Menus to Compliment Your Angel Food

Hillbilly Housewife, mentioned in my previous post: Living on Minimum Wage, has taken the time to make monthly dinner menus to compliment the Angel Food packages I talked about yesterday. Each menu comes with a weekly shopping list including any additional low cost items you need to prepare the recipes suggested in her weekly menus. This is a fantastic resource to help you use the Angel Food creatively. Be sure to check out the rest of the Hillbilly Housewife too. Lots of great ideas for saving money and living frugally.

Blessings by the Box - Help for Low Income

If you need help making ends meet, here is a great resource. Angel Food Ministries was started in 1994 by Pastors Joe & Linda Wingo on their back porch in Georgia to feed families affected by local plant closings. Now Angel Food feeds 500,000 families in 35 states! There are no qualifications, minimums, income restrictions, or applications. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Angel Food is available in a quantity that can fit into a medium-sized box at $30 per unit and can be purchased with food stamps. Each month's menu is different and contains quality fresh and frozen items with an average retail value of approximately $60. Generally, one unit of food helps feed a family of four for about one week or a single senior citizen for almost a month! They don't have one in Idaho where I live so I personally haven't tried it but 500,000 people seem to like it :) I think I need to see about starting a distribution here.

Living on Minimum Wage

One night watching the news I started thinking...how is a person supposed to survive on minimum wage...seriously! So I googled how to feed your family on minimum wage and I actually found a menu to feed a family of 4 on $45 a Week! It has a menu for a week, a shopping list, daily prep instructions, recipes and nutritional information. It may not look like the most appetizing of menus to those accustomed to spending hundreds on food but I feel like its a valuable resource for families that are struggling.