A teenager on Welfare in Winnipeg is granted a food allowance of $189.20 for the month. Plan a week of proper food with this food allowance. Assume that a month has 4 weeks when calculating how much money you have to spend. Prices may be found here Winnipeggrocery.com and/or here. Assume that there are about 3 oranges to the pound, 7 to a kilogram, same with apples. Remember your courses in Health and Home-ec about what constitutes a healthy diet. A reminder of proper nutritional requirements can be found here and the serving sizes are here (The housing allowance for people on income assistance hasn't risen for over 20 years so the people on welfare often use part of their food allowance on their lodging expenses. So if you can, try and have some money left over to pay for housing.). Other problems the poor have in buying food is lack of storage space (such as a freezer) to take advantage of sales, lack of money to save by buying in bulk, lack of transportation to get to a store that has a sale.
Put your menu into your booklet. Include pictures, along with the cost of each meal. Remember, 189.20 for the month. A planning tip would be to figure out how much money a day, then how much money a meal, and plan up from there.
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