Dollar Store Dinners honours what it takes to feed a family, what I ate as a child, by showing plain and simple what it may have looked like. Photographing these dishes with restaurant quality is how I honour not only my parent’s tenacity in getting us fed, but that all paths lead to our beautiful and simple lives today. Indeed, honouring these meals with quality care given to cookbook images counters the narrative that those in poverty are deserving first of pity. I use these images to show tenacity, sacrifice and the difficult decisions it sometimes takes to feed a family when living in poverty.