I'm recovering from anorexia. I'm at a healthy weight again (just barely but that still counts!) though I still have loads of trouble eating and I tend to eat junk so I can go longer between meals.

Problem is, I'm in school and working two jobs; my husband works his butt off; but we live in one of the most expensive areas of America for my grad school. Local projections say you need about $40k a year to live here and NOT be in poverty: we make half that.

Since I battle migraines and have to be on a strict, doctor-ordered diet to prevent them, my food can get pretty expensive. Often I run out by week two or three of each month and can't get more. My husband can get by (thank God) because he can eat whatever. But I've lived on homemade cookies these past two weeks because it's really all I know to make that's filling and lasts a while and meets the migraine diet requirements and we have the ingredients for it.

This is mega-triggering for my anorexia. I'm not sure what to do. We're too "rich" to get aid because that's based on national numbers and has no relation to the reality of living here.

Guess I'm looking for ideas. I can't keep letting myself starve. I'm already desperate to get back to my lowest weight. Not good!