Class teaches people to stretch food budgets

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Grinding wheat or chopping cilantro, it's all part of a class on how to take your food storage and make something tasty, and do it cheap. Food storage cooking classes are gaining popularity as more people want to learn how to make their money stretch.

Utah State University extension agent Jana Darrington is teaching a class on how to make all kinds of foods from wheat.

"I think people think about wheat specifically about making bread, and they don't think about adding it to casseroles or to ground beef and meatloaf, and those kinds of things, where we can actually bulk up our food and be able to serve more on less," she said.

Darrington says they're also going over budgets to teach people how to shop and reduce the amount a family spends on food.

She says each food storage class focuses on a different food storage item, like dried milk or beans. And she says the class popularity is picking up as more people want to make their dollar stretch.

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