This Baltimore Mom Feeds Her Family—and Her Business—On $200 a Week

This Baltimore Mom Feeds Her Family—and Her Business—On $200 a Week

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesThis Baltimore Mom Feeds Her Family—and Her Business—On $200 a Week

The food photographer makes her own sauces and minimizes waste.

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Alesandra (Alice) Dubin is a seasoned travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA in journalism from NYU.

Jessica Formicola lives with her husband and two toddlers near Baltimore. The family’s food budget is about $150 to $200 a week including the groceries she needs to test as a recipe developer food photographer cookbook author and owner at Savory Experiments.

The errands for this food-focused job can certainly add up. In a given week she might make five batches of the same cookie — or three different recipes using tenderloin.