Appreciate the responses. They are insightful. But this is WAY too complicated of a topic for a Food Stamp Challenge.
Any new updates on anyone actually doing the challenge?
I spent $150 on groceries for the month. That included alot of 'startup' costs for a new home like giant things of garlic salt.
I had decided to try out Budget Byte's meal prep recipes. I made a sh*t ton of taquitos, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast scrambles, and enchiladas. I still have 14 servings left of meatloaf to make so I should have food to carryover into next month. I have to say, meal prepping awesome. I haven't cooked in 8 days but had awesome meals 2-4x a day.
I guess that's not less than 4.15 a day but it is less than what SNAP provides locally
Never heard of Budget Bytes. I'm going to check that out. We seem to eat a lot of the same stuff so I may go search for these items :)
budgetbytes.com
I wouldn't say their recipes are necessarily cheaper than a typical recipe, except they leave out meat most of the time. They just happened to frame cooking to the cost-conscious. What
does attract me to their website is that (a) same half dozen spices/herbs get used in most recipes, (b) no exotic or hard to find items (I don't like finding substitutions), (c) the recipes are easily scalable so I can meal prep.
Enjoy!