Jay Seawell / The Elkhart Truth

Doug Murray speaks with customers Jim and Diane Robinson of Goshen at the Wiener's Circle, the hot dog stand that he runs with his wife, Jacqueline, in Goshen.

With the unemployment rate stuck in the high teens, some jobless residents of Elkhart County are getting creative to keep putting food on the table.

Case in point: Douglas and Jacqueline Murray. When Doug Murray lost his sales job with Bob Evans Farm in April, he and his wife examined a whole host of self-employment options before deciding on a novel enterprise: operating a hot dog stand in Goshen.

The Wiener's Circle stand is now doing strong lunchtime business and packing them in at First Fridays, Goshen's monthly downtown festival. Now the Murrays are selling 600 to 700 hot dogs a week and paying the bills.

Click here to read the Truth's story on the Murrays.

Or you can click here for a slide show featuring hot dog entrepreneur Doug Murray and other Elkhart County residents who have reinvented themselves to cope with the tough times.

Have you or someone you know come up with inventive ways of making ends meet during the economic downturn? If so, share the story with other readers by leaving a comment below.