Can You Live on $30 Food Stamps for a Whole Week?

If you don’t believe it’s hard to live on $30 a week on food stamps like many individuals in this country do, Shelia Steffen, a reporter from CNN, put her body through the test and will tell you how much of a struggle it truly is. With the $30 worth of food stamps, she wrote that she was only able to get: beans, rice, farina, chicken, pasta, broccoli, a few bell peppers and tomatoes along with the accoutrements for PB & J sandwiches. A significant decrease from her normal grocery bill. For her, the worst part was not only feeling malnourished from lack of food almost everyday, but the constant task of having to plan out her meals made her more hungry.

It’s kind of hard to believe in a country where obesity is a huge epidemic that food costs are on the rise, and there are thousands of hungry Americans trying to live day to day. However, the two occurrences go hand and hand. Most impoverished families in America get most of their groceries by using government food stamps, and often to stretch what little they do receive, they end up relying on cheap overly processed foods that leads to under nutrition and poor health.

[via eatocracy.cnn.com]

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