The Backstory

A couple of months ago Healthy Aroostook received a document from one of our funders titled "30 Days on $200".
http://www.hannaford.com/30dayscookbook   This menu plan was created and designed to be used by a single person.  It's intent was to offer four weeks of healthy, simple and budget friendly meal ideas for people who receive SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps) benefits. 30 Days on $200 - Cooking Guide is also on facebook. Jo-Ellen and I both had the idea that we should try the menu plan out and blog about it to our community.  We wanted to see if the meal plan really would cost less than $200 and if we would actually enjoy the recipes.  (We also like any reason to eat, so this was a perfect project for us)

In order to keep it interesting, I actually decided that I would re-write the menu with some of my own healthy meal ideas that would fit for me and my family.  I still want to keep the cost to $200 or less but I wanted to be able to offer more variety on the menu ( The original menu plan repeats a lot of meals).  I think many people don't mind eating "leftovers" or eating the same thing a few days in a row, but for me and my family, I knew that wouldn't work.  So I thought I could try to re-create the idea with still low cost, healthy, but less repetitive menu ideas.

So in the coming weeks you will see blogs from both Jo-Ellen and myself.  She will be blogging about the original "30 Days on $200" menu plan and I will be blogging about my own revised version "Amy's 30 Days on $200".  

Here is to happy and healthy eating!