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Soft tacos are staples in my family, but there is only so much ground beef one can stomach. Then I cooked up mushroom tacos a la Chef Roberto Santibañez of New Jersey's The Taco Truck. The vegetarian filling is not only healthier, it spices up what has become a ho-hum, every-other-week...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/food_drink/The_Pacific_Crest_Trail_budget_diet_costs_1_66_per_meal'; Our intrepid video editor Adam Kaufman and his girlfriend, Katie Lorah, are off on a six-month hiking adventure. Before they left, they detailed what it takes to prepare to live on the trail and...

Tofu may be bland but it's a fantastically inexpensive way to get healthy protein into your family's diet. Lon Symensma, executive chef at Manhattan's chic Buddakan restaurant, has cooked up a way to spice up that white block of soybean that will knock your family's socks off. This dish, fragrant...

Top Chef finalist Carla Hall thinks the simplest dishes can give us the greatest pleasure. Here is the Washington D.C.-based caterer's take on a roasted chicken with tomato-olive relish and roasted potatoes. Not only is the recipe easy, it clocks in at about $15. Butterflied Chicken 4-pound...

Keeping your family well fed is becoming more of a challenge each day. Not only do you have to take into account what the kids will and won't eat, what's in season, and organic versus non-organic, there's the issue of cost. And according to the Agriculture Department, your grocery bill will climb...