This post is for my Michigan readers:
I did a post earlier this week about Michigan.gov’s new assistance referral site, Helping Hand. I saw the link on Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s Twitter.
But here’s a detail I overlooked – until the formal press release got forwarded to my desk this morning. In conjunction with the launch for this [...]

Yummy. I think the July box is one of the best Angel Food Ministries grocery selections I’ve seen in a long time. I ordered both the Signature (basic) box and the produce box this month.
I paid $30 for the signature box. Here’s what was in that box. That boxed dessert is a pumpkin pie. I [...]

The Center for Civil Justice in Flint issued a media release today citing a study that shows the number of free lunches served to needy kids in Michigan grew 45 percent between 2007 and 2008.
The agency cited the report, “Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation,” produced by the Food Research and Action Center. On an average [...]

I’ve blogged quite a bit about Angel Food Ministries and Great Food For All since I first tried out a grocery-by-the box program in March 2008. Both of these services are available at various locations in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio (Click on the links to find the delivery sites).
If you’ve ever wondered why my [...]

This post is for my readers in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio:
I just got a question from a reader asking whether there was Angel Food Ministries site in Temperance. Yes. In fact, Bedford Church of the Nazarene was the first location in the Monroe County, Mich., area to offer this service.
Angel Food Ministries is a [...]

One of the neat tricks about having a (working!) blog counter is I can see what queries people are posting as they land on Monroe on a Budget.
One of the search phrases this week was “Great Food for All vs. Angel Food Ministries.” These are two of the several low-cost “groceries by the box” programs [...]

The Detroit Free Press reports today that a Discount grocery effort in Northville Township has been swamped by demand.
A snippet:
The demand for Grace Groceries, a discount grocery program, has forced its organizers to limit the number of people who can sign up to receive May groceries to 150 after nearly 300 people signed up for [...]

This post is for my readers in Dundee, Mich.
Great Food For All is a low-cost grocery purchase program that is open to anyone, of any income level. The basic grocery box costs $30 and contains food worth about twice that amount. There also are other menu options.
Dundee Baptist Church is the Dundee, Mich., Great Food [...]

Last month, I started doing public appearances in Monroe County as the Monroe on a Budget blogger. My presentation is called “Grocery Shopping on a Budget” and it is based on my sidebar with the same theme.
We did a feature story in the March 8 Sunday edition of The Monroe Evening News to promote my [...]

This notice is for my readers in Michigan:
If you, or a family you know in Michigan, is receiving food assistance (aka food stamps) via the Michigan Bridge card, the monthly allotment amount for that program is scheduled to increase on April 1.
The increase will be 13.6 percent as compared to what the families have been [...]