eating on $3 a day

interesting article i just read; love to hear the community's comments on this one.

Mine: i think we should all take the challenge, and realize how cheap food does not mean good food, and how our government is trying to fatten the lower class up so they do not rise and critique the current government.

However, I will be trying to plan some recipes with the $3 a day budget in the kitchen back home to see if we can still find health in the government's bureacratic disease.

Patt Morrison: $3-a-day food budget is recipe for trouble
Shoppers will pass up fresh, low-fat and low-salt choices to stock up on the filling and cheap.
By Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times
Published: May 31, 2007

Lose weight on $3 a day! Ask me how!

I'll tell you how: By living on food stamps. I did it, existing on a dollar-a-meal food-stamp allowance for a few days, and yeah, I lost a couple of pounds. But I don't advise it.

In the long run, it takes money to eat thin and healthy. For $3 a day -- which is about what you get when you divide 30 days into the $86 monthly food stamp allowance for one person -- you wind up on the fatty-salty-sugary-canned-processed-bottled diet. Get heart disease on $3 a day! Ask the government how!

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To learn more, about the organization mentionend in the article, go to California Association of Food Banks, they are trying to work to get everyone conscious about food, health, and community.Now that's a bank I can get behind!

In solidarity,
MC