On a Dollar a Day One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America

by Greenslate, Christopher; Leonard, Kerri

• ISBN13: 9781401310189
• ISBN10: 1401310184
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-09
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

"On a Dollar a Day" examines how Americans eat and at what cost. Sections on eating the food stamp diet, what it really costs to eat healthfully and organically, and how to find the best buys at the grocery store make it an ideal book for these challenging economic times.

Table of Contents

The One Dollar Diet Project
Priced Out	p. 3
And So It Begins	p. 15
The Cookie War	p. 29
Vegetable Liberation	p. 41
A Friend for Dinner	p. 52
The Aftermath	p. 63
The Thrifty Food Plan
The Next Challenge	p. 77
Strange Combinations	p. 88
Confessions	p. 97
Food Fight	p. 110
Macaronipalooza: A Pasta Extravaganza	p. 120
Peanut Butter Cheesecake	p. 129
Striving to Eat Healthfully
Seventeen Tomato Plants	p. 145
Bad Brains and Barbecued Black-Eyed Peas	p. 159
Overrun by Produce	p. 169
Epilogue: Finding Our Way	p. 179
A Dozen Ways to Save	p. 185
Sowing the Seeds of Progress	p. 189
Acknowledgments	p. 195
Notes	p. 199
Index	p. 205
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