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Eating on a Limited Budget

The San Francisco Chronicle's food critic Michael Bauer writes on his experience going on a welfare diet for three weeks in the 70s as a school project, trying to eat a balanced meal on 98 cents a day: Because of the tight budget I had to make every penny count. I could't afford many fresh vegetables or even milk. I found that cottage cheese was a better value in terms of nutrition and cost. To help stretch the dollar I purchased powdered milk and ate lots of Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup, using water rather than milk. I found that in terms of meat proteins, things such as bologna and hot dogs worked their way to the top of the...

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3 Comments | Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 25, 2007 at 8:27 AM
Tagged: budget eating, poverty