We’ve been fortunate at Fifty Bucks a Week to have received press far in excess of our budget. (Just to be clear, our food budget is $50/adult/week; our press budget is $0/ever.) Some of our favorites follow.

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WSJ, baybee! The Wall Street Journal named us as one of their favorite personal finance blogs:

“…Fifty Bucks A Week is the chronicle of three food writers, ‘a Brooklyn yuppie, a Midwest cookbook author and a Northwest vegetarian mom,’ attempting to feed each adult in their homes — and feed them well — for $50 a week. As more of us try to trim that fat from our grocery bills, their struggle to contain costs is both funny and encouraging.”

– The Wallet, WSJ Blogs, July 30, 2009

Did Adam’s story about a road trip to North Carolina have something to do with our getting written up in the News and Observer, or do they just know what they like?

Read our Q&A with Brad Tuttle in Time Magazine’s Cheapskate blog, and join in the competition for “the ‘World’s Most Self-Righteous and Whiney Blog Comment Poster’ award:” (really!)

Fifty bucks. It could get you a single steak at a fine dining establishment. Or it could feed you—and feed you pretty darn well—for an entire week. A trio of writers from around the country is proving just that with the recent launch of their experiment and blog Fifty Bucks a Week.

– Brad Tuttle, Time Magazine’s Cheapskate Blog, July 14, 2009

Chicago’s Urban Frugal might’ve found us through the Cheapskate piece, but they’re clear on the concept:

“The premise of the experiment is to eat well. Not just eat. Detractors who say that the threshold is too high don’t really understand that quality food costs more. There is eating, and eating well. If you are looking for a filling meal you can often get that cheap. The question is what is the long term cost?”

– Daphne, Urban Frugal, July 21, 2009

From what we hear about the excellence and low cost of Chi-town’s food scene, we’re all the more honored for the mention. Thanks, UF!

In Kansas City, MO, The Pitch’s Fat City blog picked up the Time story, and homed in on our own Emily Farris:

Several months ago, blogger and cookbook author Emily Farris moved back to the area from New York City (Plog covered her journey). Since moving back she has co-founded the blog Fifty Bucks Per Week, where she and two other writers (one living in Brooklyn, the other in Portland, Oregon) try to eat on $50 a week. Not so hard if you’ve got ramen noodles and mac-n-cheese. But the catch is they have to eat well.

– Owen Morris, Fat City, July 15, 2009

Lauren Fairbanks at lifestylermag.com gave us our first shout-out in their Monthly Mashup: July Edition:

Reimagining Breakfast for the Summer – Eating Well on $50 a Week is a cool blog that covers lots of cheap ways to eat on fifty bucks.  [...] they have awesome suggestions on how to creatively use vegetables and whip up dishes that look pretty darn amazing.  Plus, their food photos look so good, I’d be lying if I said my recent food pictures on Twitter weren’t somewhat inspired by theirs.

– Lauren Fairbanks, LifeStyler, July 6, 2009

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