. feel free to e-mail me at boys_lie_2006@yahoo.com
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Hi,
Have you thought of going to your local food pantry? My husband and I volunteer there on Thursdays, and we're busy the whole time. People who come in get soaps, shampoo, tuna (6 cans), ground beef, (sometimes we have hotdogs, we've had them for the last 3 weeks, so we give those too), margarine, soups, peanut butter, jellys and jams, coffee and/or tea, pasta and sauces (we give more than one of those as well), hamburger and tuna helper, jello/puddings, salt, sugar (if we have it), sometimes we have laundry detergent and dish detergent, <thinking>....cake mixes or brownie mixes, canned fruits and "lots" of canned veggies, stuffing, rice and rice or noodle dishes, applesauce and a lot of other things I know I'm forgetting! And we're not funded by anyone, JUST donations.
Ours is a small town, so people can go once a month (they leave with a very full carriage load), or if they run short, twice a month, but I know that the larger towns have much more. It's worth checking into, we have a ball volunteering and actually "know" what brands of stuff most of the regulars like by now - Oh, forgot, we also have stuffing, gravy, cereals, small canned hams, canned chicken and salmon, and one time an anonymous donor gave pork tenderloins and also beef tenderloins. Which along with the hamburg, etc's....people could have their choice of one or the other - and the donor got enough so we had it for two months. Twenty five dollars (just laundry detergent's going to hurt, as well as dish-stuff), so this may be a good place for you to get some extra food.
You can usually find out about it at your town or city hall, or if they have a Human Services Dept. where you are - and you may even be able to go every week, like I say - it depends on where you live.
We volunteer there -but we also get help w/food once every month and it's helped us a LOT. Just a thought for you or anyone else - let's face it, gas is going up, groceries are going up right along too. What we used to be able to afford, has gotten harder and harder - the towns realize this and have pitched in to help. We have a line every week, and we stay till everyone in that line has gotten their food. And we've made a whole bunch of new friends too
Just a thought..........
Hugs,
Kat