Padthaway WAB tightens their belts with a $10 Budget

By Virginia Gale On a lovely cold winters morning we gathered together and enjoyed planning our next year program. The state committee have nominated we are studying the country Iceland, our project for the year is food bank and our theme is rural women together. We all look forward to the following program suggestions and completed the program. Our challenge today was put towards members to supply a meal for 4 people for $10. As we have a mixture of ex-rural and townies there was no cheating with produce however big or small growing in your backyard. We were all very interested to see if we could do it. Most members were large pantry holders reduced to no pantry. Challenge accepted! Members all did well I think maybe one member was slightly over budget. Members turned up with soup, tacos, frittata, doorstop, sausage casserole, salad, fried rice, sweet-and-sour chicken wings […]

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