Consumer skips grocery store to get food off the grid: Monique Dupre buys direct from farms and makes her own staples to save money
by Leslie Cole, The Oregonian, Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Twenty-nine-year-old Monique Dupre wears boot-cut jeans, lives in a tidy Vancouver bungalow and looks like any young mom you'd see pushing a shopping cart -- except that she almost never does.
Instead, she spends her food dollars off the grocery grid. And she's saving a bundle: Dupre, husband Anthony and daughters Celia, 6, and Solenne, 3, eat for about $65 a week
Check out the entire article at www.oregonlive.com/foodday/...index.ssf or one of her interesting workshops as detailed at www.sustainablebudget.com/
by Leslie Cole, The Oregonian, Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Twenty-nine-year-old Monique Dupre wears boot-cut jeans, lives in a tidy Vancouver bungalow and looks like any young mom you'd see pushing a shopping cart -- except that she almost never does.
Instead, she spends her food dollars off the grocery grid. And she's saving a bundle: Dupre, husband Anthony and daughters Celia, 6, and Solenne, 3, eat for about $65 a week
Check out the entire article at www.oregonlive.com/foodday/...index.ssf or one of her interesting workshops as detailed at www.sustainablebudget.com/
