Thank you for the extra input. For the sake of the question, please consider the food blog a legitimate business based on the IRS definition.
From the IRS publications it's clear that meals that fall under the IRS definition of "Business Meeting" are 50% deductible.
What I meant to ask with the question is more specific: would meals that do not fall under "Business Meeting" but under what could be considered "R&D for the food blog" (in the food blog industry, this activity of discovery is called "recipe development") be considered 100% or 50% deductible? In addition, in which TurboTax category would these fall since there is not an "R&D" or "recipe development" category in the self-employed section?
Thank you!
