Money for Food

The goal of the Money for Food Curriculum is to help families with limited resources become more food secure. The means for reaching this goal is education about managing family resources to better enable participating families to purchase adequate, nutritious food throughout the month. The lessons are designed for use with food stamp eligible families, but are usable with all limited resource audiences. Money for Food is a series of short interactive lessons to teach about planning meals and spending money for food. Most lessons are designed to be taught in 20 minutes or less. Lessons are designed to be taught in small group settings; most are adaptable for teaching individual participants.

The files on this page are all in PDF* format.

• Full Money for Food curriculum file (1.8 MB) This is a large file: in order to avoid problems associated with viewing the file over the web, it is advisable to save the file to your local drive and then open it from there using Acrobat Reader. In order to save the file you may either right click, or hold down the shift key while clicking, on the link and then choose "Save Target As" (in Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (in Netscape). When the Save dialog box appears select where you want the file saved on your local drive.
• Dinero Par Alimentos Plan de estudios (Español) / Full Money for Food curriculum file (Spanish)
• Publication date for latest edition: October 2007.
• Money for Food lessons in individual files:
  • Money for Food • Introduction
  • Money for Food • Lesson 1 - Planning: To Get Enough Money for Food
  • Money for Food • Lesson 2A - The Money Game
  • Money for Food • Lesson 2B - Money Comes and Goes
  • Money for Food • Lesson 2C - A Family Spending Plan
  • Money for Food • Lesson 3 - Managing Your Food Money
  • Money for Food • Lesson 4 - Food Needs, Food Wants
  • Money for Food • Lesson 5 - Choosing Foods from the MyPyramid
  • Money for Food • Lesson 6 - Why Plan Meals?
  • Money for Food • Lesson 7 - Planning Meals
  • Money for Food • Lesson 8 - Making a Grocery List
  • Money for Food • Lesson 9 - Good Foods to Have on Hand
  • Money for Food • Lesson 10 - Making Choices to Save Money on Food
  • Money for Food • Lesson 11 - Food Shopping Tips
  • Money for Food • Lesson 12 - Eating Away From Home
  • Money for Food • Additional Resources