Have ya’ll ever noticed the price of a kid’s meal compared to an adults’s meal at a restaurant? They can be very steep, but something we’ve discovered is they don’t offer much. Our 8-year-old daughter is a carnivore, mind you she wan’t always, in fact she use to be a vegitarian. Recently she found out that she LOVES ribs but they never off that. Instead they offer hamburger, cheeseburger, corndogs, nuggest and the occasional mac n cheese. This doesn’t satisfy her.
Tonight we decide we will no longer order her a meal at all, instead we’ll opt for the extra plate. …read more

In this week’s Lean Plate Club column, Washington Post health and nutrition writer Sally Squires proves that it’s possible to eat healthily on a $21/week food stamp grocery budget, even though Congress couldn’t quite pull it off. Here are the highlights from “How Far Can Your Dollar Stretch?“:
Food stamp benefits, which go to 26 million low-income Americans annually, are given out monthly, not weekly, allowing recipients to buy in bulk. That average $21 per person per week becomes about $90 for the full month. A family of four can receive a maximum of $518 per month — or about $120 …read more