offroad
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If you read in the news this week you might have seen that the mayor of Newark, New Jersey was going to live on $30 a week worth of food stamps. But is this really that tough to do? <br /><br />Does anyone have a meal plan - grocery list that lets you buy this virtual food list in the real world, and cook it up?<br /><br />Well kind of found something close with www.emeals.com and their various meal plans. Recently got a GROUPON coupon for the company and activated my membership. It gets me a meal plan from the list of six or so plans. Gives me a grocery list, and all the recipes for two people. For a single person you can eat a meal and have the leftovers for lunch. Picking the PORTION CONTROL version was able to get everything for $80 to $100 ( including extras for breakfast and lunch). Emeals.com let's you select Walmart as your grocery store, and can adjust to create a shopping list- recipes based on that store. Was able to find every item on the grocery list generated by EMEALS which was a concern. <br /><br />The reality is I had three meals from every recipe. Variety and nutrician seems to be good. Am thinking I can make this meal plan last two weeks. So this gets me down to $50 a week. If I had more time to use coupons-find sales- use discount stores, suppose I could push the cost to $30 a week. <br /><br />There are leftover ingredients for every meals as well. Just have to store them for next time you need to use. So much flexibility with this. <br /><br />So gives $2600 per year for food at $50 per week. <br /><br />Does anyone have better strategy for cost control, nutrition evaluation, realistic availability of ingredients? What are you doing?