It's Link Day around here, apparently, but here's a report from a couple who took the Food Stamp Challenge. Here's my record of my week on the challenge.

Dinner: Reheated Wendy's jr. bacon cheeseburger ( Read more... )

Dinner: 1 slice French toast, pasta ( Read more... )

Dinner: Chicken divan on toast, milk
Breakfast: 1 slice French toast
Lunch: Pasta, ice cream

Getting a little sick of this.

Dinner: PB & J, leftover pasta, milk ( Read more... )

Dinner: Red sauce on pasta, chicken, ice cream ( Read more... )

Dinner: PB & J
Snack: Whopper,Jr.
Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs w. ketchup, banana
Lunch: PB & J, nectarine

I went with the PB&J for dinner Tuesday night before the radio. By eight pm, I was starved. A back-of-the-envelope calculation said that I had eaten about half of my required daily caloric intake. Hmm. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. I ( Read more... )

Last night after work I stopped by the Shop & Save to stock up on groceries for this week. Total spent: $14.73 ( Read more... )

I just signed up for the Food Stamp Challenge for hunger awareness week. Participants eat for a week on the maximum budget of food stamps for their household size, which in my case is $38.75; no pre-existing food is permitted. (Although I might use some of that but take out its cost from the budget.) I'm getting in a little late, but I'm excited to ( Read more... )