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This registered dietician creates healthy menus using only food purchased from Dollar General to prove eating healthy on a budget is possible.
When you’re missing ingredients for your favorite recipe, you’re likely to rush over to your local supermarket. But what if you don’t have a grocery store nearby? What if the closest thing to a food market you have is a Dollar General? Can you still eat well? Can you eat
healthily?
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Well, for registered dietician Mary Alice Cain, that’s no problem. Mary Alice started to appreciate the budget retailer while visiting her family in Fairhope, Alabama. She was set to bake a Derby pie, but was missing the chocolate chips, pecans and pie crust (that’s almost everything!). Instead of abandoning her project, her dad suggested she run to the closest store: a Dollar General.