Calling Frugal Moms ~ Can I Feed a Family of 3 on 5 Dollars a Day?

I *know* a lot in my head about living more frugally, but somehow making it show up in my life has not been such a success.  My business is doing pretty well, but my husband’s construction business is pretty slow. In fact, he’s out running a combine for the local farmer for some extra money.

Somehow we still continue to eat like we both had great full time jobs. I think it is the one place we can cut back and not feel it quite so much. In my head I know a lot about saving money, but it doesn’t seem to translate into actual action.

From all you frugal moms out there ~ can you give me some tips, some hints, recipes, websites anything to get me on the right track?

What do you think is the lowest realistic amount I can spend on feeding my family of 3? There are a couple things I have to work around ~ we have to be able to eat meat ~ hubby is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I would also like to keep the preprocessed foods to a minimum.  I know that makes it a lot tougher ~ when I was buying prepackaged foods it was much cheaper but it just didn’t feel like we were as healthy.

Can you help me out? Can you lead me to some great resources where I can figure out how to not only “know” this stuff but implement in my life as well??  If  you have any ideas or thoughts you’d like to share with me please leave them in the comments area below!! I’d really appreciate it.

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