This way she makes room in her tight budget for snacks and pre-packaged favorites.
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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 Clark is the founder recipe developer and gluten-free expert at Gluten Free Supper. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and nine-year-old son. These days she says the family budget for food is pretty tight.
“Almost all of our monthly income goes to bills or fixed expenses” she says. To ensure that there’s some left over each month for savings and some spending they cap their weekly grocery spending at $150. “Our food budget used to be a little higher — about $800 a month — but we’ve recently cut back to save more money.”