Several politicians (not surprisingly all Dems) have taken what is becoming known as The Food Stamp Challenge. Basically try to live on the $21 per week provided by the Food Stamp Program, an amount that hasn't been changed in over a decade.
Here is the blog of one of those trying it. Note links on side to previous days' entries.
2 comments:
As a child who grew up on food stamps, I can tell you that it doesn't go very far. We had Thanksgiving food brought to us by church members.
Something needs to be done to help raise the benefits. The things that you buy need to be generic so you can stretch out the benefits. If you want organic or higher quality of food then forget it.
My mom did a good job of strtching it out, but I ate crappy food as a youth. Probably why I still eat some crappy foods today.
Good news is that I am trying to purchase less processed foods and a lot that is organic.
Definitely a worthwhile goal, that of eating better.
I'm reading an interesting book called The Hundred Year Lie about the horrible things we've allowed to be done to ourselves via the industrialization of our food and medical industries. More on that in a future post.
Basically though, processed food has strong links to increases in not only obesity, but also ADD and similar behavioral problems.
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