Comments on: Food Stamp Challenge Week #1: $68 Down

By: Grocery Money-Saving CHALLENGE! | Modern Alternative Mama

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[...] in October 2009, Jenny at Nourished Kitchen took on this challenge. Her approach was a bit different than mine will be, though, for a few reasons. She avoided all [...]

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{Get Cultured} All In It Together~~ | Ferment It ... Get Cultured — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:40:54 +0000

[...] year. So what’s a family to do? Cause even Jenny over at the Nourished Kitchen is struggling http://nourishedkitchen.com/food-stamp-challenge-week-1/ so I came up with a list of [...]

By: Haley J.

Haley J. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:38:45 +0000

I think after even one week you’ve shown that families can eat, and eat better than most others, on even a tight budget. I certainly don’t condemn your splurges – you found nutritional powerhouses that will make healthful meals. What is unfortunate is that so many people who are on the budgetary restrictions haven’t been educated on how to make the best food choices and how to prepare those food best for their families.

By: Jenna H

Jenna H — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:12:41 +0000

The talk about creamline yogurt makes me miss living near a Trader Joes. Their creamline yogurt was so good.

Your comment about the eggs got me thinking, either I cannot tell the difference, or I must get pretty good eggs from the market, because they taste the same to me as the eggs I get from my friend’s pastured hens.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:31:07 +0000

Could you speak more to the issue what homogenization does to butterfat? I have been making my own yogurt with milk from grass fed cows, but it’s pastuerized & homogenized.

Though happily today I found milk from grass-fed cows that is not homogenized — so I’ll use that this time.

Thanks for all your inspiration!

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:57 +0000

You can bet that the supermarket beef will not be overly palatable either… We buy 1/4 of a beef from a hobby farmer every year and on occasion we have run out and still thought of having some beef – so we bought the antibiotic/growth hormone free beef from the store, and … yeah, let’s just say it’s not worth it. Maybe it would be just for the soup bones?

By: Sandra Mort

Sandra Mort — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:59:09 +0000

Like many other people, I’m noticing that my grocery costs in NY are substantiallly higher than yours. Well, I’m sure we’ll all pick up a few tips. My question is how your portion sizes run? I have a larger family but that doesn’t look like enough food for even 2 adults and a child. Perhaps you’re just lighter eaters? My toddler and preschooler don’t eat a lot, but my two pre-teens eat like adults. Maybe I’ll go on this “diet” and see if I lose some weight

By: Noelle

Noelle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:24:29 +0000

A question about your flour choice. I mill our whole wheat flour, and from the reading I’ve done, I won’t buy whole wheat flour again. So much of the nutrients are lost in the long storage, and there is no standard as to the ratio of bran and germ. It’s not like home milling, but the bran and germ are added back into the refined flour to make it look good.

What have you read on this? I do purchase unbleached all purpose flour to use sometimes, too.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:27:59 +0000

Kelli -

It IS hard. Really hard. While the food is wholesome, I really miss my little luxuries like dark chocolate or artisan cheese for after-the-kids-asleep snacks. You addressed a REALLY important issue when it comes to organ meats. If I can find liver or other organ meats at the store, I'm not entirely sure I'll purchase them afterall. The organs act as filters in the body and the fact that they're essentially filtering all sorts of weird conventional additives concerns me - really, really concerns me.

The theory that homogenization contributes to heart disease is shaky, so don't be too hard on yourself, you know? It concerns me, but we'll see how our budget ends up at the end of the month and we might very well be opting for fat and not being so picky.

Take Care and expect a package any day now -

Jenny