Eating Well on a Budget
We hope you find ideas here to help you and your family eat well within your budget.
Eating Healthy doesn't have to be expensive. MyPlate.gov gives you many options!
Saving at the Grocery Store
Do Your Part to Prevent Food Loss
Reducing Food Waste in the Home (audio file)
Entertaining and Eating Out on a Budget
Saving on Fruits and Vegetables
How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label
Budgeting and Grocery shopping lesson plans and other online resources for children, youth, teens and adults
Lesson ideas for using math at the grocery store for elementary school students, at http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/grocerymath.html
FUNdamental Finance for Farmstands, Lesson 1, Hill of Beans is a good budgeting lesson for youth
A lesson plan on general budgeting basics for middle and high school students, along with a household budget simulation game, at http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/spending/budgetbasics.html
A lesson on family food budgeting for high school students presented with nine teaching options, at http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=17139
A lesson plan where teens are given a description of certain families to plan menus and grocery shop for, then answer lots of various questions about the activity, at http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/03-1/lesson020.shtml
Other info for adults to use in teaching children about money: http://www.themint.org/parents/grocery-store-as-classroom.html and http://www.themint.org/parents/the-grocery-store-challenge.html
A lesson plan on how to eat healthfully on a budget
A lesson plan on cooking on a budget
A lesson plan on comparison shopping-teaching guide and student activities
Teaching about Purchasing Food
A lesson plan about how to plan healthy meals on a budget
Info describing the steps to take to plan a food budget, and how to save money when grocery shopping and cooking meals: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsavings/page/what-you-spend-now
Meeting Your MyPlate Goals On a Budget
Tips for how to stay within you food Budget
101+ Ways to Save Food Dollars
Recipes for thrifty households
Getting Help with Buying Food
Food and Nutrition Assistance Program--USDA
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
If you have questions or concerns about the information on this page, please contact our office at 785-532-5782 or email: sburklun@ksu.edu
Healthy Meals for You and Your Family
Thifty Meals for Small Families
USDA, Meeting Your MyPlate Goals on a Budget
Healthy Cooking on a Budget Cookbook -- USDA
Meals in Minutes
Cook Once, Eat for a Month!
Newsletters
Dining on a Dime
Nourishing the Next Generation
Links for more Information
Cash in with Coupons