{"id":30164,"date":"2010-09-17T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=30164"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:43:54","slug":"feed-your-family-of-5-for-25-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/feed-your-family-of-5-for-25-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed Your Family of 5 for $25 Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Whole Foods 5 for $25 Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/feed-your-family-of-5-for-25-challenge\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30422\" title=\"whole-foods\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whole-foods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whole-foods.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whole-foods-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There was a time in history when $25 would have fed a family of 5 for a week or more. Times have changed and money just doesn&#8217;t go as far these days. Often, many families have a strict <a title=\"10 Ways to Budget on a Diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/10-ways-to-diet-on-a-budget\/\" target=\"_self\">budget for meals<\/a>, and they find themselves cutting out key nutrition in order to get those budget numbers to line up.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Whole Foods Markets initiated a challenge to feed a family of 5 a nutritious, healthy dinner for $25. That&#8217;s more difficult than it sounds. Sure, if you served <a title=\"10 Ways to Spice Up Ramen Noodles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eduinreview.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10-ways-to-spice-up-ramen-noodles\/\" target=\"_self\">Ramen noodles<\/a> and canned pears, it can be done &#8211; especially if three of the family members are under the age of five. But what if you wanted to serve a nutritious, well-balanced meal? A meal that covered all of the key elements, was delicious and filling, and you have three teenagers? Do you think it could be accomplished?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods is often thought of as one of the more expensive grocery stores around, offering specialty brands and <a title=\"The Pros and Cons of Going Organic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/the-pros-and-cons-of-going-organic\/\" target=\"_self\">organic products<\/a>, but to prove that you can eat healthy for cheap if you know how to shop, they have come up with menus using their products to prove the point.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two of the meals that Whole Foods has recommended as being budget-friendly with festive flavors that feel like a splurge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Menu #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mixed Greens With Carrots and Almonds<br \/>\n\u2022 Peruvian-Style Roasted Chicken With Sweet Onions<br \/>\n\u2022 Brown Rice<br \/>\n\u2022 Broiled Pears With Honey and Thyme<\/p>\n<p><strong>Menu #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Roll-Your-Own Burritos<br \/>\n\u2022 Roast Butternut Squash With Cumin<br \/>\n\u2022 Mexican Coffee Sundaes<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a title=\"Whole Foods 5 for $25 Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/tastingtable.com\/menu\/tt_wf_feed5for25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full menu here<\/a>. Tell me, what would you choose to feed your family within the $25 parameter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time in history when $25 would have fed a family of 5 for a week or more. Times have changed and money just doesn&#8217;t go as far these days. Often, many families have a strict budget for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/feed-your-family-of-5-for-25-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[127,1661,345,4179],"class_list":["post-30164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-budget","tag-family-health","tag-healthy-eating","tag-whole-foods-markets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30456,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164\/revisions\/30456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}