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The $25 Challenge
Illinois Food Bank Association is participating in Hunger Action Month as part of a nationwide effort to engage communities to take action to end hunger. From September 22-28, the eight executive directors of IFBA, community leaders and members of the media will be taking the $25 Challenge to highlight the struggle that families in Illinois face in accessing nutritious food. This blog documents the emotional and physical struggles of the $25 Challenge in their own words.
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Apparently, $3.50 a day is what food stamp recipients are expected to be able to feed themselves with. I am sure we could turn this thread into a political thread where we can spout off about "how the MAN keeps us down" or "how people shouldn't suck at the public teet"... I would be fully willing to have that discussion
elsewhere.
For this thread, I just want to see if you think you could take this challenge and be successful. Many of you are going to say, "yes!" For those who do, I want to know if you could do it for a longer period of time. A month? A year?
Personally, I know could survive on $25 a week, or at least I could in Canada. Here it would be a little more difficult as food is a lot more expensive here (for example the staple Kraft Dinner is around $4/box here). That said, if you can go native, it's a lot cheaper.
I would stock up on peanut butter for my protein, cheap fruit and vegetables and maybe some ground beef to make some chili or stew.
I could survive but I don't think I would thrive.
What about you?