How to Eat Cheaply on a Trip
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
By Paul Eisenberg
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You just got to Disney World. What are you going to do now?
Many of us grab our kids’ hands and race to the rides. Or, if you’re Melissa d’Arabian, who visited the parks last year with her husband and four kids, you grab the coupons you packed and race to the grocery store.
“I had planned out easy meals to make,” says d’Arabian, season five winner of “The Next Food Network Star” and host of the network’s “
Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian.”
Her money-saving vacation strategy had several parts. Aside from basing her family in a condo where she could prepare at least some of their food - “I never leave a place where I have access to inexpensive food without feeding everyone,” she says - her vacation groceries yielded meals denser in calories than what she’d ordinarily serve back home.
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